Domus 1960s - Charlotte Fiell

Autor: CHARLOTTE FIELL

Editorial: Taschen

Lenguaje: Español

ISBN13: 9783836556767

Reseña: Founded in 1928 as a living diary by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti domus has been hailed as the worlds most influential architecture and design journal. With both style and rigor it has offered consistent coverage of major themes and stylistic movements in product structure interior and industrial design. In this fresh reprint of all 1960s issues the magazine documents the daring practical and beautiful projects of a decade of futuristic thrill and booming pop culture. Synthetics and plastics hit the stage leading to radical new design while conventional notions of elegance give way to fresh exploratory forms. For work to be featured in the magazine it had to offer function spatial clarity intellectual persuasion relevant originality and/or grace. Those projects and practitioners that made the grade include the Anti and Radical Design movements Ray and Charles Eames Gae Aulenti Kenzo Tange Verner Panton Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Ettore Sottsass Carlo Scarpa Angelo Mangiarotti Cesare Maria Casati and Eero Saarinen.domus distilled Seven volumes spanning 1928 to 1999 Over 6000 pages featuring influential projects by the most important designers and architects Original layouts and all covers with captions providing navigation and context New introductory essays by renowned architects and designers Each edition comes with an appendix featuring texts translated into English many of which were previously only available in Italian A comprehensive index in each volume listing both designers and manufacturers names About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!