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Contents<br/>Acknowledgements xiii<br/>General Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei 1<br/>Part One: Histories<br/>Introduction to Part One, Rebecca Houze 9<br/>SECTION 1: NEW DESIGNERS 1676- 1820<br/>Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei 13<br/>1. An Indian Basket, Providence, Rhode Island, 1676, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 15<br/>2. A Slipware Dish by Samuel Malkin: An Analysis of Vernacular Design, Darron Dean 22<br/>3. Of The Division of Labour, Adam Smith 29<br/>4. The Wedgwood Slave Medallion: Values in Eighteenth-Century Design, Mary Guyatt 34<br/>5. Manufacturing, Consumption and Design in Eighteenth Century England, John Styles 41<br/>Guide to Further Reading 49<br/>SECTION 2: DESIGN REFORM 1820-1910<br/>Introduction, Rebecca Houze 53<br/>6. Science, Industry, and Art, Gottfried Semper 55<br/>7. The Nature of Gothic, John Ruskin 60<br/>8. The Ideal Book, William Morris 65<br/>9. The 'American System' and Mass-Production from Industrial Design, John Heskett 70<br/>10. The 1900 Paris Exposition, from Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siècle France, Debora Silverman 75<br/>11. The Art and Craft of the Machine, Frank Lloyd Wright 81<br/>Guide to Further Reading 85<br/>SECTION 3: MODERNISMS 1908-1950<br/>Introduction, Rebecca Houze 89<br/>12. Introduction to Modernism in Design, Paul Greenhalgh 91<br/>13. Ornament and Crime, Adolf Loos 98<br/>14. Werkbund Theses and Antitheses, Hermann Muthesius and Henry van de Velde 101<br/>15. The Modern Movement before Nineteen-fourteen from Pioneers of Modern Design, Nikolaus Pevsner 104<br/>16. The Coloristes and Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, from Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France, Nancy Troy 109<br/>17. From Workshop to Laboratory, from The Bauhaus Reassessed, Gillian Naylor 115<br/>18. The Search for an American Design Aesthetic: from Art Deco to Streamlining, Nicolas Maffei 120<br/>Guide to Further Reading 127<br/>SECTION 4: WAR/POSTWAR/COLD WAR 1943-1970<br/>Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei 131<br/>19. Utility Furniture and the Myth of Utility 1943-1948, Matthew Denney 135<br/>20. 'Here Is the Modern World Itself' the Festival of Britain's Representations of The Future Becky Conekin 143<br/>21. Populuxe, Thomas Hine 152<br/>22. The Khrushchev Kitchen: Domesticating the Scientific-Technological Revolution Susan E. Reid 158<br/>23. All That Glitters is Not Stainless, Reyner Banham 165<br/>Guide to Further Reading 171<br/>SECTION 5: POSTMODERNISMS 1967-2006<br/>Introduction, Rebecca Houze 175<br/>24. A Significance for A & P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown and Steven Izenour 179<br/>25. The Ecstasy of Communication, Jean Baudrillard 183<br/>26. There is No Kitsch, There is Only Design!, Gert Selle 185<br/>27. Deconstruction and Graphic Design: History Meets Theory, Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller 192<br/>28. What was Philippe Starck thinking of? P. Lloyd and D. Snelders 200<br/>29. Fabricating Identities: Survival and the Imagination in Jamaican Dancehall Culture, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf 207<br/>Guide to Further Reading 215<br/>SECTION 6: SUSTAINABLE FUTURES 1960-2003<br/>Introduction, Rebecca Houze 219<br/>30. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, R. Buckminster Fuller 223<br/>31. How to Outmode a $4,000 Vehicle in Two Years, from The Waste Makers, Vance Packard 226<br/>32. Do-It-Yourself Murder: the Social and Moral Responsibility of the Designer, from Design for the Real World, Victor Papanek 231<br/>33. Material Doubts and Plastic Fallout, from American Plastic, Jeffrey L. Meikle 236<br/>34. Introduction, The Green Consumer Supermarket Guide, Joel Makower, John Elkington, and Julia Hailes 243<br/>35. Redefining Rubbish: Commodity Disposal and Sourcing, Nicky Gregson and Louise Crewe 247<br/>36. The Hannover Principles. Design