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Terminology and Mixed-Up Worlds 1998 Paperback The decorative arts, the applied arts, popular arts, artistic crafts, industrial design, industrial aesthetics, design… The profusion of terms used in the fields of activity involved in the conception and production of objects reflects the complexity of these practices' identity and evolution. And this difficulty goes back a long time according to Thierry Chabanne's extraordinary history of the titles of the present-day Ecole nationale des Arts décoratifs in Paris which, since its creation in 1766 as the Ecole gratuite de dessein (Free Drawing School) has had dozens of different names. Going by what he says, the muddle has also a few illustrious forbears… |
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Contents : Preface by Henri Griffon, president
of Industries Françaises de l'Ameublement, texts by Christine
Colin, Thierry Chabanne (Words to describe the Ecole Nationale
supérieure d'Arts Décoratifs), René Lesné
(L'art decorative - Decorative art), Pierre-Yves Balut, Gérard
Laizé, discussions with Alain Guiheux, Yvonne Brunhammer,
projects and designs by Catherine Ginier-Gillet, evansandwong,
Joep van Lieshout, Ronan Bouroullec, Jeremy Edwards, Rip Hopkins,
Pierre Charpin, Vincent Beaurin, Fabrice Domercq, James Irvine,
Tim Power, Renaud Thiry, Pia Myrvold, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec,
François Bauchet, Francis Salel, André Sidel, Atelier
Eoos, Joon Sik Ho, Dominique Mathieu, Ghion and Nadeau, Thierry
Gaugain, Philippe Daney, Tsé Tsé, Matali Crasset,
Reynald Leroy, Eric Jourdan, Frédéric Ruyant, Patrick
Jouin, Jerôme Gauthier, Didier Gomez, Christophe Pillet,
Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Andrée Putman, Rena Dumas, Alain
Chauvel, Chafik, Delo Lindo, Philippe Starck. Graphic design:
Antoine and Manuel, copy editor: Laure Sala, translation: Ronald
Corlette Theuil.
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