World Food Books

The Anti-Museum : An Anthology

2017, English
Hardcover, 792 pages, 17.3 x 26.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Koenig Books / London

$140.00 - Out of stock

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First edition, out-of-print.

Created by curator Mathieu Copeland and artist Balthazar Lovay, together with a stellar list of contributors, The Anti-Museum presents the first extensive exploration of the radical and paradoxical concept that is ‘the anti-museum’ – a term so present in Art History and yet that has never been the object of an investigation and definition.

The museum is constantly a target for criticism, whether it comes from artists, thinkers, curators, or even the public. From the avant-gardes of the twentieth century up to present day, the museumʼs suspect position has generated countless gestures, iconoclastic actions, scathing attacks, utopias, and alternative exhibition spaces.

For the first time, this anthology is devoted to the anti-museum, through anti-art, the anti-artist, anti-exhibition, as well as anti-architecture, anti-philosophy, anti-religion, anti-cinema and anti-music. This notion (unpatented but regularly reappropriated) traces the erratic and sometimes paradoxical counter-history of the contestation of artistic institutions.

From the first anti-exhibition to the first catalogue retracing the history of Closed Exhibitions, from Dada to Noise music, from ‘Everything is Art’ to NO!art, the Japanese avant-gardes to Lettrist cinema, and not forgetting such major protest figures as Gustav Metzger, Henry Flynt, Graciela Carnevale, and Lydia Lunch, The Anti-Museum sketches a polyphonic panorama where negation is accompanied by a powerful breath of life.

This encyclopedic tome includes the work of over 80 artists and writers including Marcel Broodthaers, Maurizio Cattelan, Maria Eichhorn, Robert Smithson, Jean Tinguely, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Yvonne Rainer, Guillaume Apollinaire, Kenneth Goldsmith, George Maciunas, and Bob Nickas.

Very Good—Near Fine copy.

File under: John Armleder Robert Barry Genesis P-Orridge Andrea Branzi Piero Gilardi Kenneth Goldsmith Robert Morris Jean Toche Ettore Sottsass Guerilla Art Action Group Gareth James Henry Flynt Mierle Laderman Ukeles Marcel Broodthaers Yvonne Rainer Maurizio Cattelan Maria Eichhorn Robert Smithson Jean Tinguely Rirkrit Tiravanija Gustav Metzger Graciela Carnevale Lydia Lunch Zach Blas Johannes Cladders Beatriz Colomina Henry Flynt Kenneth Goldsmith Krist Gruijthuijsen Robert Morris Bob Nickas Sören Schmeling Reiko Tomii Jon Hendricks Jean Toche Andrea Branzi Ettore Sottsass Allan Wallach Guerilla Art Action Group Gareth James Mathieu Copeland Balthazar Lovay Marcel Broodthaers George Maciunas Guillaume Apollinaire Koenig Books / London Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Art Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Curatorial Dada Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Painting Film / Video

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

$80.00 - Out of stock

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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

Learning From Milan : Design and the Second Modernity
by Andrea Branzi

1988, English
Softcover, 100 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$55.00 $20.00 - Out of stock

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Long out-of-print classic 1988 textbook from the great Andrea Branzi, published by The MIT Press. Learning from Milan begins where his previous discourses on the sources and traditions of Italian design leave off and draws on the Italian experience to address issues of international significance.

