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Hello my name is Jennifer
I'm Romana and our film is called Good Old Modernism
and its about how the ideas about Modernism have changed over the years
Enjoy the film!
Modernist furniture has its origins with the Bauhaus school of Art and Design
and Architecture which was founded in Germany in the 1920s
the fundamental
ideas behind Modernism were
functionality and taking objects back to the basic function they fulfill
so you will find that objects become very plain, hardly any colour, no decorative elements to
them at all.
Did the furniture really fulfill the goals of Modernism?
The original owner of the Finmar table now in the Geffrye Museum didn't think so.
It's that round table, the little one, we had that one but the legs broke
The legs were too spindly
Modernism started to gain popularity in the 1930s
but what to people think of it nowadays?
Dysfunctional
but still manages to look smart. I think they're basically quite ugly.
It's a furniture with clean lines
works very well in today's society because we're so busy
so we need things that are easy to keep clean
and actually give us a stylish finish to our home.
Nearly every house they have that kind of furniture.
Elements of Modernism can be seen everywhere in our culture
People still really enjoy the idea of Modernism, even though they might not
recognize it as that furniture from IKEA and plain and simple design
plain white walls in homes and plain laminate flooring
still really really popular today, so I think this are all the type of design
influence that Modernism began with.
How has Modernism values been interpreted by designers today?
Modernism to me today means when
designing a piece of furniture
is probably about functionality
use of different materials that are appropriate
uh... especially materials nowadays which are more environmentally appropriate.
In the modernist period, people didn't
tend to use,say, printed fabrics very much well you know that's now
become fashion
I think we're flexible
but I still adhere to that idea that
the value of something isn't what its cost to make in its simplicity of its design
and
that it functions properly.
Modernism will carry on being influential in the future
there's no reason why shouldn't