Design Furniture from Italy; Culture and Technology of the Italian Furniture 1950-1980 as featured in the Koln Stadt Museum Exhibit 29 November 1980--25 January 1981

Verlag: Instituto Nazionale per Il Commercio Estero, Rome, 1980

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The format is approximately 8.75 inches by 9.5 inches. 311, [1] pages. Illustrated front cover. Illustrations (some in color). Cover worn, soiled and scuffed. Somewhat cocked. Some pages in two column format. Publishers ephemera laid in. Text in Italian, English, French, and German noted. The Summary includes The situation of industrial design in Italy by Gillo Dorfles; Doubts arising between form and content in design by Ignazio Gardella; The design process by Bruno Munari; Therole of the institutions; Triennale, ADI (Industrial Design Association), the CXOmpasso d"Oro and Smau Awards by Rodlfo Bonetto; Design/item/image by Angelo Cortesi, Gianfrance Frattini and Gotto Stoppino; The plan by Giotto Stoppino, The product by Gianfranco Frattini' The media by angelo Cortesi' and a Note on Italian furniture magazines by Alessandro Mendini. The present book--that provides an impressive cross-section of the Italian furniture design over a thirty year period, is a re-edition of the catalog featuring the important exhibit held between the end of 1980 and the beginning of 1981 at the Koln stadt Museum. It was important to us to make available to the American public in general and to the furniture businessmen in particular the reprinted catalog that--except for little adjutment--strictly reflects the original edition. "Italy has played a special role in applied arts and crafts for a very long time. While the arrival of mechanization made manual activities superfluous in the realm of mass produced items, the ancient Italian tradition of manufacturing ceramics, glass, wood, straw and fabrics was such that even in those sectors in which industrial production had the upper hand (for instance, furniture and furnishing in general), some of the prerogatives of the Italian character remained: namely imagination and the quest for good form". (Gillo Dorfles, "The situation of industrial design in Italy", in the catalogue: "Italienishes Mobel Design", ICE 1980, pg. 12-21) In planning this exhibition, the utmost importance was given to the objects, whose visibility was a priority for the visitor. Communication was understood as the relationship between objects and media, with design being the basic tool for product planning. A very simple system of small, low tables and textile panels marked off the exhibition areas, where objects were arranged in chronological order. Very low-voltage halogen bulbs, used in the "Scintilla" system - which had been specially designed for these spaces - lit up the furniture and exhibition panels with dazzling light and without creating any disturbing shadows. Re-edition of the Exhibit Catalog [stated].…

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Titel
Design Furniture from Italy; Culture and Technology of the Italian Furniture 1950-1980 as featured in the Koln Stadt Museum Exhibit 29 November 1980--25 January 1981
Autor
Sortino, Massimo (Catalog Coordinator) and Dorflies, Gillo (Member of the Editorial Committee), and Gardella, Ignazio (Member of the Editorial Committee), and Munari, Bruno (Member of the Editorial Committee)
Verlag
Instituto Nazionale per Il Commercio Estero, Rome
Erscheinungsjahr
1980
Zustand
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Trade paperback

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