Description: Wohnraume der Gegenwart Platz, Gustav Adolf Berlin : Propyläen Verlag, 1933, German language, 516 pages Probably one of the most comprehensive and beautiful books on modern design available. Published in Germany in 1933 and taking as its starting point the 1880s it explores the antecedents to modernism through Behrens, Voysey, Mackintosh before moving on to modernism in its broadest guise. 517 pages profusely illustrated with photographs and plans in the text, 15 plates in colour (one missing see condtion), 12 tipped-in. Designers work featured includes: Henry Van Der Velde, Richard Riemerschmid, Bernhard Pantok, Josef Maria Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann, Bruno Paul, Adolf Loos, Oskar Wlach, Egon Eiermann, Fritz August Breuhaus, Oskar Strnad, Marcel Breuer, Anton Lorenz, Josef Frank, J A Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, Howe and Lescaze, Richard Neutra, Joseph Emberton, Serge Chermayeff, Andre Lurcat, Sutemi Horiguchi, Walter Gropius, Mart Stam, Bruno Paul, Louis Sognot, Rene Herbst, Wassily Kandinsky, Erich Mendelsohn, Gerrit Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Ferdinand Kramer, Sven Markelius, Lilly Reich, Grete Schutte-Lihotzky, Hans and Wassily Luckhardt etc Condition: ex-library index card and some stamps to pages. Plate 4 which is a Bruno Paul interior is missing. Apart from that very good. Feel free to ask questions, and check out our shop, as it gives you the tools to browse through different categories such as furniture or lamps or Italian Design. Our listings deal exclusively with design reference works, especially out of print design books, collectible design books original manufacturers catalogues and exhibition catalogues from all over the world with an emphasis on furniture, glass, ceramics, lighting and textiles from the 1880s to the present day. We stock a large selection of mid-century design books with an emphasis on Scandinavian (Danish and Swedish mainly) and Italian 20th century design and English interwar and post-war design books.
Price: 133 GBP
Location: Brighton
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Publication Year: 1933
Contributors: Platz, Gustav
Title: Wohnraume der Gegenwart