Andrea Branzi is one of Italy's leading design critics and practitioners. Learning from Milan begins where his previous discourses on the sources and traditions of Italian design leave off and draws on the Italian experience to address issues of international significance. Moving from a pointed summary and interpretation of design over the past two decades to a highly charged manifesto and blueprint for designers of the next century, this is Branzi's most provocative and original work to date. Foremost among the challenges now facing designers is the development of expressive talents appropriate to what Branzi calls the "second modernity," a stable diversity that has emerged during the difficult transition front industrialism to post industrialism. Branzi covers the design debates that have taken place outside of Italy in the United States, Japan, and Germany. He takes up the widely observed but little discussed questions of why Argentina has produced such extraordinary design talent in recent decades; why Canada has the potential for becoming a major geographical design center in the next generation; and why the famous design school at Ulm, West Germany, has had such a powerful and, in Branzi's view, negative influence on international design. Branzi examines the key laboratories of Italian design Global Tools, Alchymia, Winphis, Domus, Academy and Zabro identifying the qualities that set Italian design thinking apart from the approach of the rest of Europe. And he looks at the production mechanisms and entrepreneurial cycles that made the rise of manufacturers like, Canina, Zanotta, and Bartell possible.

Andrea Branzi lives and works in Milan where he is Educational Director of Domus Academy and Editorial Director of MOIETY. He is author of The Hot House: Italian New Wave Design and, with Nicoletta, Branzi, of Domestic Animals: The Neoprimitive Style.

Ex-libris copy with laminate stiff protective cover and associated markings/stickers. Otherwise clean interior, never borrowed copy.

File under: Andrea Branzi Memphis Alchimia Studio Alchimia Studio Alchymia Global Tools Andrea Branzi The MIT Press / Massachusetts Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay SALE

Terrazzo Number 5
Fall 1990 (Ed. Barbara Radice)

1990, English
Softcover (french-folds and obi), 34 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Terrazzo / Milan

$150.00 - Out of stock

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TERRAZZO was a very special biannual publication on architecture and design, edited and published between 1988–1995 by Barbara Radice, a prominent Italian author, design critic and member of the Memphis Milano design group. In conjunction with Ettore Sottsass, Christoph Radl, Anna Wagner and Santi Caleca, Radice created a unique and thoughtful periodical that focused on contemporary works of design and architecture, within Italy and abroad, touching on a vast array of disciplines in each issue, including literature, poetry, history, science, philosophy, art and anthropology. Like no other magazine.

TERRAZZO 5 Fall 1990 features : DOLCE STIL NUOVO by Andrea Branzi, TOYO ITO
Let it breathe by Toyo Ito, JOSH SCHWEITZER interview by Viola Marquez, ITALIAN RADICAL ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN 1966 - 1973 by Emilio Ambasz (ARCHIZOOM - 9999 - GIANNI PETTENA - ETTORE SOTTSASS ― SUPERSTUDIO - UFO - ZZIGGURAT)

Good copy with light moisture waving to the top right corner towards back of publication with marking visible on the final pages. Light tanning, light wear, common partial glue separation from cover, otherwise really nice copy with original obi.

File under: 9999 Andrea Branzi Archizoom Emilio Ambasz Ettore Sottsass Gianni Pettena Superstudio Toyo Ito UFO Zziggurat Lapo Binazzi Andrea Branzi Barbara Radice Emilio Ambasz Terrazzo / Milan Architecture / Interior Art Graphic Design / Typography Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay Furniture

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

$480.00 - Out of stock

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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

Andrea Branzi
Il Dolce Stil Novo (della Casa)

1991, Italian / English
Hardcover, 50 pages, 30 x 22 cm
Edition of 1250 numbered copies,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Alessi / Italy

$190.00 - Out of stock

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First (limited, numbered) edition book by Andrea Branzi "Il Dolce Stil Novo (della Casa)", published in 1991 on the occasion of a very special exhibition featuring works by Lapo Binazzi, Denis Santachiara, Shiro Kuramata, Andrea Branzi, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Massimo Iosa Ghini, Remo Buti, George Sowden, and Borek Sipek. The book collects the reflections of this group of architects of different ages, cultures and backgrounds who were called upon to realize a group of domestic landscapes in the large empty rooms of Palazzo Strozzi Firenze. "Auto-biographical, poetic or theoretical reflections take the viewer and reader to the central point of the project in question: a person's home. That is, our survival within the artistic universe that surrounds us, within the violence and the vulgarity of our times, in the expropriation and eradication of intrusive streams of information. Building a house for man means building a place and objects within it which make it possible to establish relationships not only of use and functionality, but also of a psychological, symbolic, and poetic nature. Holderlin said, "Man lives poetically," which means the relationship that binds man to his nest is of a nature, literary, partly obscure, and symbolic." — translated roughly from the Italian introduction by Andrea Branzi, 1990.

