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Formica & Design (Hardcover)

~ Susan Grant-Lewin (Author)
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This profusely illustrated and comprehensive examination of Formica surveys all aspects of the brand's artistic and cultural influence. Soon after its invention, Formica laminate was used as a decorative material, adorning such interiors as those of the Queen Mary and Radio City Music Hall, among others. Formica's easy-to-clean features and its chameleon-like capacity to adopt to any pattern and color soon made it a ubiquitous surface material for kitchens and bathrooms across America. More importantly, Formica laminate has changed with the tastes of the times from the modern style in the 1930s to the postmodern style of the 1980s. Individual chapters and essays explore Formica's many applications—in diners, hotels, homes, furniture, and jewelry.


About the Author

Susan Grant Lewin is the creative director of Formica Corporation. R. Craig Miller is the Curator of Design and Architecture at the Denver Art Museum.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 191 pages
  • Publisher: Rizzoli (June 1, 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0847813347
  • ISBN-13: 978-0847813346
  • Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 10.1 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,624,309 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Everything you ever wanted to know about it., November 17, 2001
This is a book about about a product that we all take for granted but the history of Formica and its uses is quite fascinating. Author Lewin was the Creative Director of Formica from 1982 so don't expect to read anything untoward about the company, the twelve other contributors tell the story from their perspective, I particularly liked Jeffrey Meikle's essay on 'Plastics' and Susan Bayliss on 'Formica in Women's Lives'.

So this book will tell you all you need to know about the history of the product, in text and photos, plenty of them and this is where the book comes to a full stop.

The design is just infuriating! Only the right-hand pages have numbers, captions are all given a chapter and photo number, this is repeated near or on the relevant photo, now for the crazy bit, every photo has a bit cut out of it, it could be a triangular shape or a curve or maybe a bit of one photo on the same spread cut out and placed on another photo. This is just visual nonsense and I am surprised that a quality publisher like Rizzoli allowed this appalling design to go all the way through the editorial process and not get picked up.

A pity because it is an interesting book ruined by the work of some trendy designer who should go back to design school.

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