Artists such as Bridget Riley, who works predominantly in black and white, became the vogue. Similarly, op art with its use of pattern and colour to simulate movement found its way on to everything from furniture to wallpaper. Artists such as Andy Warhol and David Hockney with their pop art references to mass culture (soup cans, comic strips, images of icons like Marilyn Monroe) crossed over into interiors, and on to murals, wallpaper and posters. Pop art and op art both had a firm footing in the 1960s.
But it was not just about replicating past styles everything was given an irreverent twist to make it all its own. The result is a ragbag of styles culled from all over, including Victorian and Edwardian, the 1920s and art nouveau. The modernism of past decades had rejected historical influences so, in a spirit of rebellion, 1960s plundered the past for inspiration.
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