Western design

Sixteen chapters on how furniture, porcelain, glass, textiles, print and machines have been designed in Europe and the United States, and on the people, techniques and ideas behind them.

• Medieval and Renaissance craft
• Baroque and the court manufactories
• Rococo
• Neoclassicism and the Gustavian style
• Empire and Biedermeier
• Historicism and industrial mass production
• Arts and Crafts
• Art Nouveau and Jugendstil
• Wiener Werkstätte and the Werkbund
• The Bauhaus and modernism
• Art Deco and streamlining
• Functionalism, Swedish Grace and Swedish Modern
• The post-war years and Scandinavian design
• Space age and pop
• Postmodernism and Memphis
• Contemporary and sustainable design