112 - 771 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
- Occas. foxed. Joints and spine-ends sl. rubbed; vol. II upper joint broken; vol. VI lower joint broken.
- Horizontal middle fold (splitting at the right end); sl. dogeared; duststained in outer margins; sl. frayed and sm. tear throughout in upper margin.
= Rare issue of this important avant-garde periodical of which 10 issues were published 1924-1928. Contains contributions by i.a. W. Baumeister, El Lissitzky, Georges Vantongerloo, P. Mondriaan and L. Mohaly-Nagy.
- Wrappers sl. worn.
= Special issue for the "2e Exposition de l'habitation". Contains a chapter on Dutch architecture by J.P. Kloos w. a contribution by J.J.P. Oud.
= The text comprises "L'esprit nouveau en architecture", reflections by i.a. G. Apollinaire, H. Arp, T. Tzara, P. Mondrian, K. Schwitters, El Lissitzky, K. Malevitch, G. Grosz, R. Delaunay, A. Breton and M. Seuphor. The plates show buildings and projects by i.a. J. Kotere, B. Byvoet and J. Duiker, W. Gropius and A. Meyer and Max Taut.
- Portions of backstrip loosening/ joints splitting (partly strengthened w. scotch tape). Internally fine.
Johannes, H. Neues Bauen in Berlin. Berlin, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1931, 96,(12 advert.)p., num. ills., fold. plan, orig. clothbacked limp pict. silver boards, narrow 8vo.
- Frontover creased/ dogeared.
= First edition of this attractive contemp. publication on modern architecture in Berlin after 1919 by the major architects.
- Wrappers sl. soiled and some (very) sm. marginal defects (backwr. lacks portion of upper blank corner).
= Rare. Special issue on "1-A Wystawa miedzynarodowa architektury nowoczesnej w Warszawie" (1st International exhibition of modern architecture in Warshaw), showing i.a. buildings/ projects by Rob. Mallet Stevens, Andre Lurçat, J.J.P. Oud, S. van Ravesteyn, G. Rietveld, M.L. Baugniet, Erich Mendelsohn, Artur Korn, K.S. Mielnikow and K. Malevich. Presences polonaises (exhib. cat. Centre Pompidou, 1983), p.161; the linocuts by Peeters not in Bex. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IV.
- Not collated, but apparently complete.
= Good, albeit short run of this important periodical, covering an important era in Dutch architecture. Fanelli p.83: "Naast De Stijl en Wendingen verschijnt al van af 1880 het Bouwkundig Weekblad, dat zowel het werk van de belangrijkste Europese architecten alsook steeds de architectuur van de Amsterdamse School én van De Stijl behandelt."
- Without the 5th vol. (publ. 1826); occas. sl. foxed. Rebacked.
- Bookplate on both upper pastedowns of "Technische Hoogeschool" and some scattered library stamps on prelim. lvs. Spines sunned.
= Rare, complete(?) run of this periodical, edited by i.a. I. Salomons, L.C. Röling, G. Oorthuys, J.P. Girod and J.W. de Kanter.
- lacks 1 plate; some plates edges chipped (not affecting image). Spine portfolios split.
= Scarce work. With attractive photographic views of i.a. Berlin, Dresden, Prague and Vienna.
- Flattened vertical fold. Wr. sl. yellowed, spotted and affected by silverfish(?) (mostly backwr. along spine).
= Rare Polish periodical devoted to modern architecture.
- Bookblock loose; covers worn; backstrip dam.
= Reproduction in lithography (by the artist himself) of the large frieze in the nave of St. Vincent de Paul in Paris, painted by Flandrin. Rare album.
- Lid of box sl. stained and worn/ dam. at extremities (corners repaired w. sellotape).
= Rare jigsaw puzzle showing the iconic buildings of the Van Nelle company, designed by the architects M. Brinkman and L.C. van der Vlugt.
- Bookplate/ newspaper clipping mounted on first endpapers. Wrapper (sl.) foxed; spine worn.
Idem. Vers une Architecture. Ibid., idem, (±1930), 8th ed., 243,(2)p., num. ills., orig. (trifle soiled/ worn) wr.
= Both from the series Collection de "L'Esprit Nouveau.
AND 2 others from the same series: Urbanisme and Le Peinture Moderne.
= Karl Ernst Osthaus (1874-1921), leading German patron of avant-garde art and architecture.
Lohse, R.P. Neue Ausstellungsgestaltung. Erlenbach-Zurich, Verlag für Architektur, (1953), 260p., (photogr.) ills., text in German, French and English, orig. cl., obl. 4to (binding sl. soiled; spine-ends worn). - AND 3 others, i.a. H. HIRDINA (ed.), Neues Bauen, Neues Gestalten. Das neue Frankfurt/ die neue Stadt. Ein Zeitschrift zwischen 1926 und 1933 (Dresden, 1991, 2nd ed., num. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., square 8vo) and P. ADAM, Eileen Gray, Architect/ Designer (New York, 1987, (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).