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Author: Wattjes, J.G.
Title: Constructie en architectuur van winkelpuien. Verzameling van ruim 50 goede voorbeelden van moderne winkelpuien in Nederland met beschrijving en meerdere details.
Publication: Amsterdam, Kosmos nd (1926).
Price: £390
Reference: 06988
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Large folio. viii+24pp, including numerous plans and (4) mounted photographs in the text, 48 photo plates. Contemporary cloth, with front cover of the publisher's decorative cloth portfolio mounted on upper board. Circular blindstamped ownership inscriptions of the New York architectural partnership of Starrett and Van Vleck on text leaves and some plates, not affecting image.
A substantial volume providing excellent photographic illustrations and descriptions of modern architect-designed shopfronts in the Netherlands, most notably G.A.M. Loogman's Preburg shop in Amsterdam with its curving cantilevered glass façade. Wattjes also provides plans and diagrams illustrating specific modern construction techniques used in the buildings.