Editor: Deborah Manley
Publisher: The Boilerhouse Gallery
Publication: 1986, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, perfect-bound
Pages: 119
Size: 205 x 205
Text: English
Design: Vignelli Associates
An exhibition of new products designed to help older people stay independent at home. Boilerhouse, Victoria & Albert Museum, 29th May to 3rd July 1986.
Contents:
- Introduction: Helen Hamlyn, Trustee,
- Helen Hamlyn Foundation
- Foreword: Ten Million Characters in Search of a
- Design: Dr Eric Midwinter MA, Director, Centre for Policy on Ageing
- The Designers
- Nicholas Butler: Luminous torch
- Ron Carter: Chair and table
- Sebastian Conran: Key turner, bedside table and walking frame
- Robin Day: Reflective screen
- Hartmut Esslinger: Beds, television set and universal remote control
- Kenneth Grange: Shower
- Vico Magistretti and Dinah Casson: Household steps
- David Mellor: Cutlery
- Antti Nurmesniemi: Chair, table and walking stick
- Vuokko Nurmesniemi: Coats, cloaks and dresses
- Jorgen Rasmussen: Chairs
- Alan Tye: Luminous architectural ironmongery
- Lella and Massimo Vignelli: Exhibition poster and catalogue
- The Independent Living Kitchen
- Roland Gibbard, Robert Blaich and Desmond Ryman
- The Kitchen Units: Roland Gibbard
- The Electrical Appliances: N.V. Philips
- The Range of Kitchen Fittings
- The Competition: Nicholas Butler, Chairman of the Judges' Panel
- The Competition: Details
- Potato peeler: Timothy Wheeler
- Home Security System: David Elam
- Foundation Garment: Celia Hart
- Insulated cups: Suzanne Ellis
- The Runners Up
- The Independent Living Section Introduction: All Our Futures: David Hobman CBE, Director, Age Concern England
- An Orange a Day Diet for Older People: Peter H. Millard MB FRCP
- A Little of What you Fancy Does you Good: Exercise for Older People. Bernard Isaacs MB FRCP
- The Jefferson Chair: Niels Diffrient
- Quilted Clothing: Frances Cowper
- Gardening Equipment
- Shoes for Older People
- Aids to Independent Living: Maria Benktzon, Hakan Bergkvist and Sven-Eric Juhlin
- A Bathroom in Sheltered Housing, Denmark
- The Long-term Care Project, Bolingbroke Hospital
- Selected Information on Independent Living
- Travel
- Pre-retirement courses
- Organisations providing support and advice
- Employment: paid and unpaid
- Leisure and Education
- Housing
- Organisations giving specialist advice
- Further reading
- Magazines
Condition: Very Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing and tanning to cover/edges. Fading to spine/cover.
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