World Food Books

Decorattivo 1

1976, English / Italian
Hardcover, 230 pages, 31 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Idea Books Edizioni / Milano Studio Vista / London

$300.00 - Out of stock

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The like-no-other Decorattivo - a groundbreaking publishing project from Achizoom founders Andrea Branzi and Massimo Morozzi, along with Clino T. Castelli and Adela Coat Turin, who together formed Il Centro Design Montefibre, to research textiles, fibres and colours. The published outcome was Decorattivo - a hardcover publication dedicated to "monographic themes of international textile and environmental design. This work is the result of wide research conducted internationally in museums, private collections and foundations, and aiming to trace original textile samples relating to the handbook's different chosen themes."

Intended to be an annual publication, only two editions of Decorattivo were issued by Idea (Milan) and Studio Vista, becoming very collectable source-books for anyone interested in pattern design, textiles, fibre design, and decorative systems, not to mention the work of some of Italy's finest avant-garde designers.

"The monographic theme of Decorattivo 1 is concerned with two contrasting decorative trends: on one side the amorphous or informal design directly connected to creative and spontaneous processes, on the other, the 'UFO', a decorative system created out of objects in space."

A one-of-kind design resource, profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, including fold-out spreads. All texts in English and Italian.

Good copy, with light cover/spine wear and bumping to hard covers. Minor ex-libris card and markings. Light warp, but bright, crisp pages and good binding throughout.

File under: Andrea Branzi Archizoom Archizoom Associati Clino T. Castelli Massimo Morozzi Adela Coat Turin Idea Books Edizioni / Milano Studio Vista / London Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Out-of-print / Rare Furniture

Decorattivo 2

1977, English / Italian
Hardcover, 230 pages, 31 x 22 cm
Private edition,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Centro Design Montefibre / Milan

$350.00 - Out of stock

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The like-no-other Decorattivo - a groundbreaking publishing project from Achizoom founders Andrea Branzi and Massimo Morozzi, along with Clino T. Castelli and Adela Coat Turin, who together formed Il Centro Design Montefibre, to research textiles, fibres and colours. The published outcome was Decorattivo - a hardcover publication dedicated to "monographic themes of international textile and environmental design. This work is the result of wide research conducted internationally in museums, private collections and foundations, and aiming to trace original textile samples relating to the handbook's different chosen themes."

Intended to be an annual publication, only two editions of Decorattivo were issued, in both commercially distributed editions by Idea Books Milan, and the exceptionally rare privately distributed not-for-sale editions issued by Centro Design Montefibre itself. All versions very rare, but the not-for-sale editions with debossed covers barely exist. Very collectable source-books for anyone interested in pattern design, textiles, fibre design, and decorative systems, not to mention the work of some of Italy's finest avant-garde designers.

The monographic them of Decorattivo 2 is Righe e Quadri (Lines and Squares).

A one-of-kind design resource, profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. All texts in English and Italian.

VG copy, with light cover/spine wear and bumping to one hard cover corner not affecting the pages within. Clean and bright throughout, tightly bound.

File under: Archizoom Archizoom Associati Andrea Branzi Massimo Morozzi Clino T. Castelli Adela Coat Turin Centro Design Montefibre / Milan Textiles Out-of-print / Rare Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture Architecture / Interior Theory / Essay

Global Tools 1973–1975
When Education Coincides with Life

2019, English
Softcover, 264 pages, 27 x 19.5 cm
Published by Nero / Rome

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Global Tools 1973–1975 documents and narrates the story of the eponymous experience of Radical Design and its multidisciplinary school program “without students or teachers.” The Global Tools journey began with its foundation in 1973 by groups and figures drawn from Italian Radical Architecture, Arte Povera, and Conceptual Art, and ended in 1975 after three years of intense experimentation. This book is both a commentary and an impressive visual archive that brings together essays by international authors and reproductions of many original documents—including the Global Tools bulletins, entirely republished here for the first time. This unique and definitive book marks a fundamental stage in the rediscovery of one of the most fascinating European cultural experiences of the late twentieth century.

Edited by Valerio Borgonuovo and Silvia Franceschini.

