Back to the future - how 60s changes in design still influences furniture today

Changes in design thinking 70 years ago are continuing to influence how our domestic products are made. In fact, the influence of this movement has never been so ubiquitous, says Carol O’Callaghan.

WAY back in 1962 it was German furniture designer Dieter Rams who coined the expression ‘less but better’.

It’s as relevant today as it was then as furniture designers continue to work to that maxim, except perhaps for a blip in the 1980s which, thanks to power suits and shoulder pads among other things, will not be remembered kindly in the design annals.