Design from the Alps tells the story of a century of product design in Italy's northernmost regions Alto Adige--or South Tyrol, as it is alternately known--and Trentino as well as and the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Located along ancient trade routes that served Germany, Austria, and northern Italy, the transnational Alpine region boasts a rich local tradition of craftsmanship.
Yet, since the 1920s, the region has also been remarkably open to European modernism's most progressive movement.