Word: zanuso
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...buildings and exhibits, produced with his wife and partner, Ray Kaiser Eames, made good design American. There is the Dane Arne Jacobsen, whose sleek furniture and tableware for a while convinced the world that all good design must be Danish. There are two Italians (Ettore Sottsass Jr. and Marco Zanuso) and a Finn (Tapio Wirkkala), reflecting the international, eclectic diversity of the decorative arts in our time...
Industrial design, in the Italian manner, has long meant sophisticated elegance. Products like Ettore Sottsass Jr.'s Olivetti Valentine typewriter, Marco Zanuso's Aurora fountain pen or Mario Bellini's Chiara lamp are displayed in modern art museums to exemplify beauty...
...wide variety of useful products has come from the drafting board of Marco Zanuso, including hairdryers, radios and kitchen scales...
...designers to free themselves from their traditional limbo, somewhere between architecture and interior decoration. More and more, design strives to be active: its tutelary gods are no longer Chippendale or the Bauhaus, but Buckminster Fuller, Marcuse and Ronald Laing. The thrust of designers like Ettore Sottsass, Gae Aulenti, Marco Zanuso and the "Archizoom" group is not to decorate the psychic space around us but to extend and question it. This means a critical approach to social patterns, which starts with the language of shape...
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