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Charles & Ray Eames
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Designers incontournables du XXe siècle reconnus comme pionniers par les plus grands noms du design contemporain, Charles et Ray Eames ont laissé, au-delà de leurs pièces iconiques, l’image d’un style de vie et d’une philosophie du plaisir sérieux devenue leur marque de fabrique. Soucieux de « produire le meilleur pour le plus grand nombre au coût le plus bas », ce(...)
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Designers incontournables du XXe siècle reconnus comme pionniers par les plus grands noms du design contemporain, Charles et Ray Eames ont laissé, au-delà de leurs pièces iconiques, l’image d’un style de vie et d’une philosophie du plaisir sérieux devenue leur marque de fabrique. Soucieux de « produire le meilleur pour le plus grand nombre au coût le plus bas », ce(...)
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Designers incontournables du XXe siècle reconnus comme pionniers par les plus grands noms du design contemporain, Charles et Ray Eames ont laissé, au-delà de leurs pièces iconiques, l’image d’un style de vie et d’une philosophie du plaisir sérieux devenue leur marque de fabrique. Soucieux de « produire le meilleur pour le plus grand nombre au coût le plus bas », ce couple visionnaire et touche-à-tout a révolutionné et démocratisé le design.
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Designers incontournables du XXe siècle reconnus comme pionniers par les plus grands noms du design contemporain, Charles et Ray Eames ont laissé, au-delà de leurs pièces iconiques, l’image d’un style de vie et d’une philosophie du plaisir sérieux devenue leur marque de fabrique. Soucieux de « produire le meilleur pour le plus grand nombre au coût le plus bas », ce couple visionnaire et touche-à-tout a révolutionné et démocratisé le design.
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A true Renaissance man with a clear, unified aesthetic vision, the Swiss artist, designer, architect and writer Max Bill combined the virtues of homo faber and homo ludens throughout his intensely productive career, launching the Concrete art movement and establishing himself as the single most decisive influence on postwar Swiss graphic design. This gorgeously designed,(...)
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A true Renaissance man with a clear, unified aesthetic vision, the Swiss artist, designer, architect and writer Max Bill combined the virtues of homo faber and homo ludens throughout his intensely productive career, launching the Concrete art movement and establishing himself as the single most decisive influence on postwar Swiss graphic design. This gorgeously designed,(...)
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Max Bill
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A true Renaissance man with a clear, unified aesthetic vision, the Swiss artist, designer, architect and writer Max Bill combined the virtues of homo faber and homo ludens throughout his intensely productive career, launching the Concrete art movement and establishing himself as the single most decisive influence on postwar Swiss graphic design. This gorgeously designed, hefty volume—the most thorough Bill overview ever published in English, and the only monograph in print—presents Bill’s oeuvre both chronologically and thematically, across every facet of his multifaceted oeuvre: painting, graphic art, sculpture, architecture, book and magazine design, industrial and furniture design, graphic design and advertising typography—from large-format posters to small inserts in periodicals—as well as his designs for exhibition spaces. Bill stands out for his enormous influence on Latin American geometric art (through his 1951 retrospective at the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art), as well as for his essays, his work as an educator and his political and social concerns. All these aspects of his life and work are covered in this profusely illustrated catalogue, along with essays by scholars and a selection of previously unpublished essays by Bill himself.
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A true Renaissance man with a clear, unified aesthetic vision, the Swiss artist, designer, architect and writer Max Bill combined the virtues of homo faber and homo ludens throughout his intensely productive career, launching the Concrete art movement and establishing himself as the single most decisive influence on postwar Swiss graphic design. This gorgeously designed, hefty volume—the most thorough Bill overview ever published in English, and the only monograph in print—presents Bill’s oeuvre both chronologically and thematically, across every facet of his multifaceted oeuvre: painting, graphic art, sculpture, architecture, book and magazine design, industrial and furniture design, graphic design and advertising typography—from large-format posters to small inserts in periodicals—as well as his designs for exhibition spaces. Bill stands out for his enormous influence on Latin American geometric art (through his 1951 retrospective at the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art), as well as for his essays, his work as an educator and his political and social concerns. All these aspects of his life and work are covered in this profusely illustrated catalogue, along with essays by scholars and a selection of previously unpublished essays by Bill himself.
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Alexander Girard was one of the most important modern textile artists and interior designers of the 20th century. He combined Pop and Folk art influences to create a colorfully opulent aesthetic language whose impact continues to be felt today. This catalogue draws on the vast holdings in Girard's private estate, which were exhaustively investigated for the first time at(...)
