Jewelry by Architects Barbara Radice Rizzoli 87 Cleto Munari Memphis Design Book

by Barbara Radice

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What happens when Richard Meier, Robert Venturi, and Ettore Sottsass are handed precious metal and told to make jewelry? This book. Barbara Radice's landmark Rizzoli volume documents the extraordinary Cleto Munari commission — postmodern architecture rendered in miniature, worn at the wrist and throat. DESCRIPTION: In the mid-1980s, Italian collector and design patron Cleto Munari undertook one of the most intellectually audacious commissions in the history of decorative art: he invited sixteen of the world's most celebrated postmodern architects — among them Richard Meier, Robert Venturi, Oscar Tusquets, Ettore Sottsass, Michael Graves, and Hans Hollein — to design jewelry. Not decorative objects. Not sculptures. Jewelry: rings, necklaces, brooches, bracelets — things meant to be worn on human bodies and to carry meaning at that intimate scale. The results were astonishing, and Barbara Radice — design critic, Sottsass's longtime collaborator, and one of the sharpest writers on postmodern design — documented them in this handsome Rizzoli volume. With 179 illustrations, 107 in full color, and photographs by Oliviero Toscani (the legendary Benetton photographer) among others, the book is as visually compelling as its subject demands. Translated from the Italian Gioielli di Architetti and first published in the United States by Rizzoli International in 1987, it remains the definitive reference on this singular moment in design history. ✦ THE DETAILS Author: Barbara Radice Type:

• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
• Year: 1987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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