41 RASSEGNA
I SENSI DEL DECORO
Vittorio Gregotti [Direttore responsabile]
Vittorio Gregotti [Direttore responsabile]: 41 RASSEGNA: I SENSI DEL DECORO [The Senses of Ornament]. Milan: Editrice CIPIA, 1990. Italian edition [anno XII, 41/1 – March 1990]. Quarto. Plain thick wrappers. Printed dust jacket. 88 [xxxiii] pp. Illustrated articles and advertisments. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Wrappers lightly worn. A very good or better copy.
9 x 12 soft cover book with 121 pages well illustrated in black and white and color. The bulk of the journal [88 pages] is devoted to The Senses of Ornament.
- Contents [translated from Italian]
- Editorial by Vittorio Gregotti
- Decorative Natures by Bruno Pedretti
- Concepts of Ornament and Decorative Art by Eugenio Battisti
- Indications for an Ornamental Glossary: Florence in the 15th Century by Riccardo Pacciani
- In Praise of Decoration Against Superficiality by Roberto Masiero
- Ornamental Grammars by Stuart Durant
- Carlo Cattaneo and the "Beautiful Regained": the Argument for Ornamentation by Ornella Selvafolta
- Semper's "Morphology" by Joseph Rykwert
- The Art Nouveau Lexicon by Maria Adriana Giusti: 10 pages with 15 illustrations, 5 in color including work by M. P. Verneuil, M. Dufrene, Daum, E. Galle, G. Fouquet, E. Viollet-le-Duc, R. Vallin and H. Ospovat
- Ornamental Theory and Practice in the Jugendstil by Frank-Lothar Kroll: 8 pages with 20 black-and-white illustrations including work by Otto Wagner, Louis H. Sullivan, Otto Eckmann, Hokusai, Henry van de Velde, August Endell and Adolf Loos
- The Style Debate in the Vienna School by Werner Hofmann: 10 pages with 15 black-and-white illustrations including work by Gustav Klimt and Constantin Brancusi
- Anthological Excerpts from Gottfried Semper to Henri Focillon
- Advertising section
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 is devoted to a single designer or theme and is lavishly produced, with high-quality reproduction and carefully selected and presented illustrations. [rassegna 7418]