FURNITURE AND DECOR FROM THE 80S
The 80s are marked by transversality, design becomes a mode of communication it places the designer as standard-bearer. It reveals a desire of the consumer to appropriate signs.
The Design of the 80s multiplies its facets, it proposes manifestos, it is talkative. The 80s style imposes a practice of collage and humor with Javier Mariscal. English design invents a hybrid culture between the punk movement of the 70s and the post-modern movement of the 80s, with singular creators, Ron Arad, Tom Dixon, Dany Lane... It is signed and committed with Philippe Starck. Germany replaces the fixed theory of functionalism and the tradition of the Bauhaus, with groups Kunstflug, Pentagon and design places in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne.
Another design trend of the 80s is linked to ecological awareness. It involves a reflection on the condition of man, his new nomadic condition, the search for his roots and his search for the private: Andrea Branzi, Gaetano Pesce, a new neo-baroque, barbaric area with Garouste and Bonetti and André Dubreuil.
A high-tech aesthetic replaced by a refined look, a reinvention of furniture syntax with Martin Szekely François Bauchet... and the rigor of design by architects: Ronald Cecil Sportes, Norman Foster and Jean Nouvel. New materials and technology transfers. New techniques, CAD and mass production alongside limited editions resulting from artisanal manufacturing processes.
The designer slips into the camp of visual artists, he becomes a creator. Italy attests to a Renaissance with the birth of Memphis: Ettore Sottsass, Michael Graves, Nathalie du Pasquier., design considered as a great activity of projects. Japan offers a space of reading outside of time and bases its creation on Japanese archetypes, plastic reflection marked by the relationship of the line to the plan: Shiro Kuramata, Toshiuyki Kita and Toyo Ito.
The 1980s saw the reappearance in France of a figure who marked the history of the post-industrial revolution: the model creator. This exciting decade practiced overlaps, collages, flashbacks and leaps forward, and offered a kaleidoscope of trends rich in innovations and astonishing creations.
Author: Anne BONY
Publisher: Du Regard - 2010
Weight: 1.6 kg
Dimensions: 25.1 x 2.7 x 30.9 cm
Language: French