SuperDesign: Italian Radical Design 1965-75

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SuperDesign charts the Italian Radicals’ bold experimentation in brand new design from its birth through its continued influence on design these days.

Radical Design was once launched by art, architecture, and design students in Italy within the mid-1960s. What began as a youthful rally against the establishment and a rejection of design norms become a movement that brought together one of the vital most dynamic and avant-garde thinkers and makers around the country. 
 
Through enigmatic, confrontational, and clever furniture and objects—such as the iconic lip-shaped Bocca sofa, or the Cactus coat-rack in green foam—in addition to more public innovations including discotheque interiors and subversive performances, the Radicals projected design’s new era as equal parts Pop Art, play, Surrealism, and futurism. Told through exclusive interviews, unreleased photographs, original drawings and artwork unearthed from personal archives, and newly commissioned photography of rarely seen works, SuperDesign explores this fervent period of design that played out against the era’s social and political turmoil.
 
Featured designers include Archizoom Associati, Lapo Binazzi (UFO), Pietro Derossi (Gruppo Strum), Piero Gilardi, Ugo La Pietra, Gaetano Pesce, Gianni Pettena, Studio65, and Superstudio. The culmination of a decade of collecting and researching original examples of one of the vital most necessary and iconic works of the period, SuperDesign offers a unique new introduction to the legacy of the Italian Radicals.

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