British Design: Tradition and Modernity after 1948 by Fiona Fisher and Ghislaine Wood Christopher

By Fiona Fisher and Ghislaine Wood Christopher Breward,Christopher Breward,Fiona Fisher,Ghislaine Wood

British Design brings jointly prime overseas students, designers and reporters to supply new views on British layout within the final sixty years, and the way it right now appeared again to the earlier with the continuation of traditions that spoke to Britain's layout history, and seemed forwards with the include of modernist and postmodernist type. The ebook responds to and develops new methods of knowing the new background of layout in Britain, with case stories on designed areas and gadgets, together with family interiors, retail areas, faculties and collage structures and shipping.

The individuals tackle major moments and phenomena within the historic and social historical past of British layout, from the increase and fall of the English nation condominium variety and the Brutalist architectural growth of the Nineteen Sixties to the fashionable procuring house, and view the paintings of key modern designers starting from Tommy Roberts to Thomas Heatherwick. British Design presents new feedback and research on how layout, from the fast post-war interval to the current day, has constructed and altered how we are living and the way we have interaction with the areas during which we live.

British Design is divided into thirteen chapters and is richly illustrated with sixty five photos, sixteen of that are in complete colour.

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