i heart italian drawings from the 40s

I recently got this book on The Pig 

and unlike a lot of times,

I was pleasantly surprised

when it arrived.

"Arredatori Contemporani"

1949

The photographs are great, but it was these 

drawings

that head each artist's chapter

that really got me excited.

The one above is by

Arch. Paolo Buffa

Arch. Gian Case

Fabrizio Clerici

Only non-architect in the bunch.

Arch. Cesare Lacca

(I did not know he was a architect.)

Arch. Giulio Minoletti

I had a pair of these chairs once.

Arch. Carlo Mollino

The best.

Arch. Renzo Mongiardino

I love how the top chair is beckoning the rest, to bed I guess!

Arch. Ico Luisa Parisi

Teamwork

Arch. Pippo Pestalozza

Arch. Gio Ponti

2nd Best

Arch. Carlo Enrico Rava

Arch. Ettore Sottsass jun.

He would have been 32.

Arch. Guglielmo Ulrich

Here are facsimiles of all their

signatures.

I didn't include the 2 Franco's drawings

because they weren't so hot.

Ho hum Francos.

Sottsass's is amazing!

Here is the cover.

It's worth finding....

Ciao!