Twentieth Century Design

The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and the McDonald’s logo are known all over the world, and designs such as the modernist ‘Frankfurt Kitchen’ of 1924, the 1954 streamlined and tail-finned Oldsmobile, or ‘Blow’ the inflatable chair ubiquitous in the late 1960s, tell us more about our culture than a narrowly-defined canon of classics. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship, Jonathan M. Woodham takes a fresh look at the wider issues of design and industrial culture throughout Europe, Scandinavia, North America and the Far East. He explores themes such as national identity, the ‘Americanisation’ of ideology and business methods, the rise of the multi-nationals, Pop and Postmodernism, and contemporary ideas of nostalgia and heritage. 288 pages by Jonathan M. Woodham. Size 23 x 16cm.

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