{"title":"From Italy","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"machines-before-machines-le-macchine-prima-delle-macchine","title":"Machines Before Machines (Le macchine prima delle macchine)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1930s, Bruno Munari drew \"humorous cartoons\" for \u003cem\u003eBertoldo \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eSettebello\u003c\/em\u003e (influential Italian satirical and humor magazines), accompanying them with \"puns and strange little stories\" inspired not only by Saul Steinberg, with whom he collaborated, but also by the American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, known as the inventor of the Rube Goldberg machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book edited by Stefania di Maria, a researcher and scholar of the relationship between art and design, over 40 cartoons published in \u003cem\u003eSettebello\u003c\/em\u003e in the late 1930s and now part of the private collection of Bruno Munari's heirs and grandchildren are collected. In these early experiments Munari played with freedom and later systematized the process; taking up these prototypes he produced a book (\u003cem\u003eMunari’s Machines\u003c\/em\u003e, 1942) which is, reading between the lines, a real design manual. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Corraini Edizioni, 2024\u003cbr\u003eIn Italian and English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, 96 pages, color and b\u0026amp;w images, 11.7 ⨉ 8.3 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 979-1-25-493143-1\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Curated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47832576393470,"sku":null,"price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1681\/2497\/files\/MachinesBeforeMachines_7d4d23c0-c6bc-4c08-92cd-c820c2c7c6bf.jpg?v=1773434833"},{"product_id":"47-fotos-jason-fulford-bruno-munari","title":"47 Fotos by Jason Fulford and Bruno Munari","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e47 Fotos\u003c\/em\u003e inaugurates Corraini Edizioni's new series, \u003cem\u003eI Quaderni di Spazio Munari\u003c\/em\u003e – a collection of unpublished studies that offer fresh perspectives on Bruno Munari's work, starting from research exhibited at Spazio Munari.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished for the exhibition \u003cem\u003eFotochiacchierata\u003c\/em\u003e, curated by photographer Jason Fulford, the volume brings together 47 photos: black-and-white images taken by or for Munari, and Fulford's own color photographs. This flow of side-by-side images captures lightness, irony, and the ever-changing ways of seeing reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFulford, who centers his work on the association of images as a source of new meanings, presents an unexpected photographic portrait of Munari and his vision. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I never met Bruno Munari, but I think of him as a friend. His books blurred the line between work and play, and inspired me. What follows is a conversation between photos—his in black and white, and mine in color.\" —Jason Fulford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Corraini Edizioni, 2024\u003cbr\u003eIn Italian and English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, 104 pages, color and b\u0026amp;w images, 4.7 × 6.3 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 979-1-25-493131-8\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Curated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47832577999102,"sku":null,"price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1681\/2497\/files\/47FotosbyJasonFulfordandBrunoMunari_1ecdcf70-9af4-48d7-bb6b-c446b9b48b32.jpg?v=1773434866"},{"product_id":"cheating-time-bruno-munari-the-archaeologist","title":"Cheating Time. Bruno Munari the Archaeologist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCheating Time. Bruno Munari the Archaeologist \u003c\/em\u003eis a publication originally produced for the homonymous exhibition at the Civic Archaeological Museum of Bologna on the occasion of the centenary of Bruno Munari’s birth in 2007.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInside, the reader will find objects from the 3rd millennium B.C. side by side with \"Fossils of the Year 2000,\" inscriptions in ancient languages and \"Illegible Writings by Unknown Populations,\" quotations by Munari and the great archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe. The research is both historical and fantastical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Bruno Munari's son Alberto Munari explains in the book's introduction, the starting point of this adventure was the visit to an archaeological site in the island of Panarea (Sicily): father and son started to play with History using its own instruments of analysis. \u003cbr\u003eFrom that initial experience emerged the \"Imaginary Museum of the Aeolian Islands,\" \"Fossils of the Year 2000,\" and \"Theoretical Reconstuctions of Imaginary Objects.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An archaeologist found a bone of an unknown antediluvian animal. From that bone he tried to reconstruct the animal. I found bits of unidentifiable odds and ends, and I tried to reconstruct 'the thing' following a random method based on aleatory rules.\"  —Bruno Munari\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesigned by CorrainiStudio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished by Edizioni Corraini in 2007\u003cbr\u003eFirst reprint, 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBilingual, text in Italian and English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, 64 pages, full color offset, 4.75 × 6.7 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-8-87-570113-0\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Curated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47832578883838,"sku":null,"price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1681\/2497\/files\/CheatingTime.BrunoMunaritheArchaeologist.jpg?v=1774031946"}],"url":"https:\/\/draw-down.com\/collections\/from-italy.oembed","provider":"Draw Down","version":"1.0","type":"link"}