![]() ![]() Their rounded, compact and portable "Doney 14" (1962) was the first completely transistor television. They designed a series of radios and televisions that became enduring icons of an aesthetic known as " techno-functionalism". Zanuso and Sapper were hired in 1959 as consultants to Brionvega, an Italian company trying to produce stylish electronics that would, at least outwardly, beat those being made in Japan and Germany. This piece was light, functional and playful, manufactured in several bright colors and it was among the furniture designs responsible for convincing people that plastic was a viable and appropriate material for the modern home. One of their first projects was a small, stackable child's chair designed for Kartell in non-reinforced plastic. In 1957 Zanuso partnered with German designer Richard Sapper. Rogers resulted in his time as editor of Domus and Casabella and his early essays on architecture in which his distinct approach to Modernism is manifested. Architecturally his association with Ernesto N. He collaborated with many of his peers during his lifetime, including historians Argan, Domenico, Pica and Veronesi, critics Zevi and Dorfles and architects Rogers and Ponti. ![]() ![]() At every scale, his approach to "finding order in complexity" resulted in his openness to technological innovation, materials and aesthetic functionality that enhanced the human experience. His approach to European "good design" has some distinctions and he said his "inquisitiveness" drove his "constant search for a new discovery". Marco Zanuso's prolific career spanned over six decades and during this time his interest in rational design to solve problems, allowed him to push boundaries in town planning, architecture and product design. As a professor of architecture, design and town planning at the Politecnico di Milano from the late 1940s until the 1980s, and as one of the founding members of the ADI in the 1950s, he also had a distinct influence over the next design generation coming out of Italy. From the beginning of his career, at Domus where he served as the editor from 1947–49 and at Casabella where he was editor from 1952–56, where together which his close collaboration with Ernesto Nathan Rogers and others, he helped to establish the theories and ideals of the energetic Modern Design movement. During the Second World War he served for the Axis in the Italian Navy, following which he opened his own design office in 1945. He began his studies in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano university in 1934 and graduated in 1939. He was one of a group of Italian designers from Milan shaping the international idea of "good design" in the postwar years. ![]()
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