{"id":3165,"date":"2013-11-06T16:47:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T15:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2019-11-08T16:50:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:50:33","slug":"dakis-joannou-s-impulse-for-design-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/06\/dakis-joannou-s-impulse-for-design-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakis Joannou&#8217;s impulse for design (and objects)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3165 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/06\/dakis-joannou-s-impulse-for-design-objects\/p1030362a\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1030362a.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3166\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3166'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Dakis Joannou&#8217;s design collection, Photo: Fanis Vlastaras &#038; Rebecca Constantopoulou.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/06\/dakis-joannou-s-impulse-for-design-objects\/p1030446a\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1030446a.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3168\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3168'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Dakis Joannou&#8217;s design collection, Photo: Fanis Vlastaras &#038; Rebecca Constantopoulou.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/06\/dakis-joannou-s-impulse-for-design-objects\/_dsc0430a\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC0430a.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3169\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3169'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Dakis Joannou&#8217;s design collection, Photo: Fanis Vlastaras &#038; Rebecca Constantopoulou.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/06\/dakis-joannou-s-impulse-for-design-objects\/p1030418a\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1030418a.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3170\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3170'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Dakis Joannou&#8217;s design collection, Photo: Fanis Vlastaras &#038; Rebecca Constantopoulou.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/06\/dakis-joannou-s-impulse-for-design-objects\/_dsc0391a\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC0391a.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3171\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3171'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Dakis Joannou&#8217;s design collection, Photo: Fanis Vlastaras &#038; 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Rebecca Constantopoulou.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/06\/dakis-joannou-s-impulse-for-design-objects\/p1030304a\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1030304a.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3174\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3174'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Dakis Joannou&#8217;s design collection, Photo: Fanis Vlastaras &#038; Rebecca Constantopoulou.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/06\/dakis-joannou-s-impulse-for-design-objects\/_dsc0161a\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC0161a.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3175\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3175'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Dakis Joannou&#8217;s design collection, Photo: Fanis Vlastaras &#038; Rebecca Constantopoulou.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>November is the last month to visit the exhibition \u201cThe system of objects \u2013 The Dakis Joannou collection reloaded by Andreas Angelidakis\u201d, now on show at the <a title=\"deste foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/deste.gr\/exhibition\/system-of-objects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deste Foundation<\/a> in Nea Ionia, Athens.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Cristina Didero, one of the curators, introduces Conceptual Fine Arts to the show, choosing some highlights and emphasising the fervent passion for the \u201cobjects\u201d of the famous contemporary art collector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>It happened that I have been following with keenest interest the radical design collection of Mr. Dakis Joannou for years. It is an amazing group of pieces that he has been silently collecting for himself, meaning that they were allowed &#8211; sometimes and part of them &#8211; to inhabit his homes, his boat, his office and over all, his mind. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The collection covers a well determined period in time, let\u2019s say when the Radical Movements were at best in the second half of the \u201860s to the beginning of the \u201870s &#8211; without scouting and peering into some contemporary pieces. It is all about a precise period of time and its different declinations: in 1968 Dakis Joannou, a student of architecture in Rome, returned to his home country having absorbed the first quivering\u00a0of freedom and the power of the new spirit that defined creativity. \u201cThe Utopia was born and died in that same year\u201d, he recalled. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What we have shown for the first time this year at the Deste Foundation is a part of his \u201cprivate\u201d design collection, more known now as the Joannou\u2019s Radical Design Furniture Collection: from 1970 Ettore Sottsass Mobili Grigi in fiberglass painted grey (one table with six chairs upholstered in black vinyl) to the Elledue Bed (1969) and the plastic set of chairs titled Zocker (1972) by Luigi Colani (given by the author as a gift to the collector), a De Paz, D\u2019Urbino Lomazzi\u2019s prototype of Joe Chair (1969), the group of design pieces which are placed side by side to the contemporary art ones (and the fashion ones) tell a personal story born from a deep passion and personal experience. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The dialogue between them all makes the show &#8220;System of objects&#8221; a portrait of Joannou\u2019s methodically fabulous hunger towards knowledge and creativity at large, being it an evening dress by Viktor&amp;Rolf, a giant statue by David Altmejd or a Safari couch by Archizoom.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November is the last month to visit the exhibition \u201cThe system of objects \u2013 The Dakis Joannou collection reloaded by Andreas Angelidakis\u201d, now on show at the Deste Foundation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapping-the-artscape"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}