{"id":152128,"date":"2025-04-02T16:21:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T14:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apartamentomagazine.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=152128"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:39:54","slug":"peter-shires-grand-tour-book","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.apartamentomagazine.com\/product\/peter-shires-grand-tour-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Shire&#8217;s Grand Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apartamentomagazine.com\/archive\/peter-shire\/\"><strong>Peter Shire\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Some of these photos I took with the intuition that they were important, and all of them with the desire to capture my impressions and my memory. Who would have known that they would become something. The accidental tourist, the accidental documentarian?\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014Peter Shire\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peter Shire\u2019s Grand Tour: A Snapshot of Design History, 1980\u20131989,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> edited by Christoph Radl, is a deeply personal photo diary chronicling the decade of Memphis\u2014\u2018the last design revolution\u2019, headed by maestro Ettore Sottsass, the leaning tower of Italian design. Peter didn\u2019t know it at the time, but his snapshots of Italy in the \u201880s (with a sidequest to Vienna) were the serendipitous beginning, middle, and end of something big. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peter Shire\u2019s Grand Tour <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pairs candid pictures with personal interludes to trace the heady, unpolished brilliance of a movement before it knew what it was. With the unwitting eye of a tourist-turned-historian, Peter\u2019s camera captured it all\u2014from Caravaggio at the Uffizi to storefronts of women\u2019s lingerie shops and beautiful sunsets, alongside rogue selfies and a cast of Memphis Group legends including Ettore Sottsass, Alessandro Mendini, and Matteo Thun.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christoph Radl, art director and graphic designer, moved to Milan in the \u201870s, getting his golden chance to work at the studio Sottsass Associati in 1980. From there, he went on to become <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> graphic designer of Memphis and has been friends with Peter ever since. \u2018I was there too, and I had no idea what was going on &#8230; It took me many years before I finally started to understand what I\u2019d been a witness to. But I didn\u2019t take pictures. Fortunately, Peter did\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This book expands on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apartamento<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s long-standing exploration of Memphis, Italian Radical Design, and their peripheries. It follows early features on Nathalie Du Pasquier, Alessandro Mendini, Andrea Branzi, Santi Caleca, Peter Shire himself, as well as conversations with Gianni Pettena, Ugo La Pietra, and Lapo Binazzi, and more. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peter Shire\u2019s Grand Tour <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">offers an unfiltered snapshot into design history, seen through the eyes of a young artist who was simply living it\u2014an outsider, in a way, on the inside. 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