Bruno Munari - Le Forchette di Munari - 2002

Bruno Munari, Le forchette di Munari, fourth edition 2001, printed by Corraini Mantova in 2,000 copies. The book becomes for Munari a design object with smart and unexpected flashes, Bruno Munari knew how to uncover the unusual in the ordinary. Thus a common household item like the fork can become a hand. In fact, many hands. This book collects some of the drawings of the famous forks ("executed one at a time and always with the right hand"), revisiting the classic Muggiani edition of 1959. Inside are the drawings with the mood of the forks.
Bruno Munari (October 24, 1907 – September 29, 1998) was "one of the greatest figures in art, design and graphics of the 20th century." He was an Italian artist, designer and inventor who contributed in a fundamental way to many fields of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, cinema, industrial design, graphics) in modernism, futurism and concrete art, and in the non-visual arts (literature, poetry) with his research on play, teaching, movement, tactile learning, kinesthetic learning and creativity. On the usefulness of art, Munari once said: "Art should not be separated from life: there should be no beautiful things to look at and bad things to use."