Main entry:

Forty, Adrian, 1948-

Title & Author:

Objects of desire / Adrian Forty.

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, 1986.

Description:

245, [11] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-251) and index.
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.
English.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0394507924
9780394507927
0394751515
9780394751511

Subject:

Industrial design Great Britain History.
Design, Industrial Great Britain History.
Design Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Industrial design
Great Britain

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 326152
Call No.: 326152
Copy: 1
Status: Available