Design Classics
Řada 1
1980s documentary series looking at revolutionary pieces of design.
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- The Aga CookerD1
The Aga CookerIt's hard to imagine anything more at odds with the hi-tech, microwave, designer-kitchen age than the Aga cooker. It's formidably heavy. It's far from cheap to buy and install. And yet its popularity has grown and grown since it came to England from Sweden in 1929. More than just a commercial success story, it has come to symbolise the quintessence of upper-and middle-class rural life. In Chiswick and the Isle of Dogs it suggests the warm heart of the English country home. How did it happen? - The Coca-Cola BottleD2
The Coca-Cola BottleCoca-Cola started out as a syrup into which you squirted carbonated water. The bottle designed to contain the resulting fizzy drink became one of the most famous pieces of packaging in the world. It was designed in 1916 as a result of a competition. Despite changes of flavour, the introduction of cans and relentless global competition from rivals, the heavy glass bottle with the archaic-looking trademark still symbolises the American dream. Accordingly it inspires approval or hostility - depending on taste. - The Volkswagen BeetleD3
The Volkswagen BeetleHitler called it the 'strength through joy' car and he meant it to be one of the engineering triumphs of the Third Reich. But it was the British Army who put it into production after the war. Rootes and Ford turned the car down; they didn't think it had a future. Twenty million Beetles later, it's still being produced - in Mexico. How did the noisy, heavy, distinctly odd-looking motor car, with its roots in a Nazi past, become regarded as lovable, a family friend - the sort of car Walt Disney made films about - so that it really did become a 'people's car'? - The Barcelona ChairD4
The Barcelona ChairThe Barcelona Chair was designed by the great German architect and designer Mies van de Rohe for the German pavilion at the Great Barcelona Exhibition of 1929. Using chrome and leather, he refined the design to the simplest elements of pure form, creating a cult object for those who can afford it. - The London UndergroundD5
The London UndergroundBy the early 1930s, the London Underground had become exceedingly complicated. The classic map used today was an unsolicited attempt to make the system easier to understand and use. It became one of British graphic design's greatest triumphs. It helped give London Transport an identity, and has been copied by transit systems throughout the world. It has absorbed all the additions to the system since it was first sketched out in a school exercise book not by a designer, but by an obscure draughtsman, Harry Beck. - Levi's 501 JeansD6
Levi's 501 JeansThey were designed by a tailor in Reno, Nevada, for a customer who was a miner. Levi-Strauss and Company patented them in 1873. They have powerful competitors in the jeans war, but the company spent millions persuading the world that their product is the authentic, legendary jean.