This handsome hardcover book (faux leather with de-bossed Branzi illustrated plate) compiled by Branzi himself feels more like an artist's book than an exhibition catalogue, beautifully reproducing intimate drawings, texts, conversations, photographs by the contributors, and printed in an edition of 1250 numbered copies. This copy is number stamped no. 830.

Very Good copy.

File under: Andrea Branzi Borek Sipek Denis Santachiara Ettore Sottsass George Sowden Lapo Binazzi Massimo Iosa Ghini Remo Buti Shiro Kuramata Andrea Branzi Alessi / Italy Architecture / Interior Graphic Design / Typography Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Out-of-print / Rare

Furniture Innovation "KAGU"
Tokyo Designer's Week

1989, English / Japanese
Softcover, 152 pages, 23 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Rikuyo-Sha / Tokyo

$90.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this great Japanese catalogue, published to accompany this very unique and crucial furniture exhibit in Tokyo in 1988, highlighting the new wave of Japanese furniture design. With the furniture pieces all documented in full-colour and black and white, alongside profiles on the designers and exhibition views, and commissioned texts (in English and Japanese) by Shigeru Uchida, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Andrea Branzi and Vincenzo Iavicoli, this book is a must for anybody interested in Japanese furniture and post-modern design in general.

Features the furniture work of Shiro Kuramata, Masanori Umeda, Hiroshi Awatsuji, Takashi Sugimoto, Kozo Abe, Teruaki Ohashi , Toshiyuki Kita, Takenobu Igarashi, Hidenori Seguchi, Aijiro Wakita, Kunihiro Matsuyama, Setsuo Kitaoka, Toyo Ito, Katsuhiko Togashi, amongst many many more designers.

"KAGU-Tokyo Designer's Week '88", November 1988, presented various phases of design, reflecting environmental changes. The exhibition featured the works of leading designers. A rare exhibition of furniture design. It was like a "Tokyo Collection"of furniture design. The drastic change in furniture and interior design these past year could clearly be observed through the exhibits. - Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Design Critic, 1989

Good copy with water wrinkling to front cover corner/dj, but rest of the book immaculate, Very Good copy.

File under: Aijiro Wakita Hidenori Seguchi Hiroshi Awatsuji Katsuhiko Togashi Kozo Abe Kunihiro Matsuyama Masanori Umeda Setsuo Kitaoka Shiro Kuramata Takashi Sugimoto Takenobu Igarashi Teruaki Ohashi Toshiyuki Kita Toyo Ito Andrea Branzi Hiroshi Kashiwagi Shigeru Uchida Vincenzo Iavicoli Rikuyo-Sha / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Graphic Design / Typography Furniture Out-of-print / Rare

Terrazzo Number 1
Fall 1988 (Ed. Barbara Radice)

1988, English
Softcover (french-folds), 34 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Terrazzo / Milan

$100.00 - Out of stock

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TERRAZZO was a very special biannual publication on architecture and design, edited and published between 1988–1995 by Barbara Radice, a prominent Italian author, design critic and member of the Memphis Milano design group. In conjunction with Ettore Sottsass, Christoph Radl, Anna Wagner and Santi Caleca, Radice created a unique and thoughtful periodical that focused on contemporary works of design and architecture, within Italy and abroad, touching on a vast array of disciplines in each issue, including photography, literature, poetry, history, science, philosophy, art and anthropology.

