Domestic Aesthetic : Household Art 1920-1970

English

ISBN: 8874390173

EAN: 9788874390175

Category: Photography / General

Publisher: 5 Continents

Release Date: 07/01/2006

Age Range: 8-17

Synopsis: Houseware design has succeeded in bringing together two worlds usually seen as contradictory: art and mass production. The mass-produced objects sleek and anonymously uniform have left their mark on their age through the technology applied, the materials used, the forms invented as well as their practicality, whether real or apparent. Household objects are true reflections of the period in which they were conceived, created, manufactured, promoted and sold to the masses, objective expressions of modernity, consumption, ways of life. Omnipresent, practical, often inexpensive, these objects have become commonplace, worthless to our jaded consumers eyes; they have become invisible. This book wishes to render justice to these everyday objects conceived by and for man but manufactured exclusively by machines. A true archaeologist of the Modern, Jean Bernard Hebey has uncovered and collected thousands of household objects in France, Italy, Belgium, the United Kingdom, but, above all, in the United States. The book presents a selection of 370 objects through the gorgeous pictures of Christophe Fillioux that will encourage one to look at them in a new way. From ice crushers to vacuum cleaners, from hair dryers to fans, from toasters to irons, the entire universe of the houseware produced for the modern home is on display. The catalogue that closes the book illustrated with miniature black and white reference pictures of the objects supplies essential data about them: name of the object, country of origin, date, manufacturer, designer, dimensions and materials. No existing book has such a wide selection of large format colour illustrations of household objects from 1920 to 1970. The extraordinary quality of the illustrations makes Domestic Aesthetics an invaluable visual resource for designers and collectors.

Domestic Aesthetic : Household Art 1920-1970

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.5 inches

Width: 9.87 inches

Length: 11.5 inches

Weight: 89.95 oz

Pages: 360