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Contemporary silver: made in Italy
Contemporary silver: made in Italy

Contemporary silver: made in Italy

 

Eva Czernis-Ryl
$55.00 ($49.50 member price)
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ISBN 978 085331 899 6 (085331 899 9)
hard cover, 128 pages, 280 x 220 mm
Over 140 illustrations
Publisher: Powerhouse Publishing
Distributor: New South Books
Published: 2004

An invaluable resource for collectors, consumers and anyone interested in design ?

Contemporary silver: made in Italy is the first book to tell the story of modern Italian silverware of the last three decades. Italy has a long and rich history of decorative precious metalwork which has contributed to its achievements in the twentieth century. However, the preference for styles of the past and the emblematic quality of silver as a material traditionally associated with the elite, hindered technical and stylistic innovation for some time.

Today, Italy leads the world in the highest standards of production and innovative design of contemporary silverware, emerging with great force in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, Italian-made silver entered the global market, with Alessi's extraordinary 'Tea & coffee piazzas' series --- eleven tea and coffee sets designed by leading Italian and international architects -? becoming icons of postmodern design. Highly influential, Italian silverware has played a key role in transforming a somewhat unfashionable material into objects of desire for the contemporary consumer.

Contemporary silver showcases the work of major Italian architects and designers such as Ettore Sottsass Jr, Carlo Scarpa and Alessandro Mendini, Italian design companies such as Alessi and Memphis and leading silversmithing studios. It also features designs and work produced for Italian firms by some of the most acclaimed international designers and architects such as Robert Venturi, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Charles Jencks, Richard Meier and Kazumasa Yamashita.


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