The impact of plastic on design during the 1950s and 1960s when it was combined with electronic miniaturisation, enabling inventors in Japan to make palm-sized radios that paved the way for the Walkman. During the same era, Verner Panton pursued the idea of making a chair from a seamless piece of the revolutionary material, and Joe Colombo proposed the 'cabriolet bed'. Featuring contributions by Teiyu Goto, Alberto Alessi and Stephen Bayley
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