Marcello Nizzoli

Celant, Germano

Published by Edizioni Di Communita, Milano, 1968

About this Item

Quarto, XX and 226 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs, sketches in black and white + to color plates. Brown cloth with printed spine. Illustrated wrappers. Book design and wrappers by Egidio Bonfante. Near mint copy. - First edition. ' 'if the meeting with Persico was influential in drawing Nizzoli closer to architecture, his meeting in 1938 with Adriano Olivetti was equally significant as far as industrial design was concerned. The first of a long series of calculating machines, the MC 4S Summa, was created in the Olivetti planning and research office, surroundings highly favourable to collaboration between artists and technicians. It set the pattern for future projects. In-depth consideration was given to technical and ergonomic aspects of the product and to easy user-identification of its parts, resulting in a unified concept, based on careful analysis rather than on an a priori formula. Nizzoli's two best-known design projects are the Olivetti typewriter Lexicon 80 (1948) and the Necchi Mirella sewing machine (1957). He continued his architectural work, along the lines laid down by Persico in the early 1930s, working towards the integration of the arts with architecture¿' (wikipedia). Seller Inventory # 000393

Bibliographic Details

Title: Marcello Nizzoli

Publisher: Edizioni Di Communita, Milano

Publication Date: 1968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New