La Rinascente, Review

Keywords: Digital Archives, Corporate History, La Rinascente, Exhibitions

Abstract

Rinascente Archives (https://archives.rinascente.it). Concept and coordination: Memoria&Progetto under the direction of Maria Canella and Elena Puccinelli. Design and production: AUT+Iperstudio.

lR100. Rinascente Stories of Innovation, exhibition curated by Sandrina Bandera and Maria Canella. Palazzo Reale, Milan (24 May – 24 September 2017).
Concept and design: OMA/ AMO. Research and production: Memoria&Progetto.
Catalogue: edited by Sandrina Bandera and Maria Canella. Milano: SKIRA, 2017. 311 pp. Ill. ISBN 978-88-5723-656-8, € 35.

La Rinascente 100 anni di creatività d’impresa attraverso la grafica, exhibition curated by Mario Piazza and Nicoletta Osanna Cavadini, Centro Culturale di Chiasso m.a.x. museo (20 May – 24 September 2017).
Catalogue: edited by Mario Piazza and Nicoletta Osanna Cavadini. Milano: SKIRA, 2017. 282 pp. Ill. ISBN 978-88-5723-603-2, € 36.

Author Biography

Carlo Vinti, Università di Camerino

He is a researcher in the field of the History of design and visual communication. He is an assistant professor at the Università degli Studi di Camerino (School of Architecture and Design “E. Vittoria”). After earning his PhD at the School of Advanced Studies in Venice (2006), he became an adjunct professor and research fellow at the Università Iuav di Venezia. Since 2009, he has coordinated the project titled Comunicare l’impresa (www.houseorgan.net) with Giorgio Bigatti. He is currently an associate editor for the «AIS/Design. Storia e Ricerche» online journal and member of the editorial board of «Progetto Grafico» magazine.
His publications include: Gli Anni dello Stile Industriale 1948-1965 (Marsilio, 2007), L’impresa del design: lo stile Olivetti (Loccioni 2010), the chapter A Historiography of Italian Design (with Maddalena Dalla Mura) in Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Grafica Italiana dal 1945 a oggi («Artedossier» Giunti, 2016), as well as several essays and articles included in books, catalogues and periodicals. In 2012, with Giorgio Camuffo and Mario Piazza, he co-curated the 5th edition of the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, TDM5: Grafica Italiana, and the exhibition catalogue (Corraini).

Published
2017-12-30
Issue
Vol 5 No 10 (2017): Design Histories Through and From Sources
Section
Reviews

Copyright (c) 2017 Carlo Vinti

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