A Personal Recollection Of Four Years Work In The Crown Lynn Design Studio From 1978 To 1982

Abstract

In the last two or three decades many New Zealanders have collected and treasured consumer goods manufactured and often designed in this country in the post-war period. These items are valued not necessarily for their quality but because they were local and symbolic of emergent understandings of national autonomy and distinctiveness. In a time when global corporations flood national markets with low-cost generic goods produced where there is low-cost labour, there is an international movement by ‘baby boomer’ collectors to conserve items produced in their nations when they were young.