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Lot 141 CRAFTING POSTMODERNISM:
Precious metalwork by Alessi and Cleto Munari
The 1980s inaugurated a new chapter in product design, as independent craft-based manufacturers, primarily Italian, sought to encourage a new generation of Postmodernist taste-makers to apply their aesthetic rigour to luxury domestic or personal products. Pioneered by companies such as Alessi and Cleto Munari, who offered stylistic liberty and precision manufacture to internationally-renowned designers and architects, the personality and marketing of the designed object was to be changed forever.
Precious metalwork by Alessi and Cleto Munari
The 1980s inaugurated a new chapter in product design, as independent craft-based manufacturers, primarily Italian, sought to encourage a new generation of Postmodernist taste-makers to apply their aesthetic rigour to luxury domestic or personal products. Pioneered by companies such as Alessi and Cleto Munari, who offered stylistic liberty and precision manufacture to internationally-renowned designers and architects, the personality and marketing of the designed object was to be changed forever.
KAZUMASA YAMASHITA (b.1937)
PIAZZA TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE, DESIGNED 1984-1985
Closed3 May 2012
Price Realised
GBP 5,250