One of the most important designers of the modern interior world that you've never heard of is headlining the Design Museum this summer with a large exhibition showing off his handiwork.
He was a contradiction - a believer in the arts and crafts movement, which produced beautiful but expensive objects for the rich to buy, but also a communist who despised the rich.
This is the conumdrum at the heart of Mari's work - he wanted to lift up people and give them good decent consumables while enlightening their lives - but did so in a way that only wealthy people could afford to entertain.
Even his manifesto of offering blueprints for furniture for free was a way of encouraging home made crafts, while doing so in a semi-mass production method - more of a very early form of open sourcing the Intellectual Property rights...
#enzo-mari #modern-design #affordable-design #influence-on-household-objects #art-and-crafts-movement
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