IL QUARTIERE SPERIMENTALE DELLA TRIENNALE DI MILANO [Q. T. 8]
Centro Studi Triennale No. 6
Piero Bottoni, Zetti e Spreafico [Series Editors]
[Quaderni Triennale Domus] Piero Bottoni, Zetti e Spreafico [Editors]: IL QUARTIERE SPERIMENTALE DELLA TRIENNALE DI MILANO [Q. T. 8]. Milan: Editoriale Domus, 1954 [No. 6 of the Centro Studi Triennale series]. First edition. Quarto. Text in Italian with English and French translations at rear. Perfect-bound in thick printed wrappers. 135 pp. 210 black and white photographs and illustrations. Index. Cover designby Albe Steiner. Faint circular emboss to title page. Mild sunning to textblock edges. A very good or better copy.
7.5 x 9.25 book with 135 pages profusely illustrated with 210 black and white photographs and illustrations of the planning and building of the grounds for the 8th Triennale grounds. Last of the proposed seven-volume Domus series to serve as a comprehensive published record of the 1952 Milan Triennale Exposition.
Architectural firms and architects represented include Adorno, Albini, Albricci, Arrighetti, Avetta, Belloni, Berlanda & Morandotti, Biagi, Boccanera, Bottoni, Brini, Castelli Ferrieri, L. Castiglioni, Cerutti, Chessa, Chiesa, Cicconcelli, De Carlo, Diomede, L. Fratino, Gandolfi, Ghidini & Mozzoni, Labo, Lingeri, Lissoni, Lucci, Magistretti & Tedeschi, Magnaghi Terzaghi Tevarotto, Marchetti, Menghi, Minoletti, Monti, Morandotti & Berlanda, Mucchi, Musso, Muzio, Nosengo, Pagani, Pifferi, Pollini, Ponti, Pucci, Ranzi, Ressa, Rogers, A. Romano, G. Romano, Rosselli, Sacripanti, Sonzogno, Sottsass Jr. & Sr., Tedeschi, Terzaghi, Tevarotto, Vagnetti, Vigano, C. Villa, Zanuso, Zuccoli and many others.
Gio Ponti and Editoriale Domus envisioned Centro Studi Triennale as a seven-volume series showcasing every facet of the 1952 Milan Triennale. Six volumes were published between May 1952 and November 1954: Volume One: Pizzi, Ricami, Tessuti, Paglia e Vimini [Lace, Embroidery, Fabrics, And Wicker Straw, 1952]; Volume Two: Oreficeria Metalli Pietre Marmi Legni Pelli Materie Plastiche [Jewellery Metals Stones Marble Wood Leather Plastic, 1952]; Volume Three: Vetri [Glass, 1952]; Volume Four: Ceramica [Ceramics, 1953]; Volume Five: Ambienti Arredati [Furnished Rooms, 1954 ]; and Volume Six : Il Quartiere Sperimentale Della Triennale Di Milano [The District Of the Experimental Triennale, 1954]. The planned Volume 5 titled Architettura dell’Esposizione Grafica e Pubblicita was never published; Ambienti Arredati was the replacement subject. The series ended with Volume 6 in 1954.