5/11/2023 0 Comments 1970s space age furniture![]() ![]() Up-cycled furniture, Mid Century Modern, Antique, Retro Clothing. It was these chairs that brought the Space Age into the terrestrial living rooms. It originally made Victorian design furniture and then turned to the Mission style. Fantastic white and silver space worlds with softly rounded plastic furniture were shown in movies such as Barbarella (1968) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). ![]() Space Age dining chairs by the Belgian designer Rudi Verelst, a true Iconic design. As they create a “room in the room” similar to a futuristic space capsule, they quickly became very popular and appeared not only in ‘60s living rooms but also in science fiction films. Rudi Verelst Space Age Swivel Armchairs In Chromed Steel - 1970s. Not only do these chairs both look simple and unconventional at the same time, but they are also irrational and rational in an almost schizophrenic way. With the Sixties Revival at the end of the 20th century came the creations of the ball chair by Finnish furniture designer Eero Aarnio in 1963 and the egg chair by Danish industrial designer Henrik Thor-Larsen in 1968. The question of how one wanted to live in the future brought forth futuristic designs and manifested itself through geometric shapes. The race for the conquest of space had a great impact on people in the mid-1960s and thus also on fashion and design. Pod-like furniture designs recurred throughout the 1960s, inspired by space capsules and the idea of futuristic cities populated by pod-like dwellings.
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