Ettore Sottsass by Jan Burney (Paperback, 1994)

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Title: Design Heroes – Ettore Sottsass (Design Heroes S.) Item Condition: used item in a good condition. Author: Jan Burney ISBN 10: 0586088830. Will be clean, not soiled or stained. Books will be free of page markings.

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In an increasingly design-conscious age, this series provides succinct and elegant introductions to the work of a varied roster of leading 20th century designers, graphic designers and architect/designers. This series examines critically and readably the visual forms and visual values that constitute the landmarks on our cultural map of the last 100 years. This book looks at the work of Ettore Sottsass who encapsulates the glamourous Italian achievement in design since World War II. Trained as an architect, he became famous as Olivetti's house designer, creating their legendary typewriter in the 1950s, and composing a comprehensive, indivisible office design strategy that brought us the co-ordinated office look so pervasive today. In 1980, he gave up orthodox modern corporate design to launch the avant-garde Memphis group, whose post-modernist fantasy furniture in primary colours and harsh shapes acquired worldwide notoriety. In this book, Jan Burney traces the paradoxical career of a man nurtured by Italian business' reverence for design who rejected the system that forged him, in order to make utopian, impractical design reality.

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PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780586088838
eBay Product ID (ePID)88186301

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Publication Year1994
Book TitleEttore Sottsass
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorJan Burney
Book SeriesDesign Heroes S.
FormatPaperback

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Item Height197 mm
Item Weight259 g
Item Width130 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJan Burney

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