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Alexander Girard was one of the most important modern textile artists and interior designers of the 20th century. He combined Pop and Folk art influences to create a colorfully opulent aesthetic language whose impact continues to be felt today. This catalogue draws on the vast holdings in Girard's private estate, which were exhaustively investigated for the first time at(...)
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Alexander Girard: a designers universe
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Alexander Girard was one of the most important modern textile artists and interior designers of the 20th century. He combined Pop and Folk art influences to create a colorfully opulent aesthetic language whose impact continues to be felt today. This catalogue draws on the vast holdings in Girard's private estate, which were exhaustively investigated for the first time at the Vitra Design Museum. The book presents the oeuvre of the multitalented designer in all its facets, while offering the first scholarly, critical examination of his work.
Alexander Girard: a designers universe
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Alexander Girard was one of the most important modern textile artists and interior designers of the 20th century. He combined Pop and Folk art influences to create a colorfully opulent aesthetic language whose impact continues to be felt today. This catalogue draws on the vast holdings in Girard's private estate, which were exhaustively investigated for the first time at the Vitra Design Museum. The book presents the oeuvre of the multitalented designer in all its facets, while offering the first scholarly, critical examination of his work.
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April 2016
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Quel est ce «monde nouveau» imaginé par l’architecte et designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999)? Comment repense-t-elle notre rapport à la nature et à la place accordée à l’art dans la vie quotidienne? Les réponses apportées par cette pionnière de la modernité nous paraissent aujourd’hui d’une étonnante actualité. Publié à l’occasion de l’importante rétrospective que la(...)
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Quel est ce «monde nouveau» imaginé par l’architecte et designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999)? Comment repense-t-elle notre rapport à la nature et à la place accordée à l’art dans la vie quotidienne? Les réponses apportées par cette pionnière de la modernité nous paraissent aujourd’hui d’une étonnante actualité. Publié à l’occasion de l’importante rétrospective que la(...)
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Le monde nouveau de Charlotte Perriand
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Quel est ce «monde nouveau» imaginé par l’architecte et designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999)? Comment repense-t-elle notre rapport à la nature et à la place accordée à l’art dans la vie quotidienne? Les réponses apportées par cette pionnière de la modernité nous paraissent aujourd’hui d’une étonnante actualité. Publié à l’occasion de l’importante rétrospective que la Fondation Louis Vuitton consacre à Charlotte Perriand et à ses liens avec les artistes et les architectes de son temps, cet ouvrage offre une nouvelle lecture d’une œuvre marquée par l’engagement et la liberté. Sous la direction de Sébastien Cherruet et Jacques Barsac, ce catalogue, réunissant des contributions d’auteurs français et étrangers dans une approche à la fois chronologique et thématique, invite à un voyage en création au fil du XXe siècle.
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Quel est ce «monde nouveau» imaginé par l’architecte et designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999)? Comment repense-t-elle notre rapport à la nature et à la place accordée à l’art dans la vie quotidienne? Les réponses apportées par cette pionnière de la modernité nous paraissent aujourd’hui d’une étonnante actualité. Publié à l’occasion de l’importante rétrospective que la Fondation Louis Vuitton consacre à Charlotte Perriand et à ses liens avec les artistes et les architectes de son temps, cet ouvrage offre une nouvelle lecture d’une œuvre marquée par l’engagement et la liberté. Sous la direction de Sébastien Cherruet et Jacques Barsac, ce catalogue, réunissant des contributions d’auteurs français et étrangers dans une approche à la fois chronologique et thématique, invite à un voyage en création au fil du XXe siècle.
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October 2019
October 2019
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Trix + Robert Haussmann
Trix + Robert Haussmann
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The exhibition "The Log-O-Rhythmic Slide Rule" shown in spring 2012 was dedicated to the work of Trix and Robert Haussmann and is the basis for this publication, which, with illustrations, essays, texts by artists and a discussion, provides an in-depth look into the rich creative work of the Swiss architect and designer couple. Trix and Robert Haussmann are two of the(...)
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The exhibition "The Log-O-Rhythmic Slide Rule" shown in spring 2012 was dedicated to the work of Trix and Robert Haussmann and is the basis for this publication, which, with illustrations, essays, texts by artists and a discussion, provides an in-depth look into the rich creative work of the Swiss architect and designer couple. Trix and Robert Haussmann are two of the(...)
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Trix + Robert Haussmann
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The exhibition "The Log-O-Rhythmic Slide Rule" shown in spring 2012 was dedicated to the work of Trix and Robert Haussmann and is the basis for this publication, which, with illustrations, essays, texts by artists and a discussion, provides an in-depth look into the rich creative work of the Swiss architect and designer couple. Trix and Robert Haussmann are two of the most important architects, designers and theoreticians, consequential in influencing and helping to displace classical modernism in Switzerland.
