Meet the artist who gave Italy’s most influential cookbook a brand new look

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Each house in Italy has a duplicate of Il Cucchiaio d’Argento (or The Silver Spoon because the English translation is understood). The cookbook has been a staple of Italian kitchens since its first version in 1950. For the tome’s twelfth version, artist Olimpia Zagnoli was invited to create a brand new cowl design, the fourth artist to go away her mark on the e-book’s 75-year historical past.

Il Cucchiaio d’Argento turns 75: re-creation by Olimpia Zagnoli and Bunker

‘The design of an iconic recipe e-book has its personal guidelines, a practice to be revered, and on the identical time a relentless want for evolution,’ reads a press release from cultural design studio Bunker, which oversaw the redesign and labored carefully with Zagnoli on the duvet. ‘Olimpia Zagnoli introduced her unmistakable fashion and color palette from the duvet to the inner sections, giving a brand new kind to timeless content material. The result’s a e-book that maintains its usefulness in a renewed kind.’

Book Il Cucchiaio d'Argento on a bookshelf

(Picture credit score: Courtesy Bunker)

The brand new version continues the e-book’s grand custom of bringing the most effective recipes from Italian gastronomy whereas on the identical time innovating and retaining in contact with the instances to talk to a brand new technology, as mirrored by new sections devoted to veg-based dishes, pantry organisation and shopping-list suggestions.

The two,000-plus recipes within the e-book embody conventional dishes which have been a part of the Cucchiaio d’Argento editions, and 150 new recipes.

Cucchiaio d'Argento book with cover by Olimpia Zagnoli

(Picture credit score: Courtesy Bunker)

Zagnoli’s cowl design maintains the e-book’s icon – the spoon – which turns into a part of a brand new a playful, tongue-in-cheek visible narrative. ‘The central component of “The Silver Spoon” is, after all, the spoon. I find it irresistible as a result of it is rounded and since it is used for soup, considered one of my favorite dishes,’ she says. ‘Within the numerous cowl designs, the spoon at all times performed a central function: a spoon that turns into an exclamation level, flying spoons, a spoon crammed with inexperienced dots resembling peas. Within the ultimate model, the spoon is within the foreground and is being licked with gusto by the character behind it.’

Cucchiaio d'Argento book with cover by Olimpia Zagnoli

(Picture credit score: Courtesy Bunker)

The rounded silhouette of the spoon is repeated within the character’s eyes, and as a graphic signal on the backbone. The color palette, Zagnoli notes, is impressed by gastronomy; she selected tones that complement components from asparagus to chestnuts.’

Il Cucchiaio d’Argento 12° edizione (Editoriale Domus) €49

Cucchiaio d'Argento book with cover by Olimpia Zagnoli

(Picture credit score: Courtesy Bunker)

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