With texts by Manola Antonioli and Alessandro Vicari, Valerio Borgonuovo and Silvia Franceschini, Alison J. Clarke, Beatriz Colomina, Maurizio Lazzarato, Franco Raggi, Simon Sadler.

Published by Nero in collaboration with SALT, Istanbul.

File under: Global Tools Andrea Branzi Ettore Sottsass Ettore Sottsass Jr. Remo Buti Gianni Pettena Alessandro Mendini Franco Raggi Archizoom Associati Archizoom UFO UFO Group Superstudio Zziggurat Ugo La Pietra 9999 Gruppo 9999 Peter Eisenman Riccardo Dalisi Walter Pichler Adolfo Natalini Gian Piero Frassinelli David Mosconi Inez Klok The Body Group Franco Vaccari Manola Antonioli Alessandro Vicari Valerio Borgonuovo Silvia Franceschini Alison J. Clarke Beatriz Colomina Maurizio Lazzarato Franco Raggi Simon Sadler Fernanda Pivano Nero / Rome Anarchism Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Protest / Revolt Counterculture Art Arte Povera Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

Images of Class : Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988)
by Jacopo Galimberti

2022, English
Softcover, 416 pages, 15.3 x 23.4 cm
Published by Verso / London

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During the 1960s and 1970s, Workerism and Autonomia were prominent Marxist currents. However, it is rarely acknowledged that these movements inspired many visual artists such as the members of Archizoom, Gordon Matta-Clark and Gianfranco Baruchello.

This book focuses on the aesthetic and cultural discourse developed by three generations of militants (including Mario Tronti, Antonio Negri, Bifo and Silvia Federici), and how it was appropriated by artists, architects, graphic designers and architectural historians such as Manfredo Tafuri. Images of Classsignposts key moments of this dialogue, ranging from the drawings published on classe operaia to Potere Operaio's exhibition in Paris, the Metropolitan Indians' zines, a feminist art collective who adhered to the Wages for Housework Campaign, and the N group's experiments with Gestalt theory.

Featuring more than 140 images of artworks, many published here for the first time, this volume provides an original perspective on post-war Italian culture and new insights into some of the most influential Marxist movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries worldwide.

“The 1970s in Italy were a decade of social conflicts and intense cultural and aesthetic innovation, but only now, thanks to the Galimberti’s book we can have a glimpse of the visual dimension of the movement of Autonomia and of the cultural field that is generally known as “operaismo”.”—Franco "Bifo" Berardi

File under: Archizoom Archizoom Associati Jacopo Galimberti Verso / London Art Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Arte Povera Theory / Essay Protest / Revolt Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 830 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

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First English edition of this monumental 830 page book for documenta X, the last documenta of the twentieth century and the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David, brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists in an extraordinary anthology of seminal texts and images of, on, and about the development of Western cultural and critical theory since 1945.

The book "seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopaedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavour which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity."—from the book jacket.

A comprehensive work in itself, rich with enmeshed texts and illustrations of artworks, film stills, historical documents throughout in colour and in black and white.

Writers include: Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Celan, Amílcar Cabral, Masao Miyoshi, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Tadao Sato, Youssef Ishaghpour, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rem Koolhaas, Sandra Álvarez de Toledo, Witold Gombrowicz, Herve Joubert-Laurencin, Jean-François Chevrier, Marguerite Duras, Edward Said, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Uwe Johnson, Jerzy Grotowski, James Clifford, Primo Levi, Pierre Clastres, Andrea Branzi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Gérard Chaliand, Stig Björkman, Daniel Defert, Saskia Sassen, Catherine David, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Virilio, Serge Daney, Étienne Balibar, Nadia Tazi, and many others.....

Artists include : Archigram, Martin Kippenberger, Archizoom Associati, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlström, Samuel Beckett, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, Nancy Spero, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Jörg Herold, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Robert Adams, Peter Friedl, Paweł Althamer, Liam Gillick, Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler & Diedrich Diederichsen, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Aldo van Eyck, Heiner Goebbels, William Kentridge, Ulrike Grossarth, Richard Hamilton, Vito Acconci, Raymond Hains, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Siobhán Hapaska, Ecke Bonk, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lois Weinberger, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Marc Pataut, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christian Philipp Müller, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reinhard Mucha, Álvaro Siza, Toyo Ito, John C. Portman Jr., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mariella Mosler, Josef Beuys, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean Dubuffet, Kerry James Marshall, Maria Lassnig, Rem Koolhaas, Joachim Koester, Suzanne Lafont, Sigalit Landau, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Brassaï, Le Corbusier, Antonin Artaud, and so many more...

