Man Transforms: An International Exhibition on Aspects of Design

Catalog published in conjunction with an October 1976 exhibition that “celebrat[ed] the rebirth of the Cooper Hewitt as the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Design.” Conceived and curated by Hans Hollein and Lisa Taylor. Catalog design by George Nelson & Co, with a preface by Lisa Taylor, an introduction by George Nelson, and essays and images from Hollein, Nelson, Ettore Sottsass, Arata Isozaki, Richard Meier, Peter Bode, O.M. Ungers, Murray Grigor, R. Buckminster Fuller, Nader Ardalan, and Karl Schlamminger. Square 8vo, offset printed, wrappers, 172 pages including transparent mylar pages interleaved in each section, fully illustrated in b/w. Light rubbing and chipping to extremities. A nice, internally quite clean copy of this important but surprisingly scarce catalog.