Clino Trini Castelli: Design Primario

Abstract

Clino Trini Castelli's interview, published in the book New Thinking in Design: Conversations on Theory and Practice edited in 1996 by C. Thomas Mitchell, is the subject of the second rereading of this issue. The text collects the experience of Clino Trini Castelli who describes the main steps of his career as a designer and in particular his path towards the definition of Primary Design. A path that originates in the 70s from a culture of design that began to recover attention to all those that are the immaterial elements of the environment, that is the soft structures, represented by the colour, the finishes, the decorations, the microclimate, everything that jumble of sensory experiences which, however, today actually constitute the true experience of man in the artificial environment. Primary design, therefore, represents a central theme with respect to the cultural relationship of materials and design in Italy to which this issue of the magazine is dedicated.