Post War Design. Moving towards, simpler and more human scale

Barbara Hepworth

2 Willow Road

Royal Festival Hall interior

Festival of Britain

Everything is in a constant change, and repetition. Designers always look back.  The Festival of Britain was nostalgic but very innovative and inspirational. 

Robin Lucienne Day

Festival Pattern group

Eszter Haraszty

The choice of materials and patterns appeared. People were encouraged to choose, and to identify themselves. Shapes and patterns were very much inspired by chemistry. 

Eileen Grey

Designes for people, personalised, while walls, very much about the geometry of the object.

Indulgent, bold, simple, elegant

Corbusier Unite d'habitation de Marseille

Charlotte Perriand

Charles and Rae Eames interior

Anna Castelli Ferrieri bookcase

Gio Ponti <3

Isamu Noguchi 

Lucie Rie

hiroshima peace memorial Museum

No longer a box but a curve.

Philips Pavilion

move away from the box, to the more organic, human,form and movement