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A detailed guide to the life and design work of noted Italian designer Gino Sarfatti (1912–1985). After abandoning his studies in aeronautical engineering for financial reasons, Sarfatti founded the internationally renowned interior design firm Arteluce. In his 30-year career, Sarfatti designed and produced more than 600 lighting fixtures--from the globular and mobile to the mushroomed, coiled and woven--continuously exploring innovative new ways of manufacturing and shaping the bulbs, cords and stands that light our interior worlds, even making pioneering use of halogen bulbs in fixtures as early as 1971.
His preference for the status of “technician” over “artist” may have contributed to his lack of recognition in the art world, but this publication amply makes up for the oversight and illuminates his many achievements in more than 1,000 images.
Illustrated in colour and black and white - some of the designs are stunning (and many have aged very well ( looking like they were designed yesterday) or become design classics.
Condition - large format paperback with flaps - published by Silvana Editoriale, Milano 2012
All text is dual language - italian and English. 496 pages, with detailed index of designs, sizes, all photographed.
Now out of print.
Contents -
Gino Sarfatti: A Forgotten Intelligence
Gino Sarfatti, the Man: a Narrated Biography
Gino Sarfatti, the Artisan: the First Period 1936-1945
Gino Sarfatti, the Designer: the Second Period 1946-1961
Gino Sarfatti, the Entrepreneur: the Third Period 1962-1973
86 Paradigmatic Models
List of Works
Selected Bibliography
CONDITION - there is scuffing and general shelfwear to the black covers. Internally unmarked APART from a coffee drip stain on the inside front endpage , which has bled through top the page underneath ( see photo)
This book is now out of print and is realtively uncommon.
