First edition of Quaderni di Domus No. 8, published in 1950 in Milan by Editoriale Domus. 8vo (7.75 × 9 inches), original wrappers with pictorial dust jacket, 126 (plus 4) pages, profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Edited by Vittorio Broachia and Carlo Pagani, with an introduction by Borachia. An important international survey of modern furniture design, extensively illustrated with photographs of contemporary European and American chairs, sofas, and armchairs, including examples of the emerging sculptural and organic forms of postwar modernism. Issued as the eighth volume in the influential Quaderni di Domus series, the publication documents a formative moment in the development of international modern furniture design. Includes work by Franco Albini, Marcel Breur, Anna Ferrieri Castilli, Achille e Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Paolo Chessa, Carlo de Carli, Charles Eames, Finn Juhl, Eugenio Gerli, Pierre Jeanneret, Florence Knoll, Otto Kolb, Alvin Lustig, Maurice Martine, Bruno Mathsson, George Nelson, Richard Neutra, Gio Ponti, Jens Rison, T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Ernesto Rogers, Jean Royere, Eero Saarinen, Mart Stamm, Richard Stein, Ilmai Tapiovaara, Van Keppel-Green, Vittoriano Vigano, and Marco Zanuso, among many others.
From the personal working library of Leo Jiranek (1900–1990), the influential American industrial and furniture designer, whose prolific career included designs for Heywood-Wakefield, Lane, Bassett, and Thomasville. Jiranek's signature and the date 1950 appear on the front pictorial wrapper; a second signature, dated 1955, and his professional ink stamp, identifying his Stamford, Connecticut studio, appear on the preliminary leaf. A particularly resonant association, documenting the contemporary ownership of this Italian design reference by a leading American furniture designer working in the same field.
Spine split; binding loosened. Some bumping and chipping to extremities. Only front wrapper remains, with considerable bumping and chipping.
First edition of Quaderni di Domus No. 8, published in 1950 in Milan by Editoriale Domus. 8vo (7.75 × 9 inches), original wrappers with pictorial dust jacket, 126 (plus 4) pages, profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Edited by Vittorio Broachia and Carlo Pagani, with an introduction by Borachia. An important international survey of modern furniture design, extensively illustrated with photographs of contemporary European and American chairs, sofas, and armchairs, including examples of the emerging sculptural and organic forms of postwar modernism. Issued as the eighth volume in the influential Quaderni di Domus series, the publication documents a formative moment in the development of international modern furniture design. Includes work by Franco Albini, Marcel Breur, Anna Ferrieri Castilli, Achille e Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Paolo Chessa, Carlo de Carli, Charles Eames, Finn Juhl, Eugenio Gerli, Pierre Jeanneret, Florence Knoll, Otto Kolb, Alvin Lustig, Maurice Martine, Bruno Mathsson, George Nelson, Richard Neutra, Gio Ponti, Jens Rison, T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Ernesto Rogers, Jean Royere, Eero Saarinen, Mart Stamm, Richard Stein, Ilmai Tapiovaara, Van Keppel-Green, Vittoriano Vigano, and Marco Zanuso, among many others.
From the personal working library of Leo Jiranek (1900–1990), the influential American industrial and furniture designer, whose prolific career included designs for Heywood-Wakefield, Lane, Bassett, and Thomasville. Jiranek's signature and the date 1950 appear on the front pictorial wrapper; a second signature, dated 1955, and his professional ink stamp, identifying his Stamford, Connecticut studio, appear on the preliminary leaf. A particularly resonant association, documenting the contemporary ownership of this Italian design reference by a leading American furniture designer working in the same field.
Spine split; binding loosened. Some bumping and chipping to extremities. Only front wrapper remains, with considerable bumping and chipping.
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