World Food Books' programme is largely produced on Kulin Nation land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the first and continuing custodians of this land, and pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
World Food Books is an arts and special interests bookshop in Naarm / Melbourne. Founded in 2010, World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, the avant-garde, the heretic, the marginal.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print books, catalogues and journals spanning the fields of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, illustration, film, literature, poetry, cultural theory, philosophy, sexuality, popular and underground culture in its many radical forms, World Food Books wishes to encourage adventurous, thoughtful and open-minded reading, looking, writing, and exchange of publishing and ideas, both current and historical.
As well as our bookshop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a programme of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
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Interested in selling your old books, catalogues, journals, magazines, comics, fanzines, ephemera? We are always looking for interesting, unusual and out-of-print books to buy. We only buy books in our fields of interest and specialty, and that we feel we can resell.
We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels. We offer cash, store credit, and can take stock on consignment. All
about 25% of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Sell your books any day of the week. You can drop them off and return later. If you have a lot of books, we can visit your Sydney home.
We buy books that we feel we can resell. We offer about 25 % of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Philadelphia Wireman
03 August - 01 September, 2018
World Food Books is proud to announce our next Occasion, the first presentation of sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman in Australia.
The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned in an alley off Philadelphia’s South Street on trash night in 1982. Their discovery in a rapidly-changing neighbourhood undergoing extensive renovation, compounded with the failure of all attempts to locate the artist, suggests that the works may have been discarded after the maker’s death. Dubbed the "Philadelphia Wireman" during the first exhibition of this work, in 1985, the maker’s name, age, ethnicity, and even gender remain uncertain. The entire collection totals approximately 1200 pieces, all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire (along with a few small, abstract marker drawings, reminiscent both of Mark Tobey and J.B. Murry). The dense construction of the work, despite a modest range of scale and materials, is singularly obsessive and disciplined in design: a wire armature or exoskeleton firmly binds a bricolage of found objects including plastic, glass, food packaging, umbrella parts, tape, rubber, batteries, pens, leather, reflectors, nuts and bolts, nails, foil, coins, toys, watches, eyeglasses, tools, and jewellery.
Heavy with associations—anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and socio-cultural responses to wrapped detritus—the totemic sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman have been discussed in the context of work created to fulfil the shamanistic needs of alternative religions in American culture. Curators, collectors, and critics have variously compared certain pieces to sculpture from Classical antiquity, Native American medicine bundles, African-American memory jugs, and African fetish objects. Reflecting the artist’s prolific and incredibly focused scavenging impulse, and despite—or perhaps enhanced by—their anonymity, these enigmatic objects function as urban artefacts and arbiters of power, though their origin and purpose is unknown. Philadelphia Wireman, whatever their identity, possessed an astonishing ability to isolate and communicate the concepts of power and energy through the selection and transformation of ordinary materials. Over the course of the past two decades, this collection has come to be regarded as an important discovery in the field of self-taught art and vernacular art.
Presented in collaboration with Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Robert Heald, Wellington.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
02 February - 10 March, 2018
Susan Te Kahurangi King (24 February 1951 - ) has been a confident and prolific artist since she was a young child, drawing with readily available materials - pencils, ballpoint pens and felt-tip markers, on whatever paper is at hand. Between the ages of four and six Susan slowly ceased verbal communication. Her grandparents William and Myrtle Murphy had developed a special bond with Susan so they took on caring responsibilities for extended periods. Myrtle began informally archiving her work, carefully collecting and storing the drawings and compiling scrapbooks. No drawing was insignificant; every scrap of paper was kept. The King family are now the custodians of a vast collection containing over 7000 individual works, from tiny scraps of paper through to 5 meter long rolls.
The scrapbooks and diaries reveal Myrtle to be a woman of great patience and compassion, seeking to understand a child who was not always behaving as expected. She encouraged Susan to be observant, to explore her environment and absorb all the sights and sounds. Myrtle would show Susan’s drawings to friends and people in her community that she had dealings with, such as shopkeepers and postal workers, but this was not simply a case of a grandmother’s bias. She recognised that Susan had developed a sophisticated and unique visual language and sincerely believed that her art deserved serious attention.
This was an unorthodox attitude for the time. To provide some context, Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to describe work created by self-taught artists – specifically residents of psychiatric institutions and those he considered to be visionaries or eccentrics. In 1972 Roger Cardinal extended this concept by adopting the term Outsider Art to describe work made by non-academically trained artists operating outside of mainstream art networks through choice or circumstance. Susan was born in Te Aroha, New Zealand in 1951, far from the artistic hubs of Paris and London that Dubuffet and Cardinal operated in. That Myrtle fêted Susan as a self-taught artist who deserved to be taken seriously shows how progressive her attitudes were.
Susan’s parents Doug and Dawn were also progressive. Over the years they had consulted numerous health practitioners about Susan’s condition, as the medical establishment could not provide an explanation as to why she had lapsed into silence. Dawn educated herself in the field of homeopathy and went on to treat all twelve of her children using these principles – basing prescriptions on her observations of their physical, mental and emotional state.
Doug was a linguist with an interest in philosophy who devoted what little spare time he had to studying Maori language and culture. To some extent their willingness to explore the fringes of the mainstream made them outsiders too but it was their commitment to living with integrity and their respect for individuality that ensured Susan’s creativity was always encouraged.
Even though Susan’s family supported her artistic pursuits, some staff in schools and hospitals saw it as an impediment to her assimilation into the community and discouraged it in a variety of ways. Her family was not always aware of this and therefore did not fully understand why Susan stopped drawing in the early 1990s. However, rather than dwell on the challenges that Susan faced in pursuit of her artistic practice, they prefer to highlight her achievements. In 2008 Susan began drawing again in earnest, after an almost 20 year interruption, and her work is now shown in galleries around the world.
Susan grew up without television and has been heavily influenced by the comics she read as a child. She is absolutely fearless in the appropriation of recognizable characters, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, in her work. She twists their limbs, contorts their faces, compresses them together, blends them into complex patterned backgrounds - always imbuing them with an incredible energy. Although Susan often used pop culture characters in her work they are not naive or childlike. These are drawings by a brilliant self-taught artist who has been creating exceptional work for decades without an audience in mind.
