Scarce ephemeral catalogues from a pioneering art gallery.

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9 sheets (150 x 105 mm when folded), plus 1 larger (145 x 204 mm when folded).

MORELLET, Francois. DILWORTH, Norman et al. Lucy Milton Gallery. (10 catalogues). London. Lucy Milton Gallery. 1972 - 1976.

Lucy Milton Gallery operated from Notting Hill Gate in the 1970s and specialised in Constructivist art with a strong international outlook. Some openings were accompanied with new music by composers such as Philip Glass.

Artists in the current catalogues include Francois Morellet, Michael Kidner, Teodosio Magnoni, Peter Lowe, Norman Dilworth, Douglas Allsop, Trevor Clarke, John Clark, David Proud, Jeff Hellyer, Dick Plank, Ray Masters, Emma Park, Susan Tebby and Gerd Zwing.

Square 4to. (240 x 240 mm). pp. 206 (i). Profusely illustrated in black and white, with occasional fluorescent designs on plastic sheets serving as chapter markers. Original publisher's ring-bound orange plastic wrappers.

SOTTSASS, E. Castiglioni, Bellini &c. Design A Plastické Hmoty Umeleckoprumyslové. Muzeum V Praze Rijen-Prosinec 1972. Design and Plastics. The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, October-December 1972. Prague. Museum of Decorative Arts. 1972.

The catalogue lists 137 works, comprising chairs, lamps, typewriters, bookshelves, storage cabinets, trays and tables. Each designer included in the exhibition had to include in the catalogue answers to the following questions, including 'When did you start designing plastics (year?)', 'What was the impulse?', and 'How do you feel about plastics used in human environment (predictions, statements, doubts, others?).

Designers present include Gae Aulenti, Mario Bellini, Livio Castiglioni, DAM Milano, Vico Magistretti, Enzo Mari, Bruno Munari, Gaetano Pesce, Gino Sartatti, Tobia Scarpa and Ettore Sottsass Jr. The high representation of Italian designers in notable, though to be expected.

Each designer has a leaf for their biography with printed text in Czech recto and English verso.

£750