Design in the Sixties represented energy and fun; it was dynamic, cheap and cheerful and it prompted a consumer ´youthquake revolution. Op Art fabrics, plastic chairs, inflatable houses, mini skirts, paper furniture, pop glass and psychedelic posters were among the design phenomena. When Mary Quant launched ´the look´ Ewith her range of ready-to-wear fashions in the early Sixties, its style, like the Habitat interior look launched shortly afterwards, was immediately appropriated by the trendy younger generation. The Sixties traces the transition from the organic, fluid lines of the ´Contemporary´ design of the 1950s to the pure geometry of ´the look and the styles´ of the 1960s.
