Italian Design (MoMA Design)
By Giampiero Bosoni
Incorporating the Italian design industry and culture in a single-minded and spontaneous national image building project, Italian designers have produced a wide range of forms-fashion, graphic arts and product and set design-with a unique international resonance.
This volume explores the Italian design of the last half-century, featuring classic Vespa lines, Bruno Munari’s deconstruction of the common fork, the nostalgic appeal of Italo Marchioni’s ice cream cone and the sleek Alberto Meda’s 1987 Light Light Chair, among many other masterpieces.
Paola Antonelli’s lively introduction gives an overview of Italy’s design culture; an essay by Giampiero Bosoni sheds light on the design objects that are superbly reproduced in the volume plate section.
Giampiero Bosoni is an architect, curator and associate professor of interior architecture at the Faculty of Design at the Polytechnic University of Milan. He is the author of several surveys and monographs, including Il Modo Italiano: Italian Design and the 20th Century Avant-garde, and a monograph on Max Huber.
Buy Now
You may also be interested in
The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life (Paperback) – Encyclopedia of Design
by Anu Partanen A naturalised American citizen, a Finnish journalist, urges Americans to adopt elements of the Nordic way of life in order to create a fairer, happier, more stable, and less stressful society for themselves and their children. Anu Partanen, a Finnish journalist, went from a positive, successful professional to a wary, self-doubting mess after moving to America in 2008.
Rethinking Sitting by Peter Opsvik (Paperback) – Encyclopedia of Design
Humans have lived physically active lives for millions of years. On the other hand, industrialisation has bred passivity and a growing predominance of the sitting posture for an increasing number of people in recent decades. Chairs and furniture for seating have increasingly become common items in the office, institutions, and private homes.
Comments are closed, but trackbacks and pingbacks are open.