Radical design

Design / 9 Mar 2018

Gufram gets its groove on with soul-powered seating at Salone del Mobile

When Gufram owner Charley Vezza first saw the deflated, Dalíesque disco balls created by Dutch artist duo Rotganzen, he knew they would be a perfect addition to the nightclub-inspired collection he was plotting. Dancing had been on his mind since...

Design / 14 Nov 2017

The revolutionary story of Radical Design gets a moment in the spotlight

At the beginning of SuperDesign, a film examining the visionary, Italian Radical Design Movement in the 60s (view trailer here), Gianni Pettena, one of the designers interviewed remarked, ’our influence was of art, not architecture.’ This is a point...

Design / 26 Oct 2017

Combined forces: a new film chronicles the rise of Italian radical design

New York gallery R & Company and Italian production company Muse present a new film by curator Maria Cristina Didero and director Francesca Molteni, celebrating the most significant moments of the Italian radical design movement and it’s key players. In...

Design / 11 Jul 2016

Cult classics: Vitra’s Schaudepot launches with a show of ’Radical Design’

Last month saw the opening of the Herzog & de Meuron-designed Schaudepot – a new residential-style hub on Vitra’s German campus. Laid out like a timeline of design history, the permanent collections in the gallery cherish the products and people...

Design / 8 Jul 2016

Alessandro Mendini vibrantly transforms Le Corbusier’s Appartement N°50

Jasper Morrison, the Bouroullecs, Konstantin Grcic and Pierre Charpin. This is the star-studded list of names who have had the pleasure of refitting Le Corbusier’s historical Appartement N°50, within Marseille’s Unité d’Habitation. The landmark living space, owned by Jean-Marc Drut...

Design / 11 Dec 2015

’Radical Disco’: scrutinising the design and architecture of Italian nightlife

New York’s Studio 54 may be the iconic discothèque but the Italians took to nightclubbing with equal fervor, lustily embracing it as a liberating force, especially on the design front. ’Radical Disco’, a new show at London’s ICA, looks at...