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Function and Fiction 1996 Paperback Fiction, despite the famous taboo that hung over
decoration at the beginning of the twentieth century ('Ornamentation
is a crime'), nevertheless made a secret nest for itself within
production and function. Or, put otherwise, function and production,
which modern designers sought to turn into models of rationalisation,
remained, secretly, through etymology and affinity, the mothers
of all fiction. To question the nature and composition of ornament,
of the motif (that which sets in motion) and its arrangement (repetition)
enables the updating of a host of analogies with industrial production. |
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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 (The motif is everywhere),
Laurent Freidel, Philippe Louguet (The world of objects and the
religious question), Thierry Chabanne (The invention of a function:
stackability), Pierre-Etienne Feertchak, interviews with Philippe
Starck, Philippe Cognée, Vincent Beaurin, Philippe Chaix
and Jean-Paul Morel, Thibault Desombre, Pascal Mourgue, Bruno
Lefebvre, projects and work by Eric Le Déan, Radi designers,
Jean-Marie Massaud, Pierre Charpin. Graphic design : Studio François
Mutterer, Brigitte Leroy, Fabienne Grain, Georges Bréhier,
copy editor: Christine Guyoton.
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