AMBIENTI ARREDATI [Alla 9a Triennale di Milano]
Centro Studi Triennale No. 5
Carlo Santi, Zetti e Spreafico [Series Editors]
[Quaderni Triennale Domus] Carlo Santi, Zetti e Spreafico [Editors]: AMBIENTI ARREDATI [Alla 9a Triennale di Milano]. Milan: Editoriale Domus, August 1954 [No. 5 of the Centro Studi Triennale series]. First edition. Quarto. Text in Italian. Perfect-bound in thick printed wrappers. 114 pp. 148 black and white photographic plates. Index. Illegible circular emboss to title page, and a few leaves tacky. A fine copy.
7.5 x 9.25 book with 114 pages profusely illustrated with 148 black and white captioned plates of furnishings and interior design tableaus from the finest designers and studios of the era. Fifth 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 Alvar Aalto, Franco Albini, Gianni Albricci, Renato G. Angeli, Architteti Napoletani, Melchiorre Bega, Max Bill, Carl-Johan Boman, Osvaldo Borsani, Piero Bottoni, Margherita Bravi, Vittorio Borachia, Pep Calderara, Casa E Giardino, Fratelli Cassina, Charles Eames, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Luisa Castiglioni, Fede Cheti, Giodano Chiesa, Luigi Colombini, Robin Day, Carlo De Carli, Finn Juhl, Piero Fornasetti, Giovanni Gariboldi, Eugenio Gentili, Edoardo Giordani, Ruscone Francesco Gnecchi, Marcel Goscoin, Grazioli E Gaudeniz, Joannes Hansen, Fritz Hansen, Erik Herlow, Peter Hvidt, Tove & Edward Kindt-Larsen, Jannace & Kowacs, Vito Latis, Vico Magistretti, Luigi Magnetti, Valeri Nora Malaguzzi, Attilio Mariani, Roberto Menghi, Herman Miller Furniture Co., Borge Mogensen, Pietro Melandri, Gabriele Mucchi, Molgaard Nielsen, Nordiska Kompaniet, Franco Nosengo, Carlo Pagani, Ico Parisi, Giancarlo Perogalli, Gio Ponti, M. & Y. Ludwig Pontoppidan, Henry Prouve, Jean Prouve, E. Rambaldi, Giovanni Ratto, Riccardo Ricas, Andre Renou, Padova Rima, Alberto Rosselli, Nestorio Sacchi, Gianni Saibene, C. Sanguineti, Ezio Sgrelli, G. Sichirollo, Mario Tedeschi, Imari Tapiovaara, Guglielmo Ulrich, Niels Vodder, Zannetti, Marco Zanuso, and Hans Wenger.
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.