Italian Bel Design

イタリアン・ベル・デザイン / 1950s–1970s / Style / Postwar Industrial Design

Postwar Italy's golden age of industrial products, where industry and designers added feeling and sculptural presence to functionalism — Castiglioni's lamps and Olivetti's machines exported products as culture.

Sculptural products / Bold color and wit / Alliances of firms and designers / Material experiment

Italian Bel Design — カスティリオーニ アルコ・ランプ 1962（CC BY-SA 3.0 IT）Italian Bel Design — ソットサス オリベッティ・バレンタイン（CC BY-SA 4.0）
カスティリオーニ アルコ・ランプ 1962（CC BY-SA 3.0 IT） ／ ソットサス オリベッティ・バレンタイン（CC BY-SA 4.0）

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material
Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution
Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study
Achille Castiglioni / Ettore Sottsass / the Compasso d'Oro

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