
Luca Meda
Architecture, Design, Drawings
- Edited by Nicola Braghieri, Sabina Carboni, Serena Maffioletti
- Binding Hardcover
- Size 24,5 x 28,5 cm
- Pages 352
- Illustrations 400
- Language Italian, English
- Year 2021
- ISBN 9788836645626
- Price € 34,00 € 32,30
Luca Meda was a leading name in industrial design and Italian architecture between the 1960s and 1990s. By mixing vibrant objects with melancholy architecture, domestic landscapes with urban interiors, he was able to leap over the barriers between art, industrial design and architecture. A wise designer and an inventor-artist, he managed to prolifically intertwine the world of industrial production with the world of figurative art. His designs sublimely illustrate the close bond that the corporate culture has formed with the inventive force of its craftsmen, its architects, its artists.
This volume is the first monographic publication dedicated to him. It offers, for the first time, in fact, a critical analysis that delves into all the various aspects of his work, an accurate biography and a complete annotated catalogue of his works.
Contents
A Light Gaze, a Deft Hand. The Small Architectures of Luca Meda
Alberto Ferlenga
Memories
Sofia Meda
The City and Everyday Objects
Serena Maffioletti
Luca Meda: Biography of a Tireless Draughtsman
Nicola Braghieri
Architecture in the Years of “Historical Consciousness”: Projects by Luca Meda with Giorgio Grassi, Gianugo Polesello and Aldo Rossi
Beatrice Lampariello
Luca Meda and the Technological Object
Rosa Chiesa
Little Appliances
Luca Meda and Furniture Design: Systemic Order, Archetypal Models and Forms Evocative of Architecture in Interiors
Giampiero Bosoni and Chiara Lecce
Furniture and Living Spaces
Luca Meda Exhibition Designer
Dario Scodeller
Setting-up and Graphic Design
Art Direction According to Luca Meda
Mario Piazza
Architectures of the 1980s and 1990s (1976–1991). Projects of Invention
Nicola Braghieri
Interview with Luca Meda
edited by Clara Mantica
Interviews with
edited by Andrea Balossi Restelli and Rosa Chiesa
Diego Peverelli
Richard Sapper
Carlo Molteni
Peter Hefti
Laura Maifreni
Eliana Gerotto
Mario Carrieri
Felix Humm
Nicola Gallizia
Bruno Longoni
Romano Barchi
Filippo Zagni
Biographies
Products Catalogue
edited by Sabina Carboni
Radiomarelli
Girmi
Molteni&C
Dada
UniFor
Longoni
Arflex
Appendix
The Luca Meda Archives: Drawing and the Love of Small Things
Sabina Carboni
Writings on Luca Meda
edited by Sabina Carboni
Authors’ Biographies
Redazione, Barche, 06/06/2022
L'uomo azienda. The Man-Company
Matteo Vercelloni, Interni, 01/04/2022
Luca Meda. Architecture, Design, Drawings
Elisa Massoni, internimagazine.it, 23/03/2022
Luca Meda: il design è un mestiere
Designer. Catalogue Raisonné 1962-2020
Design. Catalogue Raisonné 1936-1960
Selected Works 1938-1973
Archi-designer
Creativity, Form and Function
Catalogue Raisonné
Catalogo ragionato dell'archivio 1922-1978
CSAC / Università di Parma