Crafting Design in Italy: From Post-War to Postmodernism

by Rossi Catharine and Catharine Rossi

Crafting design in Italy is the first book to examine the role that craft played in post-war Italian design, one of the most celebrated design episodes in the twentieth century. Craft was vital to the development of Italian design, and it has been so far overlooked.

This book examines the multiple ways craft shaped Italian design from 1945 to the 1980s in the context of bigger socio-economic, cultural and political change; from post-war...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719089409
• ISBN13: 9780719089404
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.6"