Villa Greystones
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B42 s’associe avec le designer français Martin Szekely pour présenter une série d’ouvrages consacrés à son travail. Chaque ouvrage s’attardera sur une pièce, une série de pièces ou une exposition et montrera, essentiellement par l’image, les projets du designer. Le tome V, Villa Greystones, présente à travers une série de photographies de Fabrice Gousset une maison(...)
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B42 s’associe avec le designer français Martin Szekely pour présenter une série d’ouvrages consacrés à son travail. Chaque ouvrage s’attardera sur une pièce, une série de pièces ou une exposition et montrera, essentiellement par l’image, les projets du designer. Le tome V, Villa Greystones, présente à travers une série de photographies de Fabrice Gousset une maison d’architecte en pierre, verre et béton, entre ciel et océan, poste d’observation unique face à l’immensité. À portée de vue, des îles-jardins et Saint-Malo. Michel Roux-Spitz l’avait construite en 1938 pour lui-même. Après quelques errances et soixante-quinze années plus tard, elle retrouve sa forme initiale grâce à l’engagement de son nouveau propriétaire.
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Matali Crasset : wood
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Deuxième collaboration entre Matali Crasset et Shelter Press et The Cultural Gallery Monaco (après Les capes), le livre ''Wood'' présente les « maisons sylvestres », projet réalisé avec Vent des Forêts situées au cœur du département de la Meuse, dans 5000 hectares de forêts, à proximité des villages de Dompcevrin, Fresnes-au-Mont, Nicey-sur-Aire, Pierrefitte-sur-Aire et(...)
Matali Crasset : wood
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Deuxième collaboration entre Matali Crasset et Shelter Press et The Cultural Gallery Monaco (après Les capes), le livre ''Wood'' présente les « maisons sylvestres », projet réalisé avec Vent des Forêts situées au cœur du département de la Meuse, dans 5000 hectares de forêts, à proximité des villages de Dompcevrin, Fresnes-au-Mont, Nicey-sur-Aire, Pierrefitte-sur-Aire et Ville-devant-Belrain. Autour de ces maisons gravitent des cuillères, des couvertures, une chaise, et des pommes.
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The Soft Chair. The Cloud Lamp. The Stack of Drawers. These are among the award-winning icons of Swiss furniture design created by Susi and Ueli Berger, whose credo has long been that ''only a new idea justifies a new piece of furniture.'' Guided by this view, their work is inventive and playfully provocative, straddling product design and object art.
Susi and Ueli Berger: furniture in dialogue
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The Soft Chair. The Cloud Lamp. The Stack of Drawers. These are among the award-winning icons of Swiss furniture design created by Susi and Ueli Berger, whose credo has long been that ''only a new idea justifies a new piece of furniture.'' Guided by this view, their work is inventive and playfully provocative, straddling product design and object art.
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Including newly commissioned essays by curators and scholars, this book explores how Sottsass’s art and philosophy presaged the dawn of PCs, the service industry, and the gig economy. Ettore Sottsass was an architect, industrial designer, painter, writer, photographer, and founder of the Memphis group, whose designs are undergoing an impressive renaissance. But Sottsass(...)
Ettore Sottsass and the social factory
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Including newly commissioned essays by curators and scholars, this book explores how Sottsass’s art and philosophy presaged the dawn of PCs, the service industry, and the gig economy. Ettore Sottsass was an architect, industrial designer, painter, writer, photographer, and founder of the Memphis group, whose designs are undergoing an impressive renaissance. But Sottsass was more than just an important designer. His approach to object design–marked by bold colors, tactility, and vitality–was a direct response to the world of mass production and the assembly-line economy. This revelatory collection of essays by leading thinkers in the fields of political theory, economics, the media, design history, and cultural theory contextualizes Sottsass’s work in unprecedented arguments that draw a line from his work at Olivetti to the iconoclastic designs he produced at the dawn of the 21st century. Divided into five chronological sections–from the late 1950s to Sottsass’s death in 2007– these essays are illustrated with vibrant images of his work and archival photographs. Deeply researched, the book makes crucial connections between postwar Europe and America, and the way we work and live today.
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Locatelli Partners is one of Italy's leading architecture firms, with offices in Milan and New York. This publication features thirty-two residential and commercial projects, as well as highlights from the firm's furniture and lighting design.
September 2019
Locatelli Partners: dialogues. Architecture, interiors, design
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Locatelli Partners is one of Italy's leading architecture firms, with offices in Milan and New York. This publication features thirty-two residential and commercial projects, as well as highlights from the firm's furniture and lighting design.
