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Pio Manzù never saw the result of his French museum judging job, his conceptual idea for the Parentesi lamp or his important project at the Fiat Styling Center. In fact, he was on his way to the presentation of the final Fiat 127 mock-up to the top management, in May 1969, when he had a one-sided car
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were in the field of home accessories. An example is the 1968 "Cronotime" table clock, that resembles the exhaust pipes or cooling water hoses of a car engine, and which was originally made as a giveaway for Fiat customer relations. It then became a Ritz-Italora product that was available in
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At Fiat Styling Center, Dante Giacosa at first was hesitant about the newly hired consultant Manzù's ability to fit in with the strict procedures of industrialisation of a product design. In 1968, the first experience, however, lead to the execution of a
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Fondazione Manzù has been established in order to support high-profile initiatives, projects and events to encourage studies and research in the field of design, technology of materials, production processes, means and infrastructures for mobility, and
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exit, just 10 km before reaching Turin. Having come home late the night before, and having left early to get to the 8.00 a.m. presentation in time, Manzù had chosen to drive his wife's Fiat 500 instead of his own
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The collaboration with these companies, together with the support of the Turin coachbuilders Sibona & Basano, lead to the realisation of prototypes Glas 1004 Autonova Fam, on the basis of the
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Manzù realised a number of projects for interior decoration and started collaborating with several international publications, writing articles and making designs in the automotive field.
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a few years before. Manzù had to bring it back to life, and did so very much to the satisfaction of Giacosa as well as the public, because the response during its display at the
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avant-la-lettre and, however it did not go into production, stylistically formed the basis of what a few years later would become the successor to the
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and with cutting-edge technical and styling solutions that Manzù had already developed at Autonova. The result, the Fiat City Taxi, was sort of a
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There is a secondary school ("Liceo Artistico Giacomo e Pio Manzù") and a street ("Via Pio Manzù") named in his honour in Bergamo.
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In 1969, Manzù was the only non-French jury member for the selection of the Bolide Design exhibition organised by the
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in 1971, based on a sketch made earlier by Manzù; the lamp is in the MoMA collection as well and was awarded the
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and a reference for the global car production in the 1970s. Almost 8 million would be built in two decades.
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catalogue, in which it currently still is. Other product designs were writing and desktop materials for
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Apart from the items in the MoMA collection, parts of Manzù's work are also in the collections of
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Another project in 1968 was the Autobianchi sports coupé G.31, which had already been started by
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in Bergamo, which staged a retrospective exhibition of the designer's work in 2008, and in the
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Manzù's work convinced Giacosa to entrust him, in the same year, with the styling of the
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was very positive. Nevertheless, it was decided that the car would not see production.
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development department and styling center. But also the management of companies like
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and his first wife Antonia Oreni, Pio Manzù studied product design at the
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Bolide design: Paris, Museum of decorative arts, 31 January-30 April 1970
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Bolide design: Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, 31 janvier-30 avril 1970
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What a Car! 1971-2021 Pio Manzù and the fiftieth anniversary of the 127
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accident on the A4 autostrada Milan-Turin, near the toll booths of the
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and fellow-Ulm-graduate Michael Conrad, Manzù set up the project group
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Pio Manzù: Designer di Transizione tra Moderno e Contemporaneo
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Che Macchina! 1971-2021 Pio Manzù e i cinquant'anni della 127
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Other designs that carry the signature of the designer from
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Pio Manzù around 1964 working on the NSU Autonova GT concept
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GAMeC Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo
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Flos Parentesi lamp by Pio Manzù and Achille Castiglioni
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for the use as taxi, on the mechanical basis of the
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Macchione. p. 80. 615:in Turin staged an exhibition titled 443:(over 800,000 sold) was developed by 368: 789: 647:Pio Manzù: When the world was modern 572: 114:45.69861654069445; 9.690904101166039 1311:Kla, Giancarlo Gnepo (2021-06-17). 1310: 1116:"Pio Manzù: Brilliance and Tragedy" 432:lamp for the lighting manufacturer 377:Ritz-Italora Cronotime by Pio Manzù 13: 1408:Alumni of the Ulm School of Design 1113: 482:Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris 365:had an eye on these concept cars. 14: 1454: 1361: 1366: 1101:My 40 years of designing at Fiat 992:Biography in "archimagazine.com" 852:"Chronotime [sic] Clock" 827:"Pio Manzù oltre il design" 802:"Produkte designed by Pio Manzù" 487: 1443:Compasso d'Oro Award recipients 1330: 1304: 1279: 1268:from the original on 2023-12-07 1254: 1243:from the original on 2023-12-06 1229: 1200: 1172:from the original on 2024-02-29 1158: 1122:from the original on 2023-09-26 1107: 1076:from the original on 2024-03-04 1062: 1043: 1018: 1005:L'importanza di chiamarsi Manzù 996: 984: 958: 947:from the original on 2024-04-01 933: 912: 808:from the original on 2022-12-04 778:from the original on 2024-05-17 746:from the original on 2015-09-23 632: 613:Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile 89:Cimitero monumentale di Bergamo 1007:, article in "milanodabere.it" 888: 864: 844: 819: 732: 707: 692: 1: 1398:Road incident deaths in Italy 742:(in Italian). archimagazine. 685: 273:Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm 1433:Italian industrial designers 804:(in German). archiproducts. 249: 7: 1428:Italian furniture designers 1168:. 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Index

Pio Manzù around 1964 working on the NSU Autonova GT concept
Milano
Brandizzo
45°41′55″N 9°41′27″E / 45.69861654069445°N 9.690904101166039°E / 45.69861654069445; 9.690904101166039
Ulm School of Design
Fiat
Giacomo Manzù
Compasso d'Oro
2 March
1939
26 May
1969
Fiat 127
Giacomo Manzù
Ulm School of Design
‹See Tfd›
German
Tomás Maldonado
Année Automobile
Pininfarina

Fritz Bob Busch
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Autonova
de
Dante Giacosa
Fiat
NSU
Glas
Pirelli

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