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People’s Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - “they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me”, “my sweet little lamb”, “work is a disease - Karl Marx”; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
Jonathan Walker
Always Will Need To Wear Winter Shirt Blue + Ochre Small Check Pattern
21 August - 21 September, 2015
Untitled
I am not a great reader of poetry but I always return to the work of Melbourne poet, Vincent Buckley (1925- 1988). Perhaps I find his most tantalising piece to be not a finished poem but a fragment left on a scrap of paper discovered on his desk after the poet’s death.
The poetry gathers like oil
In the word-core, and spreads
It has its music meet,
Its music is in movement.
This fragment is more the shell left behind from a volatile thought than a finished poem. I find the last two lines honest but awkward whereas the first two lines work like an arrow. Most likely he could not find a resolution so it was left. Still, in its present form, it remains an eloquent testimony to the ultimate failure of a medium to express mobile thought and sensation, in Buckley’s case, through verbal language. It’s an important matter because this is something all artists have to deal with regardless of the medium.
I have never written a poem, however, I am forever copying fragments from books on paper scraps in a vain effort to fix certain notions in my head. At first, they function as bookmarks that are sometimes returned to when I open the book. But before long, as they accumulate, they fall out littering the table interspersed with A4 photocopies, bills, books and medications.
To return to Buckley’s fragment, the first two lines very much evoke how I paint nowadays. As you age, detail diminishes and patches of light become more luminous and float. I feel the most honest way of dealing with this is by smearing the oil paint on the canvas with the fingers and working close-up, blind. Only if the patches coalesce into an approaching image can the work gain a life.
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Jonathan Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. In the 1970’s he studied painting at RMIT and won the Harold Wright Scholarship to the British Museum, London. During the 1980’s he exhibited at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond and had work shown at the NGV and Heidi City Art Gallery. Over the same period he designed the cover for the “Epigenesi” LP by Giancarlo Toniutti, Italy and conducted a mail exchange work with Achim Wollscheid, Germany. The work with artists through the post resulted in an article published in the bicentenary issue of Art and Australia 1988. He showed in artist run spaces such as WestSpace in the 90’s and 2000’s, and until 2012, taught painting at Victoria University, which is where we (Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford) as organisers of the exhibition, among many others, had the privilege of being his student.
Walker’s knowledge was imparted to students through the careful selection of music, literature, and artists found in books that he himself had ordered for the library. Walker’s strategy was the generosity of sharing his vast knowledge with references specific to each student and their context.
Walker’s paintings share a similar focus and intimacy.
This exhibition presents a small selection of recent paintings alongside a publication that includes Walker’s writing. Observational and analytical, Walker’s work is a type of material notation — the time of day, colour and how it is blended, the both specific and fleeting location of a reflection on lino or the question of whether a chair leg should be included in a painting.
Please join us on Friday August 21 between 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Curated by Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don’t make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
“BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb.”
“Food Bazaar”
“USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb.”
“RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it’s personal.”
“H. Brickman & Sons.”
“Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn’t absolute in Wurtz’s work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
"Archive"
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
"Habitat"
at Minerva, Sydney (organised by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
“...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing’s face was seared and blackened.”
William Gibson, “Count Zero”, 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980’s, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne’s ‘Fragments’ collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character’ and ‘personality’ in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
1971, English / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 162 pages, 30 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by
Verlag Gerd Hatje / Stuttgart
$100.00 - In stock -
Tenth edition of Gerd Hatje's absolutely invaluable and highly collectable modern furniture series, New Furniture / Neue Möbel, published in eleven comprehensive volumes between 1951-1971. This volume particularly special for those lovers of late 1960's European design and radical developments in plastic/modular/space furniture.
Profusely illustrated throughout with 468 gorgeous studio product photographs, featuring the work of manufacturers, architects, designers: Archizoom, Sergio Asti, Cini Boeri, Luigi Colani, Alvar Aalto, Eero Aarnio, Franco Albini, Gae Aulenti, Mario Bellini, Hans Bellmann, Harry Bertoia, Marcel Breuer, Achille and Pier Castiglione, Norman Cherner, Joe Colombo, Le Corbusier, Robin Day, Charles Eames, Eileen Gray, Walter Gropius, Josef Hoffmann, Arne Jacobsen, Grete Jalk, Pierre Jeanneret, Henning Jensen, Knud Joos, Finn Juhl, Arne Karlsen, Poul Kjaerholm, Kaare Klint, Florence Knoll, Estelle and Erwine Laverne, Oliver Lundquist, Charles Rennie Macintosh, Vico Magistretti, Bruno Mathsson, Paul McCobb, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Verner Panton, Pierre Paulin, Sigurd Persson, Warren Platner, Gio Ponti, Harvey Probber, Robert Probst, Gerrit Rietveld, Jens Risom, Eero Saarinen, Tobia Scarpa, Richard Schultz, Ettore Sottsass, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Hans Wegner, Edward Wormley, Marco Zanuso, Artek, Artemide, B&B Italia, Cassina, Domus, Dunbar Furniture Company, Dux Mobel, Fritz Hansen, Kartell, Knoll International, Van Keppel Green, Laverne, Herman Miller Furniture Company, Olivetti, Pierre Paulin, Harvey Probber, Jens Risom, Steelcase, Thonet, and many more (!)
Contents: introduction; illustrations; chairs; seating arrangements, sofas, beds; tables; office furniture; cabinets and shelves; nursery and school furniture; index: manufacturers, designers, photographers.
Edited by Gerd Hatje and Elke Kaspar.
A fantastic furniture resource.
Text in English and German.
Average—Good ex-libris w. only a few markings but general wear to cloth covers and extremities/corners. Lacks dust jacket.
2024, English
Hardcover, 308 pages, 22 x 30 cm
Published by
Nero / Rome
$95.00 - In stock -
A "minor" and alternative history of architecture.
Initially founded as a Facebook group in May 2019, Forgotten Architecture's goal is to research and unearth not well known modern architecture worldwide. The idea behind it is simple: to recover projects by little-known architects and works left in the shadows of the masters, to delve into the work of "minor" figures, and to unite alternative takes on the History of Architecture as a complement to university courses.
