Superstudio: Life Without Objects
First edition of this scholarly study of the influential Florentine avant-garde architectural collective Superstudio, a driving force in the Radical architecture and design movement of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Published by Skira in 2003 to coincide with an exhibition held at the Design Museum, London, and at Pratt and The Artist’s Space in New York. With historical essays by Peter Lang and William Menking, along with contributions from three Superstudio principals: Adolfo Natalini, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, and Piero Frassinelli. 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers, 231 pages, lavishly illustrated with the sleek imagery—at once dystopian and seductive--produced by the group for its various experimental projects that mocked, critiqued and challenged consumer culture, capitalism, and modernist orthodoxy. Gentle bumping to extremities.
First edition of this scholarly study of the influential Florentine avant-garde architectural collective Superstudio, a driving force in the Radical architecture and design movement of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Published by Skira in 2003 to coincide with an exhibition held at the Design Museum, London, and at Pratt and The Artist’s Space in New York. With historical essays by Peter Lang and William Menking, along with contributions from three Superstudio principals: Adolfo Natalini, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, and Piero Frassinelli. 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers, 231 pages, lavishly illustrated with the sleek imagery—at once dystopian and seductive--produced by the group for its various experimental projects that mocked, critiqued and challenged consumer culture, capitalism, and modernist orthodoxy. Gentle bumping to extremities.
First edition of this scholarly study of the influential Florentine avant-garde architectural collective Superstudio, a driving force in the Radical architecture and design movement of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Published by Skira in 2003 to coincide with an exhibition held at the Design Museum, London, and at Pratt and The Artist’s Space in New York. With historical essays by Peter Lang and William Menking, along with contributions from three Superstudio principals: Adolfo Natalini, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, and Piero Frassinelli. 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers, 231 pages, lavishly illustrated with the sleek imagery—at once dystopian and seductive--produced by the group for its various experimental projects that mocked, critiqued and challenged consumer culture, capitalism, and modernist orthodoxy. Gentle bumping to extremities.
