Airworld - Design and Architecture for Air Travel celebrates the aesthetic of the golden age of air travel, a time when flying still retained something of the attraction of the unusual. This book presents some convincing and visionary projects of today. The catalogue has approximately 250 pages and more than 400 illustrations - and it fits in your carry-on luggage. The nine essays focus on topics like the history of air cabin design, the corporate design of airlines, uniform fashion, the graphics of air travel posters, and the significant role that aviation played as an inspiration for architecture, design, and art up to the present day.

Over the past one hundred years, no other means of transportation has been so profoundly transformed as the aeroplane. 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. In the spirit of Andy Warhol: 'Airplanes and airports have my favorite kind of food service, my favorite kinds of entertainment, my favorite graphics and colors, the best security checks, the best views, the best employees and the best optimism.' -The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, 1977

Dimensions: 9.5?x9.75? (inches)
Pages: 288
Edition: Hardcover
Languages: English