The book maintains its distinctive features of a collective, dynamic, and horizontal experience born on a social network. The publication uses the architectural categories most frequently featured in the group as guiding themes, providing for each project a collection of photographic materials, documents, and drawings from prominent professional firms, institutions, and private archives—such as Fornasetti, Gaetano Pesce, Nanda Vigo, Vitra. Ephemeral architecture, gas stations, night clubs, playgrounds, houses, vacation resorts, cemeteries, churches, architectures in music videos.
Several forgotten projects by well renowned architects, such as the house designed for Arnaldo Pomodoro by Ettore Sottsass Jr. and the avant-garde Binishells by Dante Bini, are published exclusively in the book, alongside drive-in churches, flying houses, psychedelic inflatable architectures, etc.
At the end of the book, a series of critical essays reflect on its characteristics as a collective and pedagogical experience, considering the repercussions of this experience on the discipline of architecture through different points of view.
Bianca Felicori is an architect, author, curator, and PhD researcher at UCLouvain, Bruxelles (FNRS Research Fellow). Her research aims to demonstrate the convergence of artistic and architectural experimentation that emerged in Europe and America during the 1960s and 1970s. Felicori has curated exhibitions and cultural programs, collaborating with institutions such as Triennale Milano and La Biennale di Venezia. Her articles have been featured in magazines such as Domus and AD, and she currently serves as a guest curator for the Elle Decor Italia architectural section. In 2019, she founded the Forgotten Architecture Facebook group, about less-known modern architecture worldwide. In 2021, she co-founded the cultural center DOPO? in Milan.
1978, English / Japanese
Softcover, 160 pages, 26 x 12 cm
Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
The National Museum of Art / Osaka
$180.00 - In stock -
Incredibly rare Japanese publication from 1978, printed on the occasion of a major exhibition entitled "Design and Art of Modern Chairs", August 19—October 15, at the National Museum of Art, Osaka. This wonderful landscape-formatted book is profusely illustrated throughout (in colour and black and white) with the chairs of designers and artists including Gerrit Rietveld, Isamu Kenmochi, Olivier Mourgue, Pierre Paulin, Sadamasa Motonaga, Mario Ceroli, Marcel Breuer, Studio 65, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand, Jan Dranger, Johan Huldt, Robert Haussman, Kwok Hoi Chan, Steen Østergaard, George Nakashima, Mies van der Rohe, Poul Kjaerholm, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Charles Pollock, Aarne Jacobsen, Warren Platner, Roger Tallon, Verner Panton, Earo Aarnio, Bruno Mathsson, Motomi Kawakami, Marco Zanuso, Richard Sapper, Gerd Lange, Vico Magistretti, Alver Aalto, Jonathan de Pas, Paolo Lomazzi, Donato d'Urbino, Giorgio Decursu, Sori Yanagi, Reiko Tanabe-Murai, Wolfgang Mueller-Deisig, Stacy Dukes, Ettore Sottsass, Charles Eames, Hans J. Wegner, Franco Albini, Gio Ponti, Kaare Klint, Enzo Mari, Takeshi Nii, Achille Castiglioni, Achille and Piergiacomo Castiglioni, Tadashi Minohara, Gaetano Pesce, Yrjo Kukkapuro, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Mario Bellini, Cini Boeri, Mario Marenco, Joe Colombo, Piero Gatti, Jonathan de Pas, Paolo Lomazzi, Donato d'Urbino, Ubald Klug, Gerrit Rietveld, Salvador Dali, Poltronova, Cassina, Taro Okamoto. Jiro Takamatsu, Susumu Koshimizu, Shiro Kuramata, Minoru Takeyama, Lucas Samaras, Kozo Mio, Arata Isozaki, Shigeo Fukuda, Takashi Sakaizawa, Constantin Brâncuși, Yoji Kuri, Yayoi Kusama, Vitra, Knoll, Kartell, Herman Miller, Arflex, BBB, Flexform, C&B Italia, Cassina, and many more. Each chair included is detailed with a blurb in Japanese, data/specs of year, designer/artist, manufacture and dimensions. Also includes an illustrated timeline tracing a chronological history of the chairs exhibited, along with a production index and forward texts in English and Japanese. Forms an indispensable index of important modern chair designs from the early 1930s—late 1970s.
Near Fine copy.
1972, English / Japanese
Softcover, 184 pages, 22.5 cm x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
A.D.A Edita / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
Rare fourth issue from 1972 (complete with original issue printed slip-case) of this now classic 1970’s architectural series, the great GI (Global Interior) from Tokyo, Japan.
One of the finest interior architecture journal series ever published, GI “The Series of Global Interior” came from the producers of the highly esteemed GA (Global Architecture), GA Document, GA Houses, etc. architectural publications.
GI was produced throughout the 1970’s in a total of ten volumes. Each large volume highlighted a selection of architectural projects by renowned international architects, some volumes focusing on a specific architect entirely, and highlighted their work for houses and domestic spaces.
Beautiful architectural photography of house interiors, exteriors and room details of living spaces, along with texts (mostly in Japanese) and floor-plans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured building or environment. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and printed journals (each more a book than a magazine) make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.
Edited and Presented by Yukio Futagawa
GI Global Interior #4
Southern Europe
1972
Contents include:
Harnden & Bombelli (House in Malaga), Harnden & Bombelli (Cluster House in Port-Lligat), Harnden & Bombelli (Summer House in Port-Lligat), Harnden & Bombelli (Summer House in Montras), José Antonio Coderch (Tapies House), José Antonio Coderch (House in San Cugat del Valles), José Antonio Coderch (House in Sitges), Antonio Bonet (Villa La "Ricarda"), Tobia Scarpa (Scarpa House), Tobia Scarpa (Benetton House), Angelo Mangiarotti (House in Cisano), Angelo Mangiarotti (Bianchi House), Baldassini, Bichocchi & Monsani (House in Castiglione della Pescaia), Calro Moretti (House in Crenna), Vittoriano Vigano (House along Lake Garda), Luigi Moretti (Villa "La Saracena"), Piero Sartogo (Summer House in Circeo), Piero Sartogo (Cluster House in Circeo), Piero Sartogo (Sartogo House), Morassutti & Gussoni (Carlevaro House), Gio Ponti & Nanda Vigo (House in Malo), Umberto Riva (House in Taino), Cini Boeri (House in Osmate), Vico Magistretti (Cassina House)...
