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Large format softcover in brown paper printed dustwrapper. Facendo mobili con Archizoom, Asti, Aulenti, Ceroli, De Pas d'Urbino Lomazzi, Ernst, Fini, Mangiarotti, Marotta, Mendini, Michelucci, Nespolo, Portoghesi, Ruffi, Sottsass, Superstudio, Vignelli. Profusely illustrated with more than 500 images (photographs and drawings). Text in Italian. Poltronova, printed by Artigraf - Firenze in 1996 (texts by Pier Carlo Santini) Profusely illustrated with more than 500 images (photographs and drawings). Text in Italian, 21 x 30 cm, 180 pages. Santini was born in Lucca on 20 April 1924. After the interval of the war, he attended the Faculty of Letters of the University of Pisa graduating in 1951 under the guidance of Carlo Ludovico Raggianti, with a thesis on Giambologna, worthy of praise and the dignity of publication. From 1952 to 1957 he was editor of "SeleArte", a bimonthly training and information of the artistic disciplines, commissioned by Ragghianti and published by Adriano Olivetti. In 1957 he moved to Milan, to the editorial office of "Comunità" to assume the responsibility of the architecture section. In this period he conceived and produced the first monographs of living architects: Moretti, Figini...

Tobia and Afra Scarpa Morna bed with nightstand in wood, black padded leather, and plexiglass. Produced by Molteni, 1972ca. Italy. Mattress size: 200 x 180 cm (max.) The mattres...

Set of two single beds model Andromeda in brushed oak wood designed by Gigi Sabadin and produced by Stilwood in the 1970s. The Andromeda bed designed by Sabadin also appears in the movie titled L'anatra all'arancia, an italian comedy direct by Luciano Salce with Ugo Tognazzi, Monica Vitti and Barbara Bouchet. Gigi Sabadin expresses perfectly this movement born after the war and which tends to combine art, craft and trade. Both an industrial designer and a craftsman, Gigi Sabadin has succeeded in imposing a style, his style... Everyone, after seeing one of Gigi Sabadin's pieces of furniture, can instantly recognize his creator's touch: plywood, light and natural woods made Gigi's identity and his fame in the 70s. Among his furniture that has become a symbol of vintage design: the Fiona chair, the Arca chair, the Peota chair...