Decorators of the 60s and 70s

The 60s and 70s are inseparable in the history of decoration and furniture. They mark a radical turning point in a world till then confined to national and elitist expressions. Everything exploded at the beginning of the 60s. The fashion was of Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, Italian and French inspiration. Genres blended in an unbridled desire to live in symbiosis with the times. Technological progress accredited the conviction of a conquering freedom of the individual and aroused unprecedented desires for a new way of living. The shapes became rounded, the seats became carpet-sculptures which allow you to curl up in warm, playful and non-conformist worlds. The colors and decorative patterns embraced the brilliance and delirium of Pop Art and psychedelia. Living spaces were transformed into a waking dream where luxurious furniture, new materials and surprising objects of all origins were combined, and paired, in a new development, with antique furniture. The end of the 70s marks the advent of an era where beauty and classic elegance gave way to a multitude of expressions that escape any classification or hierarchy. The time for post-modernism had come.

Composed of a long introduction which gives a synoptic vision and thirty-five monographs which describe its multiple faces, this book makes an exceptionally creative period intelligible and reveals through abundant iconography, often unpublished, its formidable aesthetic richness.

Alessandro Albrizzi, François Arnal and Atelier A, Gae Aulenti, Billy Baldwin, Michel Boyer, Pierre Cardin, François Catroux, Max Clendinning, Joe Colombo, Gabriella Crespi, Alain Demachy, John Dickinson, Tony Duquette, Paul Evans, Galerie Germain, Galerie Lacloche, Galerie Maison et Jardin, Jacques Grange, Marc Held, David Hicks, Jansen, Yonel Lebovici, Serge Manzon, Renzo Mongiardino, Verner Panton, Pierre Paulin, Maria Pergay, Alberto Pinto, Quasar, Henri Samuel, Charles Sévigny, John Stefanidis, Michael Taylor, Carla Venosta, Nanda Vigo

• 23 x 30.5 cm
• 336 pages
• 450 illustrations
• Hardcover, dust jacket
• ISBN: 978-2-9155-42776

Text in French only