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    Dino Gavina

    Italian designer, entrepreneur and publisher

    Dino Gavina (born November 7, 1922, San Giovanni in Persiceto–died April 6, 2007, Bologna) was an Italian designer, entrepreneur, and publisher. He began his career in the 1940s working on stage sets. He is the founder of the companies Gavina SpA, FLOS, and Simon.

    Visual arts were a great passion for Gavina, a passion that was formed at the La Soffitta theater in Bologna. In the 1950s, Gavina met Lucio Fontana, who insisted on taking him to Milan while preparing the X Triennale di Milano (Milan Triennial) (1954). While in Milan, Fontana introduced Gavina to several prominent architects of the time, including Carlo De Carli, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Carlo Molino, Enzo Mari, and Carlo Scarpa. But it was with Lucio Fontana that Dino Gavina started a lively collaboration; in fact, it was Fontana who directed Gavina toward industrial design. In 1960, Dino Gavina founded Gavina SpA, the company that would eventually manuf

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    March 12, 2013
    by DJML

    Designated: Esprit Showrooms by Sottsass Associati

    In the second half of the 1980s, Memphis Group kingpin/post-modern genius Ettore Sottsass designed several flagship showrooms for ultra-hip activewear brand Esprit, under the auspices of his own studio, Sottsass Associati.

    I recently came across an overview of the 4 showrooms (3 in Germany, one in Melbourne) in a publication called “International Contract Design Volume 1″, a showcase of outlandish, super-conceptual interiors from 1988. Each is a perfectly restrained riot of intersecting surfaces, matching bizarrely luxurious textures (marble, burl, polished chrome) with extreme color pops and his signature graphic laminates.

    Though the images are a bit washed-out, this is the best collection I’ve yet come across of Sottsass Associati’s commercial works, so I’m happy to share them here. What I love most is the designer’s ability to keep the forms from flying

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    For your eyes only: Ettore Sottsass

    In 1973, Lella and Massimo Vignelli contacted a group of designers to man sunglass design proposals for a new “Designer’s Line” for American Optical. We have some correspondence between the Vignellis and the designers, as well as sketches and prototypes of the various ideas for the sunglasses. The planerat arbete was delayed by a company reorganization at American Optical, but we aren’t sure if any of these designs were actually manufactured. 

    The designers included were: Ettore Sottsass, Marc Held, Hans Hollbein, Cini Boeri, Pentagram, bekräftelse Tallon, Gae Aulenti, Achille Castiglioni, Marco Zanusco, and Nick Roericht. 

    Today we are featuring the proposed designs by the Ettore Sottsass. Are these the exact same shades Sottsass is sporting in this famous photo by Bruno Gecchelin from 1974?  https://www.curbed.com/2017/7/21/16008340/ettore-sottsass-exhibition-alexandra-lange

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