Bonacina
Grandi Maestri

Italian Design Icons and Reed Manufacturing – a book tells the story of Bonacina 1889

Interpreting the ‘history of forms’ through those who produce them can give new readings. Italian Design Icons in Bonacina Grandi Maestri – the book Grandi Maestri traces hundred thirty years of Bonacina history, collected and stopped in the pages of a book. From rattan to modern technology, the creativity and innovation of Italian design.

The list of names that have collaborated with Bonacina 1889 includes the great Masters of Italian Design, such as Giovanni Travasa, Franco Albini, Joe Colombo, and Gio Ponti. They experimented with shapes and volumes: one can speak of a Bonacina style, which goes beyond the company’s own production and defines a chapter of Italian style. Bonacina Grandi Maestri and the Italian Design Icons it’s a matter of taste, culture—but also of boldness, and sometimes irreverence, in a modernity that, as we recall here, becomes essential if we want to use the word style.

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Bonacina Grandi Maestri is the volume produced by Lampoon and published in 2022.

/ 156 pages
/ hardcover
/ 2 kg
/ 32,5 x 28,5 cm
/ english language