Chart: Radical/Anti Design

Moving on to my third movement, I will be now communicating with you through pictures which as I have previously did by showing you what was going on through the:

Radical/Anti Design Movement

Memphis

○ Founded by Ettore Sottsass in 1981.

○Drew inspiration from Art Deco, Pop Art and 50s kitsch.

○ The Selene chair by Vico Magistretti (1966) was made of reinforced polyester [Fig. 1].

 ○ Within Anti-Design, there was a major preoccupation with space and storage. 

○ They often tried to make their designs collapsible or stackable and easy to store

Miniature Panton Chairs Set of 5

Verner Panton, 1959

Inspired by Pop Art and Pop Culture, 1960 furniture design broke with the purism of modern functionalism. The use of new materials liberated furniture from the constraints of traditional structures and made it possible for designers to play imaginatively with form and color.

Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg’s ice cream sculpture, atop Cologne’s Neumarkt Galerie.

Claes Oldenburg, "French Fries and Ketchup" (1963)

Claes Oldenburg, "Soft Toilet" (1966)

Alessandro Mednini - Radical/Anti Design Designer 

Poltrona di Proust, Alessandro Mednini 

Design: 1978

Production: since 1978

Manufacturer: Studio Alchimia, Milan

Size: 107 x 105 x 94; seat height 35 cms

Material: painted wood, painted upholstery

Alessi Collection by Alessandro Mendini

 Marcel Breuer 

Wassily Chair, Marcel Breuer 

Chair Cesca S32 by Marcel Breuer, 1928 

Studio 65

The Gufram ‘Multiples’ where produced from 1967 to 1976, are icons of Italian radical anti-design-movement, influenced by pop art, conceptual art, illusionism & naturalism.

Capitello by Studio 65

Studio 65 are better known for their red lips Bocca sofa, but I think the Capitello chair is brilliant..it has just the right amount of crazy for me. I took the bottom picture in the modern art museum in Munich last year..the lights are the seriously amazing Pillola lamps by Cesare Casati and Emanuele Ponzio.

Studio 65: Bocca, 1971

Studio 65, Leonardo, sofa, 1969. Collection Vitra Design Museum © Studio 65, photo: Andreas Sütterlin

George Nelson, Marshmallow, Sofa, 1956. Collection Vitra Design Museum © Vitra Design Museum

Guido Drocco and Franco Mello: Cactus, 1972

References: 

Anti Design: Radical Italian Design of the 1960s.

 [ONLINE] Available at: http://arthistory.knoji.com/anti-design-radical-italian-design/. 

[Accessed 09 February 2014].

 Vitra Design Museum Shop | Miniature Bocca . 

[ONLINE] Available at: http://shop.design-museum.de/en/Miniatures/Miniature-Bocca.html.

 [Accessed 09 February 2014].

A Sky filled with Shooting Stars » No one with the least interest in the art of the last 50 years should miss this – Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen at the Whitney..

 [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.askyfilledwithshootingstars.com/wordpress/?p=836. 

 [Accessed 09 February 2014].

Present\Imperfect | Claes Oldenburg’s ice cream sculpture, atop....

 [ONLINE] Available at: http://kiwibex.tumblr.com/post/29349070936/claes-oldenburgs-ice-cream-sculpture-atop.

 [Accessed 09 February 2014].

 fashion-vs-style. 

[ONLINE] Available at: http://www.tedpolhemus.com/main_concept1%20467.html.

 [Accessed 09 February 2014].

Poltrona di Proust - Alessandro Mendini - Vitra Design Museum.

 [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.design-museum.de/en/collection/100-masterpieces/detailseiten/poltrona-di-proust-alessandro-mendini.html. 

[Accessed 09 February 2014].

Pop Art Design.

 [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.domusweb.it/en/design/2012/12/06/pop-art-design.html. 

[Accessed 09 February 2014].