Soft Electronics: Iconic Retro Designs from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s
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Soft Electronics: Iconic Retro Designs from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, edited by gestalten and collector Jaro Gielens, was published by Gestalten in 2022. The 256-page English volume draws on one of the largest private collections of postwar household appliances, from coffee grinders and fondue sets to hairdryers and electric knives. It presents these objects as both tools for daily life and as a golden era of industrial form, colour, and plastic, before planned obsolescence and offshore mass production changed the field.
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For product design students, the book is a visual archive of consumer electronics as cultural objects. It supports discussion of styling, material, brand languages, and how longevity and innovation once sat together in ordinary goods. On a university reading list it belongs with design history, product design, and courses on the culture of appliances.
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