Mario Bellini : Italian beauty : architecture, design and more = architettura, design e altro / edited by Francesco Moschini.

Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • Italian
Published/​Created
  • Cinisello Balsamo, Milano : Silvana editoriale, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    This retrospective exhibition opens exactly thirty years since the show devoted to Mario Bellini by MoMA in New York. The MoMA exhibition in 1987 examined his activities as a designer, which even then were represented by 25 works in its permanent collection. 1987 proved to be a watershed year for Bellini, who from that year on has devoted himself mainly to architecture on a large scale and to urban design. This is therefore a tribute to the remarkable, many-sided work of an Italian designer who has achieved all manner of success on both the small scale (eight Compasso d'Oro awards, and objects and furnishings that have become icons in homes and offices around the world, often anticipating or revolutionising tastes and styles), and on the large scale (conference centres, trade fair venues and museums from Japan to the USA, Germany and Australia and, in 2012, the Department of Islamic Art--a golden wave for the Louvre in Paris).
    Notes
    Catalog of an exhibition held at the Triennale di Milano, Italy, January 19-March 19, 2017.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Language note
    Text in Italian and English.
    Contents
    • Mario Bellini, Italian beauty
    • Preface / Germano Celant
    • A portrait of Mario Bellini / Francesco Moschini
    • Mario Bellini: case study / Deyan Sudjie
    • The architecture of beauty / Ermanno Ranzani
    • Design as experimentation / Marco Sammicheli
    • The image as design / Francesco Maggiore, Martina Motta
    • Without words
    • From Objet type to mise en scène / Kenneth Frampton
    • Design as a cultural act / Enrico Morteo
    • Form as process / Franco Purini
    • The "horizontal" time of Mario Bellini / Lorenzo Pietropaolo
    • The art of building / Gaetano Pesce
    • In search of beauty / Francesco Binfaré
    • The fast traveler / Gabriele Basilico
    • Kodak moments / Mario Calabresi
    • On the road with Mario / Marco Romano
    • The (extraordinary) adventure of Domus / Italo Lupi
    • Design as a platonic idea / Arturo Carlo Quintavalle
    • The "magic" collector / Vittorio Sgarbi
    • Seven questions in search of answers / Mario Bellini
    • Notes for the design of an alphabet primer / Mario Bellini
    • Annexes : Chronological list of works on display
    • Biography.
    Other title(s)
    Italian beauty
    ISBN
    • 9788836636006 ((softcover))
    • 8836636004 ((softcover))
    LCCN
    2017459405
    OCLC
    976021228
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