In September 1981, Ettore Sottsass sat in a taxi in central Milan and assumed a bomb had gone off. The street was blocked by a crowd of a thousand people. They were...
In 1954, Olivetti bolted a typewriter to a sidewalk on Fifth Avenue and hung a twenty-three-meter sculpture on the wall behind it. This is how an Italian company that treated the way...
Achille Castiglioni (1918–2002) won Italy’s Compasso d’Oro nine times. Fourteen of his works sit in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. In 1997, MoMA gave him the first individual...