Part 1: From the Decorative Arts to Modern Design, 1900-1914 1. Conspicuous Consumption and the Expansion of Taste 2. New Production Methods, New Materials 3. Art and Industry 4. Theory, Design at the Turn of the Century 5. Designing Nations Part 2: Design and Modernity I, 1915-1939 6. Consuming Modernity 7. The Materials of Modernity 8. the Designer for Industry 9. Modernism and Design 10. Design, Corporate Culture and the State Part 3: Design and Modernity II, 1940-1969 11. The Dream of Modernity 12. The Materials of Abundance 13. Designer-Culture 14. Modern Design in Crisis 15. Redefining the Nation Part 4: Design and Postmodernity, 1970 to the Present 16. Consuming Postmodernity 17. Technology and Design: A New Alliance 18. The New Designers 19. Postmodernism and Design 20. Designing Identity