"Glorious . . . almost as good as owning one of the things themselves."_The World of Interiors Piero Fornasetti lived and worked in Milan from 1935 until his death in 1988. During this long career he established an enduring reputation as a designer with a style that was distinctly his own_a style based on illusion, architectural perspectives, and a host of personal leitmotifs, such as the sun, playing cards, fish, and flowers, from which he spun seemingly endless variations. Fornasetti applied his decorative vocabulary to an astonishing array of objects_hats, vests, pipes, ashtrays, chairs, plates, cabinets, pianos, ocean liners_and transformed them by the application of unexpected images. Today his work seems more contemporary and is more popular than ever. Designers and collectors celebrate his use of allusion, unsettling images, and striking juxtaposition to create unique, whimsical objects. Fornasetti's masterpieces continue to shock, delight, and inspire. 116 color and 484 black-and-white photographs and illustrations.

Fornasetti - Designer of Dreams

Sottsass, Ettore

Mauriès, Patrick

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

Sage of postmodernism, architect, furniture and product designer, and most widely known as the leading figure of the Memphis design studio in the eighties, Ettore Sottsass is one of the few postwar figures who could justly be referred to as a polymath. Among his many achievements and activities, his photography is one of the least known, yet it is certainly of unique importance in any understanding of the man, his work, and his visual vocabulary.Sottsass the photographer has created a prodigious body of work from which this personal selection is drawn. Recording his reactions to the detail and debris of the exotic and familiar, the images reveal an inquisitive sensibility finding a new way to describe the surrounding world, whether the location is India, China, Egypt, or New York.

The Curious Mr. Sottsass: Photographing Design and Desire

Biographies & Memoirs

Thames&Hudson

Sottsass Associates

Shows examples of the Italian firm's designs for furniture, robots, telephones, shop interiors, carpets, offices, and exhibits

Arts & Photography

Rizzoli

Francesco Clemente: Three Worlds

Francesco Clemente (born in Naples March 23, 1952) is an Italian-born contemporary artist. His work is influenced by thinkers as diverse as Gregory Bateson, William Blake, Allen Ginsberg, and J Krishnamurti. Dividing his time between New York and Varanasi, India, Clemente has adopted for his paintings a vast variety of supports and mediums, exploring, discarding, and returning to oil paint, watercolor, pastel, and printmaking. His work develops in a non-linear mode, expanding and contracting in a fragmentary way, not defined by a style, but rather by his recording of the fluctuations of the self. His work is also nomadic. In the 1980s he divided his time between India and New York. While briefly associated with Neo-Expressionism he took an interest in collaborative works both with Indian craftsmen and with painters like Basquiat and Warhol, and poets like Robert Creeley and Ginsberg in New York. In an interview with The Brooklyn Rail, Clemente commented "these poets had been looking at the East for inspiration and I was also anxious to evade the materialism of the West." In the 1990s Clemente explored intensely erotic imagery, inspired by the Tantra traditions both of India and Tibet, and turning contemporary preoccupations with identity and sexuality into an occasion to ask questions about the nature of the self. In the 2000s Clemente underwent a darker and grotesque phase, returning in recent years to luminous images of repose and transformation. Since the 1980s until today, Clemente has also chronicled New York intellectual and social life through a great number of portraits, contributing to the revival of a genre until then somehow discredited. Clemente's art has been presented in solo and group shows internationally. This is the catalogue for the exhibition in 1990-91 traveled from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT, to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Clemente, Francesco

Kramrisch, Stella

Percy, Ann

Foye, Raymond

Individual Artists

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Sottsass: Glass Works

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Barovier, Marino

Carboni, Milco

Bischofberger, Bruno

Crafts & Hobbies

Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd

The decade that forged the Sottsass look: on the legendary designer's '60s collaboration with the Poltronova company The decade of collaboration between the Italian designer and architect Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) and Tuscan furniture company Poltronova from 1960 to 1970 marked a phase of almost total freedom for the designer. The breadth of this era, both rich in creations and decisive in establishing the designer's style, is now accessible in this analysis of Sottsass' work, augmented with advertising photos from the period, annotated sketches and his personal photographs. In 1956, at the request of the painter and sculptor Sergio Camilli, Sottsass became the artistic director of Poltronova, Camilli's new furniture company. Sottsass then created Poltronova's logo and produced its first catalogs. The vibrant, playful Poltronova catalogs express his experimentation with geometric shapes, mixes of materials and vibrant colors. The brand became a true standard bearer of Italian creation, collaborating with renowned artists such as Max Ernst. This beautiful catalog, designed in a characteristic Sottsass style, serves as both a guide to all the pieces that he designed with Poltronova and also a celebration of the master's playful spirit in wood, steel, marble and every material he could implement to construct his iconic chairs, cabinets, mirrors and more.

Sottsass: Poltronova 1958–1974

History & Criticism

SKIRA PARIS

Architettura Attenuata

Nieves

Book by Sottsass, Ettore, Jr., Barovier, Marino, Bischofberger, Bruno

Sottsass: Glass works

Antique Collectors' Club

Ettore Sottsass senior: Architetto (Italian Edition)

Electa

Emilio Ambasz: Natural Architecture: Artificial Design

Andō, Tadao

Botta, Mario

Mendini, Alessandro

Ambasz, Emilio

Bellini, Mario

Maki, Fumkhiko

Architecture

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