63 RASSEGNA
ELECTRICITY. UNITED STATES AND USSR, FRANCE AND ITALY
Vittorio Gregotti [Editorial Director]
Vittorio Gregotti [editor]: 63 RASSEGNA [ELECTRICITY. UNITED STATES AND USSR, FRANCE AND ITALY]. Milan: CIPIA, 1995. Original edition [anno XVII, 63/III -- 1995]. Text in English with a section of French and German translations at the back. A very good soft cover book with thick printed French folded wrappers and minor shelf wear including a slightly bumped corner. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
9 x 12 soft cover book with 106 well-illustrated pages. The bulk of the journal [80 pages] is devoted to Electricity and Architectural Design in the United States, USSR, France And Italy.
- Introduction by Jacques Gubler
- City Lights: The Visible and Invisible
- The Electric House by Giacomo Polin
- When the Cathedrals Were Electric by Hugues Fiblec
- The PowerStation, the Client, the Architect by Ornella Selvafolta
- Democratic Pyramids: The Works of the Tennessee Valley Authority by Jean-Francois Lejeune
- Lights of the Revolution. Russian Electrification, Soviet Electrification by Alessandro De Magistris
- From the Valle dell'Orco to Turin: Production and Transportation of Electrical Energy by Patrizia Bonifazio
- Electricity and Land by Anna Maria Zorgno
- Sponsors' section includes projects by B&B Italia, Castelli, Molteni&C., Sabiem, Abet Laminati, and ENEL
Includes work by A. Saint'Elia, A. Chernikov, F. Depero, El Lissitzky, R. Dufy, A. M. Cassandre, J. D'Ylen, L. Figini, G. Pollini, P. Bottoni, Adalberto Libera, P. Friese, G. Moretti, P. Portaluppi, Charles Sheeler, Tennessee Valley Authority, Hugh Ferriss, Roland Wank, V. Gourkov, N. G. Kotov, and H. Sauvage among others.
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.