Design: 101 Storie Zanotta. Design: 101 Zanotta Stories

A tractor seat that transforms into a stool, a bicycle seat that becomes an oscillating yet practicable point of support, a shapeless bag full of polystyrene balls that accommodates and accompanies any movement, a bundle of sticks that opens to become a clothes hanger... all show what the company, founded in 1954, has achieved thanks to the desire, will, hard work and energy of Aurelio Zanotta. A "collective" history over sixty years of Italian industry: 550 projects created by 120 designers including Enzo Mari, Alessandro Mendini, Bruno Munari, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Gio Ponti, Marco Zanuso, Gae Aulenti, Ettore Sottsassin. Featuring almost 100 pieces that have won awards and have been included in design museums all over the world. A dictionary of design "stories": 101 thoughts, anecdotes and critical interpretations on as many (and more) designs put into production over the course of sixty years of Zanotta, tripping over ourselves in an attempt to outline the characteristic horizons of so many successful projects including many famous masterpieces