英語翻譯
ONE peculiarity of textile design in the 1980s was that,despite the boom in design of domestic products on the one hand and of the interior decoration market on the other,these two areas,which one would have expected to complement one another,by and large developed quite separate,if not antithetical,aesthetics.A crisis in confidence in the future,combined with an increase in demand for luxury,meant that the major trend in interior decoration was retrospection.Luxury became associated with the past.From the mid-1980s onwards- particularly in America,France,Italy and Britain一the style of furnishing fabric responded to the mounting interest in conservation and restoration with a widescale revival of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century prints.
The old furnishing fabric houses,such as Brunshwig and Fils (USA),Berger (France),Rubelli (Italy) and G.P.and J.Baker,of London,which had survived on low ebb since the 1960s,responded with alacrity to the growing demand for archive prints.Even the new companies who achieved success at this time,such as Ted tyler in New York,and the Designer's Guild and Osbourne and Little in London,took much of their inspiration from the archive.This mood of retrospection was