Planning your Home. Assisted by Tom Ralph, Olive Nowell. Figure drawings by Gordon Cullen.

GOLDFINGER, Ern , & Colin Penn.

Published by London: For the Air Ministry Education Department, [1945]

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A complete run of the modernist architect Ern Goldfinger's display boards, produced for the Air Ministry, to demonstrate a future of progressively designed houses, achieving optimum warmth, light, air, and noise levels in accordance with family size. During the war, Goldfinger designed a series of similar exhibitions for public bodies, with the boards designed to be reproduced and exhibited to illustrate the prospect of post-war reform. The brutalist tower block now synonymous with Goldfinger has left him hated by many, and the villain Goldfinger in the James Bond novels is named after him. His idealistic vision of post-war housing reform for all classes still has its admirers, who maintain his principles were never properly implemented. Complete as run of 20 posters on firm card, 490 x 350 mm (2 of the cards slightly larger), original pinholes in corners from display. Worn at edges (more substantially for 2 larger cards), never with loss to text or any substantial loss to images, one title card with name of Colin Penn struck through. A good set.

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Title: Planning your Home. Assisted by Tom Ralph, Olive Nowell. Figure drawings by Gordon Cullen.
Publisher: London: For the Air Ministry Education Department, [1945]

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