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The exhibition "The Log-O-Rhythmic Slide Rule" shown in spring 2012 was dedicated to the work of Trix and Robert Haussmann and is the basis for this publication, which, with illustrations, essays, texts by artists and a discussion, provides an in-depth look into the rich creative work of the Swiss architect and designer couple. Trix and Robert Haussmann are two of the most important architects, designers and theoreticians, consequential in influencing and helping to displace classical modernism in Switzerland.
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February 2020
February 2020
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Olivier Vadro : mêlées
Olivier Vadro : mêlées
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Première monographie consacrée au travail du designer / scénographe, avec un texte de l'historien du design Tony Côme, des entretiens et une importante iconographie. La trajectoire d'Olivier Vadrot (né en 1970 à Semur-en-Auxois) s'est déterminée à la croisée de nombreux domaines : l'architecture, le design, le commissariat et la scénographie d'exposition, la scène(...)
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Première monographie consacrée au travail du designer / scénographe, avec un texte de l'historien du design Tony Côme, des entretiens et une importante iconographie. La trajectoire d'Olivier Vadrot (né en 1970 à Semur-en-Auxois) s'est déterminée à la croisée de nombreux domaines : l'architecture, le design, le commissariat et la scénographie d'exposition, la scène(...)
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Olivier Vadro : mêlées
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Première monographie consacrée au travail du designer / scénographe, avec un texte de l'historien du design Tony Côme, des entretiens et une importante iconographie. La trajectoire d'Olivier Vadrot (né en 1970 à Semur-en-Auxois) s'est déterminée à la croisée de nombreux domaines : l'architecture, le design, le commissariat et la scénographie d'exposition, la scène théâtrale et musicale. En parallèle de ses études en architecture, il se lance dans l'aventure collective du Théâtre Pluzdank. Il cofonde le centre d'art contemporain La Salle de bains à Lyon puis le groupe Cocktail Designers au sein duquel il conçoit plusieurs dispositifs d'écoute pour des labels musicaux. Son séjour à la Villa Médicis (2012-2013) en tant que scénographe marque un important tournant dans son parcours, qui le conduit à faire des relevés dans la plupart des édifices de spectacle antiques. Sa pratique personnelle s'est récemment affirmée en se recentrant autour de micro-architectures permettant de faire assemblée. Si certains de ces dispositifs sont nomades et éphémères, d'autres ont été plus durablement implantés dans l'espace public. Olivier Vadrot porte une attention extrême aux conditions d'existence matérielle des objets qu'il produit : économie de fabrication, multiplicité d'usages incluant le transport, le montage, le stockage, possibles adaptations, entretien et renouvellement.
Olivier Vadro : mêlées
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Première monographie consacrée au travail du designer / scénographe, avec un texte de l'historien du design Tony Côme, des entretiens et une importante iconographie. La trajectoire d'Olivier Vadrot (né en 1970 à Semur-en-Auxois) s'est déterminée à la croisée de nombreux domaines : l'architecture, le design, le commissariat et la scénographie d'exposition, la scène théâtrale et musicale. En parallèle de ses études en architecture, il se lance dans l'aventure collective du Théâtre Pluzdank. Il cofonde le centre d'art contemporain La Salle de bains à Lyon puis le groupe Cocktail Designers au sein duquel il conçoit plusieurs dispositifs d'écoute pour des labels musicaux. Son séjour à la Villa Médicis (2012-2013) en tant que scénographe marque un important tournant dans son parcours, qui le conduit à faire des relevés dans la plupart des édifices de spectacle antiques. Sa pratique personnelle s'est récemment affirmée en se recentrant autour de micro-architectures permettant de faire assemblée. Si certains de ces dispositifs sont nomades et éphémères, d'autres ont été plus durablement implantés dans l'espace public. Olivier Vadrot porte une attention extrême aux conditions d'existence matérielle des objets qu'il produit : économie de fabrication, multiplicité d'usages incluant le transport, le montage, le stockage, possibles adaptations, entretien et renouvellement.
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Jean-Michel Frank
Jean-Michel Frank
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Assouline presents a portrait of an iconic yet somewhat mysterious artist whose work illuminated the decorative arts in the twentieth century. Jean-Michel Frank never attended a school of architecture or design, yet during the 1920s and 1930s this self-made interior designer honed and perfected his own unique style, which became a benchmark of Art Deco sophistication.(...)
