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
Gae Aulenti — The Archive and its double
By Nina Artioli and Nina Bassoli
“Archive: a word I have wondered about a lot in recent years. A dusty filing cabinet? A collection of materials to be treasured and displayed on special occasions? A collection of documents describing projects as objectively as possible? Working on Gae Aulenti’s Archive immediately taught me that a single definition was not that simple. On one hand, of course, there is a vast collection of different kinds of documents, mainly on paper, but on the other, the weight of a second, not immediately definable component emerges clearly: books, lamps, design prototypes, works, objects-which, regardless of their origin and their more or less direct link with the projects, are bearers of an added value that has yet to be discovered.”
Nina Artioli
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Photo Alessandro Saletta, DSL Studio, © Triennale Milano
