Bau und Wohnung (Building and Apartment)
Stuttgart: Akad. Verlag Dr. Fr. Wedekind & Co., 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 152pp. Original gray cloth with black and red lettering on cover, black on spine, protected by modern mylar. Typography by Willi Baumeister. Contains the buildings of the Weissenhof Settlement in Stuttgart, built in 1927 as proposed by the German Werkbund and ordered by the City of Stuttgart on the occasion of the Werkbund Exhibition "Die Wohnung (The Apartment)." Photographs in photogravure by Dr. Lossen & Co., one by H. A. Rühl (page 6), one by O. Eisenschink (page 10). Profusely illustrated with b/w offset reproductions of photographs of homes in the Weissenhof Settlement, architectural models and plans, and interiors. Preface by Mies van der Rohe with contributions by Werner Gräff, Peter Behrens, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Richard Döcker, Walter Gropius, J. J. P. Oud, Hans Poelzig, Hans Scharoun, Mart Stam, Bruno and Max Taut and other. Text in German. Very light sunning along edges and spine. Previous owner's name penciled to front free endpaper. Binding in very good, interior in near fine condition. Very good to near fine condition. Item #48633
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