Open Work, An
At Home with Marco Zanuso in Midcentury Milan
$71.83
- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2026
Summary
The first English-language publication to focus on the iconic architect-designer Marco Zanuso, revealing his design approach through a narrated tour of his 1960s Milan apartment.
An Open Work investigates the celebrated, enigmatic Italian architect-designer Marco Zanuso (1919-2001). Zanuso’s buildings were widely recognized in Italy, and today his object and furniture designs, which won many awards in their time, can be found in prestigious museums worldwide, yet few scholars…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262054799 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262054795 |
| Author: | Shantel Blakely |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 159mm x 241mm |
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Critics Review
“Blakely invites us into Zanuso’s Milanese home and—chapter by chapter, room by room—weaves a complex microhistory of postwar design that explains the intersections of architecture, interiors, furniture, and furnishings in the first decades of the Italian Republic.”
—David Rifkind, Dean, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado Denver, author of The Battle for Modernism: Quadrante and the Politicization of Architectural Discourse in Fascist Italy and co-editor of A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture, 1960–2010.
“This book examines an extraordinary experiment in buon governo enacted by Marco Zanuso in his own living environment. As a perceptive insider, Shantel Blakely captures this serendipitous encounter with immediacy and nuance.”
—Maristella Casciato, Senior Curator, Head of Architectural Collections, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Shantel Blakely
Shantel Blakely is Assistant Professor at Rice University School of Architecture in Houston. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, and her research has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Getty Research Institute, and the Richard Rogers Fellowship.
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