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A chair by designer Michele de Lucchi, made in 1983. Italy has produced some of the greatest furniture designers in the world, such as Achille Castiglioni, Gio Ponti, and Ettore Sottsass. Italian interior design in the 1900s was particularly well-known and grew to the heights of class and sophistication.
In Italian design, the Radical period took place in the late 1960s, with a shift in style among the avant-garde.Probably the most notable result of this avant-garde period is the installation called "Superarchitettura", made in Pistoia in 1966.
1950s – The Italian economic miracle being in full-swing, new skyscrapers such as the creative Torre Velasca in Italy's fashion, banking and design capital was built. This 26-floor tower was a pioneer in the usage of reinforced concrete. [2]
Zanotta is an Italian furniture company particularly known for the iconic pieces of Italian design it produced in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. These include the "Sacco" bean bag chair and "Blow", the first mass-produced inflatable chair. The company was founded in 1954 and has its main plant in Nova Milanese.
It was founded in 1965 in Turin as an avant-garde experimental collective of architects, designers, poets and artists. Its founders were Franco Audrito, Roberta Garosci, Enzo Bertone, Paolo Morello, and Paolo Rondelli. [1] Studio 65 played an essential role in the Radical movement in Italian design in the 1960-70s.
She mediated between creativity of the designers and the needs of the technical project achievability – all while still creating her own designs. [10] Ferrieri married Giulio Castelli and the couple led the way in Italian modern design with Kartell throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s. [13]
Arte Povera (Italian: [ˈarte ˈpɔːvera]; literally "poor art") was an art movement that took place between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s in major cities throughout Italy and above all in Turin. Other cities where the movement was also important are Milan, Rome, Genoa, Venice, Naples and Bologna.
Adolfo Natalini (10 May 1941 – 23 January 2020) was an Italian architect. [1] ... He was one of the pioneers of the radical architettura movement of the 1960s and 70s.