OSAKA WORLD EXPOSITION 1970 - Lot 20

OSAKA WORLD EXPOSITION 1970 "Hiroshi Kawazoe Teiji Ito". Set of 4 brochures. - Expo '70 Fuji Group Pavilion Brochure, Tokyo, 182x128mm, 12p, stapled in illustrated cover. This was an inflatable building in the shape of a holo-chariot. It consisted of 16 air beams, each 4 meters in diameter and 78 meters long, connected horizontally and powered by compressed air. Its immense interior space, without a single column, was 31 m60 high and could easily accommodate a 10-storey building. The Multivision film was projected onto a giant screen 13 meters high and 19 meters wide. Developed in-house, it used 210 mm film. Director: Teiji Itô, Chief Producer: Hiroshi Kawazoe. - Japanese Garden Leaflet, 216x210mm, 8p, text in Japanese and English, photographs and plans. - Exhibition guide, 182x101mm, 24p, stapled in illustrated cover, with views of pavilions and circulation plans. - Australia Pavilion 175x124mm, 16p. fold-out, illustration. Mori Museum, 2011, p.206-207, all 4 illustrated(103853)