The 1980s and 1990s witnessed unprecedented experimentation in the world of design and architecture. The era of classical beauty and elegance gave way to a multitude of expressions that eluded classification and hierarchy. With the advent of post-modernism, a new generation of designers, including Shiro Kuramata, Philippe Starck, Ron Arad, Bob Wilson, Elizabeth Garouste, and Mattia Bonetti, are regenerating design by rejecting the elitism of their predecessors and promoting the use of new materials and unexpected colour and pattern combinations.
In the tradition of works on the decorators of the 40s, 50s and 60s/70s, this book makes an exceptionally creative period intelligible and reveals its formidable aesthetic richness through an abundance of iconography, often unpublished. The book contains an introduction that gives a synoptic vision of the 1980s and 1990s, and thirty-eight monographs that describe the many aspects of the period.
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