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Chronology styles

Bibliographies have been written for entire product design predecessors famous names as Charles Mackintosh, Gerrit Rietveld, A. Gaudi, J. Hoffmann, Alvar Aalto, etc.. There are periods devoted to the styles were developed in succession. Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau are the first of those who did felt the change and evolution. The collections were based on organic forms inspired by nature, details and warm colors, very bright and wrapped in a positive aura.

In the early ’20s has been a sudden change focal rotates 180 degrees.

Everything that was decorative and luxurious organic is substituted by a cumbersome architecture, geometric, based on straight lines, clear, where the color was white. This style is known as “De Stijl” and is continued by the school to “Bauhaus”, Germany. In America, Art Deco style revive primitive forms found in ancient Egyptian civilizations, pre-Columbian and Greek.

In Europe, the Art Deco takes place in the same period as Futurism and Cubism, influencing each other.This style takes the form of a faceted crystal, animal shapes or motifs and tropical vegetation. An important mark puts her athletic and feminine forms of influence that combines femininity with dynamic. After the Second World War, America and Europe adopt pop, a style that constantly oscillates between art and everyday life. They are made to rank the elements of domestic arts, Coca-Cola bottles, cans, nudity disgusting, often “works of art” is considered vulgar kitsch and bones. It was the era in which bands are born and, thanks to a technique for achieving called seriografie – repeating the same element in different positions and colors.

Today is the postmodernist style, born as a reaction against modernism, by eliminating the perfect geometric forms, the best example being Gugganhaim Museum Bilbao. Thus, it is reintroduced in houses sculptures, vivid colors and ornaments, being a period with many innovations in design.”