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Assouline presents a portrait of an iconic yet somewhat mysterious artist whose work illuminated the decorative arts in the twentieth century. Jean-Michel Frank never attended a school of architecture or design, yet during the 1920s and 1930s this self-made interior designer honed and perfected his own unique style, which became a benchmark of Art Deco sophistication.(...)
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Jean-Michel Frank
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Assouline presents a portrait of an iconic yet somewhat mysterious artist whose work illuminated the decorative arts in the twentieth century. Jean-Michel Frank never attended a school of architecture or design, yet during the 1920s and 1930s this self-made interior designer honed and perfected his own unique style, which became a benchmark of Art Deco sophistication. Gold, silk, marble, and fine wood veneers were employed alongside straw marquetry, parchment, plaster, leather, canvas, and distressed oak. Collaborating with the best artists of the time, including Alberto Giacometti and Christian Bérard, Frank designed and art directed streamlined yet sumptuous interiors for notable patrons from Marie-Laure and Charles de Noailles, Nelson Rockefeller, and Elsa Schiaparelli to French institutions like the Comédie Française and the Hôtel Crillon.
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Assouline presents a portrait of an iconic yet somewhat mysterious artist whose work illuminated the decorative arts in the twentieth century. Jean-Michel Frank never attended a school of architecture or design, yet during the 1920s and 1930s this self-made interior designer honed and perfected his own unique style, which became a benchmark of Art Deco sophistication. Gold, silk, marble, and fine wood veneers were employed alongside straw marquetry, parchment, plaster, leather, canvas, and distressed oak. Collaborating with the best artists of the time, including Alberto Giacometti and Christian Bérard, Frank designed and art directed streamlined yet sumptuous interiors for notable patrons from Marie-Laure and Charles de Noailles, Nelson Rockefeller, and Elsa Schiaparelli to French institutions like the Comédie Française and the Hôtel Crillon.
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This large-format scrapbook, compiling Wendell Castle's press clippings, invitations and ephemera, records both his acclaim and neglect during the golden years of the studio movement. Wendell Castle (1932-2018) is regarded as the father of the American studio movement. His innovative work in stack-laminated wood and gel-coated fiberglass from the '60s and '70s is coveted(...)
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This large-format scrapbook, compiling Wendell Castle's press clippings, invitations and ephemera, records both his acclaim and neglect during the golden years of the studio movement. Wendell Castle (1932-2018) is regarded as the father of the American studio movement. His innovative work in stack-laminated wood and gel-coated fiberglass from the '60s and '70s is coveted(...)
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Wendell Castle: scrapbook 1958-1980
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This large-format scrapbook, compiling Wendell Castle's press clippings, invitations and ephemera, records both his acclaim and neglect during the golden years of the studio movement. Wendell Castle (1932-2018) is regarded as the father of the American studio movement. His innovative work in stack-laminated wood and gel-coated fiberglass from the '60s and '70s is coveted by museums and collectors all over the world. In 1959, Castle's wife, the artist Nancy Jurs, started collecting press clippings, photographs, invitations and personal notes on Castle's work, eventually assembling them into an oversized scrapbook. This scrapbook, reproduced here in exact facsimile, proves that the work created by Castle during these decades had a more lasting impression on his field than he fully recognized--while also allowing us to better comprehend the challenges he faced for not following the herd.
Wendell Castle: scrapbook 1958-1980
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This large-format scrapbook, compiling Wendell Castle's press clippings, invitations and ephemera, records both his acclaim and neglect during the golden years of the studio movement. Wendell Castle (1932-2018) is regarded as the father of the American studio movement. His innovative work in stack-laminated wood and gel-coated fiberglass from the '60s and '70s is coveted by museums and collectors all over the world. In 1959, Castle's wife, the artist Nancy Jurs, started collecting press clippings, photographs, invitations and personal notes on Castle's work, eventually assembling them into an oversized scrapbook. This scrapbook, reproduced here in exact facsimile, proves that the work created by Castle during these decades had a more lasting impression on his field than he fully recognized--while also allowing us to better comprehend the challenges he faced for not following the herd.
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Besides his work as a painter, designer, and prolific writer of picture books, the Italian artist Bruno Munari (1907–1998) devoted himself to children’s art education. Although it is difficult to grasp the scope of his wide-ranging activities, regardless of the genre, Munari’s works are based on a simple idea and are immediately appealing to anyone of any age. The(...)
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Besides his work as a painter, designer, and prolific writer of picture books, the Italian artist Bruno Munari (1907–1998) devoted himself to children’s art education. Although it is difficult to grasp the scope of his wide-ranging activities, regardless of the genre, Munari’s works are based on a simple idea and are immediately appealing to anyone of any age. The(...)
