1、housing solutions to address housing shortage issues, and generated factory building schemes as well as city plans.
2、The importance of the periodic selective acclaim is apparent in its impressive juries composed of art critics, leaders in the design fields, distinguished lecturers, and historians.
3、From 1959 to 1965 the Compasso d’Oro competition was co-organized by the Association for Industrial Design (ADI) founded in 1956, and in 1965 ADI assumed full charge of the prestigious affair.
4、Italian Design in the 1990s in Context
5、In the nineties there was a search for new standards beyond modernity as well as a trend in collecting modern furniture from the past.
6、The restrained compositions had completely removed the distractions of the experimental bewilderment of the seventies, examined the ergonomic and organizational factors that had become part of the design concept in the eighties, and maintained the simple grace that had existed in Italian design in all the decades of the second half of the 20th century.
7、Domestic interiors were part of the hygienic tranquility evident in all design, perhaps as a counterbalance to the high-tech, global-minded, frenzied workweek.
8、Consequently a country’s borders no longer necessarily defined what was occurring on the drawing boards or monitor screens found within its cities.
9、The rippling screen makes an obvious reference to the American designers Charles and Ray Eames’ molded plywood folding screen, and even the whimsical coat hanger in the foreground of the photograph refers to the Eames’ “Hang-it-All.”
10、Unifying back, legs, and seat in one structural construction
11、A new knowledge of plastics permitted more curves, angled forms, hard corners, special textures and a range of colors.
12、The legs are formed by bending back slices of the seat of the chair.
13、Admiration of past talent.