TERRAZZO 1
Fall 1988
MICHELE DE LUCCHI
new drawings

MASSIMO IOSA GHINI
things must pass

JOHNNY PIGOZZI
architecture from the sky

THE SECOND MODERNITY
by Andrea Branzi

TRAVEL NOTES
by Ettore Sottsass
on architecture
photographs by Ettore Sottsass

OUTSIDE THE AVANT-GARDE
by Herbert Muschamp

MARMORA ROMANA
by Romiero Gnoli

PLANS (No. 1)
Sumer, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Indian

File under: Andrea Branzi Ettore Sottsass Michele de Lucchi Andrea Branzi Barbara Radice Herbert Muschamp Terrazzo / Milan Architecture / Interior Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

Terrazzo Number 2
Spring 1989 (Ed. Barbara Radice)

1989, English
Softcover (french-folds), 160 pages, 34 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Terrazzo / Milan

$100.00 - Out of stock

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TERRAZZO was a very special biannual publication on architecture and design, edited and published between 1988–1995 by Barbara Radice, a prominent Italian author, design critic and member of the Memphis Milano design group. In conjunction with Ettore Sottsass, Christoph Radl, Anna Wagner and Santi Caleca, Radice created a unique and thoughtful periodical that focused on contemporary works of design and architecture, within Italy and abroad, touching on a vast array of disciplines in each issue, including photography, literature, poetry, history, science, philosophy, art and anthropology.

TERRAZZO 2
Spring 1989

ANDREA BRANZI
Architecture in shadow

FRANK GEHRY
Detailing by Frank Gehry
photographs by Santi Caleca

PAUL LUBOWICKI SUSAN LANIER projects

FRANCESCO CLEMENTE
on architecture

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
glass

DESIGN FOR HEROES

TRAVEL NOTES
by Ettore Sottsass
on light
photographs by Ettore Sottsass

GREEK TEMPLES: THE POLYCHROMY
by Joseph Rykwert

FRAN LEBOWITZ ON ARCHITECTS
interview

PLANS (No. 2)
Islamic, the Middle Ages

File under: Andrea Branzi Ettore Sottsass Francesco Clemente Frank Gehry Robert Mapplethorpe Andrea Branzi Barbara Radice Terrazzo / Milan Architecture / Interior Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture

Ettore Sottsass
Drawings over 4 decades / Zeichnungen aus 4 Jahrzehnten

1990, English / German / Italian
Softcover, 88 pages, 24 x 29 cm
Signed copy,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Ikon Galerie / Frankfurt am Main

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Ettore Sottsass signed copy of this incredibly scarce publication from 1990. "Ettore Sottsass : Drawings over 4 decades / Zeichnungen aus 4 Jahrzehnten" was published by Ikon Galerie fur Design-Zeichnungen (Frankfurt am Main), reproducing sketches for furniture, glass, ceramic, jewellery, lighting, interior and architectural projects by influential Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917 – 2007), which are interspersed throughout the text design of this catalogue, which includes a lively interview by Rainer Krause with the artist (a founder of the highly influential Memphis group and Sottsass Associati, as well as designer with Alchimia, Alessi, Olivetti, Arredoluce, Poltronova, Fiorucci, Esprit, Knoll, and many others), text by fellow collaborator and architect/designer/artist Andrea Branzi, and Sottsass's lengthy informal essay presenting his personal view of the sociological significance of the chair.

All texts are in both English and German, with interview also in Italian.

This special copy has been signed by the designer with a large "Sottsass" across the title page in black pen. Not a personalised dedication. A super collectable copy of this already very rare and special book on one of the world's most influential designers and visionaries. Who rarely signed a book!

Very Good copy.

File under: Andrea Branzi Ettore Sottsass Matteo Thun Andrea Branzi Rainer Krause Ikon Galerie / Frankfurt am Main Architecture / Interior Ceramics / Glass Drawing Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Out-of-print / Rare Signed Books Theory / Essay

JAPAN INTERIOR DESIGN
No. 289, April 1983

1983, Japanese / English
Softcover, 96 pages, 32.5 × 25.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Interior Publishing Co. Ltd. / Tokyo

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JAPAN INTERIOR DESIGN No.289, April 1983

One of Japan's finest magazines for interior design and home furnishings, edited by Moriyama Kazuhiko.
JAPAN INTERIOR DESIGN presents a monthly comprehensive view of traditional, contemporary, and contemplated environmental designs and pure art forms both Japanese and foreign, through pictures and critical reviews. English captions and summaries of major articles are provided.