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Very Good copy.
1968, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 208 pages, 23.2 x 16.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Architectural Press / London
$90.00 - Out of stock
First edition of "Exhibitions, Exhibits, Industrial and Trade Fairs", published in 1968 by the Architectural Press in London.
Deeply researched and profusely illustrated with exceptional black and white photography, architectural plans and diagrams, with text by author Wolfgang Clasen, this unique and inspiring book makes the point that "Architectural documentation is particularly important when dealing with a category of works of architecture which are not built to last."
This book perfectly captures a special and most innovative period in modern design and architecture. As the jacket announces: "We are living in an Exhibition Age: Expo 67 in Montreal is scarcely over and we are already looking ahead to the next World Exhibition in Osaka in 1970. In addition to their primary function of communication, exhibitions have a secondary function of almost equal importance: for because of the temporary nature of most exhibition buildings they provide architects and designers with a testing ground where new ideas, new structures and techniques can be tried out.
This book illustrates and describes eighty examples of exhibitions of all kinds taken from thirteen countries and all five continents; the period covered is from 1960 to the present day. Particular emphasis is laid on the newest trends and on such things as nature of most exhibition buildings they provide architects and designers with a testing ground where new ideas, new structures and techniques can be tried out."
Amongst the many fine examples of cultural exhibitions, commercial and trade expos and temporary pavilions are examples of works by Gio Ponti, Buckminster Fuller, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Wim Crouwel, Total Design, Vittorio Gregotti, Eero Saarinen, Angelo Mangiarotti, Will Burtin, Charles and Ray Eames, Paolo Nestler, Henri Kay Henrion, Rolf Gutbrod, Xenakis, Frei Otto, Ulf Linde, Per-Olof Ultvedt, Will Burtin, Walter Kuhn, and many more.
Separate chapters on fair stands, display units and exhibit systems round off this exhaustive treatise on exhibition architecture with a full index of architects and designers.
Text in English and German.
Very good copy, with original Gio Ponti dust-jacket protected under mylar wrap. Light wear/tan/dust to edges.
1968, Italian / English
Softcover, 84 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Editoriale Domus / Milan
$65.00 - Out of stock
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.
domus No. 462 Maggio 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, and more.
features :
Archizoom; The Living Theatre; "The New Headquarters for the Ford Foundation in New York" by architects Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates; "National Aquarium in Washington" by architects Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates, with Office of Charles Eames; "Pneu: Inflatable Structures and Forms"; "A Mini Space" by Joe Colombo; new lamp edition from Didier Bernardin; Multiples by Franco Angeli, Lucio Fontana, Gino Marotta, Gianni Colombo, David Morris, Fabrizio Cocchia, etc. by Tommaso Trini; "Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1868-1968; "Magistretti in Paris : the Cerruti 1881 styling centre"; Art exhibitions all over the world; Book reviews; Lourdes Castro / Cesar / Jean-Pierre Raynaud by Pierre Restany; "The House of Roger Tallon"; Pino Pascali; Giulio Paolini; 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.
1979, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 96 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Studio Vista / London
The Whitney Library of Design / New York
$85.00 - Out of stock
First edition from 1979 of One Room Interiors: 34 Designs from Around the World, edited by Franco Magnani and published by the great Studio Vista in London and The Whitney Library of Design in the United States and Canada. Profusely illustrated throughout with fine examples of small open-plan interiors that don't let spatial restriction impact their elegance, expression, comfort and style. Wonderful interiors, largely Italian, featuring the decor and furniture of Ponti, Munari, Colombo, SITE, and many more.
Very Good copy in VG dust jacket.
2018, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 14 x 19 cm
Published by
Quodlibet / Italy
$53.00 - Out of stock
This book presents a collection of the works of architecture designed by Gio Ponti in Milan between 1925 and 1971. There are around forty buildings. Apart from a few works that have undergone radical alterations, these houses, churches, and offices have been left as they were, a delightful heritage for the Milanese who have been living and working in them or just looking at them for almost a century. The book contains a map of Milan with all Ponti’s buildings.
English, 1968
Hardcover, 208 pages, 23.2 x 16.7 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York
$60.00 - Out of stock
First US edition of "Exhibitions, Exhibits, Industrial and Trade Fairs", published in 1968 by the Architectural Press in London and Praeger in New York.
Deeply researched and profusely illustrated with exceptional black and white photography, architectural plans and diagrams, with text by author Wolfgang Clasen, this unique and inspiring book makes the point that "Architectural documentation is particularly important when dealing wit a category of works of architecture which are not built to last."
This book perfectly captures a special and most innovative period in modern design and architecture. As the jacket announces: "We are living in an Exhibition Age: Expo 67 in Montreal is scarcely over and we are already looking ahead to the next World Exhibition in Osaka in 1970. In addition to their primary function of communication, exhibitions have a secondary function of almost equal importance: for because of the temporary nature of most exhibition buildings they provide architects and designers with a testing ground where new ideas, new structures and techniques can be tried out.
This book illustrates and describes eighty examples of exhibitions of all kinds taken from thirteen countries and all five continents; the period covered is from 1960 to the present day. Particular emphasis is laid on the newest trends and on such things as nature of most exhibition buildings they provide architects and designers with a testing ground where new ideas, new structures and techniques can be tried out."
Amongst the many fine examples of cultural exhibitions, commercial and trade expos and temporary pavilions are examples of works by Gio Ponti, Buckminster Fuller, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Wim Crouwel, Total Design, Vittorio Gregotti, Eero Saarinen, Angelo Mangiarotti, Will Burtin, Charles and Ray Eames, Paolo Nestler, Henri Kay Henrion, Rolf Gutbrod, Xenakis, Frei Otto, Ulf Linde, Per-Olof Ultvedt, Will Burtin, Walter Kuhn, and many more.
Separate chapters on fair stands, display units and exhibit systems round off this exhaustive treatise on exhibition architecture with a full index of architects and designers.
Text in English and German.
Good ex-library copy, without dust jacket.
