"Les Decorateurs Des Annees: 60-70" 2007 Favardin, Patrick

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FAVARDIN, Patrick

[335] pp.

Norma Editions

2007

10 1/2" x 9 1/2"

The 60s and 70s are inseparable in the … Read more FAVARDIN, Patrick

[335] pp.

Norma Editions

2007

10 1/2" x 9 1/2"

The 60s and 70s are inseparable in the history of decoration and furniture. They mark a radical turning point in a world hitherto confined to national and elitist expressions. It all exploded in the early 60s. Fashion is inspired by Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, Italian and French. Genres mix in an unbridled desire to live in symbiosis with the times. Advances in technology lend credence to the conviction of the individual's conquering freedom and give rise to unprecedented desires for a new way of living, even if in science fiction cells. The shapes are rounded, the seats become carpet-sculptures that allow you to curl up in warm, playful and non-conformist universes. The colors and decorative patterns marry the brilliance and delirium of Pop Art and psychedelia. The living space is transformed into a waking dream where luxurious furniture in new materials and surprising objects from all origins are combined, combined, for the first time, with antique furniture. The end of the 70s marked the advent of an era in which beauty and classic elegance gave way to a multitude of expressions that escaped all classification and hierarchy. The time for post-modernism has come.

Composed of a long introduction that gives a synoptic vision of it and thirty-five monographs that describe its many faces, this book makes an exceptionally creative period intelligible and reveals through an abundant iconography, often unpublished, its formidable aesthetic richness.

Alessandro Albrizzi, François Arnal and Atelier A, Gae Aulenti, Billy Baldwin, Michel Boyer, Pierre Cardin, François Catroux, Max Clendinning, Joe Colombo, Gabriella Crespi, Alain Demachy, John Dickinson, Tony Duquette, Paul Evans, Galerie Germain, Galerie Lacloche, Galerie Maison et Jardin, Jacques Grange, Marc Held, David Hicks, Jansen, Yonel Lebovici, Serge Manzon, Renzo Mongiardino, Verner Panton, Pierre Paulin, Maria Pergay, Alberto Pinto, Quasar, Henri Samuel, Charles Sévigny, John Stefanidis, Michael Taylor, Carla Venosta, Nanda Vigo

• 23 x 30.5 cm
• 336 pages
• 450 illustrations
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