No. 011

Les Plastiques

De la Bakélite au high-tech

Sylvia Katz

Éditions Denoël, Paris, 1985

Selected by Jeramie Hotz & Talia Shuvalov, EREDE

Tracks plastic decade by decade from Bakelite novelty through mass production to engineering polymer, closing with a collector's guide to identifying plastics by period. The French edition of Katz's Classic Plastics, first published in London in 1984. Katz trained as a designer and worked with the Design Council.

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