1953, Italian / English
Softcover, 84 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
$40.00 $20.00 - Out of stock
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.
domus No. 288 Novembre 1953
Editor : Gio Ponti
features :
Architecture by Le Corbusier, Ernst Plishke, Egon Eiermann, Gio Ponti, Jean Prouvé, Harry Seidler, Giorgio Host Ivessich, Ettore Sottsass jr., Ico and Luisa Parisi, Mario Burzio, Gianemilio Monti, Piero and Anna Monti; Ceramics by Luigi Gheno, Italian Ceramics; interiors/furniture/object/industrial design by Luisa Parisi, Eero Saarinen, Giacomo Castiglioni, Paul Boissevain, Alberto Rosselli, Kaj Franck; Textiles by Arne Jacobsen; Graphic design of Gordon Andrews; and much more.
Beautifully printed in Italy and heavily illustrated throughout with vivid colour and black and white photography across multiple paper stocks.
Good copy with tanning and edge wear from age, spine flaking. Occasional light moisture wear to some pages and cover.
1954, Italian / English
Softcover, 84 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Editoriale Domus / Milan
$40.00 $20.00 - Out of stock
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.
domus No. 293 aprile 1954
Editor : Gio Ponti
features :
Architecture by Richard Neutra, Ettore Sottsass jr., Georg Maria Lunenborg; Vittorio Gregotti, Lodovico Meneghetti, G.W. van Essen, Vico Magistretti; interiors/furniture/object design by Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Carl Auböck, Vittoriano Viano, Greta Magnusson Grossman, Ignazio Gardella, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Marco Zanuso, Carlo Pagani, Gio Ponti; the theatre design of Pietro Zuffi; Finnish decorative ceramics; tableware by James Prestini; modular Italian furniture; glassware by Timo Sarpaneva; ceramics/flatware by Gio Ponti, Raymond Elston, Conran di Londra; and much more.
Beautifully printed in Italy and heavily illustrated throughout with vivid colour and black and white photography across multiple paper stocks.
1954, Italian / English
Softcover, 84 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Editoriale Domus / Milan
$40.00 $20.00 - Out of stock
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.
domus No. 294 maggio 1954
Editor : Gio Ponti
features :
Architecture by Giuseppe Mario Oliveri, Gino Levi-Montalcini, Craig Ellwood, Richard Neutra, Buckminster Fuller; Olivetti; French kitchens; interiors/furniture/object/industrial design by George Nelsen, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Leonardo Fiori, Enrico Taglietti, Gianfranco Frattini, Gion Ponti, Carlo Mangani, Ettore Sottsass jnr., Giorgio Madini, Carlo Mollino, Marco Zanuso, Ignazio Gardeila, Giulio Minoletti, Franco Berlanda, Sergio J. Hutter, Carlo de Carli, Charlotte Perriand, Paul Kjaerholm; the work of Olivier Strebelle, Graziano Gasparini, Gio Ponti, Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes, and much more.
Beautifully printed in Italy and heavily illustrated throughout with vivid colour and black and white photography across multiple paper stocks.
Good copy with usual tanning and edge wear, spine flaking. Occasional light moisture wear to some pages, not many.
1954, Italian / English
Softcover, 84 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Editoriale Domus / Milan
$40.00 - Out of stock
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.
domus No. 295 glugno 1954
Editor : Gio Ponti
features :
Gio Ponti architectural report on Vanezuela and the capital of Caracas, including the work of Carlos Raúl Villanueva, Luis Barragán, Oscar Niemeyer, Rino Levi, Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger, etc.; exhibition of Georges Rouault designed by Ignazio Gardella; the work of Salvatore Fiume, Gino Meloni, Leonardo Cremonini, Pietro; the house of Charles Forberg and Ati Gropius Forberg; the kites of Franz de Geetre; interiors and space design by Leonardo Fiori, Luisa Castiglioni, Angelo Mangiarotti; a rug by Gio Ponti; furniture/design by Yngve Ekström, Franco Albini, Carlo Santi, Gio Ponti, Paolo De Poli, Piero and Anna Monti, Vico Magistretti, Giancarlo Pozzi, Gianfranco Frattini, Ado Franchini; and much more.
Beautifully printed in Italy and heavily illustrated throughout with vivid colour and black and white photography across multiple paper stocks.
Good copy with tanning and edge wear from age, spine flaking. Occasional light moisture wear to some pages.
1982, English / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 308 pages, 30.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
The Design Council / London
$80.00 - Out of stock
First edition of "Contemporary Furniture : An International Review 1950 to the Present", edited by Klaus-Juergen Sembach and published in English in 1982. This hardcover volume highlights and reproduces the best in contemporary furniture from the eleven volumes of Gerd Hatje's absolutely invaluable and highly collectable Neue Mobel [New Furniture] series, published between 1951-1971.
Profusely illustrated throughout with 1033 photographs from the original editions, spanning 308 pages, featuring the work of manufacturers, architects, designers: Alvar Aalto, Eero Aarnio, Franco Albini, Gae Aulenti, Mario Bellini, Hans Bellmann, Harry Bertoia, Marcel Breuer, Achille and Pier Castiglione, Norman Cherner, Joe Colombo, Le Corbusier, Robin Day, Charles Eames, Eileen Gray, Walter Gropius, Josef Hoffmann, Arne Jacobsen, Grete Jalk, Pierre Jeanneret, Henning Jensen, Knud Joos, Finn Juhl, Arne Karlsen, Poul Kjaerholm, Kaare Klint, Florence Knoll, Estelle and Erwine Laverne, Oliver Lundquist, Charles Rennie Macintosh, Vico Magistretti, Bruno Mathsson, Paul McCobb, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Verner Panton, Pierre Paulin, Sigurd Persson, Warren Platner, Gio Ponti, Harvey Probber, Robert Probst, Gerrit Rietveld, Jens Risom, Eero Saarinen, Tobia Scarpa, Richard Schultz, Ettore Sottsass, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Hans Wegner, Edward Wormley, Marco Zanuso, Artek, Artemide, B&B Italia, Cassina, Domus, Dunbar Furniture Company, Dux Mobel, Fritz Hansen, Kartell, Knoll International, Van Keppel Green, Laverne, Herman Miller Furniture Company, Olivetti, Pierre Paulin, Harvey Probber, Jens Risom, Steelcase, Thonet, and many more (!)
Contents: introduction, illustrations, classical models reproduced, chairs and armchairs, seating arrangements, sofas, beds; tables, office furniture, cabinets and shelves, nursery and school furniture, index: manufacturers, designers, photographers.
