The book, using as a pretext 100 lamps of Cortopassi collection, highlights, a history made of little events, single designers, fortuitous coincidences and exhibitions appointment constantly repeated to mark and highlight the continuous trasformations. A history made of individual researches developed for decades in an endless need for self-surprise, self-reference, self-promoting, self-criticism. Company histories linked to single or infinite designers, single or infinite products typologies, single or infinite images, are features allowing manifold historical reading in which the only certainty is the need of classifyng, in a non-reductive form, all the design made in the last 60s in Italy.
Italian Light, 100 lampade della collezione Cortopassi
VANNICOLA, CARLO;
2004-01-01
Abstract
The book, using as a pretext 100 lamps of Cortopassi collection, highlights, a history made of little events, single designers, fortuitous coincidences and exhibitions appointment constantly repeated to mark and highlight the continuous trasformations. A history made of individual researches developed for decades in an endless need for self-surprise, self-reference, self-promoting, self-criticism. Company histories linked to single or infinite designers, single or infinite products typologies, single or infinite images, are features allowing manifold historical reading in which the only certainty is the need of classifyng, in a non-reductive form, all the design made in the last 60s in Italy.
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