Main entry:

Vitra Design Museum.

Title & Author:

Airworld : design and architecture for air travel / Vitra Design Museum.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Weil am Rhein : [The Museum], 2004.

Description:

295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Catalog to accompany an exhibition of the same title held at the Museum from 15 May 2004 to 27 February 2005.
"Editors: Alexander von Vegesack, Jochen Eisenbrand"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Hasso Spode, 'Let us fly you where the sun is': air travel and tourism in historical perspective -- Koos Bosma, In search of the perfect airport -- Barbara Fitton HauB, A trip through time in the aircraft cabin -- Jochen Eisenbrand, 'More legroom please': a historical survey of the aircraft seat -- Jochen Eisenbrand, Airlines and corporate design -- Joanne Entwistle, Fashion takes flight : the air stewardess and her uniform -- Jochen Eisenbrand, Dining aloft -- Mathias Remmele, An invitation to fly : poster art in the service of civilian air travel -- Christoph Asendorf, The inspiration of flight : developments in art, design, and architecture since the 1930s -- Authors -- Illustration credits -- Index.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Within a mere eight decades, since the first regular airline flights in 1919, flying has gone from being an adventurous, exclusive pleasure of a select few to an almost everyday mass phenomenon of transportation. During this time, civilian air travel has not only created its own technical standards; it has also produced its own aesthetic: cabin interiors, airport architecture, airline corporate design, flight attendant uniforms, even on-board plates and cutlery. This Vitra Design Museum exhibition is dedicated to the 'airworld' encountered by passengers during flight from the perspective of the history of design and architecture.

ISBN:

393193649X
9783931936495

Subject:

Aeronautics, Commercial Passenger traffic Exhibitions.
Air travel Exhibitions.
Airports Design and construction Exhibitions.
Industrial design History Exhibitions.
Aeronautics, Commercial Passenger traffic History Exhibitions.
Aeronautics, Commercial History Exhibitions.
Transports aériens Voyageurs Histoire Expositions.
Transports aériens Histoire Expositions.
Aéroports Conception et construction Expositions.
Voyages en avion Histoire Expositions.
Transports aériens Voyageurs Expositions.
Voyages en avion Expositions.
Design Histoire Expositions.
21.82 industrial design.
Aeronautics, Commercial
Aeronautics, Commercial Passenger traffic
Air travel
Airports Design and construction
Industrial design
Flughafen
Architektur
Luftfahrt
Design
Luchthavens.
Vormgeving.
Bouwkunst.
Weil <Rhein, 2004>
1920-2004

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
History
Exhibition catalogues (form)

Added entries:

Vegesack, Alexander von.
Eisenbrand, Jochen.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240648
Call No.: BIB 170567
Status: Available