Le Tecniche della Ceramica - Rada & Hucek (Italian Edition, Profusely Illustrated)

Pravoslav Rada & Milos Hucek

Published by Fratelli Melita Editori, Milan, 1992

About this Item

Large hardcover quarto in black cloth with illustrated dust jacket; 279 pp. Italian-language edition of this comprehensive technical and historical survey of ceramic materials, forming methods, kiln processes, decorative approaches, and European studio traditions. Extensively illustrated throughout with both color and black-and-white plates documenting objects, fabrication steps, and exemplary historical pieces.

This edition offers one of the fullest Italian presentations of Rada & Hucek's influential technical work, originally published in Czechoslovakia. The authors, both noted ceramicists and pedagogues, bridge studio practice and industrial methodology, giving detailed instruction on clays, slips, glazing chemistry, mold-making, firing regimes, and surface treatments. The book's strong visual program includes modernist sculpture, European folk forms, Central European majolica, and technical diagrams, making it valuable for both historians of material culture and practicing artisans.

Condition: Near Fine book / Very Good dust jacket. The volume itself is clean, square, and tight, with no marks to text and minimal shelfwear to boards. Boards show a flexible warping. Endpapers bright. The dust jacket is intact with no major tears and retains strong surface gloss, but shows overall rubbing and mottling to black panels, light edgewear, and mild toning to the verso - consistent with handling and shelf contact.

This volume represents the 1992 first Italian edition, translated from the 1989 Czech original published by Aventinum. The colophon confirms production and printing in the Czech Republic, with photographic sequences, technical imagery, and layout by Miroslav Hucek and Ale? Krej?a carried over from the Prague edition. Text translation by Mario Barboni. Includes a laid-in card from Libreria Duomo (Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milano), offering an appealing trace of bookseller provenance.

Seller Inventory # NF.RAD.1992.1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Le Tecniche della Ceramica - Rada & Hucek (Italian Edition, Profusely Illustrated)
• Publisher: Fratelli Melita Editori, Milan
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: Italian
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Design & layout by Ale? Krej?a
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Non-Fiction