Bruno Munari
(illustrations by Bruno Munari)


In1958, he conducted a personal study of the anthropomorphic qualities of the fork, seen as an extension of the hand and then ultimately as the hand: thus the birth of the celebrated "FORCHETTE PARLANTI" ("Talking Forks"), the first collection of which is at Christofle in Paris. These objects did not come to a practical end, but were intended to demonstrate that an apparently arid theory can be approached in an imaginative and unconventional manner.
One of the directresses of the Museum of Modern Art once wrote "The thing of it is, I just can't go to the table anymore without thinking of Munari!".



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