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The Decorators of the 1960s and 1970s
Patrick Favardin
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: AMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 312 x 239 x 28. Weight in Grams: 2177.
The 1960s and 1970s marked a sharp turning point in the history of decoration and furniture. Until that point, the world was confined to national and elitist forms of expression. At the beginning of the 1960s, the sector took its inspiration from Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, Italian and French decoration. Genres were combined in a frenzied desire to live in symbiosis with one's time. The progress of technology strengthened the conviction that the individual had unlimited freedom and aroused the desire to inhabit in a new manner. Forms became rounder, furniture was in sync with a warm, playful, and anticonformist universe. Colours ... Read more
The 1960s and 1970s marked a sharp turning point in the history of decoration and furniture. Until that point, the world was confined to national and elitist forms of expression. At the beginning of the 1960s, the sector took its inspiration from Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, Italian and French decoration. Genres were combined in a frenzied desire to live in symbiosis with one's time. The progress of technology strengthened the conviction that the individual had unlimited freedom and aroused the desire to inhabit in a new manner. Forms became rounder, furniture was in sync with a warm, playful, and anticonformist universe. Colours ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Norma,Editions France
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
, France
ISBN
9782915542837
SKU
V9782915542837
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About Patrick Favardin
Holding a doctorate in art history, Patrick Favardin has organized exhibitions for the city of Paris on varied artistic, historical and literary subjects for many years. Among them are an exhibition on the 1950s style, one on Emilio Terry and another on the aesthetics of the 1920s through the myth of the flapper. Concurrently, he published a host of articles ... Read more
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