- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson (2 Nov 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0500514836
- ISBN-13: 978-0500514832
- Product Dimensions: 30.8 x 24.4 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 156,679 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`A kitschfest of the highest order ... witty, perceptive and luxuriously designed' --The Spectator
'A visual feast, charting with considerable verve that decade's far-from-understated legacy' --Harper's Bazaar
'Truly inspirational' --Living-etc
`Offers a plethora of reasons to be nostalgic' --Elle Decoration
`Lavish - packed full with amazing photographs and exploring all manner of fashion, interior and architecture delights ... a must for anyone with a keen interest in retro
style'
--Metro
'Excellent visual material is matched by informative, often anecdotal, captions ... this comprehensive survey contextualises the prevailing influences with authority and affection.'
--Nicole Swengley, Financial Times
'The first ripple in the fickle tide of fashion turning back in the decade's favour'
--Grand Designs
'An impressive array of 1970s tastemakers gave interviews for the book ... In capturing the visual noise of the decade, the hectic turnover and profusion of competing styles, they convey an appropriate sense of turbulence'
--Andy Beckett, London Review of Books
'Really Striking photography and illustrations ... nostalgic and refreshing'
--The Great Indoors Magazine
'A visual feast, charting with considerable verve that decade's far-from-understated legacy' --Harper's Bazaar
'Truly inspirational' --Living-etc
`Offers a plethora of reasons to be nostalgic' --Elle Decoration
`Lavish - packed full with amazing photographs and exploring all manner of fashion, interior and architecture delights ... a must for anyone with a keen interest in retro
style'
--Metro
'Excellent visual material is matched by informative, often anecdotal, captions ... this comprehensive survey contextualises the prevailing influences with authority and affection.'
--Nicole Swengley, Financial Times
'The first ripple in the fickle tide of fashion turning back in the decade's favour'
--Grand Designs
'An impressive array of 1970s tastemakers gave interviews for the book ... In capturing the visual noise of the decade, the hectic turnover and profusion of competing styles, they convey an appropriate sense of turbulence'
--Andy Beckett, London Review of Books
'Really Striking photography and illustrations ... nostalgic and refreshing'
--The Great Indoors Magazine
Product Description
Forget platforms and flares, think the Pompidou Centre and Fiorucci. This sensationally illustrated appraisal of all aspects of 70s design celebrates the era for what it really was aesthetically eclectic and iconoclastic, a time when good taste was challenged, but not just in an orange-and-brown-and-man-made-fibres way. Sidestepping the clichés, 70s Style & Design documents the huge creative scope of a decade which, more than any other, continues to influence fashion, design, music, film and literature today. The book segues between high and popular culture as it harnesses the eras multifarious trends from the Biba-led Art Deco revival to the ecology movement, punk to postmodernism examining the lifestyle shifts and subcultures that shaped them and charting their influence on fashion, design, architecture, interiors and art, from London to Paris, Milan to New York. Seventies Style & Design features a roll call of the decades pivotal fashion designers (including Yves Saint Laurent, Vivienne Westwood, Zandra Rhodes, Kansai Yamamoto, Issey Miyake, Antony Price, Barbara Hulanicki, Bill Gibb, Elio Fiorucci, Mr Freedom) as well as a diverse range of architecture and interiors (from Frank Gehry to Robert Venturi, High-tech to the Habitat look), furniture design (from Alessandro Mendini to John Makepeace), graphic design and illustration (including Milton Glaser, Alan Aldridge, Barney Bubbles, George Hardie, Jean-Paul Goude and Peter Saville) and art (David Hockney, Peter Blake, Cindy Sherman, Andrew Logan and Duggie Fields).
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A beautiful and lush book, superbly produced, with just the right amount of image to text for informative reading should you want a bit of distraction from Nietzsche and Derrida. As one occasionally does.
I was there at the time and although I was too shy to have experienced all of the hotspots personally, I am actually surprised to find the text amazingly accurate. Unusually for now, the names are spelled correctly throughout and all the text is pertinent, which is not always the case in reminiscences of this kind. But then, this is a Thames and Hudson production, and one would expect no less.
So far I have noted only one omission - that of Terry Jones, long-time editor of i-D who appears but without a credit. Worse things happen at sea. It's still a great book, fun to have, marvelous to dip into, and above all, as a reminder of what an incredibly rich visual environment we had at that time, before it all got into the hands of the exploiters, the money-makers, those who run everything into the ground.
I was there at the time and although I was too shy to have experienced all of the hotspots personally, I am actually surprised to find the text amazingly accurate. Unusually for now, the names are spelled correctly throughout and all the text is pertinent, which is not always the case in reminiscences of this kind. But then, this is a Thames and Hudson production, and one would expect no less.
So far I have noted only one omission - that of Terry Jones, long-time editor of i-D who appears but without a credit. Worse things happen at sea. It's still a great book, fun to have, marvelous to dip into, and above all, as a reminder of what an incredibly rich visual environment we had at that time, before it all got into the hands of the exploiters, the money-makers, those who run everything into the ground.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
70's Style Lives On!
19 Dec 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you remember the 70's with fondness, this will bring it all back and remind you why you loved the times so much. The 60's were just the setup for the manifestation stage of the spirit, philosophy, and urge to stretch out, spread your wings and have a good time.
Seeing the trans-Atlantic richness of design accumulated in this very beautiful book helped me see how grounded my own ongoing sense of design is in the 70's aesthetic. Thames & Hudson continues their tradition of providing great art books, good commentary and balance, and juicy visuals.
We needed this survey of what the essence of that decade was. Much of it still looks very Now and if it doesn't to you, the exhuberance and playfulness will make you long for a return. If so, you might enjoy my out-of-print book from 1974, Native Funk & Flash: An Emerging Folk Art, found in the used books section where you can still find a few old copies. (Just look for Funk & Flash.)
Seeing the trans-Atlantic richness of design accumulated in this very beautiful book helped me see how grounded my own ongoing sense of design is in the 70's aesthetic. Thames & Hudson continues their tradition of providing great art books, good commentary and balance, and juicy visuals.
We needed this survey of what the essence of that decade was. Much of it still looks very Now and if it doesn't to you, the exhuberance and playfulness will make you long for a return. If so, you might enjoy my out-of-print book from 1974, Native Funk & Flash: An Emerging Folk Art, found in the used books section where you can still find a few old copies. (Just look for Funk & Flash.)
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