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39 relations: André Courrèges, Appliqué, Art Deco, Atomic Age, Barkcloth, Brooch, Brooklyn Museum, Charles and Ray Eames, Chemosphere, Cold War, Design, Design Council, Eero Aarnio, Eero Saarinen, Encyclopædia Britannica, Frank Lloyd Wright, Futurism, Go-go boot, Googie architecture, Hiroshima, Issey Miyake, John Lautner, Kitsch, Melamine, Mid-century modern, Modernism, Nuclear warfare, Paco Rabanne, Pierre Cardin, Pierre Koenig, Retrofuturism, Richard Neutra, Space Age, Sputnik 1, The Jetsons, Theme Building, Vernacular, Virgil Exner, Western culture.
André Courrèges
André Courrèges (9 March 1923 – 7 January 2016) was a French fashion designer.
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Appliqué
Appliqué is ornamental needlework in which pieces of fabric in different shapes and patterns are sewn or stuck onto a larger piece to form a picture or pattern.
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Art Deco
Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.
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Atomic Age
The Atomic Age, also known as the Atomic Era, is the period of history following the detonation of the first nuclear ("atomic") bomb, Trinity, on July 16, 1945, during World War II.
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Barkcloth
Barkcloth or bark cloth is a versatile material that was once common in Asia, Africa, Indonesia, and the Pacific.
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Brooch
A brooch is a decorative jewelry item designed to be attached to garments, often to hold them closed.
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Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
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Charles and Ray Eames
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr. (1907–1978) and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" Kaiser Eames (1912–1988) were an American design married couple who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture.
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Chemosphere
The Chemosphere is a modernist house in Los Angeles, California, designed by John Lautner in 1960.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).
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Design
Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system or measurable human interaction (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams, and sewing patterns).
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Design Council
The Design Council, formerly the Council of Industrial Design, is a United Kingdom charity incorporated by Royal Charter.
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Eero Aarnio
Eero Aarnio (born 21 July 1932, in Helsinki) is a Finnish interior designer, noted for his innovative furniture designs in the 1960s, such as his plastic and fibreglass chairs.
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Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer noted for his neo-futuristic style.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed.
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Futurism
Futurism (Futurismo) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century.
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Go-go boot
Go-go boots are a low-heeled style of women's fashion boot first introduced in the mid-1960s.
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Googie architecture
Googie architecture is a form of modern architecture, a subdivision of futurist architecture influenced by car culture, jets, the Space Age, and the Atomic Age.
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Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu - the largest island of Japan.
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Issey Miyake
is a Japanese fashion designer.
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John Lautner
John Edward Lautner (16 July 1911 – 24 October 1994) was an American architect.
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Kitsch
Kitsch (loanword from German), also called cheesiness or tackiness, is art or other objects that appeal to popular rather than high art tastes.
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Melamine
Melamine is the organic compound with the formula C3H6N6.
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Mid-century modern
Mid-century modern is the design movement in interior, product, graphic design, architecture, and urban development from roughly 1945 to 1975.
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Modernism
Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Nuclear warfare
Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict damage on the enemy.
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Paco Rabanne
Francisco "Paco" Rabaneda Cuervo, (more commonly known under the pseudonym of Paco Rabanne) (born 18 February 1934) is a Spanish fashion designer of Basque origin who became known as l'enfant terrible (unruly child) of the 1960s French fashion world.
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Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin, born Pietro Cardin; 2 July 1922) is a French fashion designer. Cardin is known for his avant-garde style and his Space Age designs. He prefers geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical. He founded his fashion house in 1950 and introduced the "bubble dress" in 1954. He was designated UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 1991. On 16 October 2009, Cardin was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
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Pierre Koenig
Pierre Francis Koenig (October 17, 1925 – April 4, 2004) was an American architect and a Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California.
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Retrofuturism
Retrofuturism (adjective retrofuturistic or retrofuture) is a trend in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era.
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Richard Neutra
Richard Joseph Neutra (April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) was an Austrian-American architect.
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Space Age
The Space Age is a time period encompassing the activities related to the Space Race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events.
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Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 (or; "Satellite-1", or "PS-1", Простейший Спутник-1 or Prosteyshiy Sputnik-1, "Elementary Satellite 1") was the first artificial Earth satellite.
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The Jetsons
The Jetsons is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in primetime from September 23, 1962, to March 17, 1963, then later in syndication, with new episodes in 1985 to 1987 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera block.
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Theme Building
The Theme Building is an iconic Space Age structure at the Los Angeles International Airport.
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Vernacular
A vernacular, or vernacular language, is the language or variety of a language used in everyday life by the common people of a specific population.
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Virgil Exner
Virgil Max "Ex" Exner Sr. (September 24, 1909 – December 22, 1973) was an automobile designer for numerous American companies, notably Chrysler and Studebaker.
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Western culture
Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Occidental culture, the Western world, Western society, European civilization,is a term used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Age_(design)
