Congrats @larsmullerpublishers on this great review of 'Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dining' in @wallpapermag !!⠀ ⠀ Simon Mills writes, "The literary nexus of gastronomy and industrial design occupies an esoteric department of the publishing world at the best of times. But Buckminster Fuller’s 'Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dining,' newly-reprinted to celebrate the design scientist, architect, author, poet, engineer and visionary’s 125th anniversary, might just be this delightfully niche category’s most obscure title of all. ⠀ Originally published on Fuller’s 86th birthday, the 'Synergetic Stew' cookbook was compiled as a surprise gift from his friends and admirers (Elizabeth Choy, Isamu Noguchi etc al.) who shared 100 plus recipes, including such choice concoctions as ‘Geodesicandy’, an ‘Allspace-Filling Whole Wheat Bread’, ‘a macrobiotic Diet’ created by indeterminacian musician John Cage and Fuller’s very own recipe for tomato ice cream. (‘Dymaxion Dining’, by the way, being a play on Bucky’s self-styled portmanteau word that fused dynamic maximum, and tension, summing up the goal of the futurist polymath’s pursuit of ‘maximum gain of advantage from minimal energy input.’)⠀ Presented in a workable, stationery-chic, ring binder edition with mostly handwritten recipes, pen-illustrated visuals and a cover graphic that presents a strawberry (or tomato?) rendered in Fuller’s groundbreaking geodesic dome configuration, the book is a heart-warming tribute to the genius of a bonafide design hero…"⠀ ⠀ Read more via linkinbio.⠀ ⠀ #buckminsterfuller @buckyfullerinst⠀ #synergeticstew #dymaxiondining @stuffiseecycling⠀ ⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CDRvmOIp2zo/?igshid=1udf905y9kk5t
