First bulletin/manifesto of the short-lived but highly influential Italian Radical Design collective Global Tools, founded by Ettore Sottsass, Andrea Branzi, Franco Raggi, Riccardo Dalisi, Allesandro Mendini and associated architects, designers, and theorists as an experimental “anti-school” for creativity, craft, and post-industrial design practice. Visually striking production throughout, with pegboard grid design and tool iconography emblematic of the movement’s anti-functional aesthetic. Includes documentary group portrait of the collective dated January 12, 1973. 4to (8” x 10.5”), printed stapled wrappers, 24 pages, b/w illustrations. Published in Milan in June, 1974 by Editioni L’uomo d l’arte. Minor rubbing and bumping to extremities, otherwise near fine. A museum-quality example of an exceptionally scarce publication from the brief, utopian interval between the collapse of postwar modernist certainties and the emergence of the postmodern design culture that many of its participants would later help define.
First bulletin/manifesto of the short-lived but highly influential Italian Radical Design collective Global Tools, founded by Ettore Sottsass, Andrea Branzi, Franco Raggi, Riccardo Dalisi, Allesandro Mendini and associated architects, designers, and theorists as an experimental “anti-school” for creativity, craft, and post-industrial design practice. Visually striking production throughout, with pegboard grid design and tool iconography emblematic of the movement’s anti-functional aesthetic. Includes documentary group portrait of the collective dated January 12, 1973. 4to (8” x 10.5”), printed stapled wrappers, 24 pages, b/w illustrations. Published in Milan in June, 1974 by Editioni L’uomo d l’arte. Minor rubbing and bumping to extremities, otherwise near fine. A museum-quality example of an exceptionally scarce publication from the brief, utopian interval between the collapse of postwar modernist certainties and the emergence of the postmodern design culture that many of its participants would later help define.
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