IL DESIGN
Paolo Fossati
Paolo Fossati: IL DESIGN. Rome: Tattilo Editrice, October 1973. First edition. Text in Italian. Square quarto. Oatmeal full cloth. Photo illustrated dust jacket. 189 pp. 56 pages of text followed by 133 pages of black and white illustrations. Jacket with edgewear to top edge with a short, closed tear to the rear fore edge. Cloth lightly darkened to lower edge of front panel with a faint dampstaining to the bottom edge of the first few leaves, with neight text nor image affected. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
8.75 x 8.75 hardcover book with 189 pages devoted to the “Archaeology of Industrial design,” with 133 pages of vintage and contemporary black and white images.
Designs include work by artists and manufacturers including Thonet, Henry Vand de Velde, Adolf Loos, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, R. Riemerschmid, Peter Behrens, Hector Guimard, V. Horta, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gerritt Rietveld, Marcel Breuer, Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Alvar Aalto, Bugatti, Josef Hoffmann, P. Keler, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, J. Knan, K. Jucker, M. Bayer, Josef Albers, M. Koch, A. Moritz, P. Bottoni, Figini e Pollini, F. Albini, Nizzoli e Persico, M. Nizzoli, Erik Herløw, Max Bill, Gregotti, Menghetti e Stoppino, Maldonado, Bonsiepe e Schaufenberg, P. Littel, Charles Eames, G. Sarfatti, D. Giacosa, Marc Zanuso, Eero Saarinen, George Nelson, Harry Bertoia, Gio Ponti, Bettonica e Frattini, T. Lamb, D. Gammond, C. Alinari, E. Slany, Greco, Richer e Heacox, Eliot Noyes, P. L. Spadolini, Tapio Wirkkala, Henry Dreyfuss, R. Menghi, P. Manzu, Z. Novar, W. Frank, A e P. G. Castiglioni, Albini e Helg, T. Scarpa, Don Wallance, Verner Panton, Gae Aulenti, Zanuso e Sapper, Bruno Munari, Joe Colombo, G. Colombini, C. Scarpa, A. Zavanella, G. Mioletti, A. Rosselli, R. Sambonet, Enzo Mari, S. Asti, M. Bellini, Ettore Sottsass, G. Piretti, A. Castelli, N. Roerich, Vico Magistretti, U. La Pietra, Gatti Paolini Teodora, Archizoom, Poltrona, R. Sambonet, and Gae Aulenti among others.