" Come tour the future with General Motors! A transcontinental flight over America in 1960! What will we see? What changes will transpire? " Conclusion of a 2-part series on Streamline moderne, In this episode I'll discuss why it took particular root in Depression-era America, and also discuss how the critics viewed modern art in the 1930s. Photo credit: Wes Magyar To explore future: Book, Bush, "The Streamlined Decade", George Braziller Inc, 1075Pictures of the Hoover M...
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" Come tour the future with General Motors! A transcontinental flight over America in 1960! What will we see? What changes will transpire? " Conclusion of a 2-part series on Streamline moderne, In this episode I'll discuss why it took particular root in Depression-era America, and also discuss how the critics viewed modern art in the 1930s. Photo credit: Wes Magyar To explore future: Book, Bush, "The Streamlined Decade", George Braziller Inc, 1075Pictures of the Hoover M...
"If I had known they'd talk about nothing else I never would have designed that damn kitchen" In this episode we discuss the Frankfurt kitchen the first mass-produced fitted kitchen. Designed in 1926 by the amazing and brilliant Greta Schutte-Lihotzky, we'll also discuss functionalist design, the birth of public housing and the idea of "wicked problems" To explore further: Description of the Frankfurt kitchen hereVideo of "Kitchen Dance" hereVideo of Robert Rotifer's song "The Frank...
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" Come tour the future with General Motors! A transcontinental flight over America in 1960! What will we see? What changes will transpire? " Conclusion of a 2-part series on Streamline moderne, In this episode I'll discuss why it took particular root in Depression-era America, and also discuss how the critics viewed modern art in the 1930s. Photo credit: Wes Magyar To explore future: Book, Bush, "The Streamlined Decade", George Braziller Inc, 1075Pictures of the Hoover M...