Custom Built: The Concept of Unique in Italian Design

by Silvana Annicchiarico and Gio Ponti

What is it that makes Italian design so attractive? Maybe the answer is to be found in "Custom Built," a critically reflective look at unique and handcrafted objects by succeeding generations of Italian designers. Beginning in the 1930s and moving towards the present, this volume peers into the archeology of twentieth-century Italian design, uncovering unique pieces created before the spread of industrial furniture culture and the mass-produced object,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8881584336
• ISBN13: 9788881584338
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Charta
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 6.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher