4 RASSEGNA
IL DISEGNO DEL MOBILE RAZIONALE IN ITALIA 1928/1948
Vittorio Gregotti [Direttore responsabile]
Vittorio Gregotti [Direttore responsabile]: 4 RASSEGNA: IL DISEGNO DEL MOBILE RAZIONALE IN ITALIA 1928/1948. Bologne: Editrice CIPIA, 1980. Original edition [anno II, no. 4 – ottobre 1980]. Text in Italian with parallel captions in English. Quarto. Plain thick wrappers. Printed dust jacket. 88 [xxxii] pp. 177 illustrations. Illustrated articles and advertisments. Out-of-print. Interior unmarked and clean. Textblock lightly thumbed. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled: a very good copy.
9 x 12 soft cover book with 120 pages and 177 illustrations, some in color. The bulk of the journal [88 pages] is devoted to Italian Rationalist Furniture Design from 1920 to 1940.
- Editoriale by Vittorio Gregotti
- Il razionale nel mobile italiano by Maria Cristina Tonelli includes work by Franco Albini, Palanti, Camus, Masera, Banfi, Belgioso, Peressutti, Luigi Figini, Pollini, Brenno del Giudice, Piacentini, T. Deabate, A. Dell'Acqua, E. Paulucci and Giuseppe Pagano
- Un geometria mentale by Gae Aulenti includes work by Giuseppe Terragni
- Studi, progetti, modelli e oggetti del razionalismo italiano a cura di Ornella Selvafolta includes work by Alberto Sartoris, Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig, Gino Levi Montalcini, Giuseppe Terragni, Pietro Lingeri, Piero Bottoni, Luciano Baldessari, Gigi Chessa, Umberto Cuzzi, Luigi Figini, Gino Pollini, Enrico Griffini, Luigi Vietti, Gabriele Mucchi, Pietro Chiesa, Scuole dell'Umanitaria, Franco Albini, BBPR, Mario Pucci, Mario Asnago, Claudio Vender, Cesare Cattaneo and Gian Luigi Banfi
- Illustrated advertising section
Italy is a world trendsetter, and has produced some of the greatest furniture designers in the world, such as Gio Ponti and Ettore Sottsass. Italian interior design in the 1900s was particularly well-known and grew to the heights of class and sophistication. At first, in the early 1900s, Italian furniture designers struggled to create an equal balance between classical elegance and modern creativity, and at first, Italian interior design in the 1910s and 1920s was very similar to that of French art deco styles, using exotic materials and creating sumptuous furniture. However, Italian art deco reached its pinnacle under Gio Ponti, who made his designs sophisticated, elegant, stylish and raffined, but also modern, exotic and creative.
In 1926, a new style of furnishing emerged in Italy, known as "Razionalismo," or "Rationalism." The most successful and famous of the Rationalists were the Gruppo 7, led by Luigi Figini, Gino
Under the loose directorship of Vittorio Gregotti, Rassegna was an Italian Design magazine underwritten by six Italian firms: Ariston, B&B Italia, Castelli, iGuzzini illuminazione, Molteni and co., and Sabiem. Each issue was devoted to a single designer or theme and lavishly produced, with high-quality reproduction and carefully selected and presented illustrations.