CERAMICA [Alla 9a Triennale di Milano]
Centro Studi Triennale No. 4
Gio Ponti, Zetti e Spreafico [Series Editors]
[Quaderni Triennale Domus] Gio Ponti, Zetti e Spreafico [Editors]: CERAMICA [Alla 9a Triennale di Milano]. Milan: Editoriale Domus, April 1953 [No. 4 of the Centro Studi Triennale series]. First edition. Quarto. Text in Italian. Perfect-bound in thick printed wrappers. 130 pp. 213 black and white photographic plates. Index. Small bookseller stamps inside both covers. Illegible circular emboss to title page, and mild foxing early and late. Wrappers edgeworn with a chipped spine heel and tiny triangular chips to both of the upper edges [see scans]. A very good copy.
7.5 x 9.25 book with 130 pages with 213 black and white captioned plates of ceramics from the finest craftsmen and studios of the era. Fourth of the proposed seven-volume Domus series to serve as a comprehensive published record of the 1952 Milan Triennale Exposition. All work identified by designer and manufacturer.
Manufacturers and designers include Aldo Ajo, Luisa Albertini, Roberto Algisi, Guido Andloviz, Danilo Andreose, Salto Axel, Orobico Artigianato, Giorgio & Marino Baitello, Bruno Bagnoli, Pesaro Baratti, Afro Basaldella, Germano Belletti, Otello Bernardi, Roberto Bertagnin, Maria Bilger, Ruth Bryk, Antonio Campi, Francia Capron, Guidette Carbonell, Pietro Cascella, Luigi Castiello, Cipriani, Jean Cocteau, Coopertiva Ceramica Di Imola, Mario Cornali, Deblander, Giuseppe Di Prinzio, Silvia Dognini, Marc Du Plantier, Vietri Ernestine, Agenore Fabbri, Marcello Fantoni, Leonor Fini, Lucio Fontana, Piero Fornasetti, Bernt Friberg, Fumagalli & Prada, Gabbianelli, Guido Gambone, Franco Garelli, Neera Gatti, Gaudi, Andre Gigon, Hermann Gretsch, Rolando Hettner, Holht, Hans Holberg, Schulte Hostedde, Francia Innocenti, Elisabeth Joulia, Istituto D’Arte Governativo Di Firenze, Birger Kaipiainen, Feild Kjellberg, Francia Lenoble, Jean & Jacqueline Lerat, Stig Lindberg, Ugo Lucerni, Tyra Lundgren, Lunghard, Luigi Macedonio, Guglielmo Malato, Serafino Mattucci, Gudrun Meedon, Pietro Melandri, Salvatore Meli, Fausto Melotti, Anne & Pierre Mestre, Jean Miro, Toini Muona, Franco Normanni, Gunnar Nylund, Robert Obsieger, Pier Claudio Pantieri, Luigi Parisio, Andrea Parini, Giovanni Petucco, Cson Arthur Percy, Pompeo Pianezzola, Pablo Picasso, Parigi Picault, Gio Ponti, Produzione Ceramica Di Laverno, Produzione Barettoni, Produzione Castelli Di Teramo, Produzione Fratelli Freda, Produzione Meisterschule Für Porzellan, Produzione Zaccagnini, Carlo Albero Rossi, Ruckteschell, Romano Rui, Ebbe Sadolin, Axel Salto, Aligi Sassu, Giorgio Saturni, Maurice Savin, Carlo & Mirella Sbisa, Schilling, Mickael Schilkin, Scuola Artistica Industriale Pesaro, Scuola D’arte Statale Di Venezia, Scuola D’arte Di Sesto Fiorentino, Scuoladi Castelli Teramo, Scuola Statae Di Napoli, Scuola Statale Di Castelli, Alfred Seidl, Giuseppe Serpi, Aune Simes, Vincenzo Solimene, Harry Stolhane, Hans Stangle, Anna Lisa Thomson, Angelo Ungania, Gertrude Vasegard, Whlemeyer, and Zortea.
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.