Rare and Unusual Books

Published: Berlin, Wasmuth,
Date: 1920.
Description: 48pp, including 43 text illustrations, bibliog + 2 single-sided colour plates. Introduction by Adolf Behne. This copy with the neat signature of Mogens Voltelen, designer of the Copenhagen Chair. Card, cloth spine, 23x16. Cover little sunned, Voltelen's name also written on front, contents vg and binding tight. New cloth spine. Pictoral dust wrapper a little rubbed and worn on edges, no loss. Contents vg.
Notes: The Arbeiterrats für Kunst were a revolutionary group of architects, founded by Bruno Taut in 1918. Other members included the Luckhardt Brothers, Scharoun, Max Taut, Hablich, Finsterlin etc. This work was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the group in 1920. The poet and 'phantastischer' Paul Scheerbart, with his astral fantasies of glass architecture, had a profound effect on the group and this influence shows itself in the illustrations and text. Indeed, this beautiful publication can be regarded as a posthumus celebration of Scheerbart's ideas on utopian architecture. Rare and beautiful item.
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Price: £850.00