P. Ferrari - Achille Castiglioni - 1985

ACHILLE CASTIGLIONI
Edited by Paolo Ferrari
Introduction by Vittorio Gregotti

Important monographic volume published on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to Achille Castiglioni, for which the following firms have joined together in the consortium “Mostra itinerante Achille Castiglioni”: Abet Laminati, Alessi, BBB Bonacina, Brion Vega, Danese, Driade, Flos, Ideal Standard, Kartell, Marcatré, Zanotta.

One of the most significant experiences of contemporary design is revisited with the perspective of a professional biography. Achille Castiglioni’s activity spans about the last five decades: thus, in the introduction, Vittorio Gregotti proposes a rereading by relating it to the cultural climates of project design from around 1940 to 1980.
What is traced in Paolo Ferrari’s text is instead a precise profile focused mainly on Castiglioni’s design model, obtained by gathering a vast anthology of his industrial design realizations. There we find the “minimal form” expressed by objects curved around their essence; with “redesign” we face processes of formal valorization; with the “readymade” the designer’s curiosity manifests itself through producing something new from what already exists.
With ample iconography, each chapter signals a professional quality and a formal choice accompanied by descriptions of exhibition projects: another crucial node in Castiglioni’s design approach, as demonstrated by the Vienna exhibition, which presents itself as the self-representation of a design career returned as a grand game.

Ferrari P.; Achille Castiglioni. Paperback, 22 x 24 cm, 238 pages, French language; Milan, Electa International/Centre Georges Pompidou, 1985.

The volume is in generally very good condition. Clean cover with slight superficial marks. Paperback well bound. Interior pages clean with no underlining or creases. A very good collectible copy.

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Keywords: Gio Ponti, Osvaldo Borsani, Archimede Seguso, Joe Colombo, Ettore Sottsass, Le Corbusier, Piero Fornasetti, Ico Parisi, Sergio Mazza, Carlo Scarpa, Vico Magistretti, Achille Castiglioni, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Gae Aulenti, Marco Zanuso, Richard Neutra, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Ignazio Gardella, Luigi Moretti, Adalberto Libera, Mario Ridolfi, Ludovico Quaroni, Carlo Mollino, Gabriele Mucchi, Franco Albini, Gianluigi Banfi, Ludovico Belgiojoso, Pericle Fazzini, Ugo La Pietra, Alberto Rosselli, Roberto Menghi, Mario Ceroli, Pietro Derossi, Gianfranco Frattini, Vittorio Gregotti, Umberto Riva, Gino Valle, Virgilio Vercelloni, Gualtiero Galmanini, Alberto Sartoris, Giuseppe Terragni, Luigi Figini, Gino Pollini, Franco Bertoni, Enrico Peressutti, Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Bruno Zevi, Tomaso Buzzi, Gustavo Pulitzer Finali, Piero Portaluppi, Giovan Battista Milani, Mario Asnago, Claudio Vender, Ettore Smeriglio, Mario De Renzi, Adolfo Natalini, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Giorgio Birelli, Carlo Aymonino, Aldo Rossi, Giuseppe Samonà, Michele Valori, Italo Rota, Guido Canella, Luigi Cosenza, Vincenzo Monaco, Riccardo Dalisi, Ettore Spalletti, Emilio Isgrò, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Giovanni Anselmo, Piero Gilardi, Paola Pivi, Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Matteo Thun, Aldo Cibic, Stefano Giovannoni, Guido Venturi, Sergio Cammilli, Luigi Massoni, Carlo De Carli, Vittorio Introini, Mario Bellini, Gaetano Pesce, Alessandro Guerriero, Roberto Pamio, Cini Boeri, Fabrizio Cocchia, Giancarlo Iliprandi, Enzo Mari, Bruno Munari, Enzo Frateili, Ugo Marano, Giotto Stoppino, Virgilio Ferrari, Luciano Baldessari.