Book presentation
Great atlas of design new edition Rizzoli 2019
November 28 2019, 6.30pm
The history of design is also a history of culture, in which each everyday item is decoded within the complex and often nonlinear evolution of taste, consumers’ habits and the industrial sector. Enrico Morteo offers a wide overview, taking the reader on a journey from the mid-Nineteenth century to modern day and identifying the trends of tomorrow. Set in both a chronological and geographical framework, the book’s over 200 double thematic pages examine as many topics in a constant dialogue between Europe, the United States and the emerging players in the Far East. 600 objects examined, including product design, home and office furniture and accessories, car design, technological design, as well as foodstuffs, packaging and clothes, from the universally iconic to the everyday. For design buffs, forreaders of the previous edition now out of stock.
Enrico Morteo, architect, critic and historian of design and architecture, has taught Theory and history of design at IUAV in Venice, contributed to major international design journals and magazines as well as authored radio and television shows. He was a member of the Turin 2008 World Design Capital Scientific Committee, curating the exhibitions Olivetti: una bella società (Promotrice delle Belle Arti,Torino, 2008) and Roberto Sambonet: designer, grafico, artista (Palazzo Madama, Torino, 2008). In the same year he published with Electa Grande Atlante del Design. He is the curator of the Historical collection of Compasso d’Oro for Fondazione Adi. His most recent published work includes the very first complete monograph on Mario Bellini (Phaidon, London 2015).
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