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Cento lumi per Casale Monferrato. Lampade di Chanukkah. Una collezione tra storia, arte e design. A Hundred Lights for Casale Monferrato: Hanukkah Lamps. A Collection of History, Art, and Design

Skira

Paris, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, 9 november 2010 - 23 January 2011.
Italian and English Text.
Milano, 2010; paperback, pp. 176, 126 col. ill., 126 col. plates, cm 22x32.
(Design e Arti Applicate).

series: Design e Arti Applicate

ISBN: 88-572-0593-2 - EAN13: 9788857205939

Subject: Collections,Design

Places: Milan

Languages:  english, italian text   english, italian text  

Weight: 0.9 kg


The only collection of its kind in the world, continuously expanding, built on the dedication of Casale Monferrato's Jewish Community.
A hanukkiah is a candelabrum with eight branches plus the shamash, the servant light, which must never be the same as the others, but always placed higher or lower, or in an otherwise misaligned position.
After the Holocaust various artists, architects and designers began to create their own hanukkiah, as if to capture the universal significance of the rebirth into the light, attracted by this object that has such a huge emotional potential, but is also so malleable and "open": liturgical because it is part of a religious ritual on the occasion of Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, but a household object too, because it is also kindled by families at home, and a "bringer of light". It must give light.
And as it sheds its light it tells a story.

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