Bruno Schulz il profeta sommerso

Tersilla F. Giacobone
Electa S.p.A.

Rossella Colombari
Galleria Colombari

Alessandro Guerriero
Edizioni Charta

Conceiving a "self-portrait dress" was the charge given to world-famous architects, designers, musicians and artists by Alessandro Guerriero, and the results were an exercise in cross-genre creativity that would stun a traditional runway front row. A winner of Italy's highest award for industrial design, the Compasso d'Oro, Guerriero received sketches from 30 of the most innovative minds in a variety of fields, then recruited design students from Milan's Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti to realize the fashions. A touring exhibition of the clothes, on view originally at the Triennale di Milano and moving to New York, London and Tokyo, displayed the outfits on glass resin sculptures representing the creator in real scale. There are dresses that evoke memories, dresses using reflective materials that change with the light, dresses that explode in waterfalls of multicolored threads, and dresses that dissolve into invisibility. Among the participants were musicians Antony, the Aluminum Group, Jimi Tenor and Devendra Banhart; architects Johanna Grawunder, Hariri & Hariri, Ettore Sottsass, Peter Wilson and Makoto Sei Watanabe; and artists William Alsop, Meschac Gaba, Choi Jeong-Hwa, Mimmo Paladino and Enrica Borghi.

Janus
Priuli e Verlucca editori

Cleto Munari Collection
The Israel Museum

Alessandro Lenarda
Antica Mrurrina

AA.VV.
Silvana Editorale

Laura Polinoro
F.A.O.

Alastair Fuad-Luke
Logos

Janine Bloch-Dermant
Les Éditions de l'Amateur

AA.VV.
The studio publications

Sarah Schleuning, Cindi Strauss
The Museum of Fine Arts

An unprecedented survey of modern lighting design foregrounding its materials, innovators, and far-reaching influence

Offering the first comprehensive history of lighting design from the 20th and 21st centuries, Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting explores how lighting has been integral to the development of modern design both in terms of aesthetics and technological advances. This fascinating book outlines the key aspects of lighting as a unique and creative artistic discipline and examines themes such as different typologies, the quality of light, and the evolution of the bulb. A series of essays by Sarah Schleuning and Cindi Strauss showcase lighting designs from different time periods and geographic locations and feature the work of significant figures, including Poul Henningsen, Ingo Maurer, and Gino Sarfatti. With over 130 illustrations of functional and sometimes fantastical designs, a historical timeline, and comprehensive artist biographies, this handsome volume expands our understanding of an understudied but influential art form and demonstrates lighting's central role as both an expression of and a catalyst for innovations in modern and contemporary design.

Published in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Exhibition Schedule: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
(February 21–May 16, 2021)

High Museum of Art, Atlanta
(July 2–September 26, 2021)