Brutalism - Punk
Last pictures (glass and armchair), made me think that have somehow a relation with punk... (Where is Vivian?) She saw punk some Ron Arad, that could also be brutal in that scene.
It's like they would be like brothers, brutalism and punk:
about contemporary between them, 60's-70's.
Too little production+Too little success in industrial design vs other disciplines.
As un-develop...
And both brothers with less success in front of their sister/cousin post-modernism.
Brutal parody
Mark Wentzel's fat Eames chairs
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/mark_wentzels_fat_eames_chairs...
HUGE Brutalist Chandelier
A HUGE brutalist chandelier
http://vandm.com/Brutalist-Chandelier-in-the-Manner-of-Paul-Evans-Curtis...
Re: Vadislav Urban's ...
Hey guys, you could at least get the poor designer's name right! It's Vladislav Urban (Vlad like the vampire yeah.)
This is a Dexam Ltd Glass catalogue page, in this case from 1973, showing Urban?s pattern for Rosice factory, a part of the Sklo Union group.
Image © 2006 Mark Hill, used with permission on www.sklounion.com, and hotlinked to here without same, but if you come and buy copies of our book on 20th Century Czech Pressed Glass we'll let you off. 😉
http://www.sklounion.com
I saw the fat Eames chairs today
They are on exhibit at Art Prize in Grand Rapids, Mich. The chairs are pretty cool, actually.
Art Prize, BTW, is amazing if anyone is in the vicinity.
http://www.artprize.org/artists/public-profile/49058
What it was
From what I've read, I don't know where, Brutalism is from Beton Brute which means something like beautiful concrete. I believe that it stems from Corbusier's architecture beginning in the early twentieth century. While this early stuff was strong, it was pretty much the antithesis of this bastardized term that is in common usage today. Le corbu was about style coming from things that make sense, not machismo. Of course, things change....
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