Driadebook: Twenty-Five Years on Drawing Board Tapa blanda - 1995

Milano: Skira, 1995. Text : English. 208 p.; ill.; 24 x 32,5 cm. 'Driadebook is the chronicle of a journey through the complexity and contradictions of Italian design in a period which witnessed the rapid decline of the First Modernity and the tumultuous rise of a new cultural condition. Focussing on the case study of a company of international standing, this book stands as a interpretation and analysis of over 25 years of design history which commenced in one of the crucial moments in the intellectual debate of the glorious years of 'global contestation'. Launched in 1968, the Driade venture became the centre of a multifarious investigation into some of the dominant themes of domestic living and the home in the light of the rise of the new decorative arts. Analysed in its most characteristic and significant aspects, the Driade concept of the fin de siècle home is re-examined in this organic anthology of essays by various authors. This is no company book, therefore, but rather a… Leer más

Milan: Skira, 1995. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 1st, sm. folio softcover, vg (edgeworn; corners of covers and pages bumped). 207 pp., heavily illustrated with the products and designs of the Driade company, which made the Eames and Bauhaus style of furnishings popularly accessible in the '70s.

Milano: Skira, , 1995. Brossura (wrappers). Molto buono (Very Good). Testi di Fulvio Irace, Giuliana Gramigna, Alessandro Mendini, François Burkhardt, Italo Lupi et al. Numerose illustrazioni a colori e in bianco e nero, di cui molte a piena pagina (opere di De Pas, D'Urbino, Lomazzi, Nanda Vigo, Marco Zanin, Antonia Astori et al.) . 4to (cm 32,5x24,5). pp. 208. Molto buono (Very Good). . 'Driadebook is the chronicle of a journey through the complexity and contradictions of Italian design in a period which witnessed the rapid decline of the First Modernity and the tumultuous rise of a new cultural condition. Focussing on the case study of a company of international standing, this book stands as a interpretation and analysis of over 25 years of design history which commenced in one of the crucial moments in the intellectual debate of the glorious years of 'global contestation'. Launched in 1968, the Driade venture became the centre of a multifarious investigation into some of the dominant… Leer más

Milano: Skira, 1995. Fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book). A history of the first twenty-five years of Driade. 206 pages, illustrated.