The ADAM-Brussels Museum is primalrily comprised of the Plasticarium collection, which is unique in the world: all these plastic objects include major works creaded by internationally renowned designers, prototypes and everyday items, dating from the 1950s to the present day.
Authors
Anne Bony, Alexandra Midal, Richard Thommeret
Anne Bony
Historian and a specialist in the history of design, she is Collection Director at Éditions du Regard, and the author of a series of works on twentieth century design, entitled Les Années 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 et 90, as well as Meubles et décors des années 40, 60 et 70 (a series of three works: Furniture and Interiors of the 1940s, 1960s, and 1970s). In 2006, Éditions Larousse published Le Design. Histoire, principaux courants, grandes figures (‘The history of design: its principal movements and major figures’).
Alexandra Midal
Independent exhibition curator, her curatorial projects include: Politique-Fiction; Tomorrow Now: When Design Meets Sci-Fi; Marguerite Humeau’s ‘The Things?’, Noam Toran’s ‘Things Uncommon’, Superstudio’s ‘Surface Radicale’, and works by Carlo Mollino. She holds a doctorate in art history, and has been the director of the FRAC Haute-Normandie, an assistant to Dan Graham, and is currently a lecturer at the Haute École Art et Design (HEAD) in Geneva. She has notably published: Design, l’anthologie; Antidesign; and Design. Introduction à l’histoire d’une discipline.
Richard Thommeret
Since 1999, he has been lecturer in the technology of polymers at the ENSAV La Cambre (Brussels Free University), where he teaches the Master course in Industrial Design and Interior Architecture. He was trained as a chemical engineer, and has been a polymeric materials researcher; Éditions Eyrolles published his work Plastiques & design in 2013. He is currently strategic marketing director for an international chemical group.
