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
Kartell — A museum for a dynamic archive
By Elisa Storace
“The Museum is the company’s soul, its repository of experience and wealth. The Museum is Kartell, what it has been, and what it can be. They may be able to copy a chair or a table, but no one will ever be able to take over the history we’ve created.” This quote from President Claudio Luti clearly conveys how valuable the Museum is to Kartell.
Established in 1999 on the occasion of the company’s 50th anniversary, the Kartell Museum operates as a bridge between the company, its values and history, and the world of culture.
The exhibition hall is one of the most fascinating places in the facility, and it represents an essential part of Kartell’s history, which has always, and long before the Museum was born, complemented its production activities with cultural activities.
Credits:
All images courtesy Kartell
