Page 3 of LUX.5 by Foscarini

editorial contents editoriale editorial 001 trasparenza transparency design transparency transparency real and ideal constitutes a primary issue in contemporary design an inspiration that derives from the need to reveal the content and the spirit of objects to provide a measure of understanding or simply to work on reducing material and visual impact historically and in the present day there are many industrial products that have founded their recognition and good fortune on this quality becoming icons of contemporary design whether they involve experimentation to force the semantic nature of materials that have always been synonymous with transparency such as glass or explore new materials such as plastic exhibited to provide a full demonstration of their tactile and visual potential this is the case with the pneumatic architecture that was brought to an advanced state of development throughout the sixties strongly influencing furniture and other fields ­ a trend that continues to be vital portraying among other things a friendly and unconventional approach to living in the same way the exploration of opportunities/ambiguities in the perception and use of transparency constitutes a privileged terrain for fashion design a subtle weapon with the best of intentions for seduction but naturally throughout the history of the visual arts there has been a great deal of research and experimentation on this theme in the quest for example to display one part for the whole or to peek to imagine to dream or create confusion to use transparency in technological processes in materials in the overall image of artifacts is to adopt a minimal essential lightweight and clean approach but it also constitutes a cultural response to excess to pollution to the physical and semantic ­ often pointless ­ overabundance of the present 004 vedere dentro le cose looking inside things 012 caboche 016 trasparenza travestimento seduzione simulazione transparency dressing up seduction simulation 028 alle origini del design del vetro wilhelm wagenfeld at the roots of glass design wilhelm wagenfeld 040 lenin idee materiali e tecnologie ideas materials and technology 044 vedo o non vedo questo il dilemma to see or not to see that is the question architettura architecture 056 strutture pneumatiche inflatable structures fiction choreography 070 ombre cinesi massimo gardone interpreta n+n corsino shadow play massimo gardone interprets n+n corsino design&designer 076 enrico franzolini e la lampada big bang enrico franzolini and the big bang lamp 088 haloscope fotografia photography 094 miro zagnoli sovraesposizioni

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