Illy’s Coffee Gillo Drofles Art Collection Can Ground Medium Roast 8.8oz

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On the heels of New York Fashion Week, illy caffè launches its latest illy Art Collection featuring designs purposed for fabrics in the 1930s by Gillo Dorfles, a well-known Italian artist and art critic, whose work is currently being celebrated through a major retrospective at the MACRO Museum in Rome, Italy until March 13, 2016.

Dorfles is a Trieste-born artist also known for his academic background in sociology and aesthetics.  His inspiration for the cup collection comes from several fabric designs transferred to paper between 1937 and 1940 using the egg oil tempera emulsion technique – an approach used long ago by the great fifteenth-century masters.  For Dorfles, they served as a starting point for playful experimentation.