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Good Design
Peter Behrens, catalogue page for AEG electric tea kettles, 1908
Good Design
Charles and Ray Eames, Side chair model DCM, molded plywood and steel rods, mfd. Evans Products Co. (CA) / Herman Miller Inc., (MI) 1946
Good Design
Dieter Rams, PS 2 turntable, plastic and metal housing, mfd. Braun (W. Germany), 1963
Good Design
Good Design
Fritz Helmut Ehmke, Werkbund exhibition poster, 1914
The Deutscher Werkbund (‘German Product Association’)
Style
Owen Jones, The Grammar of Ornament, 1856 August Endell, Elvira Photo Studio, Munich, 1897
Product catalogue, August Stukenbrok Co., Germany, 1912
Style in the Marketplace
Peter Behrens, poster, “AEG Arc Lamp for Factory Illumination,” 1910
Peter Behrens and the AEG
Peter Behrens and the AEG
Peter Behrens, electric water kettle, nickel-plated brass, mfd. AEG (Germany), 1909
“Sachlichkeit”
Peter Behrens, electric water kettle, nickel-plated brass, mfd. AEG (Germany), 1909
Peter Behrens, catalogue page for AEG electric tea kettles, 1908
Standard type
Style v. fashion
“Good Design” exhibitions, Museum of Modern Art (New York), 1950-55
Good Design at MoMA
“Good Design” exhibitions, Museum of Modern Art (New York), 1950-55
Good Design at MoMA
“Good Design” exhibitions, Museum of Modern Art (New York), 1950-55
Good Design at MoMA
Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. What is Modern Design? (1950)
Harley Earl (design director), Cadillac El Dorado “Biarritz,” mfd. General Motors Co., 1958
Styling, ornament, obsolescence
Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. What is Modern Design? (1950)
Nikita Kruschev and Richard Nixon at the “Kitchen Debate,” American National Exhibition, Moscow, 1959
Cold War politics
Charles and Ray Eames at MoMA “Good Design,” 1950 Charles and Ray Eames
Charles and Ray Eames Ray and Charles Eames on a Velocette motorcycle, 1948
Eames furniture
Charles and Ray Eames, Side chair model DCM, molded plywood and steel rods, mfd. Evans Products Co. (CA) / Herman Miller Inc., (MI) 1946
Charles and Ray Eames, Molded Plywood Leg Splint, Evans Products Co., CA, 1942
Molded plywood
Molded plywood
Charles and Ray Eames, Side chair model DCM, molded plywood and steel rods, mfd. Evans Products Co. (CA) / Herman Miller Inc., (MI) 1946
Eames furniture
Marcel Breuer, Club Chair, steel, canvas, 1925 Eames, Side Chair, molded plywood, 1946
Organic design
Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, design for a lounge chair, 1941
Eames, side chair, molded plywood, 1946
Charles and Ray Eames, armchair, molded fiberglass-plastic, steel rods, mfd. Herman Miller Co. (MI), 1950
Eames furniture
Charles and Ray Eames, Eames House, Santa Monica, CA, 1949
Ray and Charles Eames at home, 1958
Ray and Charles Eames at home, 1958
Ray and Charles Eames at home, 1958
Charles Eames lecturing at the College of Design, Ulm, Germany, 1955
The College of Design, Ulm
Dieter Rams, PS 2 turntable, plastic and metal housing, mfd. Braun Co. (W. Germany), 1963
Braun Co.
Dieter Rams, PS 2 turntable, plastic and metal housing, mfd. Braun Co. (W. Germany), 1963
“Gute Form”
Harley Earl (design director), Cadillac El Dorado “Biarritz,” mfd. General Motors Co., 1958
Styling
Albert Speer (architect), Nazi Party rally, Germany, 1930sNazi visual culture
Kommerzterror (“Commerce terrorism”)
Dieter Rams, PS 2 turntable, plastic and metal housing, mfd. Braun Co. (W. Germany), 1963
Gute Form v. Kommerzterror
Good Design
Good Design