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Tecno : a discreetly technical elegance / by Giampiero Bosoni ; [editor, Anna Albano].

Author
Bosoni, Giampiero
Published
Milano : Skira, 2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
335 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Additional Creators
Albano, Anna

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: A Discreetly Technical Elegance -- The uniting theme of the Tecno project / Giampiero Bosoni -- Executive Quality through Art, Artisanry and Technique -- The origins: ABV Arredamenti Borsani Varedo circa 1923 / Maurizio Romano -- 1953: the Tecno Project for Four Hands / Giampiero Bosoni -- 1954: Technics, Engine of Innovation -- The new Tecno collection at the 10th Triennale / Giampiero Bosoni -- Ethics and Aesthetics at the Origin of Italian Design -- Encounters: De Carli, Mango, Magistretti, Madini and Sala / Giampiero Bosoni -- Osvaldo Borsani's Design Concept -- The evolution of Tecno design through the sixties / Giampiero Bosoni -- Eugenio Gerli: the Likeminded Designer / Giampiero Bosoni -- Tecno Sells Tecno / Giampiero Bosoni -- Enrico Mattei and the ENI Offices -- The beginning of the "major projects" / Giampiero Bosoni -- The Sixties -- New Forms for Industrial Planning -- Communicating the Tecno Project / Giampiero Bosoni -- The Seventies -- Centro Progetti Tecno: the Baton is Passed -- The Centro Progetti Tecno / Giampiero Bosoni -- Osvaldo Borsani, Eugenio Gerli / Riyadh Dome -- Angelo Cortesi/G.P.I., Marco Fantoni, Gianfranco Facchetti, Umberto Orsoni/G14 Coordinated Image for Alitalia Worldwide Agencies -- Herbert Neuman Associates, Lecture Hall at Yale University / Glen Gregg -- The Eighties -- From High Tech to the Return of the Classic -- Richard Rogers Partnership, Ove Arup & Partners -- Lloyd's, The World's Leading Insurance Market -- The ABV Collection -- Returning to art with Alviani, Fabbri, Man Ray, Mo, Morellet, Munari, Pomodoro, Ponti, Steele, Veronesi / Giampiero Bosoni -- Preface. Art and project / Giulio Carlo Argan -- The Nineties -- In Search of a New Identity -- Foster Associates Stansted Airport -- Michel Bourquillon, Jean van -- Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Guy Maes European Parliament -- Rafael Moneo Atocha Station -- Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura El Prat International Airport -- Jean-Michel Wilmotte Interior Design for the Grand Louvre -- Jean-Marie Duthilleul, AREP, SNCF Agences des Gares SNCF High-Speed Rail Station -- Norman Foster and Partners Carre d'Art -- Bibliotheque Publique d'lnformation Centre Georges Pompidou / Jean-Francois Bodin -- Schiphol Airport / Benthem Crouwel -- The New Millennium -- Meeting the Challenges of the Global Market -- Norman Foster and Partners Great Court at the British Museum -- Jean Nouvel -- Library in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia -- Jean Nouvel -- Agbar Tower.
Summary
Writing the history of Tecno, a company founded in 1953 by the Borsani brothers, does not mean just investigating the evolution of a significant player in the industrial production of furniture, but also tracing out a fundamental chapter in interior design at a global level.
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ISBN
9788857209845 (hbk.)
8857209849 (hbk.)
Note
Publ. on the occasion of the exhibition L'eleganza discreta della tecnica, held at Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy, Apr. 12-May 8, 2011.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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