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Bruno Munari: The man who made the useless machines (Japanese text)
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Besides his work as a painter, designer, and prolific writer of picture books, the Italian artist Bruno Munari (1907–1998) devoted himself to children’s art education. Although it is difficult to grasp the scope of his wide-ranging activities, regardless of the genre, Munari’s works are based on a simple idea and are immediately appealing to anyone of any age. The itinerant Japanese exhibition ''Bruno Munari: The Man Who Made the Useless Machines'' looks back at his career, which began with the Italian Futurists, by examining approximately 300 works. This comprehensive monograph complements and broadens the exhibition’s overview of his visionary life and work.
Bruno Munari: The man who made the useless machines (Japanese text)
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Besides his work as a painter, designer, and prolific writer of picture books, the Italian artist Bruno Munari (1907–1998) devoted himself to children’s art education. Although it is difficult to grasp the scope of his wide-ranging activities, regardless of the genre, Munari’s works are based on a simple idea and are immediately appealing to anyone of any age. The itinerant Japanese exhibition ''Bruno Munari: The Man Who Made the Useless Machines'' looks back at his career, which began with the Italian Futurists, by examining approximately 300 works. This comprehensive monograph complements and broadens the exhibition’s overview of his visionary life and work.
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To study Gio Ponti’s prolific body of work is to appreciate the clear, unifying vision behind a complex creative universe. A synthesis of the arts, his creations expand intuitively with the Italian grandeur and studied lightness that defined his iconic style. Ponti’s rare capacity to move seamlessly between scales allowed him to approach the design of a teaspoon with the(...)
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To study Gio Ponti’s prolific body of work is to appreciate the clear, unifying vision behind a complex creative universe. A synthesis of the arts, his creations expand intuitively with the Italian grandeur and studied lightness that defined his iconic style. Ponti’s rare capacity to move seamlessly between scales allowed him to approach the design of a teaspoon with the(...)
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Gio Ponti, Life and works 1923-1979
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To study Gio Ponti’s prolific body of work is to appreciate the clear, unifying vision behind a complex creative universe. A synthesis of the arts, his creations expand intuitively with the Italian grandeur and studied lightness that defined his iconic style. Ponti’s rare capacity to move seamlessly between scales allowed him to approach the design of a teaspoon with the same conviction as he did an entire city. He was as much an architect and designer as he was a publisher, poet, and man. A treasure in its own regard, his contribution is also a distinctive landmark of Italy’s mid-century Renaissance and the modernist values it sought to realize. This new book is the most comprehensive account of Ponti’s work to date, unprecedented in scale and scope. It tracks the development of his oeuvre over 6 decades, with 136 projects indexed and reproduced in high resolution, each object framed by the context in which Ponti had created it. Like windows onto his elusive life, unpublished materials and candid imagery create new dialogues between his famous masterpieces and his lesser-known feats. A rich layer of texts, featuring an extensive biographical essay by Stefano Casciani, was produced in close collaboration with the Gio Ponti Archives offering an intimate insight on his life’s work. Materializing Ponti’s core philosophy of modernity, this book presents architecture as a performing object, a "self-illuminating" stage for his humanistic art de vivre and boundless creativity.
Gio Ponti, Life and works 1923-1979
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To study Gio Ponti’s prolific body of work is to appreciate the clear, unifying vision behind a complex creative universe. A synthesis of the arts, his creations expand intuitively with the Italian grandeur and studied lightness that defined his iconic style. Ponti’s rare capacity to move seamlessly between scales allowed him to approach the design of a teaspoon with the same conviction as he did an entire city. He was as much an architect and designer as he was a publisher, poet, and man. A treasure in its own regard, his contribution is also a distinctive landmark of Italy’s mid-century Renaissance and the modernist values it sought to realize. This new book is the most comprehensive account of Ponti’s work to date, unprecedented in scale and scope. It tracks the development of his oeuvre over 6 decades, with 136 projects indexed and reproduced in high resolution, each object framed by the context in which Ponti had created it. Like windows onto his elusive life, unpublished materials and candid imagery create new dialogues between his famous masterpieces and his lesser-known feats. A rich layer of texts, featuring an extensive biographical essay by Stefano Casciani, was produced in close collaboration with the Gio Ponti Archives offering an intimate insight on his life’s work. Materializing Ponti’s core philosophy of modernity, this book presents architecture as a performing object, a "self-illuminating" stage for his humanistic art de vivre and boundless creativity.
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