Sottsass Asociados

Author Sottsass Associates
Publisher Gustavo Gili
Place of publication Barcelona
Year 1989
Number of pages 283

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This book is designed in such a way that it is almost impossible to see the white of the paper, as the illustrations cover the entire pages. The white paper is seen as little as possible, and there are certainly no lovely white frames supporting the illustrations, neither large frames nor small frames, and this is not even a big novelty. From a graphic point of view it is not a novelty at all. The truth is that this book is not novel for its content either; it is nothing more than a well-known piece of recent world design, a dejà vu compilation of the postmodern iconosphere of the object and interior design: “a diary of mental and existential events, the story of an intellectual adventure, but not a solitary one,” in the words of its protagonist...