Prehistory
SUMMARY This week I read Chapter 1 of Hinchman's book History of Interior Architecture Furniture, Design, and Global Culture. This section was about prehistory, specifically the time periods of the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age. This chapter included a lot of interesting information, especially about how this early period of design has impacted the world ever since. I learned that one of the first examples of a designed object was a hand axe. The symme trical shape of the object reflected the value of symmetry in health and beauty for the culture during the Stone Age. Something as simple as hand tools had reasoning behind the form, thus making it a design. Another interesting point the book makes is that there was so much less in the world during these time periods that the people were i mpacted by more. That is why the engravings, paintings, and signs created represent so much. The things the people made in...