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Humberto and Fernando have been frequent collaborators with Edra creating numerous award-winning designs that include chairs, sofas, tables, cabinets, beds, lighting, and mirrors. All of their work is seemingly underscored by the assembly - nailing, riveting, stitching, knotting, welding, clipping - of individual elements into an overall form.
The phenomenon of Italian design grew out of this widely felt urge to renew everything. [8] After Aurelio Zanotta's death in 1991, the company remained in his family. Since 2002 it has been run by Zanotta's three children, Eleonora, Francesca, and Martino. The Italian furniture company Tecno purchased 80% of Zanotta's shares in 2017.
Much furniture was also relatively grotesque (a French variation of the Italian word grottesco), often creating sculpted odd-looking gargoyles and monsters to make these items seem more amusing. [1] Caryatids became popular at the time, and were made out of marble (the rich people used them as legs to their dining tables).
B&B Italia SpA is an Italian modern furniture company founded in 1966 by Piero Ambrogio Busnelli, who had previously co-founded C&B Italia (with Cesare Cassina). [1] His descendants own and manage the company. In 2021 Piero Lissoni was named Artistic Director of B&B Italia. It is part of Flos B&B Italia Group.
Memphis was born on the evening of December 11, 1980, when Sottsass invited a group of young designers and architects to discuss the future of design. [3] Together, they wanted to change the concept of what design had been focused on, which had been Modernism and aimed to do so by creating and forming a new design collective.
Today Cassina is the exclusive worldwide licensee of the Le Corbusier designs. [ 12 ] The "Cassina I Maestri" collection was widened in 1968 with the acquisition from Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin of reproduction rights to some of the Bauhaus objects and, in 1971, the designs of Gerrit Rietveld , Frank Lloyd Wright , and of Charles Rennie Mackintosh ...
Italian Neoclassical furniture was loosely based on that of Louis XVI styles but was made unique by the usage of exaggeratedly shaped backs and necks which were recessed. [1] Armoires, or armadi made by the Venetians were more geometrically shaped than the Rococo ones, but were usually gilded in gold and silver, and had a few intricate details ...