{"title":"Retro: more than sheer nostalgia","authors":"Aida Puente Toraño","doi":"10.17811/RM.2.2013.178-179","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Retro: A Guide to the Mid-20th Century Design Revival is an essential book to understand the importance of retro as a phenomenon and its role within nowadays society. It offers a new point of view from sociological perspective, with examples ranging from furniture objects to technological products. A guide to explain the origin of our fascination for vintage objects and the many revivals related to postmodernity.","PeriodicalId":40740,"journal":{"name":"Res Mobilis-International Research Journal of Furniture and Decorative Objects","volume":"2 1","pages":"178-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2013-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Res Mobilis-International Research Journal of Furniture and Decorative Objects","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.17811/RM.2.2013.178-179","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Retro: A Guide to the Mid-20th Century Design Revival is an essential book to understand the importance of retro as a phenomenon and its role within nowadays society. It offers a new point of view from sociological perspective, with examples ranging from furniture objects to technological products. A guide to explain the origin of our fascination for vintage objects and the many revivals related to postmodernity.