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M.S.A. Mezinárodni soudobá architektura
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1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
- L'architecture international d'aujourd'hui. Internationale Architektur der Gegenwart [edited by Karel Teige]. Prague: Odeon, 1929-1931
- Paper
3 volumes, 4to (237 x 183mm), numerous illustrations, volumes 1-2 with original printed wrappers, volume 3 in original yellow cloth lettered in red, volume 3 lacking pp.135-138 (but see provenance)
with 4 photographs (approx. 160 x 220mm. each), one showing the VPU building in Prague in 1933 (to match the projected view on p.120 of volume 3), the others showing a kitchen, a laboratory workstation, and the staircase of a large building (the VPU?), the first three all signed by Havlíček with the date 1933 and printed by Pařík in Prague
with 4 photographs (approx. 160 x 220mm. each), one showing the VPU building in Prague in 1933 (to match the projected view on p.120 of volume 3), the others showing a kitchen, a laboratory workstation, and the staircase of a large building (the VPU?), the first three all signed by Havlíček with the date 1933 and printed by Pařík in Prague
Provenance
Volume 3: Presentation copy from one of the authors, Josef Havlíček, to Dr Karl Hrubý, inscription on title-page, with the latter's library stamp, stating that Havlíček has included a couple of photos of the finished VPU building, in place of the unattractive advertisement (presumably on the missing pages)
Exhibited
Houston, Cullen Collection, 2011, nos 32-34 and 34a (photograph of VPU), illustrated in the catalogue
Catalogue Note
Teige's journal of contemporary architecture looked at international architecture (compiled by Teige), Czechoslovak architecture (authored by Teige) and individual buildings (by Josef Havlíček and Karel Honzík) in respective issues.