Le Temps des Objets

Through portraits of the personalities who helped design practices and culture to emerge in France from the 1950s onwards, as well as emblematic design projects and key everyday objects, this book proposes to tell the story of the genesis of this profession, which is accompanying a society that is seeing the emergence of new lifestyles.
This book is an original and crucial history for understanding the challenges of contemporary industry and design. It is a cornerstone in the collection of the Cité du design’s editions, indispensable to future designers, historiographers of practices and lifestyles, but also to anyone interested in the history of our objects, of major French brands such as SEB or Calor. From the Salon des Arts ménagers to the great functionalist theories, it is a body of work that is assembled and modulated during these sumptuous decades.