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Title: Contemporary Italian Product Design by Annamaria Scevola, Silvio San Pietro, L'Archivolto ISBN: 8876850880 Publisher: Books Nippan Pub. Date: 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $79.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2

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Summary: another disappointing design book
Comment: WHen I bought this book, it was because I needed it for a writng project on Italian design. It has beautiful pictures and a dense-looking text, so I thought it was well worth the price. Well, I was sorely disappointed, now that I have read it carefully. To boot, I don't remember much in terms of ideas and I finished it last night! What I had hoped was to gain knowledge on the context of recent developments in Italian design - why is it so great, what does it reflect, and what are the forces behind it. Alas, this book offers virtually none of that. Instead, the reader finds an abstruce and poorly translated text that is full of overly intellectualised statements in the fluffy style of Italian writers. We are advised "a transverse reading is recommended" and other breazy observations that are utterly banal, like technology drives design. ...Moreover, many of the objects in the book are from the mid-1980s and stop about 1995, which badly dates the book even thought it wasa published in 1999.

Not recommended. Once again, magazines are a better source of info than this.