Italian Design (MoMA Design)

Italian Design (MoMA Design) by Antonelli, Paola. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780870707384.

Engaging Italian industry and culture in a single-minded and spontaneous project of national image building, Italys designers have produced a complete variety of forms--fashion, graphic arts and product and set design--with a unique international resonance. This volume explores Italian design of the last half-century, featuring the classic lines of the Vespa, Bruno Munaris deconstruction of the common fork, the nostalgic appeal of Italo Marchionis ice cream cone and the sleek Minimalism of Alberto Medas 1987 "Light Light Chair," among many other masterpieces. Paola Antonellis lively introduction provides an overview of Italys design culture; an essay by Giampiero Bosoni illuminates the design objects that are superbly reproduced in the volumes plate section. Giampiero Bosoni is an architect, curator and Associate Professor of Interior Architecture in the Faculty of Design at the Polytechnic University of Milan. He is the author of several surveys and monographs, including Il Modo Italiano: Italian Design and Avant-garde in the 20th Century and a monograph on Max Huber.