Very rare, this issue includes a huge feature on the recent works of Italian designer Andrea Branzi. Amazing full-colour spreads of his work are accompanied by a statement by Branzi himself and an interview with Kazuko Sato (editor of the Alchimia book).

Also includes Shinya Okayama : home design graphic designer; Recent work of Gaetano Pesce; new print textiles of Awatsuji Expo Design Studio; Display design for the Heart Art Collection; Yuki Odawara : fabric design statement of Joe Gandorini; new textile company Marimekko; new Stevens office seating of the company nor Furniture Denmark · 2B company of Niels Bengusen, and much more.

File under: Andrea Branzi Fujiwo Ishimoto Gaetano Pesce Yuki Odawara Andrea Branzi Kazuko Sato Moriyama Kazuhiko Interior Publishing Co. Ltd. / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Ceramics / Glass Textiles

The Hot House
Italian New Wave Design

1984, English
Softcover, 156 pages (260 b/w & 140 colour ill.), 28.0 x 23.0 cm
Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Edited by Andrea Branzi, The Hot House was one of the finest books published to trace the history of Italy's radical design studios from 1960 to the dawn of Memphis. Through academic texts and profuse visual documentation of the work of Alessandro Mendini, Gaetano Pesce, Superstudio, Ettore Sottsass, Natalie Du Pasquier, UFO Group, Enzo Mari, Alchymia, Michele De Lucchi, 9999, Archizoom Associati, Mattheo Thun, Memphis, and many others.

Condition: Good (general light shelf/reading wear, light warping to edges of some early pages, otherwise clean good copy throughout tightly bound) - All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: 9999 Alessandro Mendini Andrea Branzi Archizoom Enzo Mari Ettore Sottsass Gaetano Pesce Matteo Thun Michele de Lucchi Nathalie Du Pasquier Superstudio UFO Group Studio Alchimia Andrea Branzi Thames and Hudson / London Architecture / Interior Art Graphic Design / Typography Fashion Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Furniture Textiles

The Hot House
Italian New Wave Design

1984, English
Softcover (w. dust-jacket), 156 pages (260 b/w & 140 colour ill.), 28 x 23 cm
Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Edited by Andrea Branzi, The Hot House was one of the finest books published to trace the history of Italy's radical design studios from 1960 to the dawn of Memphis. Through academic texts and profuse visual documentation of the work of Alessandro Mendini, Gaetano Pesce, Superstudio, Ettore Sottsass, Natalie Du Pasquier, UFO Group, Enzo Mari, Alchymia, Michele De Lucchi, 9999, Archizoom Associati, Mattheo Thun, Memphis, and many others.
An essential book for anyone interested in Italian radical design!

Condition: Average-Good (general wear and creasing with age, considerable moisture warping to some pages) - All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: 9999 Alessandro Mendini Andrea Branzi Archizoom Enzo Mari Ettore Sottsass Gaetano Pesce Matteo Thun Michele de Lucchi Nathalie Du Pasquier Superstudio UFO Group Studio Alchimia Andrea Branzi Thames and Hudson / London Architecture / Interior Graphic Design / Typography Fashion Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Out-of-print / Rare

Terrazzo Number 6
Spring/Summer 1991 (Ed. Barbara Radice)

1991, English
Softcover (french-folds), 34 x 25 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Terrazzo / Milan

