Industrial design
Subtitle: reflection of a century
By: edited by Jocelyn de Noblet.
Contributors: Noblet, Jocelyn de.; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France).
Publisher: Flammarion/APCI
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Design, Industrial -- History; Design, Industrial -- Exhibitions
Other titles: Industrial design, reflection of a century.; Design, miroir du siècle.
Notes: "Publication sponsored by: A.F.A.A., Association Française d'Action Artistique, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Ministère de la Culture et de la Francophonie, Délégation aux Art Plastiques (FIACRE)" --T.p.

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Design, miroir du siècle at the Grand Palais, Paris, 19 May to 25 July 1993" --T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (P. 426) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword :; title: Industrial design from 1851 into the 21st century -- Sir Terence Conran; title: Design in question -- François Barré; title: Design, mirror of a century -- François Seigneur -- The; title: realm of objects -- Marianne Barzilay and Sylvain Dubuisson; title: Preface -- Marc Augé; title: Design in progress -- Jocelyn de Noblet; title: Design for everyday objects -- Evert Endt, with Sabine Grandadam; title: Design in the first machine age -- Jacques Guillerme; title: Abolish bric-à-brac : confusion and profusion in 19th-century industrial art -- Michel Vernes; title: Comfort -- Roger-Henri Guerrand; title: Dandyism : from luxury to immateriality -- Françoise Coblence -- The; title: survival of the craft ideal -- Gullian Naylor; title: Art for everyone -- Lionel Richard; title: Art deco : nostalgia and post-modernism during the first machine age -- Suzanne Tise --The; title: Bauhaus and the theory of form -- Elodie Vitale -- The; title: great  utopia -- Éric Mézil; title: Streamlining (1930-1955) -- Jeffrey L. Meikle; title: Design for the happy days : the 1950s / Jocelyn de Noblet --; title: Modernity and the Ulm school /rBernd Meurer --; title: Italian radical architecture -- Andrea Branzi; title: Industrial design today -- Marion Hancock; title: Biodesign -- Mike Jones; title: Leaving the 20th century -- Catherine McDermott; title: Car design -- Gaston Juchet -- The -- process of car design / -- Gaston Juchet; title: Colour, design and mass production : the history of a difficult encounter (1880-1960) -- Michel Pastoureau -- The; title: voice of things -- Louis Dandrel; title: Ornament and industrial design : culture, status and identity -- Jonathan M. Woodham; title: Beyond a semiology of objects -- Henri Pierre Jeudy -- The; title: domestication of objects -- Martyne Perrot; title: CAD and the conception of objects -- Jean Zeitoun; title: Time-objects beyond form -- Edmond Couchot; title: New materials in the industrial age -- Raymond Guidot; title: New questions : fluidification of matter, acceleration of time and production of meaning -- Ezio Manzini; title: Postface : Towards the 21st century : design in quest of an identity-- Anne-Marie Boutin.