The scarce Vitra Design Museum facsimile of an original 1930s Thonet catalog of their iconic furniture. Thonet became the world's largest manufacturer of tubular steel furniture in the 1930s by adapting its industrial bentwood manufacturing expertise to modern Bauhaus design. Of the 84 cards, 62 feature black-and-white images from the 1930–31 collection of French and German tubular steel furniture. The remaining 22 cards include an introduction, along with assembly and repair instructions. A great resource documenting early mid-century furniture design. Thonet is still in business and producing furniture today. The.....
Item #2260

More

A set of four catalogs from the Julius Hoffmann Publishers of Stuttgart on 1930s modernist furniture design. Intended as guides for craftsman, architects and designers in the art of furniture design and craftsmanship. Illustrated with photographs in black and white and extensive diagrams and schematics of furniture construction (with Volume 1 being all diagrams and no photographs). A wonderful resource for a furniture designer or enthusiast. Text in German. Scarce, and more so as a set of four. The titles translated are: - The Construction of Furniture (Vol. 1) -.....
Item #1732

More

A major study reevaluating the entire body of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's work in America. Based on new research this huge tome brings to light previously unstudied material including drawings and collages, photographs, project documents, and oral histories. Featuring nine essays and packed with more than 600 illustrations. Co-published by the Candian Centre for Architecture, Hatje Cantz and the Whitney Museum of American Art to accompany the major touring exhibition. The fold-out building chronology of van der Rohe's work in America in the back pocket is present. This book.....
Item #1679

More

Fritz Neumeyer's comprehensive and meticulous research on van der Rohe's philosophy of building offering a complex and powerful view of the architect's approach to modernism. With an extensive appendix documenting essential texts by van der Rohe, plus his 1927-28 manuscript notebook published here for the first time. Originally published in German in 1986. Out of print.

Condition: Near Fine, light yellowing around page edges.
Item #1543

More

The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The houses became icons of the Mid-Century modernist movement. The cover design and focus of the magazine was revolutionary at the time and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue.....
Item #1080

More

The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on architects Marcel Sedletzky, Angelo Mangiarotti, John.....
Item #224

More

The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on houses by Wilhelm Stigler and Enrico.....
Item #221

More

The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on fountains, a weekend house near Paris.....
Item #219

More

The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on a house by Craig Ellwood, the.....
Item #216

More

Billed as "the only magazine devoted exclusively to Western architecture", includes articles on the University of Oregon's Medical School Parking Structure by Wolff-Zimmer-Gunsul-Frasca-Ritter, a Research Complex for Batelle Northwest in Richland, WA and focus on eight apartment buildings in Aspen, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Marin, Alameda and Tiburon, CA.

Condition: Good, some wear, scuffing to cover; mailing address label present on back cover.
Item #188

More

The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E......
Item #214

More