Zanotta Edizioni. Milan: Zanotta, 1993. 31,5 x 23,5 paperback, 72 pages. Curated by Patrizia Scarzella Text in Italian, English, French, German, and Spanish.
This catalog presents the 1993 collection of designer furniture. "All objects are signed and some are numbered. 'They are conceived to serve specific purposes in a highly poetic form. These pieces are contemporary neo-craft products, continuing an ancient tradition of "precious" furniture," Patrizia Scarzella. Cover photo is Alessandro Mendini's Zabro table-chair from 1984. Top and seat in lacquered wood with polychrome hand-decoration. Leather-covered armrests. The top folds down to convert the chair into a table. Between 1984 and 1986, Zabro's experimental artistic production had Alessandro Guerriero and Alessandro Mendini as Art Directors. Several furniture collections were launched: "Nuova Alchimia" by Mendini and Bruno Gregori, "Animali Domestici" by Andrea Branzi and "Progetti d'Artista". Together with Memphis they represent the most mature efforts in the field of "expressive" furniture during the 1980s.
The enormous quantity of designs and products devised by Zabro was examed, skimming off the purely experimental aspects. What remained formed the core of the EDIZIONI collection .
- Patrizia Scarzella, 'Zanotta Edizioni', pp. 3-5
- Techniques and processes, pp. 7-11
- Catalog, pp. 12-66 - Including 16 full page and double-page pictures of the collection pieces in real interiors
- Out of production, pp. 67-68
- Price list, 69-71
Work by Bruno Munari, Alessandro Mendini, Riccardo Dalisi, Andrea Branzi, Pierluigi Cerri, Corrado Levi, Alik Cavaliere, Ettore Sottsass, Joe Tilson.
A very good + copy. Back cover showing some minor wear. Small, 5 mm dog ear at left lower corner and 12 mm tear at right lower corner. Interior design shop 'Huis aan de waterkant' stamp on 2nd cover. 'Huis aan de Waterkant' was an iconic furniture and design shop in Ghent, Belgium, now continued as 'De Directeurswoning'.