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Retro: a guide to the mid-20th century design revival
Retro: a guide to the mid-20th century design revival

Retro: a guide to the mid-20th century design revival

 

Adrian Franklin
$59.95 ($59.36 member price)
[prices shown are in Australian dollars and include GST]
ISBN 9781742232850
paperback, 256 pages, 245 x 275 mm
over 400 colour illustrations
Publisher: New South Books in association with Powerhouse Publishing
Distributor: New South Books
Published: October 2011

Retro may be cool, but why are we now in the middle of a love affair with objects and designs from the mid-twentieth century? What unique qualities do they share that make them so special now? Using one of the most spectacular displays of retro objects ever assembled, and covering all the bases ? furniture, fashion, ceramics, technology, metal, graphics, plastic and glass ? twentieth-century expert Adrian Franklin provides the answers.
Spanning the period from the 1950s to the 1980s and beyond, and with international coverage, Adrian identifies the designers, manufacturers, brands, innovations, technologies and materials that transformed the world and still cast their magic spell. It also contains 160 objects from the Powerhouse Museum collection and contributions from 11 Powerhouse Museum curators that give a rare and valuable glimpse into the making of an aesthetic movement like retro. Authoritative, entertaining and beautiful, Retro is itself an object to be treasured.


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