New book celebrates the anarchic designs of the Creative Salvage movement

In the thick of 1980s political dissent, Creative Salvage welded art, furniture, hip-hop and junk metal to change the course of design. Spearheaded by the likes of Tom Dixon and Ron Arad and inspired by a broad mash-up of influences, the anarchic design of Creative Salvage has now become (almost) establishment.

About time then for a retrospective look courtesy of Gareth Williams and Nick Wright. Independently published and beautifully designed by Edward Vince, Cut & Shut: The History of Creative Salvage, charts the fascinating development of the movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s and features interviews with many of today’s leading British designers. Given that so much of the furniture was, by nature of it being made from salvaged debris, one-off, the collection in Cut & Shut of so many unseen images makes it a must-see for design aficionados.