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USA 1972

In 1972, Mario Bellini went on the classic coast-to-coast trip across the United States with his friends Francesco Binfaré, Vittorio Fossati and Davide Mosconi. Humboldt Books published a very personal narration of that journey.

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  • 17 November 2015
  • Milan

Mario Bellini was in the United States in 1972 at MoMA’s invitation, to participate in the famous “Italy, the New Domestic Landscape” exhibition showcasing Italian design to the world, the consecration of what was to become the “Made in Italy” brand.

The book published by Humboldt Books illustrated the coast-to-coast trip Bellini made with his friends back then and featured his own “private” photographs because the intended report on American living had been lost over time and in transfers.
The pictures show the free America of the hippy dream, the poor America of the suburbs, that of the artists and architects who have forged its history and, as Mario Calabresi says in the book’s foreword, contain colours that are not seen in nature and only existed in the film produced in the 1970s, that deep green and the Kodak Moment orange, memories that we have all buried away in some drawer.

Mario Bellini, USA 1972, <b>Top:</b> Travelling from Chicago to the Pacific along Interstate 80. <b>Above:</b> Rockefeller Center, New York City, New York
Mario Bellini, USA 1972, Harlem, New York City, New York
Mario Bellini, USA 1972, Chicago, Illinois
Mario Bellini, USA 1972, Marina City and John Hancock Center, Chicago, Illinois
Mario Bellini, USA 1972, Salt Lake City, Utah
Mario Bellini, USA 1972, Barbecue at the Mormon preacher’s house, Salt Lake City, Utah
Mario Bellini, USA 1972, Students’/workers’ accommodation in Arcosanti, the project by Paolo Soleri
Mario Bellini, USA 1972, Mystery House of the Winchester widow, San Jose, California
Mario Bellini, USA 1972, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California
Mario Bellini, USA 1972, Streaking in Telegraph Street, Berkeley, California
Mario Bellini, USA 1972, Travelling from Chicago to the Pacific along Interstate 80
Mario Bellini, USA 1972, Travelling from Chicago to the Pacific along Interstate 80
Mario Bellini, USA 1972, Religious Congregations, Chicago, Illinois
Mario Bellini, USA 1972, Davide Mosconi with his Arriflex


Mario Bellini, USA 1972, Humboldt Books, 2015, € 24. With texts by Mario Calabresi, Gianluigi Ricuperati, Mario Bellini

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