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Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture
Where do different fields such as fashion, industrial design and architecture meet? Attempting to offer its own interpretation, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco has organised an exhibition with a catwalk of 125 objects. The overriding theme here is “glamour” and the desire to create objects and architecture that are not just functional but also attractive. In short, objects that are able to cast a spell on those who look at them, use them, wear them, or live in them.
“With the dawn of the technological age, the production-based aesthetic limitations of the mechanical era are no longer in play: thus glamour can, and has, emerged in these manufacturing-based disciplines. These defining aspects of glamour, once considered excessive, are today, by virtue of technology, an integral component of the design itself,” explain curators Joseph Rosa and Helen Hilton Raiser. E.S.
9.10.2004–16.1.2005 Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture SF MoMA, 151 Third Street, San Francisco – U.S.A. T +1-415-3574000 http://www.sfmoma.org
