A Study of Formative World with Plastic Furniture Design (Focused on the anti-design in 1960s ${\sim}$1970s)

플라스틱 가구디자인의 조형세계에 관한 연구 (1960년대부터 1970년대 반디자인을 중심으로)

  • Oh, Se-Ja (Dept. of Living Furniture Design, Seoil College)
  • 오세자 (서일대학교 생활가구디자인학과)
  • Published : 2008.01.25

Abstract

For ages, Furniture, it has been improved for human aesthetic needs as well as human life as a tool. In the 1960s, it's the age of an ideological conflict. And its war made the hippie-culture come out. And, it was economically bountiful. The epoch-making development of the scientific technology made the result of space development, conquering the moon in the first of the mankind. Made the appearance of the Anti-design against the modern design which was the also, it traditional values and the mainstream. The plastic has merits, low-priced, light, being perfectly able to do mass production of the all kind of shapes' furniture with all-desired colors. It was the wonderful material for the expression of the short-life character, the irony, the kitsch, and an intentional decoration to being chased by anti-design. And the result, the plastic furniture in the people's daily-life has well represented with reflecting the mind of the people in that age.

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