Exhibition

Giorgio Casali Photographer, Domus 1951-1983, Architecture, Design and Art

22 May 2013 – 8 Sep 2013

Regular hours

Wednesday
11:00 – 18:00
Thursday
11:00 – 20:00
Friday
11:00 – 18:00
Saturday
11:00 – 18:00
Sunday
12:00 – 17:00

Cost of entry

£5 Adults

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Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

London, United Kingdom

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  • Highbury & Islington
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For over thirty years, Giorgio Casali (1913-1995) photographed the work of the greatest post-war Italian architects and designers for Gio Ponti's famous magazine, the style bible Domus. Casali worked as an apprentice in the Rambaldi photographic studio before establishing his own studio in 1938. In the early 1950s his career took off with his images of Ponti's iconic Superleggera chair for Domus, in which he vividly conveyed the design's key feature — extreme lightness — by using models holding the object with a single finger. Economy, elegance and a commitment to presenting the object to its best advantage were characteristic of Casali's work, and over the following three decades he forged an intense collaborative relationship with Ponti. Domus played a key role in the international dissemination of the Made in Italy ‘brand', promoting a quintessentially Italian sense of style through the creative reinvention and reinterpretation of everyday objects. In its pages, Casali's imagery charted post-war Italy's growing self-confidence and position as a world leader in the spheres of architecture and design.

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