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1950s Plastics Design: Everyday Elegance (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
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1950s Plastics Design: Everyday Elegance (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
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List price R579
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This newly revised book presents a factual discussion of the wide
variety of colorful and popular plastics housewares made between
1945 and 1960. Wonderful advertisements that announced to the world
what new designs were possible with this experimental material are
shown. Many color photographs of today's highly collectible
plastics objects demonstrate the variety of colors and useful forms
that were manufactured. Vinyl, Lucite, Melamine and Formica, to
name but a few, have become common household names since their
introduction in this era. Here are chairs, tables, dishes, cups,
radios, lampshades, draperies, cooking containers, car interiors,
floors and more-all made of plastics. A very useful Collectors'
Guide, providing information about all the major manufacturers and
trade names, is organized by product types for easy reference. For
1950s families with small budgets and small homes, the "magic" of
plastics chemistry promised unprecedented practical benefits
mingled with the glamour and drama of sleek modern forms. At last,
plastics had stepped out of the kitchen and bath to enter almost
every area of home design. In a single decade, plastics had won
favor among an astonishingly diverse group-from dimestore shoppers
and young marrieds to gifted designers and prestigious proponents
of affordable good design. In tracing plastic's whirlwind rise from
wartime sham to postwar miracle, this book explores not only the
history of an important segment of 1950s collectibles but also the
history of a culture redefining its way of life.
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