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What is it that makes Italian design so attractive? Maybe the answer is to be found in Custom Built, a critically reflective look at unique and handcrafted objects by succeeding generations of Italian designers. Beginning in the 1930s and moving towards the present, this volume peers into the archeology of twentieth-century Italian design, uncovering unique pieces created before the spread of industrial furniture culture and the mass-produced object, as well as prototypes who stand in ironic defiance of the factory-made objects they may have spawned. Included are designs by such luminaries as Franco Albini, Mario Asnago & Claudio Vender, Melchiorre Bega, Piero Bottoni, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Pietro Chiesa, Luigi Figini & Gino Pollini, Ignazio Gardella, Piero Lingeri, Giuseppe Pagano, Gio Ponti, Piero Portaluppi, Gustavo Pulitzer, Guglielmo Ulrich and Luigi Vietti.
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- PublisherCharta
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 8881584336
- ISBN 13 9788881584338
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
- EditorAnnicchiarico Silvana
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Custom-Built: Permanent Collection of Italian Design
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A small book that reviews various aspects of Italian design in furniture, chairs, tables, etc. Includes two essays: "The Age of Furniture - Italian Furnishings, Materials and Interior Design of the Thirties and Forties" by Arturo Dell'Acqua Bellavitis & "Between the Workshop and the Factory - 'Custom-Built' Objects in Italian Design Archaeology" by Silvana Annicchiarico. Measures 6' x 6.5" with 109 pages. Profusely illustrated with b/w and color photographs, plus drawings. Minor scuffing to covers, but otherwise in excellent condition with no marks of any kind. SALE PRICE. Seller Inventory # E4124
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Book Description Stiff Card Paperback. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No. First. 109pp. Fully illustrated in colour & b&w archive photographs. Seller Inventory # 21696
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. An inquiry into the origins of Italian design through those craft prototypes of the 1930s and 1940s, which foreshadow future mass production. Examples from the permanent collection of Italian design, La Triennale di Milano. 109 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 16 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Seller Inventory # 012751
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