ITALIAN FURNITURE DESIGN
Albrecht Bangert

[Modern furniture design] Albrecht Bangert: ITALIAN FURNITURE DESIGN [Ideas Styles Movements] . Munich: Bangert Verlag, 1988. First English language edition. A Fine hardcover book in a Fine Dust jacket: unread! The endpapers have a few miscellaneous booksellers pencilled inventory notations, otherwise interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. A scarce title, especially in this condition.

8.75 x 11.25 hardcover book with 192 pages and 250 illustrations including 100 color plates. . Originally published as Italienisches Mobeldesign. The best bookon Italian furniture that I have seen-- exquisite reproductions of carefully selected examples printed on high-quality glossy paper. this book looks and feels like a labor of love. Highly recommended.

Includes profiles of the giants of the field: Mollino, Albini, Ponti, Sottsass, etc. as well as overviews of the major styles, schools and movements: organic modernsim, Memphis, postfunctional, etc. A Very cool book.

Contents:

  • the fifities: Franco Albini, Carlo Mollino, Gio Ponti, Triennials, Zanuso and Castiglione
  • the sixties: Joe Colombo, pop Art, Ettore Sottsass, Archizoom and Superstudio, Radical utopia
  • the seventies and eighties: postfunctional design, Alchimia, Memphis
  • Italian Furniture that made history: chairs, armchairs, sofas, livingscapes,tables, shelves, cabinets, decorative units, lamps, lighting objects, decorative objects
  • design as a collectors field
  • chronology
  • bibliography
  • index

This volume contains work by the following artists, designers, manufacturers and architects: Franco Albini, Carlo Mollino, Gio Ponti, Zanuso and Castiglione, Joe Colombo, Alchimia, Altamira, Arflex, Arform, Arredoluce, Arte Luce, Artemide, Bacci, Martien Bedin, Lapo Binazzi, Cini Boeri, Mario Botta, Franco Camo, Ettore Canali, Cassina, Castelli, Achille Castiglioni, Pier Giacomo, Livio Castiglione, Enzo Cucchi, Danese, Carlo De CArli, Giancarlo De Carlo, Elco, Luigi Figini, Flexform, Guido Gambone, Gavina, Piero Gilardi, Ginori, Gruppo Industriale, Ideal Standard, kartell, Cesare leonardi, Vico magistretti, Paolo Navone, Olivetti, Gaetano Pesce, Pirelli, Richard Sapper, Gino Sarfatti, Zanotta and many others.

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