The Complete Designers' Lights, 1950-1990 : 30 Years of Collecting (VOL 1)

Coles, Alex & Pierre Doze & Didier Krzentowski; Clemence Krzentowski; Didiere Krzentowski

ISBN 10: 3037641991 / ISBN 13: 9783037641996

Published by JRP|Ringier, 2012

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Clà mence and Didier Krzentowski, the founders and directors of the leading contemporary design gallery Kreo (in Paris), have been collecting lights for 30 years. With an emphasis on Italian and French light design, their collection is the most important of its kind, comprising nearly 500 works of all kinds from the 1950s to the 1990s, and including significant groups of works by Paulin, Garrice, Castiglioni and Sarfatti. Conceived as a catalogue raisonnà of this astounding collection, The Complete Designers' Lights (1950-1990) provides an invaluable overview of light design and furniture history. It includes a discussion between Didier Krzentowski, Constance Rubini (curator of the Paris Musà e des Arts Dà coratifs) and design critic Pierre Doze, as well as an essay by the design and art critic Alex Coles that focuses on the relationship between light design and light art, through a comparison of Gino Sarfatti and Dan Flavin. (20120301).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Designers' Lights, 1950-1990 : 30 Years of Collecting (VOL 1)
• Publisher: JRP|Ringier
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037641991
• ISBN 13: 9783037641996
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Clémence and Didier Krzentowski, the founders and directors of the leading contemporary design gallery Kreo (in Paris), have been collecting lights for 30 years. With an emphasis on Italian and French light design, their collection is the most important of its kind, comprising nearly 500 works of all kinds from the 1950s to the 1990s, and including significant groups of works by Paulin, Garrice, Castiglioni and Sarfatti. Conceived as a catalogue raisonné of this astounding collection, The Complete Designers’ Lights (1950–1990) provides an invaluable overview of light design and furniture history. It includes a discussion between Didier Krzentowski, Constance Rubini (curator of the Paris Musée des Arts Décoratifs) and design critic Pierre Doze, as well as an essay by the design and art critic Alex Coles that focuses on the relationship between light design and light art, through a comparison of Gino Sarfatti and Dan Flavin.

Review

The couple behind Paris's Galerie Kreo document their peerless lighting collection in The Complete Designers' Lights, 1950-1990. Among the nearly 500 works are Gino Sarfatti's minimalist experiments with neon, Joe Colombo's plastic lamps, and the gallery's contemporary editions by the Bouroulecs and others. (Elle Decor)