Das Wohnhaus von heute (Today's Residential House)
Leipzig: Hesse & Becker Verlag, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 190 (2)pp. Original yellow cloth with modern design and typography on cover and spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine. Orange top edge and gray endpapers. Publisher's device on title page. Cover and dustjacket design by Walter Dexel. Second Prometheus book, a series edited by Ernst Mühlbach, providing a basic introduction to the theory of the new architecture and technical and practical details. With a chapter on "New Objectivity." Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs of modern buildings, exterior and interior, and architectural plans and drawings. Contains list of architects included and bibliography at rear followed by one page of advertisements for books on new architecture and two pages of Prometheus Books. Text in German, Gothic script. Dustjacket with some wear along edges, small chips at corners, a little more pronounced at upper foredge corner of back cover and head and tail of spine. Binding with light wear along edges and lightly rubbed. Block with slight age-toning. Dustjacket in good-, interior in very good condition. g- to vg. Item #48361
Price: $450.00