TERRAZZO. ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN. NUMBER 2, SPRING 1989
Radice, Barbara (editor and publisher)
Milan: Terrazzo srl, 1989. 1st Edition. Tall folio, publisher's color printed stiff paper wraps.
Het iconische tijdschrift uit de ‘80er Jaren, door de echtgenote van Ettore Sotsass.
Met artikelen en bijdragen van Andrea Branzi, Frank Gehry, Robert Mapplethorpe.
Lavish bi-annual architecture and design publication, edited and published by Italian journalist Radice, founding member - with her husband, designer Ettore Sottsass - of the Memphis Group. This issue showcases work by Sottsass, Andrea Branzi and Frank Gehry, with a suite of drawings by Francesco Clemente, a photoseries on designer glass by Robert Mapplethorpe, and a conversation with writer Fran Lebowitz on architects: "architects usually have good looking wives and girlfriends, the same as painters. After all a girl who's around all the time is as much a part of the environment as a sofa although a sofa tends to be both less opinionated and easier to move." Illustrated throughout with color photos, drawings, plans and reproductions.
$200.00