The World in A Room: When Objects Have the Names of Places

The World in A Room: When Objects Have the Names of Places

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Book Description
Sofas with the names of cities. Chairs with the names of countries. Lamps with the names of islands. Tables that recall architectural styles. Household appliances that allude to morphological land elements. The Italian design objects gathered together in this book give new shape to the places and forms of the Earth, representing them within the walls of the home, bringing the four corners of the earth into the confines of the domestic living room and kitchen. The world comes home via Aldo Rossi's Elba cabinet, Massimo Morozzi's Babel bookcase, Mario Cananzi's Tatlin sofa, Nanda Vigo's Manhattan lamp, Gianfranco Frattini's Kyoto coffee table, Ettore Sottsass's Boston cocktail shaker and Casablanca shelving unit, Gaetano Pesce's Broadway chair, and Angelo Mangiarotti's Lesbo lamp. As a family, these design objects implement a reversal and a balance of scale between large and small, internal and external, function and representation. Through a precise strategy of naming, they dispose the world to fit in a room, without, magically, in anyway diminishing it.

Essay by Silvana Annicchiarico.
Foreword by Pippo Ciorra.

Paperback, 6 x 6 in., 108 pages, 55 color &, 31 b/w illustrations

The World in A Room: When Objects Have the Names of Places,Silvana Annicchiarico,Charta,8881584166,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Design - Furniture,Design - General,Furniture,Interior Design - General

Book Contents:

1. Thomas and Tatian: The Relationship Between the Gospel of Thomas and the Diatessaron (Academia Biblica, 5)
2. Treasury of Byzantine Ornament : 255 Motifs from St. Mark's and Ravenna (Pictorial Archive Series)
3. Woordenboek Van Het Middeleeuws Latijn Van De Noordelijke Nederlanden: Fasc - 1-7
4. A Bibliography of the Finds in the Desert of Judah, 1970-95 (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Vol 19)
5. Agyptisches Kulturgut Im Phonikischen Und Punischen Sardinien (2 Volume Set: Textteil, Anmerkungen, Indizes Und 188 Tafeln (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance)
6. A Handbook of Patristic Exegesis: The Bible in Ancient Christianity (Bible in Ancient Christianity)
7. Albanian Etymological Dictionary
8. An Ottoman Statesman in War and Peace: Ahmed Resmi Efendi 1700-1783 (The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage : Politics, Society and Economy, Vol 3)
9. Aristotle's Topics (Philosophia Antiqua)
10. Ascetic Hasidism in Jerusalem: The Guardian-Of-The-Faithful Community of Mea Shearim (Studies in Judaism in Modern Times, Vol 10)

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