Very Good coy, light wear. Good dust jacket with some creasing and edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Carsten Höller Rosemarie Trockel Archigram Martin Kippenberger Archizoom Associati Art & Language Hans Haacke Samuel Beckett Franz West Andrea Zittel Heimo Zobernig Jean-Luc Godard Marcel Broodthaers Lygia Clark Jörg Herold Fischli & Weiss Dan Graham Robert Adams Peter Friedl Öyvind Fahlström Paweł Althamer Liam Gillick Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Ed van der Elsken Walker Evans Aldo van Eyck Siobhán Hapaska Reinhard Mucha Mariella Mosler Steve McQueen Chris Marker Lothar Baumgarten Kerry James Marshall Maria Lassnig Rem Koolhaas Joachim Koester Suzanne Lafont Sigalit Landau Helen Levitt Garry Winogrand Jean-Luc Moulène Hélio Oiticica Thomas Schütte Christian Philip Muller Gabriel Orozco Olaf Nicolai Michelangelo Pistoletto Gerhard Richter Marc Pataut Gordon Matta-Clark Matt Mullican Antoni Muntadas Heiner Goebbels William Kentridge Ulrike Grossarth Richard Hamilton Vito Acconci Raymond Hains Ecke Bonk Carl Michael von Hausswolff Lois Weinberger Carsten Höller Pier Paolo Pasolini Joseph Beuys Nancy Spero Le Corbusier Brassaï Jean Dubuffet Alvaro Siza Toyo Ito Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paulo Mendes Da Rocha John C. Portman Jr. Antonin Artaud Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine David Yana Milev Klaus Biesenbach Nancy Spector Hans-Ulrich Obrist Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Celan Amílcar Cabral Masao Miyoshi Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Jacques Rancière Tadao Sato Youssef Ishaghpour Josef Beuys Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rem Koolhaas Sandra Álvarez de Toledo Witold Gombrowicz Herve Joubert-Laurencin Jean-François Chevrier Marguerite Duras Edward Said Henri Alleg Pierre Vidal-Naquet Uwe Johnson Jerzy Grotowski James Clifford Primo Levi Pierre Clastres Andrea Branzi Fabrizio Gallanti Gérard Chaliand Stig Björkman Daniel Defert Saskia Sassen Benjamin Buchloh Paul Virilio Serge Daney Étienne Balibar Nadia Tazi and many others documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Conceptual Art Film / Video Sound / Music Painting Photography Ecology

domus
No. 466 Settembre 1968

1968, Italian / English
Softcover, 98 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Editoriale Domus / Milan

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Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal, distributed in 89 countries. With exuberant style and rigor, it offered energetic up-to-date coverage and analysis of major themes, developments and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design. Called the "Mediterranean Megaphone," domus has always been considered the most concrete published expression of Italian style, documenting generations of radical, practical, and beautiful production, both local and across the world. Amongst a seemingly endless archive of contributions and features, domus frequently covered the works of the protagonists of the Anti and Radical Design movements, modern architecture, new experiments in environmental/spatial/commercial design, international product design, the activities of the Arte Povera, Pop art, Minimal Art and Nouveau Réalisme movements, and much more.

No. 466 Settembre 1968
Editor : Gio Ponti
Editorial committee and contributors include : Cesare Casati, Pierre Restany, Agnoldomenico Pica, Pierre Restany, Carmela Haerdtl, Joseph Rykwert, Ettore Sottsass jr., Charles and Ray Eames,
Kho Liang je, Bernard Rudofsky, George Nelson, Fausto Melotti, Tommaso Trini, Tapio Wirkkalaand, Rut Bryk, Hans Hollein, and more.
features :
Archizoom; Lucio Fontana; "Tatlin" by Agnoldomenico Pica; "Apartment Building in Ramat Gan Tel Aviv" by architects Alfred Neumann, Zvi Hecker, Eldar Sharon, "The 18th Aspen Design Conference" by Hans Hollein; Olivetti store in Buenos Aires by architect Gae Aulenti; XIV Triennial of Milan "Il Grande Numero" (Arata Isozaki); "Venice Biennale 1968: A Failure in Attempted Suicide" by Pierre Restany; "For a New Biennale" by Tommaso Trini; Book reviews; and much more.

