{"product_id":"creating-coromandel-marco-zanuso-in-south-africa-9781911339472","title":"Creating Coromandel: Marco Zanuso in South Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eGreat buildings are those that ignite the imagination and elevate us beyond reality, and - by those standards - Coromandel House in South Africa is truly a masterpiece. This unique farmhouse, which sits in a spectacular valley in Lydenburg, 275kms north-east of Pretoria, was built in 1975 and has since developed a cult following for its unusual aesthetic - part building, part ruin, part wilderness - inspiring anyone with an interest in building within a natural context. It is something explored by \u003ci\u003eCreating Coromandel: Marco Zanuso in South Africa.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoromandel House was designed by the Milanese architect Marco Zanuso (1916-2001), who was commissioned by the South African fashion retailer Sydney Arnold Press (1919-97) and Press's wife Victoria de Luria Press (1927-2015). They met in 1969, and their shared design passions sparked a decade-long partnership that yielded not only Coromandel House, a structure on the Press family's vast farm, but also Edgardale (1978), their business headquarters. \u003ci\u003eCreating Coromandel\u003c\/i\u003e explores the association between the clients, the architect and prominent personalities, including photographers David Goldblatt (1930-2018) and Margaret Courtney-Clarke (born 1949), German-born architect Steffen Ahrends (1907-1992), Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) and Italian landscape architect Pietro Porcinai (1910-1986).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough impressive photos, sketches and testimonials, this monograph narrates and records an unknown period in Zanuso's portfolio. He designed small-scale products (in the field of industrial design) as well as large-scale architecture (warehousing for IBM and Olivetti) but, with Coromandel House, Zanuso competently mediated both scales. \u003ci\u003eCreating Coromandel\u003c\/i\u003e documents Zanuso's extraordinary responses to landscape and his sensational interiors, but also offers a glimpse into the design process and amount of collaboration it involves. For fans of Coromandel it provides a single reference source; for architects, designers, historians, photographers and anyone interested in design and architecture it provides an inspirational story behind the process of building a legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Artifice Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911339472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208","brand":"Edna Peres, Andrea Zamboni","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42021926076597,"sku":"9781911339472","price":29.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_aebeee98-5f26-413a-8aac-932324c22f2a.jpg?v=1649301172","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/creating-coromandel-marco-zanuso-in-south-africa-9781911339472","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}