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Paris: Editions d’art Charles Moreau, [1929]. Portfolio. First Edition. With 48 plates of edifices, including 6 in color. Housed in publisher’s portfolio of gray cloth spine over boards, cloth ties lacking. The portfolio has some wear and soiling but quite nice for a white portfolio from 1929. Plates have light age toning but quite sharp.
A stunning collection of early Art Moderne architecture and interior design. Plates consists of some drawings but mostly photographs of what was on the cutting edge in architecture at that time. Included in the plates are 6 colored pochoir plates that are absolutely fabulous. In addition to René Herbst, portfolio includes structures by Le Corbusier, Gerrit Rietveld, J. J. P. Oud [Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud], and Jan Buys [Jan Willem..... More