Design: Plastic Fantastic If the 20th century had an icon it would

The Independent - London | October 11, 1998| | Copyright

ASK ANY SELF-RESPECTING designer to name the material which has shaped this century, and there will only be one answer. Glass and concrete may have played a leading role in the development of modern buildings, from Gropius and Le Corbusier to Lasdun and Ando. Wood may have been bent and glued by the very best furniture designers, from Aalto and Day to Eames and Gehry. But only plastic is truly synonymous with the industrial acceleration, democratic consumerism and mass disposability of the 20th century.

Revered by Roland Barthes as "the first magical matter that consents to be prosaic", ...

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