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Post War Furniture
High modernism governed industrial design in the 1930s and 1960s. Machine art signified abstract designing with industrialized materials, such as steel and chrome. Organic design was used for eco-friendly designs with an emphasis on wood and natural materials. During the Great Depression, designers were challenged to create designs that would stimulate consumer demand. World War II affected material and former developments with the rationing of materials, such as steel, aluminum, and copper, for war efforts that forced designers to substitute nonessential materials in designs.
Some designers worked in wartime efforts. Charles and Ray Eames designed leg sprints and stretchers from molded laminated wood. The experiences and technology of the wartime efforts were transferred to furniture design. Eames developed the LCW chair with...
The purpose for designers was to produce quality of life enhancing products for any budget to stimulate consumer demand for new products. By doing experiments with molded laminated wood, Eames created low cost furniture designs that included molded shaped wooden chairs of various designs.
Machine art had a greater influence on Eames' designs as rations started to ease after the war. Their designs started including chairs with various metal designs in the frames and legs of the chairs. Some of the designs included molded hard plastic for the seat and back of the chairs that were mounted in metal frames. With the machine art of springs, Eames created chairs with soft cushions that had springs under the cushions for comfort. This created a series of designs with different moldings of various metals…
This fear of Communism and the Cold War created great defense spending for the United States, and led to development of technologies such as rocketry, space flight and exploration, and even nuclear power. The country was put on the defense, and created many important developments because of it. That is one reason the Cold War and the resulting scare was the most important change in post-war society. The scare
From the end of the War to the early 1950s, the Bank of Italy was credited for attracting and managing international aid, which helped bring the country out of a steep state of emergency and on the path of reconstruction. International aid came from Interim Aid, the Marshall Plan and the World Bank (Einaudi). Italy's Technical Redesign A substantial part of Italian construction legacy was destroyed during World War II and
Post War Iraq: A Paradox in the Making: Legitimacy vs. legality The regulations pertaining to the application of force in International Law has transformed greatly from the culmination of the Second World War, and again in the new circumstances confronting the world in the aftermath of the end of the Cold War. Novel establishments have been formed, old ones have withered away and an equally enormous quantity of intellectual writing has
Such a confrontational strategy represents a subversion of the Modernist paradigm that supposedly views the work of art as being separate from the viewing experience. When dealing with a live human being presented as an "object," however, one is forced to question that stance of critical distance, as it dissolves in front of our very eyes. Of course, a history of Native Americans' engagement with Modernism would require a much
Marx set the anti-religious tone of twentieth century political ideologies, in particular, anti-Semitism. Defenders of Marx will take scholars to task who question Marx on alleged anti-Semitism, claiming that the critics are quoting Marx out of context. Whether or not Marx is or was anti-Semitic (which this author is maintaining is the case), he was perceived so in his time and his writings were used by later Soviet regimes to
At which point, they began to vigorously compete against American firms. Then, during the 1970's is when China and other nations throughout Asia began to focus on trading aggressively with: Europe, Japan and the United States. This meant that the overall amounts of competition facing American companies increased exponentially. Once this occurred, is when they began to become more competitive against foreign firms. (Frye, 1997, pp. 354 -- 358)