After Tolomeo: Tracing the work of an Italian contemporary design master responsible for the famous Tolomeo lamp The first important monograph devoted to this grand master of Italian contemporary interior design: creator of numerous design furnishings. This volume presents a vast panorama of architectural and design projects created from 1986 onwards. 1986 is a turning point in Michele De Lucchi's career for it represents the year of the creation of his famous Tolomeo lamp, the most extensively sold lamp in the world. It ...
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After Tolomeo: Tracing the work of an Italian contemporary design master responsible for the famous Tolomeo lamp The first important monograph devoted to this grand master of Italian contemporary interior design: creator of numerous design furnishings. This volume presents a vast panorama of architectural and design projects created from 1986 onwards. 1986 is a turning point in Michele De Lucchi's career for it represents the year of the creation of his famous Tolomeo lamp, the most extensively sold lamp in the world. It has been designed to come in various forms: a desk lamp, a floor lamp or a ceiling lamp. The book DopoTolomeo (After Tolomeo) shows how the creation of this lamp divided De Lucchi's work into a before and after. This highly illustrated volume collects, for the first time, all the design projects from 1986 onwards including vases, lamps, and interiors for the Italian Postal Services to Architectural projects in Japan, and personal notes and sketches. Michele De Lucchi has designed products for Artemide, Dada Cucine, Kartell, Matsushita, Mauser, Poltrona Frau, and Olivetti, for whom he has been Head of Design since 1992. He has designed buildings for offices and museums, built in Japan, Germany and Italy.
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Used-Good. 'Dopotolomeo, ' far from being an astronomical dissertation, instead refers to the 'aftermath' of a lamp, and more precisely to what has happened in the professional life of Michele De Lucchi from the birth of the famous Tolomeo lamp, conceived in 1986, until today. 'Dopotolomeo' is a diary that is as sincere and messy as the succession of events of life; it is a collage of images and thoughts, as chaotic as anything that comes to life in people's heads. The thread of this diary is drawn from the notebooks that De Lucchi has kept ever since his time at university: from the first one on squared paper for his accounts, to the larger ones with paper for water-colours, to the 'small notebooks' ('quadernini'), packed with words, which now represent Michele De Lucchi's professional history. The flow of the images of 'Dopotolomeo' is reminiscent of a karstic river, in which the messages sometimes appear very clear, immediate--the analogies to the anthropomorphous forms of many of his projects--and others are more subtended, hidden, underground. Yet the river keeps on flowing and a little further on it resurfaces, carrying along its history, a continuous flow, even if made of discontinuity, because 'it is an essential part of making projects to produce and sustain reasons of discontinuity. ' The first important monograph devoted to this grand master of Italian contemporary interior design: creator of numerous design furnishings. This volume presents a vast panorama of architectural and design projects created from 1986 onwards. 1986 is a turning point in Michele De Lucchi's career for it represents the year of the creation of his famous Tolomeo lamp, the most extensively sold lamp in the world. It has been designed to come in various forms: a desk lamp, a floor lamp or a ceiling lamp. The book DopoTolomeo (After Tolomeo) shows how the creation of this lamp divided De Lucchi's work into a before and after. This highly illustrated volume collects, for the first time, all the design projects from 1986 onwards including vases, lamps, and interiors for the Italian Postal Services to Architectural projects in Japan, and personal notes and sketches. Michele De Lucchi has designed products for Artemide, Dada Cucine, Kartell, Matsushita, Mauser, Poltrona Frau, and Olivetti, for whom he has been Head of Design since 1992. He has designed buildings for offices and museums, built in Japan, Germany and Italy. Book has minor shelf wear.
