Submitted by Jonathan Budd
Modern Design and the Machine Aesthetic
Architecture News - Nov 07, 2007 - 12:41 8045 views
The Moderne Style used the look of the machineornamentally. It was decorative design, and its machine aestheticserved to conceal the inner workings of the object while callingattention to itself as machine. In a sense, the Moderne was simply asort of superficial styling, aesthetically emoting the machine yet notnecessarily possessing a functional relationship with the object.
xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Lisle/30home/modern/modern.html