$130.00 - Out of stock

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TERRAZZO was a very special biannual publication on architecture and design, edited and published between 1988–1995 by Barbara Radice, a prominent Italian author, design critic and member of the Memphis Milano design group. In conjunction with Ettore Sottsass, Christoph Radl, Anna Wagner and Santi Caleca, Radice created a unique and thoughtful periodical that focused on contemporary works of design and architecture, within Italy and abroad, touching on a vast array of disciplines in each issue, including literature, poetry, history, science, philosophy, art and anthropology.
TERRAZZO 6
Spring/ Summer 1991
240 pages of photographic reportages on the world largest metropolises

LE CORBUSIER

TRAVEL NOTES
by Ettore Sottsass
on the nature of metropolises

HUMANISM VERSUS ENVIRONMENTALISM
by Andrea Branzi

MOSCOW
by Helmut Newton

PLANS (No. 5)
The Russian Suprematists

Condition: Very good/Near Fine – (Tight and clean copy, only light bumping) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Andrea Branzi Helmut Newton Le Corbusier Andrea Branzi Barbara Radice Terrazzo / Milan Architecture / Interior Art Graphic Design / Typography Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay

Terrazzo Number 10
Fall/Winter 1995 (Ed. Barbara Radice)

1995, English
Softcover (french-folds), 34 x 25 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Terrazzo / Milan

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TERRAZZO was a very special biannual publication on architecture and design, edited and published between 1988–1995 by Barbara Radice, a prominent Italian author, design critic and member of the Memphis Milano design group. In conjunction with Ettore Sottsass, Christoph Radl, Anna Wagner and Santi Caleca, Radice created a unique and thoughtful periodical that focused on contemporary works of design and architecture, within Italy and abroad, touching on a vast array of disciplines in each issue, including literature, poetry, history, science, philosophy, art and anthropology.

TERRAZZO 10
Fall/Winter 1995

ALDO G. GARGANI
Aesthetics

ARATA ISOZAKI
Phenomenology of floors

MEDITERRANEAN PASTA
Barbara Radice
Six Recipes
photographs by Santi Caleca

TRAVEL NOTES
by Ettore Sottsass
on Fujian's Round Houses

VERY ANCIENT CHINA
universe, geometry, numbers, architecture

ANDREA BRANZI
Development and Reduction

LUOGHI
research by Milco Carboni

Plans (no. 9)
research by Beppe Caturegli and Giovannella Formica

Condition: Very good – (Tight and clean copy, only light cover wear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

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The Italian Design: Descendants of Leonardo Da Vinci
by Mario Bellini , Andrea Branzi and Bruno Munari

1988, English / Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 341 pages, 24 x 31 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Books Nippan / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

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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.

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."

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File under: Aldo Cibic Aldo Rossi Alessandro Mendini Alessio Sarri Andrea Branzi Bruno Munari Carlo Alessi Carlo Scarpa Enzo Mari Ettore Sottsass George Sowden Gio Ponti Mario Bellini Matteo Thun Michele de Lucchi Nathalie Du Pasquier Paolo Deganello Ugo La Pietra Studio Alchimia Andrea Branzi Bruno Munari Mario Bellini Books Nippan / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Art Out-of-print / Rare Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

EP Vol. 1 - The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968–1976
Alex Coles, Catharine Rossi (Eds.)

2013, English
Softcover, 224 pages (42 color, 39 b/w ill.), 13.1 x 20.6 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

$36.00 - Out of stock

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With contributions by Paola Antonelli, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Andrea Branzi, Carlo Caldini, Alison J. Clarke, Experimental Jetset, Verina Gfader, Martino Gamper, Joseph Grima, Alessandro Mendini, Antonio Negri, Paola Nicolin, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Catharine Rossi, Vera Sacchetti, Libby Sellers, Studio Formafantasma, and Ettore Vitale.

EP is the first critically underpinned series of publications that fluidly move between art, design, and architecture. The series creates a discursive platform between popular magazines (“single play”) and academic journals (“long play”) by introducing the notion of the “extended play” into publishing: with thematically edited pocket books as median.

