MAD Radical Lace — Florio Design

Designer and Collaborator of Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas  


 

 

THE MUSEUM OF ARTS
AND DESIGN


Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting

156 pages, 8.25 x 10"

Book design, production, print management

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Inspired by the obtuse yet tactile qualities of the objects in the exhibition, this book’s thick flexible structure reinforces the ideas inherent in the art. Florio Design employed a soft, uncoated paper and a French-fold lay-flat binding, which allows the consistent use of narrow borders and a carefully formulated grid. The resulting tension reminds the viewer this is not a dusty “lace” and “knitting” enterprise, but expression that has been taken to its radical and subversive extreme.