The Design Issue
Abstract
The new cycle of ARCHIVIO continues: four thematic issues, each edited by a Guest Editor specialized in the field in order to have an expert eye to open the doors of the archives and show you where to look in these vast worlds.
Following The Fashion Issue, ARCHIVIO N°10 is dedicated to Design and edited by Jasper Morrison—an internationally renowned British designer, and Marco Sammicheli—director of the Museo del Design Italiano at Triennale Milano. Editorial direction is by Daniela Hamaui, while the art direction is by Alessandro Gori.
For our cover and first pages, Morrison assembled an imaginary archive of everyday objects from different places, made at different times, related by character or a shared understanding of what it is to be an object.
ARCHIVIO N°10, offers a mapping of the design archives international landscape at this moment in time and a privileged look at the many international design archives, allowing us to admire their eclecticism and heterogeneity, and dividing them into three sections, “Organizations”, “Brands”, and “Designers & Creatives”.
It also includes a special poster: an (in)complete mapping of the many design archives in Italy. A research by Promemoria Group, ARCHIVIO’s publisher, visually processed by Accurat. The result is a map that is also a small work of art.
Jasper Morrison,“Forget about Time, forget about Place, forget about Type, Material, Value, Quality or Condition, an archive can be anything you want it to be, there are no rules.”
Guest Editor
Glimpse of the Month
FontanaArte — Pietro Chiesa: a virtuoso of ingenuity
By Stefania Ferrari
Photographs, documents, plans, drawings, registers, miniatures of products, objects, and ideas: the Archive of FontanaArte, the historic lighting company founded in 1932 in Milan, has been brought back
to light through a work of recovery, cataloging, and valorization of the materials that made the brand a key player of the Made in Italy excellence all over the world for more than ninety years. There is an initial core of 580 objects, including 67 catalogs, 45 drawings and prints, 18 historical documents, 204 photographs, and 16 large press review binders, chronicling the activities of the great Masters who have accompanied the brand and made it a design icon.
Credits:
- All images courtesy Archivio FontanaArte
