Artist and designer Duyi Han has produced a series of renderings featuring objects by 41 seminal Italian designers such as Ettore Sottsass and Enzo Mari displayed in 3D environments borrowed from popular culture.
Han's project is for a virtual exhibition at Brooklyn's Superhouse gallery in New York, called Different Tendencies: Italian Design 1960 ? 1980.
Top: a video compiling Han's renderings. Above: Ettore Sottsass' 1979 Svincolo floor lamps
The set of individual renderings have been compiled into a video with effects and music to evoke the ambience of the 60s and 70s.
Although the exhibition is online largely due to the coronavirus pandemic, the designs displayed in Han's renderings are for sale as physical objects upon request.
Wright-Wright, a 1972 chair by Nanda Vigo rendered against a backdrop referencing Stanley Kubrick's A Space Odyssey Han's nostalgically grainy renderings insert virtual versions of various designs from the Italian Radical period into scenes informed by a range of recognisable popular culture references from the same era such as old films and album covers.
There are a few exceptions, such as a reference to Stanley Kubrick's 2001 film A Space Odyssey.
A rendering of Archizoom Associati's 1968 Sanremo floor lamp rides a yellow escalator, a reference to English rock band Black Sabbath's Technical Ecstasy album cover from 10 years later.

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