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Fifties Source Book: a visual guide to the style of a decade
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The Fifties Source Book is the best, the most influential and the most engaging of fifties design, fashion, architecture and art. Its range reflects the paradoxes of the time: purity of Italian design and Modernist architecture contrasts with the brashness of "jukeboxes on wheels" - the products of the American automobile industry.
Today's film makers, musicians and radio stations, designers and style buffs all show a nostalgia for the fifties. The Fifties Source Book defines the image of a decade; an image which has endured in the popular imagination and is stronger today than ever before.
The Fifties Source Book is the best, the most influential and the most engaging of fifties design, fashion, architecture and art. Its range reflects the paradoxes of the time: purity of Italian design and Modernist architecture contrasts with the brashness of "jukeboxes on wheels" - the products of the American automobile industry.
Today's film makers, musicians and radio stations, designers and style buffs all show a nostalgia for the fifties. The Fifties Source Book defines the image of a decade; an image which has endured in the popular imagination and is stronger today than ever before.
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