8 FOR 2008 FLICKRSET
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We choosed eight cult objects of the italian design to be showed in Galliano Habitat showroom for the nominee of Turin as the first World Design Capital.
Eight object to give as a gift for their good design.
The purpose of the initiative is to see customers wonder about the products they're going to buy, because they have an high functional value, before an emotional and formal value.
Their current production proves that.

The object are showed, with a critical description, in the entrance area of the showroom.
When the customer buys one of the selected products receives a small brochure as a gift, with the explanation of the object values.

Selected products:

• Libreria Bookworm, Kartell, 1995, Ron Arad, the personalization of serial product
• Complementi Componibili 4970, Kartell, 1967, A. Castelli Ferrieri, the modularity of synthethic cases
• Lampada Eclissi, Artemide, 1965, V.Magistretti, three pure shapes to techanically adjust the light intensity
• Sedia Panton, Vitra, V.Panton, 1959, the first monomateric without connections
• Lampada Parentesi, Flos, 1972, Castiglioni, Manzù, the endless positions of a simple semimanufactured products system
• Poltrona Sacco, Zanotta, 1968, Gatti, Paolini, Teodoro, the new synthetic technologies to free customers from shape gages
• Lampada Tolomeo, Artemide, 1987, Michele De Lucchi, hitech directs the light
• Radio TS 502, Brionvega, 1965, Sapper, Zanuso, the symbol of italian high technology in a more and more dynamic society

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