- Title:
- From Project to Product 2: Plastic and Design
- Object name(s):
- reference book; plastics in general
- Brief description:
- Morello, A., Castelli Ferrieri, A., 1988. From Project to Product 2: Plastic and Design. Arcadia Edizioni, Milan. This book covers the following: Material culture and the culture of materials by Augusto Morello - Design and engineering - Plastic, and plastic materials - Design, techniques and polymers - The Kartell 'case' - Design and reality at Kartell by Anna Castelli Ferrieri - Introduction by the author - The pre-industrial phase: New ideas for automotive accessories - Creative applications of the tire technology - The years of experimental enthusiasm: home plastic - Containers made of polythene, the first step - The exploitation of the insulating effect - The reinvention of kitchen and cleaning utensils - From utensil to object, from kitchen to table - Plastic and technology: Laboratory products - The substitution of materials - Disposable products, the design of a raw material - Instruments rethought - Lighting and plastic materials: A hipothesis to be tested - The new materials suited for lighting - The lamps of sixties: Many inventions, some doubts - The artist's sketch - From lamp to system - The development of the habitat: Plastic to live with - The little chair that was half toy and half furnishing - Plastic, chair, a design and manufacturing challenge - Creative experimentation with polyurethane, an eclectic raw material - Stability and cost-containment: Two objectives for tabletops - Making beds with unusual structures: Boats and centipedes - Snap-together modulars, a true pret-a-porter of furnishing - Cylindrical containers: Perfect construction and nothing else - A case of a completely new typology - New approaches to traditional complementary items of furniture - Teaching, play, functionality, for furnishing at school - The designers - A brief history - Technological development - Prizes and awards for industrial design - Index of names
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- MoDiP reference library
- Object name:
- reference book; plastics in general
- Object number:
- MoDiPL : 0370
- Object production date:
- 1988
- Object production organisation:
- Arcadia Edizioni
- Organisation's association:
- Publisher
- Object production person:
- Morello, Augusto
- Person's association:
- Author
- Object production person:
- Castelli Ferrieri, Anna
- Person's association:
- Author
- Object production place:
- Italy
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/5864417a-2b88-3421-8be9-a950c0e67b56, Museum of Design in Plastics, CC BY
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