Good Design

Peter Behrens, catalogue page for AEG electric tea kettles, 1908

Good Design

Charles and Ray Eames, Side chair model DCM, molded plywood and steel rods, mfd. Evans Products Co. (CA) / Herman Miller Inc., (MI) 1946

Good Design

Dieter Rams, PS 2 turntable, plastic and metal housing, mfd. Braun (W. Germany), 1963

Good Design

Good Design

Fritz Helmut Ehmke, Werkbund exhibition poster, 1914

The Deutscher Werkbund (‘German Product Association’)

Style

Owen Jones, The Grammar of Ornament, 1856 August Endell, Elvira Photo Studio, Munich, 1897

Product catalogue, August Stukenbrok Co., Germany, 1912

Style in the Marketplace

Peter Behrens, poster, “AEG Arc Lamp for Factory Illumination,” 1910

Peter Behrens and the AEG

Peter Behrens and the AEG

Peter Behrens, electric water kettle, nickel-plated brass, mfd. AEG (Germany), 1909

“Sachlichkeit”

Peter Behrens, electric water kettle, nickel-plated brass, mfd. AEG (Germany), 1909

Peter Behrens, catalogue page for AEG electric tea kettles, 1908

Standard type

Style v. fashion

“Good Design” exhibitions, Museum of Modern Art (New York), 1950-55

Good Design at MoMA

“Good Design” exhibitions, Museum of Modern Art (New York), 1950-55

Good Design at MoMA

“Good Design” exhibitions, Museum of Modern Art (New York), 1950-55

Good Design at MoMA

Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. What is Modern Design? (1950)

Harley Earl (design director), Cadillac El Dorado “Biarritz,” mfd. General Motors Co., 1958

Styling, ornament, obsolescence

Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. What is Modern Design? (1950)

Nikita Kruschev and Richard Nixon at the “Kitchen Debate,” American National Exhibition, Moscow, 1959

Cold War politics

Charles and Ray Eames at MoMA “Good Design,” 1950 Charles and Ray Eames

Charles and Ray Eames Ray and Charles Eames on a Velocette motorcycle, 1948

Eames furniture

Charles and Ray Eames, Side chair model DCM, molded plywood and steel rods, mfd. Evans Products Co. (CA) / Herman Miller Inc., (MI) 1946

Charles and Ray Eames, Molded Plywood Leg Splint, Evans Products Co., CA, 1942

Molded plywood

Molded plywood

Charles and Ray Eames, Side chair model DCM, molded plywood and steel rods, mfd. Evans Products Co. (CA) / Herman Miller Inc., (MI) 1946

Eames furniture

Marcel Breuer, Club Chair, steel, canvas, 1925 Eames, Side Chair, molded plywood, 1946

Organic design

Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, design for a lounge chair, 1941

Eames, side chair, molded plywood, 1946

Charles and Ray Eames, armchair, molded fiberglass-plastic, steel rods, mfd. Herman Miller Co. (MI), 1950

Eames furniture

Charles and Ray Eames, Eames House, Santa Monica, CA, 1949

Ray and Charles Eames at home, 1958

Ray and Charles Eames at home, 1958

Ray and Charles Eames at home, 1958

Charles Eames lecturing at the College of Design, Ulm, Germany, 1955

The College of Design, Ulm

Dieter Rams, PS 2 turntable, plastic and metal housing, mfd. Braun Co. (W. Germany), 1963

Braun Co.

Dieter Rams, PS 2 turntable, plastic and metal housing, mfd. Braun Co. (W. Germany), 1963

“Gute Form”

Harley Earl (design director), Cadillac El Dorado “Biarritz,” mfd. General Motors Co., 1958

Styling

Albert Speer (architect), Nazi Party rally, Germany, 1930sNazi visual culture

Kommerzterror (“Commerce terrorism”)

Dieter Rams, PS 2 turntable, plastic and metal housing, mfd. Braun Co. (W. Germany), 1963

Gute Form v. Kommerzterror

Good Design

Good Design