The lecture is dedicated to design of the World War II period, the military style and regime of strict economy, as well as postwar trends.
Jet fighters, tanks, rifles, helmets, and canisters: Maria Savostyanova will speak about the U.S. military economy, anthropometry, and organic design. The audience will learn about the experiments of Charles and Ray Eames, American designers who set, to a large extent, the nation’s tastes in furniture, architecture, film, and photography in the 1940s and 1950s.
Addressing postwar design, she will examine five scenarios of regenerating economy, including the French one (Christian Dior’s “New Look” and the Citroen 2CV); the Italian (transport, furniture, and office interior design); the British (the exhibition Britain Can Make It and the Design Council); the German; and, finally, the Soviet version (carriage building, automobiles and the TV set “KVN”).
