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
Ettore Sottsass — “The more pencils on the table, the greater his joy and inspiration”
By Michele De Lucchi
Among the many memories that come to mind when I think of my early years in Milan there is certainly Ettore, drawing. In my studio room, where I sometimes spend the night, I keep some objects that I like to keep close by. They are photographs of my children, a silver gravy boat designed by Andrea [ed. Branzi] for Memphis, objects and memories from the old days, and a chest of drawers full of drawings. Here I recently found a pad of really nice paper that Barbara [ed. Radice] gave me. I’d almost forgotten about it. There is just one drawing, and in that drawing there is Ettore.
We used to show each other the drawings we did, and when we came back from vacation, we would call each other to see the summer drawings. He would show me the ones he had done in Filicudi, and I would show him the ones from Angera.
Credits:
- All images Michele De Lucchi Archive
