Essay Question
Using at least four examples, discuss how ideas of “organic” and “machine” design influenced the look and promotion of furniture during the postwar period.
Discuss the following
· The 1939 New York World’s Fair
· The Museum of Modern Art
· Organic Design
· Good Design
· Machine Art
· The Great Depression
· Color and Goods in the 1950s
· The Atomic bomb
· The “Space Race”
· New Habitats
· “Pop”
· Postmodernism
· Alternative narrative through contemporary design
· Speculative design