Decorative Art 60s assembles the most significant interiors, lighting, textiles, and product designs of the 1960s into a single survey drawn from the rare and long-sought Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook — a primary document of the decade's creative explosion.
About This Book
The 1960s remade the designed world. From Pop Art's bold graphics and synthetic materials to the organic, hand-crafted aesthetic of the counterculture, the decade produced a range of decorative arts that remains unmatched in its breadth and velocity of change. This Taschen volume draws directly from the Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook — a period publication that captured these shifts as they happened — making it both a design reference and a primary historical source. Interior design, textiles, lighting, and furniture are surveyed across 575 pages, mapping how social, sexual, and political upheaval translated into material culture. Essential for designers, historians, and collectors of mid-century and postmodern design.
Key Features
- 575 pages of full-colour interiors, lighting, textile, and product design documentation drawn from the Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook
- Published by Taschen
What You'll Discover
- How Pop Art's visual language — bold colour, mass production, and irony — translated directly into interior and product design
- The tension between industrial modernism and the handmade, craft-oriented aesthetics of the hippie counterculture, as expressed through textiles and furniture
- Period documentation of lighting and interior design that reflects the decade's unprecedented shifts in domestic life and social values
- The role of the Studio Yearbook as a real-time record of creative practice, offering a more immediate view of the 1960s than retrospective histories allow
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 575
- Dimensions: 196 x 255 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783836584463
- Publisher: Taschen
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Design historians, collectors of mid-century and postmodern design, interior designers researching the 1960s, and students of decorative arts and material culture.