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Industrial culture and designs are woven together across the territory of Piedmont, defining local products in an often perculiar way. This volume traces the stories of design objects and entrepreneurial adventures, mirroring a land where the creative design stimulus often goes hand in hand with a strong industrial vocation and desire to experiment. This phenomenon involves both large industrial groups and small clans of experimenters, sometimes heavily concentrated in specialised districts, but also in isolated places, figures and enterprises. AUTHOR: Claudio Germak is professor of Industrial Design at the Politecnico in Turin. SELLING POINTS: A new title in the series Contemporary Architecture in Turin A travel diary of Piedmontese design, a phenomenon that has invested the region in a non-linear way since it is the expression of large industrial groups and small clans of experimenters, with strong regional concentrations such as whole districts, but also individual places and isolated figures 35 b/w illustrations

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Claudio Germak is professor of Industrial Design at the Politecnico in Turin.

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