Emilio Ambasz / italy: The New Domestic Landscape. Achievements and Problems of Italian Design. Edited by Emilio Ambasz

AMBASZ Emilio (Resistencia, Argentina 1943)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, [print: Centro Di - Firenze], 1972 (April), 24,8x20 cm., hardcover, dust-jacket, pp. 430 (2), animated cover by Emilio Ambasz, with a brilliant graphic invention: 5 cardboard cutouts reproducing design objects are floating inside the matt paper cover that contains them. Over 500 plates and illustrations in black and color reproducing works and projects by Tobia Scarpa, Mario Bellini, Joe Colombo, Rodolofo Bonetto, Vico Magistretti, Gaetano Pesce, Giancarlo Piretti, Gae Aulenti, Marco Zanuso, Ignazio Gardella, Angelo Mangiarotti, Sergio Asti , Giotto Stoppino, Ettore Sottsass, Franco Cattelan, Ugo La Pietra, Nanda Vigo, Enzo Mari, Archizoom and many others. Texts by Paolo Portoghesi, Maurizio Fagiolo Dell’Arco, Leonardo Benevolo, Vittorio Gregotti, Germano Celant, Manfredo Tafuri, Filiberto Menna and others. Original exhibition catalog (New York, MOMA, 26 May - 11 September 1972).

[Bibliografia: Paola Navone – Bruno Orlandoni, «Architettura “Radicale”», Milano, Milani sas Editrice, 1974: pag. 172; Gianni Pettena (a cura di), «Radicals: architettura e design 1960-75 = design and architecture 1960-75», Venezia – Firenze, La Biennale di Venezia – Il Ventilabro, 1996: pag. 51].