Objects of desire
In this provocative and original examination of the role played by design in people's lives, historian Adrian Forty shows why so many manufactured goods--appliances, clothing, conveyances, equipment--have an infinite variety of design despite having the same functions. The history of design is also the history of a society; any account of change within a society must rest upon an understanding of the way design affects and is affected by economic and social conditions. In the capitalist system …
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- Full title :Objects of desire / Adrian Forty.
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In this provocative and original examination of the role played by design in people's lives, historian Adrian Forty shows why so many manufactured goods--appliances, clothing, conveyances, equipment--have an infinite variety of design despite having the same functions. The history of design is also the history of a society; any account of change within a society must rest upon an understanding of the way design affects and is affected by economic and social conditions. In the capitalist system this relationship is best seen in the consumer's desire for more, better and "newer" goods, a desire bred and nurtured by the manufacturer who employs designers to give his products novelty. Forty also describes the career of Josiah Wedgewood, the innovative entrepreneur who influenced both public taste and means of production in the earliest days of capitalism . ISBN 0-394-50792-4: $24.95.
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- Publication Date:1986.
- Edition:1st American ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1986.
The Physical Object
- Description:245, [11] pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0394507924, 9780394507927, 0394751515, 9780394751511
- oclc:ocm12262931
- LC Classification:TS57
- Dewey Decimal:745.2/0942
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Images of progress -- The first industrial designers -- Design and mechanisation -- Differentiation in design -- The home -- Design in the office -- Hygiene and cleanliness -- Electricity -- the fuel of the future -- Labour-saving in the home -- Design and corporate identity -- Design, designers and the literature of design.
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