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A Study on the Connotative Signs of Nature and Technology in Furniture Design- Focused on Verner Panton’s and Joe Colombo’s 1960’s Furniture -

Nature and technology are very popular themes in the everydayness of modern world. In our industrial age which is based on technology nature becomes an lost origin and basic environment. On the other hand, technology is conceived as future hope and realistic environment. Through 1960s they had been transformed as signs and connoted into furniture design. As signs, they structured environment, organized space, and bred their own aesthetics. In this context, Danish designer Verner Panton presented nature as experiential landscape and Italian designer Joe Colombo expressed technology as amusing machine. What they showed were not real but sign of nature and machine. Nonetheless they were successful to create aes-thetic atmosphere and meaningful projects. Also they showed the potentiality that furniture de-sign might include discoursive issues and values. They also extended functional interesting be-tween furniture and body to cultural domain of social viewpoint in behavioral pattern.