[1st ed] Il Mobile Italiano Degli Anni '40 e '50
Single volume survey of high-end Italian mid-century furniture design. Published in 1992 by Editor Laterza with introductory and biographical text in Italian by Irene de Guttry and Maria Paola Maino. 8vo (8” x 9.75”), hardcover with pictorial dust jacket, 300 pages with b/w illustrations throughout. Iconic Franco Campo and Carlo Graffi chair shown on cover. Arranged alphabetically, the book includes entries for both celebrated and lesser-known designers and firms such as Franco Albini, Anzani & Co, Arflex, Azucena, BBPR, Melchiorre Bega, Vittorio Bonacina, Borsani, Paolo Buffa, Michele e Andrea Busiri Vici, Campo & Graffi, Cassina, Castelli, Cavatorta, Colli, Raffaela Crespi, Dassi, Carlo de Carli, Elam, Piero Fornasetti, Gabetti & Isola, Iganzio Gardella, Eugenio Gerli, Vittorio Gregotti, Attilio Lapadula, Gino Levi Montalcini, Vico Magistretti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Roberto Mango, Roberto Menghi, Carlo Mollino, Ico & Luisa Parisi, Poggi, Gio Ponti, Quarti, Carlo Ratti, Rima, Mario Federico Roggero, Luigi Scremin, Ettore Sottsas, Guglielmo Ulrich, Vittoriano Vigano, and Marco Zanuso. A valuable window into this fertile period of Italian modern furniture design, both for visual and textual information. Minor bumping and rubbing to dj. Otherwise NF.
Single volume survey of high-end Italian mid-century furniture design. Published in 1992 by Editor Laterza with introductory and biographical text in Italian by Irene de Guttry and Maria Paola Maino. 8vo (8” x 9.75”), hardcover with pictorial dust jacket, 300 pages with b/w illustrations throughout. Iconic Franco Campo and Carlo Graffi chair shown on cover. Arranged alphabetically, the book includes entries for both celebrated and lesser-known designers and firms such as Franco Albini, Anzani & Co, Arflex, Azucena, BBPR, Melchiorre Bega, Vittorio Bonacina, Borsani, Paolo Buffa, Michele e Andrea Busiri Vici, Campo & Graffi, Cassina, Castelli, Cavatorta, Colli, Raffaela Crespi, Dassi, Carlo de Carli, Elam, Piero Fornasetti, Gabetti & Isola, Iganzio Gardella, Eugenio Gerli, Vittorio Gregotti, Attilio Lapadula, Gino Levi Montalcini, Vico Magistretti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Roberto Mango, Roberto Menghi, Carlo Mollino, Ico & Luisa Parisi, Poggi, Gio Ponti, Quarti, Carlo Ratti, Rima, Mario Federico Roggero, Luigi Scremin, Ettore Sottsas, Guglielmo Ulrich, Vittoriano Vigano, and Marco Zanuso. A valuable window into this fertile period of Italian modern furniture design, both for visual and textual information. Minor bumping and rubbing to dj. Otherwise NF.
Single volume survey of high-end Italian mid-century furniture design. Published in 1992 by Editor Laterza with introductory and biographical text in Italian by Irene de Guttry and Maria Paola Maino. 8vo (8” x 9.75”), hardcover with pictorial dust jacket, 300 pages with b/w illustrations throughout. Iconic Franco Campo and Carlo Graffi chair shown on cover. Arranged alphabetically, the book includes entries for both celebrated and lesser-known designers and firms such as Franco Albini, Anzani & Co, Arflex, Azucena, BBPR, Melchiorre Bega, Vittorio Bonacina, Borsani, Paolo Buffa, Michele e Andrea Busiri Vici, Campo & Graffi, Cassina, Castelli, Cavatorta, Colli, Raffaela Crespi, Dassi, Carlo de Carli, Elam, Piero Fornasetti, Gabetti & Isola, Iganzio Gardella, Eugenio Gerli, Vittorio Gregotti, Attilio Lapadula, Gino Levi Montalcini, Vico Magistretti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Roberto Mango, Roberto Menghi, Carlo Mollino, Ico & Luisa Parisi, Poggi, Gio Ponti, Quarti, Carlo Ratti, Rima, Mario Federico Roggero, Luigi Scremin, Ettore Sottsas, Guglielmo Ulrich, Vittoriano Vigano, and Marco Zanuso. A valuable window into this fertile period of Italian modern furniture design, both for visual and textual information. Minor bumping and rubbing to dj. Otherwise NF.
