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Autentik 1995

Paperback
16.5x 24 cm
144 pages
Illustrations: 57 colour, 56 black and white


Autentik calls on manufacturers and sociologists to help us understand the neo-rustic wave that is inundating European furniture salons, with its wholesale return to natural materials and colours. Alongside which, two young French designers, Xavier Moulin and Olivier Peyricot, explain the X Generation, that grew up with its head full of TV, video, Nintendo and computer imagery. Raves, mangas, video games and junk food create a frontierless universe composed of wilfully illegible, deliberately ephemeral, saturated imagery. The former can perhaps explain the latter.


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Contents: forward by Philippe A. Mayer, Président of the Union Nationale des Industries Françaises de l’Ameublement, texts by Christine Colin, Jean-Pierre Warnier (Authentic? Facets, detours, traps and paradoxes), Philippe Louguet (Period and Rustic), Odile Fillion (The stakes in games), Alberto Alessi (Transitions), Hugo Lormelle (Dilemmas of the Omnivore), interviews with Rodrigo Rodriquez, Borek Sipek, Philippe Starck, Charlotte Perriand, projects and work by Rem Koolhaas, Graphistes Associés, Xavier Moulin and Olivier Peyricot. Graphic design: Studio François Mutterer, Brigitte Leroy, Georges Bréhier, original page layout: Joachim Hug, Xavier Moulin and Olivier Peyricot, translators: Ronald Corlette Theuil and Anthony Roberts, copy editor: Christine Guyoton.