Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1390008 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 220 pages

Synopsis
In the course of history, a number of Italian personalities, objects, and lifestyles have met with admiration and success throughout the world, to such a degree that several of them have actually become a kind of representation of Italy abroad, and often also the mark of an unquestionable prestige. Behind the fame of Italian gastronomy or fashion, behind the regard for Italian fine arts and design, we can find a common, recurring feature. The book examines the complex mosaic of Made in Italy divided into different aspects and themes: * Belvedere: an overview of the cultural and emotional relationship that exists between certain great foreign artists (including Luciano Fabro, Nam June Paik, Anish Kapoor, Joseph Kosuth, Panamarenko, Julian Schnabel, Franz West, Chen Zhen) and Italy. * Memory: a spectacular and historic interpretation of forty years of Italian life divided into four decades. Protagonists of the design and fashion worlds have been chosen for each decade: from Gio Ponti and Roberto Capucci (1951-1961) to Marco Zanuso, Joe Colombo, Emilio Pucci (1961-1971); Enzo Mari and Giorgio Armani (1971-1981), Ettore Sottsass and Gianni Versace (1981-1991).

* Brokenhaus: an original mass of clothes and objects of fashion and design of the last 50 years, including Brionvega TV, Olivetti typewriters and Bialetti coffee-makers. * Taste: another major "Italian-made" reality, gastronomy, is unconventionally interpreted by the designer Gaetano Pesce and by Andrea Pezzi, the famous MTV deejay recently host of a new cousine program on one of the national TV channel. * Allegory: a metaphor of the triumph of "Italian-made" goods to represent the decade 1991-2001, dedicated to all the leading figures in Italian design and fashion today, from Philippe Starck and Vico Magistretti to Gaetano Pesce, from Armani and Gucci to Dolce e Gabbana.