{"id":31938,"date":"2016-10-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plastic-to-become-design-material-of-the-future-archive-28-october-1961\/"},"modified":"2016-10-28T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T04:10:01","slug":"plastic-to-become-design-material-of-the-future-archive-28-october-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plastic-to-become-design-material-of-the-future-archive-28-october-1961\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic to become design material of the future \u2013 archive, 28 October 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n28 October 1961: Exhibits at a show called Barnstorm demonstrate that plastic has aesthetic as well as practical valuePlastics is a word of sordid associations, suggesting an opaque pink cup of unpalatable finish or a door-knob mottled in nasty shades of brown. It is greatly to the discredit of the industry that this should be so. For here are translucent materials ready to receive the most brilliant colours, the subtlest textures and ideas. It is a whole new language waiting for its poetry. If you doubt the aesthetic possibilities of plastic, go to Coombe Lane, near New Malden Station, Surrey, where four young designers have set up an exhibition called \u201cBarnstorm.\u201dThe artists are David Gillespie, Tony Manzaroli, Ann Reason, and David Whitaker. Their work includes thick glass fibre blocks, asbestos cement sheets painted in coloured resins, glass panels surfaced with coloured and colourless resins, various interesting laminates, one of which incorporates thin sheets of wood, and some unconvincing furniture. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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