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Crafting design in Italy

From post-war to postmodernism

by Catharine Rossi, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman

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Crafting design in Italy is the first book to examine the role that craft played in post-war Italian design, one of the most celebrated design episodes in the twentieth century. Craft was vital to the development of Italian design, and it has been so far overlooked. This book examines the multiple ways craft shaped Italian design from 1945 to the 1980s in the context of bigger socio-economic, cultural and political change; from post-war reconstruction to the economic 'miracle' of the 1960s, to the rise of the countercultural Radical Design movement and advent of postmodernism. It consists of case studies on design areas including product, furniture, fashion, glass and ceramics to bring to light previously unknown makers and objects as well as re-examine design 'icons' such as Gio Ponti's Superleggera chair and Ettore Sottsass's Memphisware. It also offers a model for analysing design and craft's relationship in other contexts, including today. ;

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Catharine Rossi is Senior Lecturer in Design History at Kingston University London

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  • Publisher Manchester University Press
  • Publication Date February 2015
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9780719089404
  • Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
  • FormatHardback
  • Primary Price 105 USD
  • Pages304
  • ReadershipGeneral/trade
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Dimensions240 X 170 Millimeters
  • IllustrationIllustrations, black & white
  • SeriesStudies in Design and Material Culture
  • Reference CodeIPR5823

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