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The History of Modern Australian Designer Furniture

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Page 1: The History of Modern Australian Designer Furniture

The History of Modern

Australian Designer

Furniture

Page 2: The History of Modern Australian Designer Furniture

Characteristics

The Modernist design

movement shifted focus from

visually heavy to visually light

furniture design and from a

primarily aesthetic appeal to

functionality and accessibility.

Page 3: The History of Modern Australian Designer Furniture

Purpose

The government-sponsored Deutscher Werkbund organization in

Germany and the De Stijl group in the Netherlands were

instrumental in developing the movement, which reflected the the

belief that all levels of society could be provided with well-designed,

mass-produced goods. The Bauhaus School in Germany put these

principles into practice in the 1920s and 1930s.

Page 4: The History of Modern Australian Designer Furniture

Materials

Modernist designers introduced

non-traditional materials such

as steel, molded plywood and

plastics.

Page 5: The History of Modern Australian Designer Furniture

Japanese Influence

With the relaxation of Japan's

isolationist policy at the end of

the 19th century, simple and

elegant Japanese design came to

have a strong influence on the

modernist movement.

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Mid-Century Modern

Mid-century modern design emerged after World War II and

continued to flourish in both the United States and Europe,

particularly Scandinavia, until the mid-1960s. Furniture of this

design features clean, simple lines and organic shapes, with materials

including fiberglass, cast aluminum and acrylics. Many of the iconic

designers, such as Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson and

Isamu Noguchi had backgrounds in architecture.

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Source:

http://www.ehow.com/facts_6755789_modern-furniture-design-

history.html

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