An fantastic furniture resource. Text in English and German.
Good hardcover (ex-libris) with dust jacket.
1968, English / Italian / French / German
Hardcover (cloth), 206 pages, 31.7 × 21.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Carlo Bestetti / Italy
$100.00 - Out of stock
Stunning, scarce hardcover book designed by Bruno Munari and published in 1968. First, only edition.
DESIGN ITALIANO : MOBILI, FURNITURE, MEUBLES, MOBEL handsomely compiles the work of modern Italian furniture designers of the 1960's, including Mario Bellini, Angelo Mangiarotti, Archizoom, Ettore Sottsass, Joe Colombo, Gae Aulenti, Tobia Scarpa, Bruno Munari, Kazuhide Takahama, Gio Ponti, and many more, all laid out with Munari's impeccable approach to composition and texture, echoing the object designs themselves.
All text in four languages: English, Italian, French, German.
Bruno Munari (1907-1997) was a leading Italian graphic designer, illustrator, painter, sculptor, photographer, exhibition designer, and industrial designer.
*Condition - Average-Good (cover and spine worn with some chipping and tanning, with ex-library stamping and cards to endpapers, otherwise internally a very good copy throughout)
1970, Italian
Softcover, 160 pages, 21 x 24 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
$70.00 - Out of stock
Issue 17 (1970) of Ottagono (Rivista Trimestrale Di Architettura Arredamento Industrial Design / Quarterly Magazine of Architecture, Furniture Design, Design Industrial Design)
This wonderfully designed Italian design journal featured heavily illustrated (in colour and b&w) articles on the latest developments, productions, exhibitions, publications, etc. in industrial design, furniture and architecture, including historical articles and theory from some of the leading figures in the field.
Ottagono 17 includes articles and profiles by/on/featuring: Achille Castiglioni, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Fabio Lenci, Tobia Scarpa, Charles Eames, Gianfranco Frattini, Osvaldo Borsani, Eugenio Gerli, Cini Boeri, Bruno Munari, Angelo Mangiarotti, Aldo Rossi, Carlo Santini, Dieter Rams, Lucio Fontana, Vico Magistretti, Joe Colombo, Richard Sapper, Marco Zanuso, Gio Ponti, Arflex, Artemide, Bernini, Braun, Cassina, Tecno, Flos, Olivetti, Kartell, and much more.
1982, English
Softcover, 86 pages, 22 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Instituto Nazionale / Rome
$70.00 - Out of stock
Very scarce and uncatalogued Italian furniture survey catalogue published in 1987 to accompany a major exhibition showcasing an extensive group of Italy's leading furniture and industrial designers and manufacturers of the 1970's-1980's, held at Sydney Town Hall and Centennial Hall in Melbourne in late 1982.
Entire catalogue is made up of photographic profile spreads of manufactures and the designers they represent, with logo, profile (in English), furniture specs. Black and white with blue spot printing throughout. Features the work of: : De Pas-D’Urbino-Lomazzi, Vico Magistretti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Pio Manzù, A. Mazzoni, Paolo Nava, Giovanni Offredi, Giancarlo Peretti, Gio Ponti, Gigi Sabadin, Carlo Santi, Richard Sapper, Afra Scarpa, Tobia Scarpa, Giotto Stoppino, Kazuhide Takahama, Werther Toffoloni, Carlo Urbinati, Marco Zanuso, Lodovico Acerbis, Franco Aibini, Tito Agnoli, Alessandro Becchi, Ammannati & Vitelli, Mario Bellini, Osvaldo Borsani, Giulio Cappellini, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Achille Castiglioni, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Giorgio Cattelan, Pierluigi Cerri, Studio Tecnico, Antonio Citterio, Gianfranco Frattini, Bruno Gecchelin, Eugenio Geri, Ernesto Gismondi, Franca Helg, Artemide, B & B italia, BBB, Cassina, Tecno, Castelli, Flos, Kartell, Zanotta, and many more.
Published by Instituto Nazionale and designed/printed in Italy.
1982, German
Hardcover (limited ed. Laminate cover), 260 pages, 24 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by
Werkbund / Bremen
$350.00 - Out of stock
Beautiful over-sized book published on the occasion of a special exhibition in Lower Saxony and Bremen in 1982 entitled "Provokationen. Design Aus Italien : Ein Mythos Geht Neue Wege".
Published more broadly as a softcover book in 1982, here is one of the very limited edition hardcover versions, produced in collaboration between the designers Andrea Branzi, Paola Navone, Mario Radice, Ettore Sottsass Jr. and Superstudio with Firma Abet Laminati in Turin, especially for the exhibition. Each of the limited hardcover copies is sandwiched between two pieces of actual laminate panels designed by the designers and produced by Abet Laminati.
This particular copy features the work of Superstudio (front cover laminate) and Paola Navone (back cover laminate).
A very collectable copy of an incredible, scarce, heavy Italian design book!
Handsomely designed and profusely illustrated throughout with large black and white examples of the work of Enzo Mari, Sergio Asti, Gae Aulenti, Andrea Branzi, Superstudio, Achille and Piergiacomo Castiglioni, Marco Zanuso, Roberto Arioli, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Emma Schweinberger Gismondi, Angelo Mangiarotti, Mario Bellini, Gio Ponti, Martine Bendin, Daniela Puppa, Antonia Astori de Ponti, Franco Mirenzi, Joe Colombo, Ennio Lucini, Elio Martinelli, Sottsass Associates, Alessandro Mendini, Franco Raggi, Studio Alchimia, Gaetano Pesce, Franco Mello, Guido Drocco, Studio 65, UFO, Jonathan De Pas, Donato D'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Aldo Rossi, Vico Magistretti, Achille Castiglioni, Sergio De Michiel, Paolo Nava, Mario Dell'Orto, Antonio Citterio, Anrea Bellosi, Richard Sapper, Bruno Munari, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Giulietto Cacciari, Man Ray, Gigi Sabadin, Antonia Astori de Ponte, Mario Ceroli, Lucchino Oltrona Visconti, Michele De Lucchi, Michael Graves, Paolo Portoghesi, Stanley Tigerman, Oscar Tusquets, Robert Venturi, Kuzumasa Yamashita, and more.
