Petranzan, Margherita — Gae Aulenti
New York, Rizzoli, 1997. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with silver spine lettering. Glossy color-photographic and gray dust jacket with white lettering. 240 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Gae Aulenti is one of the world's most prominent architects - and perhaps the most acclaimed woman architect - whose work spans the realms of industrial and exhibition design, furniture, graphics, and stage design. This is the first English-language book to present Aulenti's work. Photographs, drawings, and plans illustrate the designer's work in all mediums, and Aulenti's contemporaries - Vittorio Gregotti, Germano Celant, Franco Raggi - as well as other critics, and Aulenti herself, provide illuminating texts that discuss both her career and influences, and her individual projects. -Jacket. VG--tight binding. dj has light shelf wear; 1" tear to back edge.