The first volume is devoted to the activities of the Italian avant-garde between 1968 and 1976. While emphasizing the multiple correspondences between collectives and groups like Arte Povera, Archizoom, Superstudio, and figures such as Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini, The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968–1976 also highlights previously overlooked spaces, works, and performances generated by Zoo, Gruppo 9999, and Cavart. Newly commissioned interviews and essays by historians and curators shed light on the era, while contemporary practitioners discuss its complex legacy.

Design by Experimental Jetset

File under: Alessandro Mendini Andrea Branzi Archizoom Carlo Caldini Cavart Ettore Sottsass Experimental Jetset Gruppo 9999 Martino Gamper Michelangelo Pistoletto Studio Formafantasma Superstudio Zoo Alessandro Mendini Alex Coles Alison J. Clarke Andrea Branzi Antonio Negri Carlo Caldini Catharine Rossi Ettore Vitale Experimental Jetset Joseph Grima Libby Sellers Martino Gamper Michelangelo Pistoletto Paola Antonelli Paola Nicolin Pier Vittorio Aureli Vera Sacchetti Verina Gfader Sternberg Press / Berlin Architecture / Interior Art Graphic Design / Typography Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Theory / Essay

No-Stop City - Archizoom Associati
by Andrea Branzi

2006, French / English
Softcover, 192 pages, 18 x 25 cm
Published by HYX / France

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In 1969, the Archizoom group, while carrying out an experimental work in the field of design, also undertook a research project on environment, mass culture and the city, which led to the project No-Stop City'. For the very first time, the whole of this founding project of 1970s radical architecture is presented together in this publication. Designed by Andrea Branzi, this unique document provides a political reflection on ideas about urbanism and architecture that has influenced a whole generation of architects.

File under: Andrea Branzi Andrea Branzi HYX / France Architecture / Interior Graphic Design / Typography Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Theory / Essay

Andrea Branzi
Domestic Animals: The Neoprimitive Style

1987, English
Softcover, 78 pages (colour ill. throughout), 20 x 23 cm
Out of print title / Used*,
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Andrea Branzi, one of Italy's foremost designers and critics, and Nicoletta Branzi, designer of limited edition art clothing for women, introduce the neoprimitive style under the generic title "Domestic Animals." These mysterious creature-objects are oriented to domestic settings, intended to be used or worn, but they are also fetishistic and contemplative, arousing expectations that magic or tribal rituals are about to be performed.

Uniting precision of design with natural raw materials, these objects fashioned from tree trunks, sticks of wood and animal skins joined to steel "bamboo" rods and painted in bright, totemic colors fascinate us. Taken out of their wild settings and tamed by technology, "domestic animals" establish a loving relationship with man, sharing his most private space. We have not seen anything like them in the world of interior, furniture, or fashion design before.

The ideas and creations in Domestic Animals were developed by the Branzis over several years, and can be understood as a metaphor of the relationship that links man to a number of animal and technical presences within the home. The Branzis have created clothing, furniture, and objects of decoration that challenge the conventional notions of habitation: Where living too often takes place in empty spaces marked out by couches they have introduced an environment of archetypal symbols and materials that invite a new way of inhabiting the home.

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Television at the Crossroads
Alessandro Mendini, Andrea Branzi, Stefano Marzano

1995, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 325 x 240 cm
1st British Edition. Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Academy Editions / London

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Where is television going and what shall we, as viewers, be seeing in the future? These and other questions are addressed by the contributors to this book. Each author focuses on different aspects of television, approaching the topic from his or her own area of expertise. The book does not aim to find definitive answers, but presents what may perhaps be described as a collection of musings, meditations or brainstormings.

Condition: Good (book interior in very good condition with some tearing to transparent dust-jacket) - All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Alessandro Mendini Andrea Branzi Alessandro Mendini Andrea Branzi Stefano Marzano Academy Editions / London Architecture / Interior Graphic Design / Typography Out-of-print / Rare