Neue Arbeiten der Bauhauswerkstätten. Bauhausbücher 7 (New Works of the Bauhaus Workshops)
München: Albert Langen Verlag, 1925. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. (9 1/8 x 7 3/8"). 115 [1]pp., 4 color plates. Original wraps with modern design and typography in three colors, white lettering on cover, b/w on spine; protected by modern mylar. Half-title with publisher's device. Title page with modern design and typography. Cover and typography by Moholy-Nagy. Introduction by Walter Gropius.
Extensive catalog of products developed in the Bauhaus Workshops: Carpentry, Metal Workshop, Weaving Mill, Pottery, Wood and Stone Sculpture, Wall Painting, Glass Workshop, Print shop, Advertising Department, Stage Workshop, and Architecture Department. This volume contains reproductions of the products of the first four workshops.
The products depicted in b/w photographs are by E. Consemüller, Erich Dieckmann, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Josef Albers, Erich Brendel, Alma Buscher, Marianne Brandt, Otto Rittweger, Naum Slutzky, R. Valentin, D. Helm, B. Otte, G. Stölzl, Th. Bogler, O. Lindig, among others. The catalog contains four additional color offset reproductions. At rear two pages with b/w photographs of the experimental Bauhaus house at "am Horn" in Weimar, exterior and interior. One page with list of Bauhausbücher at rear.
Text in German. Wraps with some light wear, small chips along bottom and lower foredge of front cover, some light chipping along spine, back cover missing with only small remnants on inside back cover. Diagonal crease in lower left corner of front cover, this lightly rubbed. Good to very good+ condition. Item #54877
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