Decorattivo 1975 ("Manuale per Uso Professionale / Manual for Professional Use") ; Decorattivo 1976, 1977 ("Monografia Sulla Decorazione Ambientale / Monography on Environmental Decoration") (all published). by [COLOR and PATTERN] Morozzi, Massimo, Andrea Branzi, Clino Trini Castelli (designers) - Adela Turin-Coat (textile designs) - 1975-1977

Three vols., comprising a complete collection of the post-Archizoom design annual issued by Morozzi, Branzi & co., chiefly illus., with parallel texts in Italian and English. Large quarto. Very good. Printed and blind stamped boards. [1298]

A rare set of the limited circulation annual issued by Centro Design Montefibre for exclusive use by a small cadre of elite independent designers in the Archizoom circle. In the present set, the 1976 issue is numbered and addressed to Massimo Vignelli, with the firm's stamp inside the rear covers. 1976 and 1977 were later reissued as trade books (Decorattivo 1 and 2), but the original editions are untraceable in the current marketplace.

1975: "3 tendenze, 40 disegni, 30 nuovi colori per la decorazione tessile. / three trends, forty drawings, thirty new colors for textile decoration." 5 booklets (12,12,12,12, 24 pp.), including a collection of 30 color samples.

1976: An issue dedicated to "the 'amorphous' that is informal decoration, connected to uncontrolled creative and formative processes, and on the other hand 'UFOs', that is, surfaces organized and structured to create the impression of a rational system of objects in space." 114 pp., chiefly illustrated.

1977: "Righe e Quadri / Lines and Squares" the final issue, exploring "the basic structures of all design...lines and squares appear in both the crudest and most sophisticated products. Emerging from the structure of fabric itself (weft and warp), they soon become an immediate and rational organizing principle of design communication." 127 pp., chiefly illustrated.