Now an undisputed symbol of Italian design, the 500 boasts a long but still relevant history. Part of this history began in the 1950s, at the height of the economic boom, when Dante Giacosa (Rome, 1905 - Turin, 1996), an engineer, designer and at the...
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"I like concept design, that which is so clear that you may not even draw it. Many of my designs I have conveyed over the phone." If it is true that "good design lasts a hundred years," Vico Magistretti's Nathalie bed , in production since 1978, can ...
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"In those years then it became very clear that continuing to design furniture, objects and similar homely decorations was not the solution to the problems of living or even to those of life, and much less did it serve to save one's soul..." (Adolfo N...
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