Description: THE PLASTICS AGE by Penny Sparke From Bakelite to Beanbags and Beyond 160 pages and 65 full-color and 85 black and white photographs Penny Sparke [Editor]: THE PLASTICS AGE [From Bakelite to Beanbags and Beyond]. Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 1993. First edition. Black paper covered boards titled in gilt. Photo illustrated dust jacket. 160 pp. 65 color plates and 85 black and white photographs. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Trivial wear overall: a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. 9 x 11.25 hardcover book with 160 pages and 65 full-color and 85 black and white photographs. Includes essays by Jeffrey Meikle, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Barbara Radice (Ms. Memphis), Sylvia Katz and others. A visually dazzling display of the plastics achievement in every area of design. Highly recommended. I've only got one word for you.... Contents include: the technology of early plastics the first plastic plastics in the american machine age 1920-1950 plasticsand the future industrial designa nd commercial art perceptionsof plastics: a study of plastics in Britain 1945-1956 the Italian way to Plastics plastics and pop culture natural wood, cultural wood plastic laminate plastics in the '80s bibliography/picture credits/index Includes work by Franco Albini, John Vassos, Raymond Loewy, Achille Castiglioni, Henry Dreyfuss, Paul Frankl, Vico Magistretti, Philippe Starck, Isamu Noguchi, Ettore Sottsass, Walter Dorwin Teague, Archigram, Serge Chermayeff, Roberto Menghi, and many others. Please visit my Ebay store for an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. I offer shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Please contact me for details. Payment due within 3 days of purchase.
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