The Hot House: Italian New Wave Design

The MIT Press, 1984. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/Fine. As New copy in Fine dustwrapper with original $25 price. First American edition. Collectible copy: pages and covers are crisp, intact and unmarked. Small patch of dustjacket (less than 1/2 inch square) missing on the back- therefore labeled Fine. Protected in clear mylar cover. 156 pages with Index list of designers and design styles in back with brief description. Printed on glossy paper, profusely illustrated in color and B&W photos. 9 x 1 x 11 inches. The Hot House is in part a manifesto and in part a noncanonical history of the most progressive and heretical experiments in the applied arts and design. Covering two centuries of avant-garde designs, but concentrating on the 1950s to the present, the book looks at architecture and urban design as well as graphic, interior, exhibit, industrial, and fashion design. It discusses the role that such magazines as Casabella, Domus, and Modo have played on this lively front, and provides an insider's view of such figures and groups as Alessandro Mendini, Gaetano Pesce, Alychmia, Global Tools, Michele De Lucchi, Ettore Sottsass, andthe design world's hot new movementMemphis.