Originally published in Domus 517/December 1972
Superstudio: histograms from the catalog from the Misura series
...During those years, it became clear to us that to continue drawing furniture,
objects and other similar
household decorations was not the
solution to the problems of living in
houses. Neither was it the solution
to the problems of life itself,
and even less did it serve to save
one's soul...
Superstudio: Misura series—
In the early 1970s, the avant-garde architectural group designed a series of conceptual furniture based on gridded histograms From the archive
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Table from the catalog for Superstudio's Misura furniture series (1969/70).
The problem was thus one of becoming ever more detached from these design activities, perhaps adopting the theory of minimum effort in a generai reductive process. We prepared a catalogue of three-dimensional, non-continuous diagrams, a catalogue of architectural histograms with reference to a grid transposable into different areas or scales for the construction of a serene and immobile Nature in which finally to recognize ourselves.
The furniture and objects from the Misura series were covered in silk-screened plastic laminate, designed by Superstudio, manufactured by Zanotta.
From the catalog for Superstudio's Misura furniture series.
Alabaster lamps from Superstudio's Misura furniture series.
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The plug-in citizen. Interview with Peter Cook—
As a contemporary architecture prophet, Peter Cook spans time and space from swinging London to the city of angels, forever armed with his visionary realism An architecture report by Stefano Casciani
From the Archive