Torino World Design Capital 2008

In 2008 Turin has been elected the first World Capital Design by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.

Indeed, Turin has been recognised as one of the cities which mostly distinguishes itself by having an international leading role in the area of design and because since many years it hosts several artistic workshops and many centres of style and design which contribute to the spread of this branch.

Since years the capital of Piedmont region is a leading planning design centre, because it is linked to a long entrepreneurial tradition, it is engaged in the urban renewal and it claims the image of an industrial Turin (the new European Turin!) by carring out design projects characterized by a particular attention for innovation and a strong creativity.

Proud of being deserving the desired qualification of World Capital Design, in the year of its charge the city of Turin has prepared a long list of aims and projects to develop in the course of 2008.

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Prato dedicates an exhibition to the origins of the “Made in Italy products”

Until 14th April the “Museo del tessuto” (”Textile Museum”) in Prato will house an exhibition whose aim is to honor the father of the “Made in Italy” Ernesto Michaelles, world-notorious with the name of THAYAHT.

The exhibition is made up of materials and photos of the artist and his creations which bring the spectators through the history of this personage, underlining his main turning points in his relationship as disigner with fashion and textile.

In the exhibition there are about 300 exhibited objects, but his most famous creation occupies the first palce: La Tuta, the piece of clothing which made him famous throughout the world.

Infact, you need to know that the tuta, that is to say the T-shaped tracksuit, one of the most innovative and futuristic apparel item in history, was projected by Thayaht in 1929, and it was flattered for its cheapness and handiness.

There are several versions of tuta, for example the one called “Angeli del fango” (”Mud Angels”) which was used during Florence flood in 1966. (more…)

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The Italian Design Revolution

Everyone of us know that Italy is all along the motherland of different kinds of art. From painting to sculpture, from literature to cuisine, Italian art is probably one of the few things that more gather people from all over the world. Design is one of the most recent art Italian people have acquired and it is an important recent event which happened at the beginning of the 20th century, when some Italian artists called “designers” (essential figures for the development of design in Italy and for its success in the other countries) such as Giò Ponti, Corradino D’Ascanio and Flaminio Bertoni (and someone else before and after them), entered in touch with the famous English movement of Arts and Crafts making of it a source of inspiration for their design creations. Just think about Giò Ponti’s works for Richard Ginory brand, or to the Corradino D’Ascanio’s Vespa and Flaminio Bertoni’s 2CV, objects which have contributed in a substantial way to make the history of Italian design and to encourage its development in Italy and abroad.

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