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Claude Lichtenstein, Franz Engler (eds.)

Streamlined

A Metaphor for Progress

Streamlined objects are part of everyday life. Over 600 remarkable photographs in this fascinating book illustrate both the degree to which streamlining has become a metaphor for progress as well as the variety of expressions of this phenomenon. Streamlining made design history by uniting previously unrelated components as a single homogeneous form Elements are ordered and fused into a new entity. The articles in this first solid appraisal of the subject discuss scientific, historical and cultural aspects in language nonspecialists can understand.

Streamlined objects are part of everyday life. Over 600 remarkable photographs in this fascinating book illustrate both the degree to which streamlining has become a metaphor for progress as well as the variety of expressions of this phenomenon. Streamlining made design history by uniting previously unrelated components as a single homogeneous form Elements are ordered and fused into a new entity. The articles in this first solid appraisal of the subject discuss scientific, historical and cultural aspects in language nonspecialists can understand.

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Edited by Claude Lichtenstein, Franz Engler

24 x 30 cm

320 pages, 600 illustrations

hardback

1993, 978-3-906700-71-7, English
CHF 64.00
Out of print

Claude Lichtenstein

Claude Lichtenstein (*1949) is a Swiss architect and an expert on design history. From 1985-2001, he was responsible for exhibitions on architecture and design at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich in the function of curator. He is lecturer for design history and design science at various Swiss universities of applied sciences (ZHdK, FHNW, HSLU, ZHAW) and publishes widely on these subjects.