VELDE (Henry). (Van De). (Introduction).

Le Style Moderne. Contributions de la France.

64 photographic and illustrated plates, 6 with stencilled colour, 1 colour folding plate. First edition. 4to., LXIV, [14pp.], loose in the original quarter silver cloth portfolio, blue cloth boards, titles in silver on upper portion, silver ties, stamp of Librairie Ch. Moreau. Paris, Librairie des Arts Decoratifs, n.d, 1925.

£1,000.00

A bit dusty, slight wear, very good or better copy. Commercially and institutionally very rare with no copies on OCLC and none appearing as named items at auction in the last three decades or so.

A survey of the Modernist trend ranging across the industrial, interior decoration, products and graphic arts. Designers include Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Chareau, Robert Delaunay, Francis Jourdain, Lurcat, Freyssinet, Puiforcat et al. Of great interest are a dirigible hangar by Freyssinet, a Mallet Stevens seaside house, very radical chairs by Delaunay and Lurcat’s furniture designs.

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