Special edition catalog accompanying an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art New York from May 25-August 27, 1995. Organized and with text by MoMA curator Paola Antonelli. Edited by Mel Byers and with book design by Eric Baker Design Associates. 4to (9” x 12”), thick cardboard boards with a unique polyurethane resin casting (front and rear) designed and executed by Gaetano Pesce and Pesce Ltd. 128 pages, color and b/w illustrations throughout. Chapters include Plastics, Ceramics, Fibers and Composites, Rubber and Foam, Glass, Wood, and Metals. Features work by Gaetano Pesce, Frank Gehry, Ali Tayar, Philippe Starck, James Carpenter, Achille Castiglioni, Schott Laboratory Systems, Karim Rashid, Masayuki Kurokawa, Marc Sadler, Ross Lovegrove, Renzo Piano, Ron Arad, Nike Product Design, Wayne Spence, Stefan Lindfors, Richard Sapper, Alberto Meda, Donald Chadwick, Shozo Toyahisa, Harry Allen, Antonio Citterio, Laura Handler, Michael Burrows, and many others. Up there with MoMA’s 1968 The Machine As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age catalog as a cynosure of content, materiality, and visual character. As new, still in the original shrink wrap.
Special edition catalog accompanying an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art New York from May 25-August 27, 1995. Organized and with text by MoMA curator Paola Antonelli. Edited by Mel Byers and with book design by Eric Baker Design Associates. 4to (9” x 12”), thick cardboard boards with a unique polyurethane resin casting (front and rear) designed and executed by Gaetano Pesce and Pesce Ltd. 128 pages, color and b/w illustrations throughout. Chapters include Plastics, Ceramics, Fibers and Composites, Rubber and Foam, Glass, Wood, and Metals. Features work by Gaetano Pesce, Frank Gehry, Ali Tayar, Philippe Starck, James Carpenter, Achille Castiglioni, Schott Laboratory Systems, Karim Rashid, Masayuki Kurokawa, Marc Sadler, Ross Lovegrove, Renzo Piano, Ron Arad, Nike Product Design, Wayne Spence, Stefan Lindfors, Richard Sapper, Alberto Meda, Donald Chadwick, Shozo Toyahisa, Harry Allen, Antonio Citterio, Laura Handler, Michael Burrows, and many others. Up there with MoMA’s 1968 The Machine As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age catalog as a cynosure of content, materiality, and visual character. As new, still in the original shrink wrap.
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