Herramientas Solitarias

Perry A.King / Santiago Miranda

19/04/90. (Sala 118)

Seven installations for seven contemporary design products.

From 29 Abril – 12 May 1990.

Perry A. King and Santiago Miranda began working together over fifteen years ago in Milan, designing for Italian clients and other countries. They work in the fields of industrial design, furniture and interior design, graphics and corporate images.

Perry A. King was born in London and studied at The School of Industrial Design in Birmingham. After a period of professional experience in England he moved to Italy in 1964, where he worked as a “consultant” for Olivetti.

Santiago Miranda (who we are almost certain was a bullfighter in a previous life) was born in Seville, where he studied at the School of Arts and Crafts. He, too, after a period in Spain, moved to Italy. There he coincided with Perry A. King and began working together on a project called “Unilimited Horizon”.

This project, which is the basis of their work together, became a research programme that continues and reflects their interest in the relationship between user/object and the working method called inactive design. This method is based on the fact that the design can become a new language of interaction between human beings and their creations.

His work has achieved recognition and awards in major exhibitions in Italy and abroad. In Spain they were awarded the National Design Award in 1989.

“Herramientas Solitarias” (solitary tools, in English) is displayed in La Sala Vinçon, it is an exhibition that begins in Barcelona and which is later taken to Amsterdam, Milan, Tokyo and maybe London.

The exhibition consists of seven facilities for seven products designed between 1983 and 1989 and it reflects the main idea of his work, that tools are solitary because without men or women they mean nothing.