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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Italian Design The Milan Triennale is an Italian State institution which, together with the Municipality of Milan and the Lombardy Region, is charged with preserving and promoting Italian Design as well as carrying out research in framework programs focusing on town-planning, architecture, handicrafts, industrial production, fashion, new media, etc. In its long history, the Milan Triennale has always followed developments in the field of applied arts; from the thirties to the post-war years, during the reconstruction years and the country's economic miracle and later during the economic and energy crisis of the seventies. Since the eighties, Milan has increasingly become an international cen...
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.
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he dialogue, as “the talking of the soul with itself” that constitutes the act of thinking (Plato), has been selected as the ideal form through which to vividly and accurately convey the thinking of a number of protagonists of Italian modern architecture. Knowledge remains a latent legacy of the soul until a given stimulus reawakens its memory: architecture, more than sophia (wisdom), becomes philo-sophia, i.e. love of knowledge. A reading of the architectural phenomenon aimed at faithfully bringing out its complexity cannot help but involve the stories directly told by the protagonists, and the micro-stories of individual episodes, in order to explore the relationship that exists betwee...
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Each volume includes information about public transportation and maps denoting each city's monuments from the Roman era to developments of this decade. The reader is introduced to contemporary culture restoration work and the relationship of the buildings to their surrounding areas.
The incomparable Milan Furniture Fair (a.k.a. Salone Internazionale del Mobile) is held each spring in, yes, Milan. Covering a total area of 462,000 square meters and hosting 1,900 exhibitors, including 240 from countries outside of Italy, the fair is widely considered the best and biggest show in the design calendar for the year. The Official Point of View is a volume dedicated uniquely to the fair, to not only offering an exhaustive photographic record of the event but also a new and original point of view on the exhibition. In its dense, thorough recording of the state-of-the-art creativity and production on show at the fair, The Official Point of View recognizes equal relevance in both i...