Beautifully printed in Italy and heavily illustrated throughout with vivid colour and black and white photography across multiple paper stocks, page crops and fold-out spreads.

File under: Gae Aulenti Ettore Sottsass Archizoom Lucio Fontana Arata Isozaki Marisol Arman César Cesare Casati Bruno Munari Vico Magistretti Artemide Saul Bass Archizoom Associati Charles Eames Ray Eames Ugo La Pietra Paul Delvaux Bridget Riley Rodolfo Bonetto Ambrogio Pozzi Gino Marotta Enrico Castellani Eero Aarnio Jiro Takamatsu Hans Hollein Alfred Neumann Zvi Hecker Eldar Sharon Agnoldomenico Pica Carmela Haerdtl Kho Liang je George Nelson Fausto Melotti Tapio Wirkkalaand Rut Bryk Phillip King Gio Ponti Ettore Sottsass Pierre Restany Joseph Rykwert Bernard Rudofsky Fausto Melotti Tommaso Trini Hans Hollein Editoriale Domus / Milan Art Architecture / Interior Ceramics / Glass Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Textiles

No-Stop City: Archizoom Associati
by Andrea Branzi

2006, English / French
Softcover, 192 pages, 24.5 x 17.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by HYX / France

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Almost non-existent first edition of this immediately out-of-print and only English-language monograph on Archizoom Associati, written and compiled by founding member Andrea Branzi.

Considered the leading antagonists of Italian Radical Design, Archizoom Associati was founded in 1966 in Florence, Italy by architecture students Andrea Branzi, Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello and Massimo Morozzi. Archizoom organized their first exhibition, "Superarchitettura", in December 1966 along with the group Superstudio.

In 1969, the Archizoom group, while carrying out an experimental work in the field of design, also undertook a research on environment, mass culture and the city, which led to the project No-Stop City.

Gathering all the texts and drawings/models/documents, this book reveals to us the "Endless City" intertwining architecture with objects and the triumphant consumer society, giving an interpretation where the repetition of a single central element, a building or a group of objects makes up, through a play of mirrors, a catatonic environment, a boundless supermarket, a now reached future to be composed.

No-Stop City is a quality-less city in which the individual can achieve his own housing conditions as a creative, freed and personal activity. The theoretical project was first published in the review Casabella in 1970, under the title: "City, assembly line of social issues, ideology and theory of the metropolis". As Andrea Branzi puts it, this project implements "the idea of the fading away of architecture within metropolis".

No-Stop City is a critical Utopia, a model of global urbanization where design is the essential conceptual instrument used in the mutation of living patterns and territories.

As essential work in the history of radical architecture, this unbuilt project is here presented in its entirety through the original models, designs, collages, drawings and photographs, accompanied by the original texts by Archizoom Associati translated to English and French for the first time, and presented with introduction by editor Gloria Bianchino and a major illustrated essay by Andrea Branzi, all in English/French.

As New copy.

File under: Archizoom Archizoom Associati Andrea Branzi Gilberto Corretti Paolo Deganello Massimo Morozzi Dario Bartolini Lucia Bartolini Andrea Branzi HYX / France Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Sculpture / Installation Architecture / Interior Furniture Theory / Essay Art

Radical : Italian Design 1965-1985
The Dennis Freedman Collection

2020, English
Hardcover, 224 pages, 24.1 x 30.5 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

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An essential new look at the design philosophy that interrogated modern living against the turbulent political landscape of 1960s Italy.

