Everything is curved, everything is color! A famous example is Olivier Mourgue‘s “Djinn” series, which Stanley Kubrick chose in 1968 to furnish the 2001 decor: the odyssey of space. The shell was ultraviolet-, light- and waterproof, making it the first mass-produced chair to work indoors and out. The metal structure of the seats disappears under a foam covering. In this period of unbridled creation, plastic quickly became the ideal material, the stacking Panton chair, designed by Verner Panton, was revolutionary.
In design too, everything seems permissible. In Woodstock or on the Isle of Wight, we dream of tomorrow’s singing and community life against a backdrop of hallucinogenic drugs. Between utopia and revolt against the consumer society, the protest movements intensified, until the French climax of May 68. In the United States, the hippie movement, born in 1966, is spreading its thirst for freedom. Some, led by Prisunic, offer their own catalogue. Parisian department stores are multiplying furniture exhibitions.
The increasingly successful decoration magazines reflect the more playful relationship with the domestic space. A new way of life, based on the democratization of consumer goods, is changing the relationship with the daily environment.
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