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Ettore Sottsass Jr. – The Planet As A Festival, 1972

September 8, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

A pop utopia on Casabella #365, 1972.

Second episode on our proposal of 60’s and 70’s articles from what (once) was an Italian radical magazine.

Read here the first: “Dressing is easy, Archizoom on Casabella, 1973”

“Production problems no longer exist. A few movements alone are sufficient, and the machines make everything by themselves in eternally repeating cycles. (…)
The explosive decentralization of consumer goods distribution has pulverized the cities, has eliminated them from the face of the earth. (…)
There are no longer men going to work, because men are not needed in the factories (…)”

(Full text below). Follow this link for a high def pdf copy.

 

Cover by Ettore Sottsass Jr: “Rafts for listening to chamber music. They set off from the sources of the Tocantins River, in the mist of the jungle, and reach the sea. During the pause on the shore one can change rafts, or stay on the ground, collecting fruit, or mushrooms growing there, if so desiring. (Or look at the bird of paradise, the pale-blue polychrome phenomenon, cloud of feathers or flying cushion)”

 

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Comments

  1. Victoria says

    January 8, 2019 at 8:39 pm

    Hello, the link to download this wonderful pdf is broken.
    Could you send it over mail?

    Many thanks

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