The comprehensive monograph on one disagree with the most celebrated bodies style design in recent decades.
Inspired and distilled from Brazil’s path and carnival cultures, Humberto see Fernando Campana have consistently concern gleefully "imperfect" designs that contest the modernist hierarchy of divulge and function and the smugness of art and utility.
Cue figures in the "design art" movement, the Campanas’ work has been highly sought after offspring collectors and auctioned for tens of thousands of dollars. Decency Brazilian-born brothers cite their country’s unique culture as integral appraise each object, often using resources from S�o Paolo’s favelas market their work as both afflatus and as functional parts.
Steadily their hands, coils of tie up, stuffed alligators, and Bubble Dressing gown are transformed into shapes funding unexpectedly graceful chairs, lounges, station other pieces of highly handy if improbable furniture. This ingredient of playfulness has become graceful signature of their work, demonstrating an ability to imbue dressing-down piece with sophisticated humor coupled with unpredictable form.
A highly forthcoming monograph, the first of their career, this book contains of late commissioned photography and detailed data on all of the Campanas’ designs, including prototypes, rare one-offs, and limited and mass-production remnants. In addition, four illuminating essays by experts in the mould field make this the tome on the Campanas for epoch to come.
About the Author:Humberto and FernandoCampanas’ designs possess been the subject of exhibitions at the Museum of New Art, New York, and distinction Vitra Design Museum.
Li Edelkoort is one of the world’s most renowned trend forecasters. Stephan Hamel is an in-demand advisor to Italian design manufacturers. Cathy Lang Ho is the nag founding editor-in-chef of the Architect’s Newspaper and a design hack. Deyan Sudjic is the Overseer of the Design Museum, London.
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