Made in Cassina
By: edited by Giampiero Bosoni ; [translations Catherine Bolton....[et. al.].
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Skira; Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International; Brand: Skira; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milan; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9788861306448
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 356-358).

Translated from the Italian.
Table of contents: title: The Cassina approach to design: a pathway of 'meetings' and 'visions' for the future / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Cassina: a design legend / Bernhard E. Bürdek; title: A classic and original Italian approach / Penny Sparke; title: Narrative models: design and ideology / Arturo Carlo Quintavalle; title: Between solid and changeable material / Clino Trini Castelli; title: [I]. I Maestri / Filippo Alison : I Maestri: the ideology of reconstruction ; Le Corbusier: the coldness of poetic intelligence ; Gerrit Thomas Rietveld 'abstract-real sculptures for our future interiors' ; Charles Rennie Mackintosh: values out of their time ; Erik Gunnar Asplund: a classicism from the north ; Frank Lloyd Wright: the organic vision of living ; Charlotte Perriand: Guardian of a human type of rationalism ; Franco Albini: 'Situations balanced dangerously between rigour and freedom' / Gio Ponti; title: [II] I contemporanaei : The origins from the artisan workshop to the industrial process / Barbara Lehmann; title: Transatlantic furnishings: Cassina's work for ships: Ponti, Pulitzer and Zoncada / Paolo Piccione; title: Franco Albini: on 'Chaste succinctness' / Marco Albini; title: Gio Ponti: or Gio Ponti and "Those great guys, the "Figli di Amedeo Cassina" from Meda, a particularly well-known firm among the chair makers in our local Brianza area' / Marco Romanelli; title: Carlo de Carli: organic figuration and the human dimension / Gianni Ottolini; title: Cassina: from Meda in Italy to Meda in the world / Aldo Bonomi; title: Ico Parisi: being an architect as a household cat / Flaminio Gualdoni; title: Alberto Rosselli: in search of an assembly-line product / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Gianfranco Frattini: the 'warm humanity' of Italian Renaissance / Francesco Scullica; title: Afra and Tobia Scarpa: a conversation with Tobia Scarpa / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Vico Magistretti: the king and queen / Beppe Finessi; title: Design and culture: the Cassina model / Omar Calabrese; title: Angelo Mangiarotti: organic forms from the complete unification of materials; title: Olli Mannermaa: new technologies for the Finlandese armchair / Giampiero Bosoni; title: A conversation with Mario Bellini / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Bracciodiferro: the reconnoitring workshop / Barbara Lehmann; title: A.R.D.I.T.I.: a new philosophy of use / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Theodore Waddell: the structural 'impossibility' of the tensegrity structure / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Design and art: virtuous interlacements / Marco Meneguzzo; title: A conversation with Paolo Deganello / Giampiero Bosoni; title: A conversation with Gaetano Pesce / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Piero De Martini: rational design in a 'casual' world / Giampiero Bosoni; title: A conversation with Andrea Branzi / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Toshiyuki Kita: informal approaches in the 'forest of modernity' / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Verner Panton: some thoughts on seats and sitting; title: Massimo Morozzi: the variable of the wrong-footing game / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Sottsass Associati: on the Diwan-I-Kahs and pretty girls / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Achille Castiglioni: discarding the norm; title: For a new strategic vision of furniture design / Andrea Branzi; title: A conversation with Philippe Starck / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Hannes Wettstein: purism and fluency / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Patrick Jouin: fro a gravitational space at home / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Rodolfo Dordoni: the austerity of a conceptual approach / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Jehs+Laub: additions and subtractions of volumes / Giampiero Bosoni; title: Jean-Marie Massaud: fluid elegance for harmonious luxury; title: A conversation with Piero Lissoni / Giampiero Bosoni.