Aunt Twackie’s Bazaar
Andy Beckett: Seventies Style, 19 August 2010
70s Style and Design
by Dominic Lutyens and Kirsty Hislop.
Thames and Hudson, 224 pp., £24.90, November 2009,978 0 500 51483 2 Show More
by Dominic Lutyens and Kirsty Hislop.
Thames and Hudson, 224 pp., £24.90, November 2009,
“... conventions of appearance [were] relaxed.’ This book sides emphatically with Carter. The 1970s, Lutyens and Hislop declare in their introduction, saw ‘an explosion of new visual languages’. In architecture and design, ‘conventional forms were challenged … In fashion, eclecticism and individuality ruled.’ The authors have no interest in the drab ... ”
