Radical: Italian Design 1965-1985, The Dennis Freedman Collection

$45.00 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

by Cindi Strauss (Author), Germano Celant (Contributor), Marissa S. Hershon (Contributor), J. Taylor Kubala (Contributor), Sarah Horne (Contributor) In the mid-1960s, reacting to contemporary social and political upheaval, young Italian architects and designers began developing a new style that openly challenged Modernism. Known as “Radical design,” this movement probed possibilities for visually transforming the urban environment. Radical design’s proponents also applied it to items such as furniture and…