[Rarebooks] FS: Antonio Ratti Italian Textile Designer 1974 Promotional Book w/ Metal Covers

[Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera]

Antonio Ratti Textile Designer 1974 Promotional Picture Book.

Published in Milan in 1974.

The Fondazione Antonio Ratti explains- “Born in Como on the 22nd of  
September 1915, he founded his entrepreneurial activity on the  
profound conviction that textile is a cultural product. In 1945 he  
founded Tessitura Serica Antonio Ratti for the design and retailing of  
fabrics for silk ties and scarves. It was the first step of a long  
entrepreneurial activity that culminated in the creation of the Ratti  
Group – currently chaired by his daughter Donatella – one of the  
world's leading manufacturers of fabrics designed with creativity and  
technological research. A profound attention to the social and  
cultural context emerges through Antonio Ratti's entrepreneurial  
activity: in the pioneering building built by Tito Spini in 1958 for  
Ratti S.p.A., the Palazzina dei Servizi Sociali was used as a canteen  
during the day and in the evening it hosted concerts, theatre shows,  
courses and debates for workers. The need to find inspiration for the  
creation of new textile designs led him to collect antique fabrics  
from all over the world. This prestigious collection became in 1985  
the heart of a cultural foundation which still bears his name today.  
His vision, weaving together business and art, creativity and cultural  
activities, led him not only to be named Cavaliere del Lavoro in 1972,  
but also to be linked to the greatest cultural institutions such as  
the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum  
of Art in New York, Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Palazzo Reale and the  
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan”. This elegant and  
distinctive book provides a pictorial survey of Ratti Group textile  
designing, offices & buildings, and its branch at the historic Villa  
Sucota in Como, Italy.

Thick metal covers. 9.25x10.5, 45 pages, color illustrations. Covers  
with minor wear, a few small scrapes.  $60, plus $3 shipping.

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