Zeitgemässe Wohn-Gärten. Eine Sammlung Alter und Neuer Hausgärten (Contemporary Live-in Gardens. A Collection of Old and New House Gardens)
München: F. Bruckmann AG, 1932. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 92pp. Original stiff green wraps with black lettering and ruling in photo-illustrated, stiff paper wraps with white lettering, protected by modern mylar. Textured green endpapers. Publisher's device on title page. Illustrated with seventy-two b/w photographs of gardens and ten architectural plans. A collection of contemporary garden designs to illustrated the vital import of gardens in and around living quarters. The volume does not include public gardens. The gardens shown include designs by the Danish garden architect Anka Rasmussen, Eisenlohr and Pfennig, Stuttgart, Ernst May, Frankfurt/Main, Wilhelm Hirsch, Wiesbaden, Paul Bonatz and F. Schöller, Stuttgart, J. P. Andersen, Denmark, Ernst Wagner, Stuttgart, Albert Esch, Wien, L. Späth, Berlin, Otto Froebels, Zurich, a number of designs by Otto Valentien, Stuttgart, among others. Contains list of photographers and ten architectural plans of garden designs at rear. Each garden design with full page photograph and descriptive captions. Text in German. Dustjacket with light wear along edges and spine, rubbed on back cover. Good+ to very good condition. Item #49326
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