OTTAGONO 31
Rivista Trimestrale di Architettura Arredamento e Industrial Design
Sergio Mazza (editor)

Sergio Mazza (editor): OTTAGONO 31: Rivista Trimestrale di Architettura Arredamento e Industrial Design [OCTAGON 31: QUARTERLY REVIEW OF ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR DESIGN, FURNITURE, AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN]. Milan: CO. P. IN. A. s.r.l., December 1973. Text in Italian. A fine softcover book in stiff, printed wrappers: immaculate. Out of print and very uncommon in the early years of publication (1966 - 1974).

8.25 x 9.5 perfect-bound softcover book with 104 pages of editorial content and approximately 70 pages of Industry advertising. An extraordinary glimpse into the world of Italian Furniture and product design, circa 1973. OCTAGONO was a magazine produced and sponsored by the companies Arflex, Artemis, Bernini, Boffi, Cassina, Flos, ICF de Padova, and Tecno.

OTTAGONO 31, December 1973 Contents:

  • Pier Carlo Santini: XV Triennale
  • Gianluigi Colin: XV Triennale. Sezione italiana. Lo spazio vuoto dell'habitat
  • Gianluigi Colin: XV Triennale. Mostra dell'industrial design internazionale
  • Gianluigi Colin: XV Triennale.Sezione del lavoro artigiano
  • Gianluigi Colin: XV Triennale. I 50 anni della Triennale
  • Gianluigi Colin: XV Triennale. Architettura-cittą. Mostra di architettura internazionale
  • Gianluigi Colin: XV Triennale. Spazio abitativo nell'edilizia pubblica
  • Gianluigi Colin: Le sedie di Mackintosh
  • Giulio Macchi: XV Triennale. Contatto arte-cittą
  • Archizoom: AEO: una poltrona nuova
  • Vico Magistretti: Maralunga
  • Gianfranco Frattini: Un tavolo e la sua serie
  • Ernesto Gismondi: Scrittoio per il sistema Dodona
  • Theodor Waddell: In tensistruttura
  • Cini Boeri: Botolo e Botolino
  • Cini Boeri: Cassetti-attrezzature
  • Cini Boeri: Una struttura poliforme
  • Luigi Massoni: Il cucinone
  • Fabio Lenci: Scrivania dirigenziale
  • Bepi Fiori: Sistema d'imbottiti (Tomeo)
  • Progetti Tecno Centro: Per le comunitą
  • Mario Bellini: Le Tentazioni
  • Tobia Scarpa: Due lampade (Copricorno-Quarto)
  • Achille Castiglioni: La Lampadina
  • Antonio Rossin: Un quadrante per un'informazione
  • Albini Helg Piva: Mostra del Palladio a Vicenza
  • Roberto Beretta: Artemide a Roma
  • Eugenio Gerli: Tecno a Bologna
  • Gianluigi Colin: Posate in argento per Ricci
  • Gianluigi Colin: Portariviste in resina per Bilumen
  • Gianluigi Colin: Ventilatore portatile in a.b.s. per Vortice
  • Gianluigi Colin: Posacenere, portauova, portacandela, macinapepe per Danese
  • Gianluigi Colin: Casa a due appartamenti a S. Gaggio di Firenze
  • Gianluigi Colin: Scuola media dell'obbligo a Lumezzane di Brescia
  • Guido Ballo: Consagra al Palazzo dei Normanni

Pardon my Italian: Starting in 1966, ³Octagon wants above all to be a review of furnishing, integrated from some pages of architecture, the figurative present time and culture, introduced from names whose level is always reason of interest and satisfaction for our readers². Financed from eight companies of the furniture field, Octagon had the courage of proclaim without ambiguity that would have spoken about furnishing ³not in cultural terms pure figured to you or, but of furnishing closely legacy to the problems of the industrial production². The cultural contents of the design testify to being a ³mirror of the times². To leaf through today the first numbers of the review means in fact to dip itself in a various world and the reflection on the objects can carry to us outside from the within of the planning in sense tightened, towards social, economic reflections or of recent history. But to celebrate the birth of Octagon means to remember the protagonists of that experience, beginning from ³staff² composed from Sergio Mazza, Giuliana Gramigna and art director Bob Noorda.

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