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2020 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
12. Plastics’ Canonisation: Aspects of Value in the Camberwell Inner London Education Authority Collection
verfasst von : Maria Georgaki
Erschienen in: Provocative Plastics
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Abstract
The chapter discusses notions of value, focusing on the plastics found in the Camberwell Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) Collection, an educational collection of objects circulating in London schools from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. Making reference to prominent design platforms such as the Council of Industrial Design and the 1951 Festival of Britain, the discussion explains how the implementation of the tenets of ‘good design’ aligned plastics in the Collection with modernism, and aimed at cultivating taste in post-war school children. Using the case study of the EKCO Nova range of products, the chapter questions the design of high-end products in plastic, and makes the case of how the aesthetic canon lost its relevance outside the guarded spaces of modernist influence.