I Segni dell'Habitat / Technology and Design of Italy / Technologie und Design aus Italien by Santachiara, Denis

Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2011. Milano, Piazza Duomo, 12 aprile - 1 maggio 2011. A cura di Santachiara D. Testo Italiano e Inglese. Cinisello Balsamo, 2011; cartonato, pp. 96, ill., tavv. col., cm 21x26. Accompagna la mostra Principia - appuntamento molto atteso nel calendario degli eventi Fuorisalone della Design Week milanese - un volume originale, tanto nell'argomento quanto nella confezione. Il catalogo esplora, in otto capitoli, il rapporto tra la produzione artistica contemporanea e il mondo della scienza, intesa nel suo insieme di principi matematici, geometrici, ottici, magnetici, elettrici ed elettronici che hanno ispirato la creatività degli artisti. Ogni sezione è introdotta da un testo esplicativo, che illustra le singole opere degli artisti, dei quali sono presentate in appendice le biografie. Il volume viene proposto insieme alla scultura cinematica Take Away, composta da un filo di rame che può essere plasmato in diverse forme e che, se… Read More

24 Ore Cultura, 2017. Paperback. New. Italian language. 7.64x5.67x0.55 inches.

Milan, Italy: Charta, 2004. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition with covers showing light shelf wear/scuffing only with creaseless covers and spine. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Publisher's sticker on front. A great many full page color prints. 463 pages. Producing a book on fashion in the 1980s is not merely a question of immortalizing one of the most feverish periods of invention, creativity, and variety in our recent history. It also means providing a window on the increasingly pervasive advance of show-business society, and on the origins of the designer ""total living"" environment in which we are now permanently submerged. Ralph Lauren pillowcases, anyone? How about a sip of Absolut from my Calvin Klein Home champagne glasses? ~Excess: Fashion and the Underground in the 80s chronicles the achievements of the fashion establishment in Italy and the rest of the world via its protagonists and trends. It considers… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1989. First American Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x0x12. First American edition. Sticker on rear jacket panel, jacket and page edges lightly toned. 1989 Large Hardcover. 255 pp. New materials have radically altered the options available to industrial designers. The Material of Invention examines these new options and suggests what they might portend for the future. A different sort of design history, it focuses almost exclusively on the materials that form the basis of innovative design. The text and nearly 400 illustrations are the product of a large scale collaboration embodying the philosophical and aesthetic responses of Italian designers to the possibilities, limits, and design implications of this challenging new world of materials. The book is in five parts, The first, Matter and Ideas, is theoretical. The second, Portraits of Families in Motion, is historical. The third, Playing with the Possible, is analytical and forms the core of… Read More