Art Deco and Industrial Design

 Art Deco and Industrial Design 

    Industrial designs study how humans interact with devices and environments to solve problems in design and the usage and production of the space. They do this in order to generate a memorable and positive experience for the user. Industrial Design has less of a focus on aesthetics and more focus on increased sales. A large Industrial Designer of the time was Gilbert Rohde he was a Future Designer and Industrial Designer. One of his major works was the Industrial Chest. 

    Art Deco started in the 1920s and was a tension between the Functionalist and Decorators. The Functionalists valued function, simplicity, mass production, and designing for the common person. Decorators valued labor intensive craftsmanship, elite market, and were not concerned with social theory. Art Deco started in France and came into the United States and other European countries at the beginning of World War Two. It had a major influence from Art Nouveau and was a fashion-oriented design. This period had lots of Chevron shapes, zigzags, and large mirrors.  

    A prominent artist of the time was Tamara de Lempicka, or the "baroness of the brush". She was a polish painter and spent her life working in France and the United States. Michel Roux-Spitz was a French Architect of the time. He had a highly decorative style and was not concerned with functionalism, be much rather would have looked into decoration and fashion. Lots of his patterns were inspired by cubism and African tribal art. 

    The designs that came from this time are very curated and unique to each designer's style, there really isn't a set rhythm to the design. It is to be created how you see best, when looking through the older images of the beginning stages of this design I can pick out what is used now, and what the current status is of the design. I find it amazing to look at more current and modern applications of this style and noticing what stands out or what is most important to this design period. 

ONE STEP FURTHER 

Eileen Gray was a designer that focused on luxury and geometric lines. She focused highly on tribal artwork and her furniture was mass produced. When looking through her designs I was especially fond of her Transat Chair. It's a design that I could see in a creative space. This chair was designed in 1924, I like the paneling feel and pattern to the padding within the chair design.