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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Wasserbillig floor tiles. Compagnie generale de la ceramique du batiment. Album 37. No date. 1930th or earlier? Captions in the French, English & Dutch languages. With 87 chromo lithographic plates illustrating 14 classic patterns & 73 "modern" patterns in the Art Deco style. At rear, 10 pages with 20 applications. Some transparent overlays. A beautiful and uncommonly well preserved copy. Clean exterior with sharp edges, tight and unread. 93 pp. 5.5" + 7.5" (14.0 + 19.0 cm) Importer's faint rubber stamp to front, business card pinned to front end-papers. Text is in multiple languages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Wasserbillig floor tiles. Compagnie generale de la ceramique du batiment. Album 37. No date. 1930th or earlier? Captions in the French, English & Dutch languages. With 87 chromolithographic plates illustrating 14 classic patterns & 73 "modern" patterns in the Art Deco style. At rear 10 pages with 20 applications. Some transparent overlays. A beautiful and uncommonly well preserved copy. Clean exterior with sharp edges, tight and unread. 93 pp. 5.5" + 7.5" (14.0 + 19.0 cm) Importer's faint rubber stamp to front, business card pinned to front end-papers. Text is in multiple languages.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon état. In-8 broché 19,2 cm sur 13,4. 86 pages. Dos muet et taché, intérieur frais. Nombreuses illustrations en coul. Bon état d'occasion. in-8°.

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Octavo, 92pp., plus ten leaves of brown-toned photogravure-like prints depicting various tile patterns in situ in variuos buildings and facades. Near fine in the publisher's grey wraps, with embossed dark green title. Trivial wear to edges, and a small stain to the top edge. A vibrant catalogue of tilework by this stylish Luxembourgish firm. The limited narrative text and all physical descriptions are presented helpfully in four languages: English, French, German, and Dutch. Though undated, the style is very much in the Weimar era Streamline Moderne aesthetic. Colors and patterns pop and repeat, with frequent use of white tiles to accentuate the details. At least as powerful as the tile patterns are the illustrations at rear, in a section called "Applications," in which some of the patterns are shown as installed in hospitals, banks, restaurnts, kitchens, etc. The photography is artistic, and often set at a slightly canted ("Dutch") angle, evocative of German Expressionist filmmaking of the period. OCLC locates a single holding of this catalogue, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, though that holding is classifeid as an "internet resource." An excellent example of decorative arts manufacturing and salesmanship during this brief, but highly influential design period between the wars.

Orig stiff paper, binding staples and silk cord. 24 lithographs in colour show the different coloured tiles. Text in French. Good condition.

Wasserbillig (Luxemburg), CGCB Cérabati, ca. 1935. Ingenaaid. 108 p. Met illustraties van vloeren in vele kleuren. Achterin een fraai fotokatern. 1e druk. Omslag wat versleten, rugje geplakt. Vele afbeeldingen van subtiel gekleurde, verglaasde porseleinen tegelvloeren. Mooie moderne vormgeving.