for Sustainability, William McDonough 253<br/>Guide to Further Reading 255<br/>Part Two: Methods and Themes<br/>Introduction to Part Two , Grace Lees-Maffei 259<br/>SECTION 7: FOUNDATIONS, DEBATES, HISTORIOGRAPHY, 1980-1995<br/>Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei 263<br/>37. Taking Stock in Design History, Fran Hannah and Tim Putnam 267<br/>38. The State of Design History, Part I: Mapping the Field, Clive Dilnot 273<br/>39. Design History and the History of Design, John A. Walker 279<br/>40. Design History or Design Studies: Subject Matter and Methods, Victor Margolin 286<br/>41. Resisting Colonization: Design History Has Its Own Identity, Jonathan M. Woodham 291<br/>Guide to Further Reading 299<br/>SECTION 8: OBJECTS, SUBJECTS AND NEGOTIATIONS<br/>Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei 303<br/>42. Object as Image: The Italian Scooter Cycle, Dick Hebdige 307<br/>43. The Most Cherished Objects in the Home, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton 315<br/>44. How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum, Ruth Schwartz Cowan 323<br/>45. The History of Craft, Paul Greenhalgh 329<br/>46. Faith, Form and Finish: Shaker Furniture in Context, Jean M. Burks 336<br/>Guide to Further Reading 343<br/>SECTION 9: GENDER AND DESIGN<br/>Introduction, Rebecca Houze 347<br/>47. FORM/female FOLLOWS FUNCTION/male: Feminist Critiques of Design, Judy Attfield 349<br/>48. The Architect's Wife, Introduction to As Long As Its Pink, Penny Sparke 355<br/>49. Humanizing Modernism: the Crafts, 'Functioning Decoration,' and the Eamses, Pat Kirkham 360<br/>50. 'In London's maze': the pleasures of fashionable consumption from The Hidden Consumer, Christopher Breward 367<br/>51. Self-Made Motormen: The Material Construction of Working-class Masculine Identities through Car Modification, Andrew Bengry-Howell and Christine Griffin 374<br/>Guide to Further Reading 381<br/>SECTION 10: CONSUMPTION<br/>Introduction, Rebecca Houze 385<br/>52. The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret, from Capital, Karl Marx 387<br/>53. Conspicuous Consumption from The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen 391<br/>54. Myth Today, The New Citroën, and Plastic, from Mythologies, Roland Barthes 395<br/>55. Introduction and The Sense of Distinction from Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Pierre Bourdieu 402<br/>56. 'Parties Are the Answer': The Ascent of the Tupperware Party, Alison Clarke 409<br/>57. The Revolution Will Be Marketed: American Corporations and Black Consumers during the 1960s, Robert E. Weems, Jr. 415<br/>Guide to Further Reading 423<br/>SECTION 11: MEDIATION<br/>Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei 427<br/>58. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin 429<br/>59. Advertising, Mother of Graphic Design, Steven Heller 435<br/>60. 'Decorators May Be Compared to Doctors' An Analysis of Rhoda and Agnes Garrett's Suggestions For House Decoration In Painting, Woodwork And Furniture (1876), Emma Ferry 441<br/>61. Integrative Practice: Oral History, Dress and Disability Studies, Liz Linthicum 449<br/>62. Introduction to Design and the Modern Magazine, Jeremy Aynsley and Kate Forde 456<br/>Guide to Further Reading 463<br/>SECTION 12: LOCAL/REGIONAL/NATIONAL/GLOBAL<br/>Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei 467<br/>63. Finding Poland in the Margins: The Case of the Zakopane Style, David Crowley 471<br/>64. Furniture Design and Colonialism: Negotiating Relationships between Britain and Australia, 1880-1901, Tracey Avery 478<br/>65. "From Baby's First Bath:" Kaô Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design, Gennifer Weisenfeld 485<br/>66. Land Rover and Colonial-Style Adventure, Jeanne Van Eeden 494<br/>67. Swoosh Identity: Recontextualizations in Haiti and Romania, Paul B. Bick and Sorina Chiper 501<br/>Guide to Further Reading 509<br/>List of Illustrations 511<br/>Notes on Contributors 513 <br/>Bibliography 521<br/>Index 535 |
