Description

• La Mano Dell’Architetto
• First Edition [Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Milan, 2009]; 272 pages; black flexiboards, white titling to front & spine, opaque wax paper wraparound, elastic band, rear pocket*, a near-fine copy
• Dual-language [Italian / English]
• The FAI is Italy’s version of the National Trust, which restores significant buildings for public heritage display. As a fundraiser for the restoration of one such building [Villa Necchi Campiglio, designed by Milanese architect Piero Portaluppi in 1932], architects across Italy & the world were approached to submit drawings for an exhibition. The response was extraordinary, with almost 400 submissions by over 100 architecture firms.
• With cooperation from Moleskine, that brand’s famed notebook design was used in a large A4-size format to display these drawings in book form

*This pocket, we believe, originally contained a blank 120-page drawing book, not present with this copy