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Airworld: Design and Architecture for Air TravelOver the past one hundred years, no other means of transportation has been so profoundly transformed as the aeroplane.
Within a mere eight decades, since the first regular airline flights in 1919, flying has gone from being an adventurous, exclusive pleasure of a select few to an almost everyday mass phenomenon of transportation.
During this time, civilian air travel has not only created its own technical standards; it has also produced its own aesthetic: cabin interiors, airport architecture, airline corporate design, flight attendant uniforms, even on-board plates and cutlery.
This Vitra Design Museum exhibition is dedicated to the "airworld" encountered by passengers during flight from the perspective of the history of design and architecture.
In the spirit of Andy Warhol: "Airplanes and airports have my favorite kind of food service, my favorite kinds of entertainment, my favorite graphics and colors, the best security checks, the best views, the best employees and the best optimism" (The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, 1977).
In the pioneering age of air travel, the interiors of passenger planes often emulated other means of transportation like the boat or train, or even, as in the Dornier Do X airboat, the domestic atmosphere of a living room.
But due to technical progress, increasing
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