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CUCULA Refugees Company for Crafts and Design Werkbundarchiv Museum der Dinge Berlin
Designer | 23.03.2015

smow blog compact: CUCULA – Refugees Company for Crafts and Design at the Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge Berlin

When Italian designer/design theologian Enzo Mari released his Autoprogettazione family of self build furniture in 1974 he did so with the aim of challenging popular conventions on industrial furniture production, and for all the concept that price is related to quality; the real value of an object, according to Mari, being something more intrinsic, something that exists inherent within a piece of furniture and which comes from a purity of form. Commercial furniture production distorts this

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