Goethe / Grcic: Quotidian Objects

by Ludovico Pratesi and Konstantin Grcic

Up-and-coming designer Konstantin Grcic works with everyday objects--everyday objects that just happen to have belonged to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. These apparently banal objects--which lost their importance and were forgotten after Goethe's death over 150 years ago--are now reinterpreted by Grcic, the artist whom Achille Castiglioni considers his ''spiritual heir.'' Among the objects is a pair of the great writer's boots, one of his belts, several...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8881583100
• ISBN13: 9788881583102
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Charta
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.3"