Futurissimo. The Utopia of Italian Design. 1930-2000.
Pompidou Center| N° d'inventaire | 23886 |
| Format | 22 x 30 |
| Détails | 224 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | nine |
| ISBN | 9782844269126 |
Between experimentation and radicalism, transcending the oppositions between industry and craftsmanship, Italian design opens the way to another approach to the object, beyond functionalism, renewing the relationship with the domestic environment. After the rationalist aesthetic (Pagano, Albini) of the 1930s-1940s, Italian industrial design enjoyed international success from the 1950s (Sottsass, Borsani, Colombo, Castiglioni, etc.). From critical utopias carried by radical architecture (Archizoom, Superstudio, Pettena, Ugo La Pietra) to the "reappropriation" of objects (Enzo Mari, Riccardo Dalisi), Italian design opened up to "collective creation" in the 1970s.
The catalog is divided into ten chapters: Rationalism, Organic Design, Genealogy of Seating, Lighting, Industrial Design, Radical Design, From Radicals to Memphis Style, and Postmodern City, with a focus on two major design figures, Ettore Sottsass and Andrea Branzi. The essays reconstruct the unique history of Italian design, from the recovery of anonymous objects, as well as the Castiglioni brothers' tractor saddle in the 1950s, transformed into a seat, to the breathtaking object theaters of Memphis in the early 1980s.
Between experimentation and radicalism, transcending the oppositions between industry and craftsmanship, Italian design opens the way to another approach to the object, beyond functionalism, renewing the relationship with the domestic environment. After the rationalist aesthetic (Pagano, Albini) of the 1930s-1940s, Italian industrial design enjoyed international success from the 1950s (Sottsass, Borsani, Colombo, Castiglioni, etc.). From critical utopias carried by radical architecture (Archizoom, Superstudio, Pettena, Ugo La Pietra) to the "reappropriation" of objects (Enzo Mari, Riccardo Dalisi), Italian design opened up to "collective creation" in the 1970s.
The catalog is divided into ten chapters: Rationalism, Organic Design, Genealogy of Seating, Lighting, Industrial Design, Radical Design, From Radicals to Memphis Style, and Postmodern City, with a focus on two major design figures, Ettore Sottsass and Andrea Branzi. The essays reconstruct the unique history of Italian design, from the recovery of anonymous objects, as well as the Castiglioni brothers' tractor saddle in the 1950s, transformed into a seat, to the breathtaking object theaters of Memphis in the early 1980s.