Mario Bellini: Italian Beauty: Architecture, Design, and More

ISBN 10: 8836636004 / ISBN 13: 9788836636006

Verlag: Silvana Editoriale, 2017

In. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ria9788836636006_new

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Published to accompany the eponymous retrospective at the Milan Triennial, and spanning almost 60 years of design, architecture, exhibition design and more, this volume on the acclaimed Italian architect Mario Bellini (born 1935) appears exactly 30 years after his exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

That 1987 exhibition examined his activities as a designer; the year proved to be a watershed for Bellini, who from then on devoted himself primarily to architecture and urban design. Italian Beauty is therefore a tribute to the multifaceted achievement of a designer who has achieved success on both the small scale (with objects and furnishings that have become icons in homes and offices around the world), and the large (conference centers, trade-fair venues, the Department of Islamic Art at the Louvre and museums from Japan to the USA, Germany and Australia).

Von der hinteren Coverseite: The search for beauty must be relentless. But it cannot be the sole aim of the architect, who should unfailingly per­ceive the need for dialogue: with humankind, with the city, with the landscape, between cultures, religions, etc. The volume, with a foreword by Germano Celant and nu­merous critical contributions, retraces the work of Milane­se architect Mario Bellini in a sweeping overview spanning almost 60 years of design, architecture, exhibition design and more besides. 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 most prestigious museum in the world, the Louvre in Paris).

texts: Germano Celant, Francesco Moschini, Deyan Sudjic, Ermanno Ran­zani, Marco Sammicheli, Francesco Maggiore e Martina Motta, Kenneth Frampton, Enrico Morteo, Franco Purini, Lorenzo Pietropaolo, Francesco Binfaré, Gabriele Basilico, Mario Calabresi, Marco Romano, Italo Lupi, Ar­turo Carlo Quintavalle, Vittorio Sgarbi.

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Titel: Mario Bellini: Italian Beauty: Architecture,...
Verlag: Silvana Editoriale
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New