Ugo La Pietra, an Italian polymath whose career spans over five decades, has left an indelible mark on design, architecture, and visual arts. This postRead More →
The Supermoda Stripes Sofa, born from 1960s innovation, reimagined by Andrea Branzi, offers playful versatility and contemporary flair, inviting flexible living.Read More →
Alessandro Mendini, influential Italian designer, co-founded Studio Alchymia, promoted unconventional “Banal Design,” and won multiple international awards, shaping Italian design.Read More →
Four architects—Andrea Branzi, Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello, Massimo Morozzi—and two designers—Dario Bartolini and Lucia Bartolini—founded Archizoom this Italian avant-garde design studio in 1966 in Florence, Italy. They focused on exhibition installations and architecture and designing interiors and goods as part of the Italian Anti-Design or Radical Design movement.Read More →
The Studio Alchimia in Milan was founded in 1976 and exhibited its first collection in 1979. Alessandro Mendini’s Proust armchair is one of the most unusual pieces from the Bau.Haus collection. It was made in a small number and individually painted to express the collective’s unease with mass production.Read More →
The exhibition “The New Domestic Landscape” at MoMA in 1972 showcased Italian design power and contrasted pro-design and counter-design environments, along with product design examples.Read More →
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York houses one of the world’s most important collections of modern art, with six curatorial departments: Architecture and Design, Drawings, Film and Media, Painting and Sculpture, Photography, and Prints and Illustrated Books. Read More →
Young Italian architects and designers started creating a new style that openly questioned Modernism in the mid-1960s in response to current social and political upheaval. This movement, known as “Radical design,” looked into ways to visually change the urban environment. The proponents of radical design also applied it to furniture and lighting, using unconventional materials and a novel formal vocabulary.Read More →