In the mid-1960s, reacting to contemporary social and political upheaval, young Italian architects and designers began developing a new style that openly challenged Modernism. Known as "Radical design," this movement probed possibilities for visually transforming the urban environment. Radical design's proponents also applied it to items such as furniture and lighting, utilizing alternative materials and an innovative formal vocabulary. Radical: Italian Design 1965-1985 surveys the work of these pioneering designers through nearly 70 objects and architectural models-including rare prototypes and limited-production pieces by architects, designers, and collectives such as Archizoom Associati, Lapo Binazzi, Ugo La Pietra, Studio 65, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Pettena, Ettore Sottsass, Studio Alchimia, Piero Gilardi, Andrea Branzi, and Superstudio. Cindi Strauss insightfully explores the aesthetic inspiration and changing cultural mores that informed the movement, and her research is complemented by an essay from Germano Celant, the acclaimed author and curator who coined the term "Radical design." Importantly, the book includes seven interviews with Radical designers and architects, offering fresh insights into the individuals who were at the vanguard of this groundbreaking movement.

File under: Archizoom Associati Lapo Binazzi Ugo La Pietra Alessandro Mendini Gianni Pettena Ettore Sottsass Studio Alchimia Superstudio Piero Gilardi Studio 65 UFO Group Gufram Poltronova Memphis Andrea Branzi Germano Celant Cindi Strauss Yale University Press / New Haven Architecture / Interior Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

SuperDesign
Italian Radical Design 1965-75

2017, English
Hardcover, 256 pages, 235 x 287 cm
Published by Monacelli Press / New York

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SuperDesign charts the Italian Radicals' bold experimentation in modern design from its birth through its continued influence on design today. Radical Design was launched by art, architecture, and design students in Italy in the mid-1960s. What started as a youthful rally against the establishment and a rejection of design norms became a movement that brought together some of the most dynamic and avant-garde thinkers and makers across the country. Through enigmatic, confrontational, and clever furniture and objects--such as the iconic lip-shaped Bocca sofa, or the Cactus coat-rack in green foam--as well as more public innovations including discotheque interiors and subversive performances, the Radicals projected design's new era as equal parts Pop Art, play, Surrealism, and futurism. Told through exclusive interviews, unreleased photographs, original drawings and artwork unearthed from personal archives, and newly commissioned photography of rarely seen works, SuperDesign explores this fervent period of design that played out against the era's social and political turmoil. Featured designers include Archizoom Associati, Lapo Binazzi (UFO), Pietro Derossi (Gruppo Strum), Piero Gilardi, Ugo La Pietra, Gaetano Pesce, Gianni Pettena, Studio65, and Superstudio. The culmination of a decade of collecting and researching original examples of some of the most important and iconic works of the period, SuperDesign offers a unique new introduction to the legacy of the Italian Radicals.

File under: Archizoom Associati Lapo Binazzi Pietro Derossi Piero Gilardi Ugo La Pietra Gaetano Pesce Gianni Pettena Studio 65 Superstudio Gruppo Strum UFO Maria Cristina Didero Monacelli Press / New York Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Sculpture / Installation Pop Art Arte Povera

SD (Space Design) no. 121, 1974
Special Issue: Archizoom Associati

1974, Japanese / English
Softcover, 130 pages, 29.3 × 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kajima Institute Publishing / Tokyo

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SD no. 121, 1974
Special Issue: Archizoom Associati

Important issue of Tokyo's SD in the printed history of Italian radical design, presenting an in-depth feature on the group Archizoom Associati, introduced by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki (translated to English), with text in Japanese by Ettore Sottsass Jr.
Contents include:
Works of Archizoom :
Archizoom Associati Revival Catalog 1966-73

Archizoom Associati 1966-67
Gazebos by the Archizoom Associati
Prototypes 1968
Urban Photo-montages
Plans and fitting out
Product Design
Dressing Design
No-stop City
Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout with examples of their incredible environments, architecture, installations, furniture, textiles, and drawings.

This issue also features a special section on the Spokane Expo '74, Hans Poelzig, Environmental Recycling, Tuscany, Children's Playgrounds, and more.

SD (Space Design): A monthly journal on Art and Architecture, was founded in Japan in 1965; a comprehensive monthly magazine on architecture, urban problems and fine arts which was unique in the world and quickly became a leading, highly-esteemed journal of international modern design. Issues are now a much sought-after archival resource.

File under: Archizoom Associati Ettore Sottsass Arata Isozaki Ettore Sottsass Arata Isozaki Kajima Institute Publishing / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Furniture Fashion Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism