Wattjes,J.G.
Moderne architectuur in Noorwegen, Zweden, Finland, Denemarken, Duitschland, Tsjechoslowakije, Oostenrijk, Zwitserland, Frankrijk, Belgie, Engeland en Ver.Staten v.Amerika.
Amsterdam, Kosmos 1927.
Full Description
4to. (160)pp, incl 307 photo ills, also ground plans. Publisher’s decorative cloth (binding designed by J.E.Wiersma), the upper margin and top corners of the binding bending upwards and a few pages at the end slightly rippled at top outer corner (but in other respects a respectable copy). Brian Housden’s copy.
A good pictorial survey of modern architecture in Northern and Central Europe, England and the United States. It is noticeable that although by 1927 modern movement architectural styles were dominant in Germany and France, and spreading to other European countries, Wattjes’s illustrations of recent English architecture are dominated by the vernacular domestic work of architects such as Clough Williams-Ellis, Oliver Hill and Oswald P.Milne. Jaeger 0954.