Styles of Living: The Best of Casa Vogue

This is the one and only passport to the greatest hits of Casa Vogue, the place where luxury and style converge. The book features 306 color illustrations of a diverse selection of mid-century to 1980's residential interiors and architecture from all over the world.

Includes rarely seen interior designs by Carlo Mollino, three from Carlo Scarpa, Alvar Aalto, Pierre Chareau, Aldo Rossi, Ettore Sottsass, Mario Botta, and many others. The book also features obscure interiors for Le Corbusier's first house and one of the few built works of Superstudio.

Accompanying the iconic works are homes and designs of artists, gallerists, designers, including Yves Lambert, Zandra Rhodes, April Greiman, Jayme Odgers, Alexandre Iolas, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Jack Lenor Larsen.

Dust jacket is rubbed and has light corner wear. The back of dust jacket is toned. The book is in excellent condition. Very good ++ or near fine book in good jacket. Very good overall.

"Ever since the end of the Second World War, Italian style, design and decoration have maintained an unprecedented predominance in the Western world. It was in the early 1950s that a great surge of decorative talent welled up in Italy, and this resulted in the 'Italian look' in clothes and in homes - a new standard of chic inventiveness.

The Italian view of interior design has been most enterprisingly expressed in the magazine Casa Vogue, which was founded in 1968 and has consistently been one of the most admired publications of Condé Nast International.

This book, garnered from many issues of Casa Vogue, has been written and produced under the guidance of Isa Vercelloni, who has been its editor ever since its inception. The choice of picture-stories is intended to reflect the unusual and distinctive diversity of the magazine - ranging from traditional decoration to the more advanced examples of minimal design, from the most significant of contemporary buildings to the spectacular reconstructions and reconversions of old palazzi and coachhouses, from the 'post modern' to the 'anti-modern' and any other 'moderns' that may have been advocated most recently. Italian trends naturally provide the main focus, but Casa Vogue also includes developments in the United States, France, Switzerland - indeed, wherever unusual and meaningful designs are being created.

Casa Vogue is particularly noted for the excellence of its photography, and this book, printed throughout in four colours, offers an extraordinary feast to the eye. Anyone in any way concerned with or interested in the problems of interior design will find this an invaluable book, crammed with useful, creative ideas and contemporary in the best sense of the word." - from the dust jacket flap

9.25 x 12 inches