Tag: Laminate

• Sculpture and Designed Things Part II: Artschwager and Formica

  29 August 2013

  object studies, thinking about the sculptural

  design, Formica, Laminate, materials, Richard Artschwager, Sculpture

  “This housewife is a ‘FORMICA’ kitchen enthusiast – but aren’t we all? Won’t you feel life is good when you own a kitchen where all the surfaces are jewel-bright-clean-at-a-wipe ‘FORMICA’ Laminated Plastic?” – Formica Advertisement, 1953, published in Ideal Home  Jean Baudrillard wrote that modern materials like concrete or nylon are no less true, authentic, or real…