Schinkel, Carl Friedrich

Sammlung Architektonischer Entwürfe enthaltend theils Werke, welche ausgeführt sind, theils Gegenstände, deren Ausführung beabsichtigt wurde. Neue vollständige Ausgabe in CLXXIV Tafeln. Berlin: Ernst & Korn, 1858



2 portfolio volumes, oblong folio (18 ¾ x 24 ½ in.; 476 x 624 mm). Letterpress title, 11 leaves of text plus one leaf in which the explanatory text for plates 115-130 has been reset with a few revisions, 172 engraved and 2 tinted lithographed plates after Schinkel; plate 23 on thinner and shorter paper stock, a few marginal tears (some mended), tear in plate 173 entering image, occasional marginal soiling. Modern black cloth drop-boxes, gold-stamped title labels on spines; a few scratches.



With his:
Dekorationen innerer Räume. Martin Gropius, ed. Zweite Auflag. Berlin: Ernst & Korn, 1874.



Title, forward, 8 color lithographed plates; some marginal soiling and spotting. Publisher's half cloth and printed boards; rubbed, scuffed, corners torn.

See Berlin Cat. 2172

First published in 28 parts between 1819 and 1840, this improved edition of the Sammlung (a reprint of the 1852 edition) contains designs for palaces, houses, churches, museums, government buildings, and memorials. Schinkel (1781-1841), master builder and interior designer for the Prussian royal family, was prominent for his neo-classicism, and included designs in this work mostly based on Grecian rather than Roman style, as a rejection of the style associated with the recent French occupiers.

The Dekorationen exhibits some examples of Schinkel's interior designs in the neo-classical style.