And also the work of Gerrit Rietveld, Giuseppe Terragni, Alvar Aalto, Eileen Gray, Sonja Delaunay, Marcel Breuer, Karl Josef Jucker, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Josef Hoffman in their original, influential forms, and their re-inventions by Alessandro Mendini and co.
1987, French
Softcover, 150 pages, 21 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by
Sotheby's / Monaco
$70.00 - Out of stock
Special Monaco auction catalogue from 1987 focussing in on vast lots of lavish and rarely-seen modern furniture from Villa C. a Croix, a large modernist mansion created by Robert Mallet-Stevens in 1931-32. The influential French architect and designer was responsible for all the interior fittings and furnishings of this extraordinary example of modern residential architecture. It's luxury did not lie in carved detailing or gilding, but unfolded in the richness of the materials used, such as unadorned marble, metal and wood, the simplicity and functionality of the furniture prevailing in all parts to echo the architectural surrounds. This striking collection includes, alongside an impeccable group of furnishings by Mallet-Stevens, Marcel Breuer, Charlotte Perriand, Boris Lacroix, Thonet, Mies van der Rohe, Maxime Brunfaut, Pierre Chareau, Jean Michel Frank, Eileen Gray, Gio Ponti, Diego Giacometti, and many more. Catalogue also features lots that include fine examples of Josef Hoffmann, Robert Oerly, Walter Gropius, Jean Dunand, Émile Gallé, Daum crystal, François Décorchemont, Tiffany, Jean Goulden, Gio Ponti, and many more Art Deco and Bauhaus pieces.
Heavily illustrated throughout entire catalogue in colour and black and white, including all item details and inserted price list.
1984, English / German
Softcover, 160 pages, 19 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by
Galerie Wolkfgang Ketterer / Munich
$70.00 - Out of stock
Fantastic and very informative, fully-illustrated auction catalogue from Galerie Wolkfgang Ketterer, 1984, for a major auction of "Italian Design Pieces from the Period 1951-1973". Design editions, one-off prototypes, lamps, furniture by Archizoom, Gae Aulenti, Sergio Asti, Osvaldo Borsani, Giorgio Ceretti, Studio 65, Joe Colombo, Guido Drocco, Piero Gilardi, Paolo Lomazzi, Raymond Hains, Ugo La Pietra, Enzo Mari, Mario Mare, Luigi Massoni, Sergio Mazza, Ettore Sottsass, Franco Mello, Gaetano Pesce, Gio Ponti, Giuseppe Raimondi, G. Reggiani, Rudy Righi, Superstudio, Vinicio Vianello, Marco Zanuso, and many more for Arflex, Gufram, Artemide, Fontana Arte, Artluce, B.B.B., C&B, Flos, Habitat, Galleria Il Sestante, Kartell, Poltronova, Tecno, Totem, and many more. Well-known and long lost, very obscure works in this valuable catalogue, all items photographed (in black and white and colour), with production details and a blurb on each piece in both English and German.
1982, German
Hardcover (limited ed. Laminate cover), 260 pages, 24 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by
Werkbund / Bremen
$350.00 - Out of stock
Beautiful over-sized book published on the occasion of a special exhibition in Lower Saxony and Bremen in 1982 entitled "Provokationen. Design Aus Italien : Ein Mythos Geht Neue Wege".
Published more broadly as a softcover book in 1982, here is one of the very limited edition hardcover versions, produced in collaboration between the designers Andrea Branzi, Paola Navone, Mario Radice, Ettore Sottsass Jr. and Superstudio with Firma Abet Laminati in Turin, especially for the exhibition. Each of the limited hardcover copies is sandwiched between two pieces of actual laminate panels designed by the designers and produced by Abet Laminati.
This particular copy features the work of Ettore Sottsass Jr. (both front and back cover laminates).
A very collectable copy of an incredible, scarce, heavy Italian design book!
Handsomely designed and profusely illustrated throughout with large black and white examples of the work of Enzo Mari, Sergio Asti, Gae Aulenti, Andrea Branzi, Superstudio, Achille and Piergiacomo Castiglioni, Marco Zanuso, Roberto Arioli, Ettore Sottsass, Emma Schweinberger Gismondi, Angelo Mangiarotti, Mario Bellini, Gio Ponti, Martine Bendin, Daniela Puppa, Antonia Astori de Ponti, Franco Mirenzi, Joe Colombo, Ennio Lucini, Elio Martinelli, Sottsass Associates, Alessandro Mendini, Franco Raggi, Studio Alchimia, Gaetano Pesce, Franco Mello, Guido Drocco, Studio 65, UFO, Jonathan De Pas, Donato D'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Aldo Rossi, Vico Magistretti, Achille Castiglioni, Sergio De Michiel, Paolo Nava, Mario Dell'Orto, Antonio Citterio, Anrea Bellosi, Richard Sapper, Bruno Munari, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Giulietto Cacciari, Man Ray, Gigi Sabadin, Antonia Astori de Ponte, Mario Ceroli, Lucchino Oltrona Visconti, Michele De Lucchi, Michael Graves, Paolo Portoghesi, Stanley Tigerman, Oscar Tusquets, Robert Venturi, Kuzumasa Yamashita, and more.
And also the work of Gerrit T. Rietveld, Giuseppe Terragni, Alvar Aalto, Eileen Gray, Sonja Delaunay, Marcel Breuer, Karl Josef Jucker, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Josef Hoffman in their original, influential forms, and their re-inventions by Alessandro Mendini and co.
1997, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dustjacket), 144 pages, 23 x 30 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
Kajima Institute Publishing / Tokyo
$100.00 - Out of stock
Very scarce first edition of this wonderfully compiled hardcover Japanese compendium from the late 1990s of chairs designed by notable architects throughout the ages, from Art Nouveau to Bauhaus to Postmodern. All designers and their selected chairs are sleekly photographed and profiled alongside archival images of the furniture in its original interior architectural contexts. Edited by SD (Space Design), this book also contains historical essays/text sections throughout the book on differing paper stocks with images and texts in Japanese. Profusely illustrated and in brand new condition with original dust-jacket.