Memphis. Plastic Field
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En 1981, le designer italien Ettore Sottsass, sorti de l’aventure du studio Alchymia, fédère autour de lui un collectif de jeunes architectes et designers afin de faire voler en éclats les codes de la modernité. La première exposition de Memphis à Milan, en 1981, fait l’effet d’une bombe dans le paysage européen du design, et renouvelle radicalement le langage des formes(...)
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October 2019
Memphis. Plastic Field
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En 1981, le designer italien Ettore Sottsass, sorti de l’aventure du studio Alchymia, fédère autour de lui un collectif de jeunes architectes et designers afin de faire voler en éclats les codes de la modernité. La première exposition de Memphis à Milan, en 1981, fait l’effet d’une bombe dans le paysage européen du design, et renouvelle radicalement le langage des formes et des couleurs. Ce livre revient, à l’occasion de l’exposition au madd-bordeaux, sur la genèse de ce mouvement qui a remis la culture démocratique au coeur du design et a réintégré avec un humour irrévérencieux dans ses codes l’ornement et la décoration.
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Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was a pioneer of modern design in France during the twentieth century. Her avant-garde vision was expressed in color, organic forms, and streamlined functionality, elements which are still at the heart of contemporary design today. Her furnishings were created from aluminum, rubber, chrome, leather, bamboo, and above all, wood; their appeal(...)
Charlotte Perriand: inventing a new world
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Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was a pioneer of modern design in France during the twentieth century. Her avant-garde vision was expressed in color, organic forms, and streamlined functionality, elements which are still at the heart of contemporary design today. Her furnishings were created from aluminum, rubber, chrome, leather, bamboo, and above all, wood; their appeal is timeless. This lavishly illustrated book, accompanying a major retrospective at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, explores how much in the vanguard she was in her use of materials, in her social and political awareness, and in her collaborations with artists, architects, and other designers. The show presents a global vision of her creativity, talent, and inventiveness, exploring her commitment to women and to a humanist design ethos that took into account the middle and working classes with an emphasis on rationalizing costs and space.
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In celebration of the 50th anniversary of UniFor—a leading Italian design company founded in 1969 that partners with Italy’s most prestigious architecture firms—this book presents a selection of case studies from its impressive five decades of design work.
UniFor: a commitment for architecture
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In celebration of the 50th anniversary of UniFor—a leading Italian design company founded in 1969 that partners with Italy’s most prestigious architecture firms—this book presents a selection of case studies from its impressive five decades of design work.
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This issue is devoted to the Italian designer, artist, and inventor Bruno Munari, whose visual experiments were so iconic as to become a self-evident part of visual culture. At its core is the first English translation of ‘Obvious Code’ (1971), a collection of Munari’s own writings, sketches, and poems about his work. It includes iconic design objects such as the(...)
The Serving Library annual 2019/20 : Bruno Munari Obvious Code
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This issue is devoted to the Italian designer, artist, and inventor Bruno Munari, whose visual experiments were so iconic as to become a self-evident part of visual culture. At its core is the first English translation of ‘Obvious Code’ (1971), a collection of Munari’s own writings, sketches, and poems about his work. It includes iconic design objects such as the Abitacolo, artworks like his series of handmade projection slides, obscure rhymes about the art market, and an original piece from his 'unreadable books' series. Dozens of artists, designers, writers, and curators were invited to annotate Munari’s texts as a testament to the depth of his influence on international art.
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Charlotte Perriand
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Design, architecture, photographie... Il est impossible de restreindre le travail de Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) à un seul domaine d'expression. Créatrice d'avant-garde, elle rejoint dès 1927 Le Corbusier et devient responsable du mobilier et de l'équipement de l'habitation au sein de son atelier de la rue de Sèvres. Dans un esprit résolument opposé aux Arts(...)
Charlotte Perriand
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Design, architecture, photographie... Il est impossible de restreindre le travail de Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) à un seul domaine d'expression. Créatrice d'avant-garde, elle rejoint dès 1927 Le Corbusier et devient responsable du mobilier et de l'équipement de l'habitation au sein de son atelier de la rue de Sèvres. Dans un esprit résolument opposé aux Arts décoratifs, ils y créeront, en collaboration avec Pierre Jeanneret, des meubles fondateurs du design moderne. Mais au-delà d'une recherche esthétique, c’est une réflexion politique que mène Charlotte Perriand sur l'habitat, notamment sur la place des femmes dans le foyer. Tout au long de sa vie, elle travaillera avec les mêmes exigences : penser l'espace à partir de l'expérience humaine, s'inspirer des modes de vie et des cultures – en particulier japonaise – pour enrichir ses créations, concevoir l'architecture dans le respect de la nature et rendre accessible au plus grand nombre un véritable art de vivre.
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