Exhibition catalog/monograph accompanying a retrospective devoted to Danese, the influential Milanese design firm founded in 1957 by Bruno Danese and Jacqueline Vodoz. Held at Lausanne’s Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC) in 2005 and published jointly by MUDAC and 5 Continents Editions. Square 8vo (7” x 7”), printed boards, 176 pages, 85 illustrations in color and b/w, text in French and Italian. Checklist at end. Exhibition and catalog curation by Chantal Prod’Hom with graphic and exhibition design by Flavia Cocchi. A visually inventive survey of the company’s production across domestic objects, art editions, graphics, toys, and educational materials, with work by Enzo Mari, Bruno Munari, Achille Castiglioni, Angelo Mangiarotti, Franco Meneguzzo, and others. Printed on multiple colored and neutral paper stocks, its changing materials, chronological divisions, and disciplined typography translate Danese’s own synthesis of formal economy and visual play into book form. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, most noticeably upper right corner; contents pristine. An important and increasingly elusive reference on one of the most rigorous experimental enterprises in postwar Italian design.
Exhibition catalog/monograph accompanying a retrospective devoted to Danese, the influential Milanese design firm founded in 1957 by Bruno Danese and Jacqueline Vodoz. Held at Lausanne’s Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC) in 2005 and published jointly by MUDAC and 5 Continents Editions. Square 8vo (7” x 7”), printed boards, 176 pages, 85 illustrations in color and b/w, text in French and Italian. Checklist at end. Exhibition and catalog curation by Chantal Prod’Hom with graphic and exhibition design by Flavia Cocchi. A visually inventive survey of the company’s production across domestic objects, art editions, graphics, toys, and educational materials, with work by Enzo Mari, Bruno Munari, Achille Castiglioni, Angelo Mangiarotti, Franco Meneguzzo, and others. Printed on multiple colored and neutral paper stocks, its changing materials, chronological divisions, and disciplined typography translate Danese’s own synthesis of formal economy and visual play into book form. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, most noticeably upper right corner; contents pristine. An important and increasingly elusive reference on one of the most rigorous experimental enterprises in postwar Italian design.
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