Architects featured:
Adolf Loos, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Antonio Gaudi, Henry van de Velde, Josef Hoffmann, Carlo Bugatti, Kaare Jensen Klint, Otto Wagner, Eliel Saarinen, Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, El Lissitzky, Erik Gunnar Asplund, Marcel Lajos Breuer, Mart Stam, Pierre Chareau, Eileen Gray, L. Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier + Pierre Janneret + Charlotte Perriand, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Alvar Aalto, Kay Fisker, Rene Herbst, Jean Prouve, Michel Dufet, Giuseppe Terragni, Bruno Taut, Richard J. Neutra, Eero Saarinen, Charles Eames, Marco Zanuso, Finn Juhl, Max Bill, Gio Ponti, Arne Jacobsen, A. Laymand, N. Laymond, Franco Albini, George Nelson, Vilhelm Wohlert, Florence Knoll, Illmari Tapiovaara, Achiile & P.G. Castiglioni, Achiile Castiglioni, Angelo Mangiarotti, Gae Aulenti, Warren Platner, Vico Magistretti, P. Gatti + C. Paolini + F. Teodoro, Afra + Tobia Scarpa, Jorn Utzon, Joe C. CoIombo, Carlo Scarpa, Mario Bellini, Aldo Rossi, Cini Boeri, Antonio Citterio, Giandomenico Belotti, Paolo Deganello, Richard Meier, Stefan Wewerka, Mario Botta, Ettore Sottsass, Michele de Lucchi, Antti Nurmesniemi, Alessandro Mendini, Charles Pfister, De. Pas + D'urbino + Lomazzi, Robert Venturi, Michael Graves, Enzo Mari.
1966, English / Dutch
Paperback, 56 pages, 18.5 x 27.5 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam
$80.00 - Out of stock
Published by Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1966, this iconic Wim Crouwel designed catalogue accompanied an important thematic exhibition, on the development of seating furniture from 1915, focusing on modern European chair design, at Stedelijk Museum, 3 June - 4 September 1966.
Features: Alvar Aalto, Sem Aardewerk, Cor Alons, Gunnar Aagaard Andersen, Harry Bertoia, Max Bill, Werner Blaser, Antonio Bonet, Osvaldo Borsani, Jac. Bot, Marcel Breuer, Ebbe Clemmensen, Karen Clemmensen, Joe Colombo, Terence Conran, Robin Day, Erich Dieckmann, Nanna Ditzel, A. Dolleman, Charles & Ray Eames, Hans Eichenberger, Egon Eiermann, Gunnar Eklöf, Yngve Ekström, Hans Ell, Preben Fabricius, Alberto Ferrari, Josef Frank, Nicholas Frewing, Eugenio Gerli, Jac Haan, Geoffrey Harcourt, Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Niels Jørgen Haugesen, René Herbst, Herbert Hirche, Josef Hoffmann, Peter Hvidt, Karl Irmler, Arne Jacobsen, Grete Jalk, J.E. Jelles, Torsten Johansson, Finn Juhl, Jørgen Kastholm, William Katavolos, Douglas Kelley, Kho Liang Ie, Poul Kjaerholm, Inger Klingenberg, Kaare Klint, Mogens Koch, Otto Kolb, Nico Kraij, Friso Kramer, Piet Kramer, Yrjö Kukkapuro, Juan Kurchan, Erwine Laverne, Le Corbusier, Georg Leowald, Ross Littell, Stig Lønngren, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Olli Mannermaa, Justa Masbeck, Bruno Matthson, David de Mayo, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen, George Nelson, Jens Nielsen, Antti Nurmesniemi, Walter Pabst, Pagani, Verner Panton, Pierre Paulin, Willem Penaat, R.J. Perreau, Charlotte Perriand, A. Philippus, Gio Ponte, H. Potter, Jean Prouvé, Roland Rainer, Bodo Rasch, Gerrit Rietveld, Wim Rietveld, Wilhelm Ritz, Eero Saarinen, Hein Salomonson, Jean Schofield, Otto Seng, Dirk van Sliedregt, Mart Stam, Rudolf Steiger, Hein Stolle, Folke Sunberg, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Theo Tempelman, Heinrich Tessenow, Giovanni Travasa, Martin Visser, Dieter Waeckerlin, Hans J. Wegner, Rudolf Wolf, John Wright, Sori Yanagi, Marco Zanuso.
Text in Dutch and English.
Design by Wim Crouwel.
1988, English / Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 341 pages, 24 x 31 cm
1st Japanese cover edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by
Books Nippan / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
One of the most incredible books on Italian design of the last century, this epic, long-out-of-print volume, published in Japan in 1988, is as visually encompassing in it's design and visual content as it is invaluable as a resource of essays and profiles on the many artists and designers working in Italy from (roughly) the 1930's to the late 1980's.
With texts by none other than Mario Bellini, Andrea Branzi, and Bruno Munari, this heavy volume, co-ordinated by Fumio Shimizu and Studio Matteo Thun, is broken into "The First Generation" (Carlo Alessi, Bruno Munari, Gio Ponti, Carlo Scarpa, and many others); "The Second Generation" (Mario Bellini, Aldo Rossi, Alessandro Mendini, Enzo Mari, Ettore Sottsass, and many others); "The Third Generation" (Andrea Branzi, George J. Sowden, Ugo La Pietra, Paolo Deganello, and many others); "The Fourth Generation" (Alchimia, Aldo Cibic, Michele De Lucchi, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Matteo Thun, Alessio Sarri, and many others) - all with illustrated examples of their furniture, architecture, fashion, product design, interiors, etc. and profiles on each and every featured artist and designer. The names above are only the tip of the iceberg of the many amazing practices highlighted in this book, many of which are not easily found in any other publications on the subject.
Highly recommended and very scarce.
All texts are in both English and Japanese.
"Engaging Italian industry and culture in a single-minded and spontaneous project of national image building, Italy's designers have produced a complete variety of forms--fashion, graphic arts and product and set design--with a unique international resonance. This volume explores Italian design of the last half-century, featuring the classic lines of the Vespa, Bruno Munari's deconstruction of the common fork, the nostalgic appeal of Italo Marchioni's ice cream cone and the sleek Minimalism of Alberto Meda's 1987 "Light Light Chair," among many other masterpieces. Paola Antonelli's lively introduction provides an overview of Italy's design culture; an essay by Giampiero Bosoni illuminates the design objects that are superbly reproduced in the volume's plate section."