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Electrifying Design
An unprecedented survey of modern lighting design foregrounding its materials, innovators, and far-reaching influence Offering the first comprehensive history of lighting design from the 20th and 21st centuries, Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting explores how lighting has been integral to the development of modern design both in terms of aesthetics and technological advances. This fascinating book outlines the key aspects of lighting as a unique and creative artistic discipline and examines themes such as different typologies, the quality of light, and the evolution of the bulb. A series of essays by Sarah Schleuning and Cindi Strauss showcase lighting designs from different time per...
Learning to See
Learning to See starts on the assumption that popular/commercial arts are a different kind of activity from avant-garde arts today; but that they represent the same kind of activity that we identify as "arts" historically. It proceeds then to investigate how popular/commercial arts carry out the social functions of historic arts. And it claims that, once we can thereby understand how historic arts worked in and for society, art history becomes a significant new tool for objective historical research as never before.
Radical
This essential survey of Italian Radical design, a movement that interrogated modern living against the turbulent political climate of the 1960s, is lavishly illustrated with new photography, including rarely seen prototypes and limited-production pieces.
Multidisciplinary Aspects of Design
This open access book gathers the contributions from the Design! OPEN International Conference, held in Parma, Italy in May 2022. The conference explored the multidisciplinary aspects of design starting from its dimensions: objects (design as focused on the object, on its functional and symbolic dimension, and at the same time on the object as a tool for representing cultures), processes (the designer’s self-reflective moment which is focused on the analysis and on the definition of processes in various contexts, spanning innovation, social engagement, reflection on emergencies or forecasting), experiences (design as a theoretical and practical strategy aimed at facilitating experiential interactions among people, people and objects or environments), and narratives (making history, representing through different media, archiving, narrating, and exhibiting design). The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists.
Italian Living Design
"Superbly illustrated, this book discusses the interrelationships between culture and design in Italy in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Each decade is introduced with an outline of the popular trends in fashion, cinema, television, and industrial design in the context of Italian politics and society. The author discusses developments in manufacturing and marketing and the effect of economic trends on the design industry. The best of the furniture and design exhibitions and salons of the time are recaptured and their impact on other media is examined. The designs and projects of Franco Albini, Vittorio Gregotti, Gae Aulent, and Ettore Sottsass are among the many that are highlighted. Chairs, lighting, beds, and shelving are displayed in lofts, apartments, and country and suburban houses where conventional decor and cutting-edge furnishings are ingeniously combined. A multitude of products and interiors by the leading Italian designers of the last three decades is documented in beautiful photographs."--
The Design Encyclopedia
Design has an increasingly high profile - figures like Philippe Starck are as venerated and well known as more traditional artists. But where the literature on fine art is vast, design is still conparatively ill-served. This encyclopedia provides an account of the still largely unknown story of design.
D'Annunzio
D'Annunzio giovane studente ribelle, poeta, romanziere. D'Annunzio libertino, amante, marito e padre. D'Annunzio soldato, guerriero, rivoluzionario. D'Annunzio politico, avventuriero, influencer ante litteram in un'Italia, un'Europa di un secolo fa. Ci sono tutti i profili del Vate in questa avvincente biografia illustrata scritta dal presidente del Vittoriale degli Italiani, il libro-dimora, la monumentale opera d'arte che così tanto somiglia alla vita del suo più celebre abitante. Giordano Bruno Guerri veste qui i panni della «vedova» del poeta: «Tecnicamente lo sono, come le mogli che - defunti i mariti scrittori - si sforzano di mantenerne vive memoria e opere. Ma se di solito le ve...
Kunststoff als Design-Material: Wohnkultur im Stil der 1968er
In der westlichen Welt gilt das Jahr '68 als das Revolutionsjahr der Studenten: Die Flower-Power-Bewegung des Woodstock-Festivals, Demonstrationen gegen den Vietnamkrieg und Auflehnung gegen eine vermeintliche Idylle prägen das Bild dieses Jahrzehnts. Auch im Bereich des Möbeldesigns sind die 1960er Jahre außergewöhnlich - einzelne Objekte aus dieser Zeit sind heute Klassiker und versinnbildlichen das Lebensgefühl dieser Zeit. Dieses Buch untersucht Wohnkultur im Stil der 1968er und beleuchtet die Wiederkehr dieses Stils zur Jahrtausendwende im Hinblick auf Zeitgeist und Lebensart der 1960er Jahre. Es beleuchtet die Sehnsucht nach einer Zeitreise in das bunte Jahrzehnt anhand des beliebtesten Design-Materials dieser Zeit - dem Kunststoff.
