Final Plans (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Study of the housing development in Stuttgart designed by architects of the modern movement for the 1927 exhibition "Die Wohnung". Contents: Preface -- I. The climate after World War I. Politics and society ; The cultural situation in Stuttgart ; The Deutscher Werkbund ; The revolutionary groupings of November 1918 : Arbeitsrat für Kunst and Novembergruppe ; Der Zehnerring and Der Ring ; Der Block -- II. The Werkbund Exhibition. The aims of the 1972 exhibition ; The opening ; The International Exhibition of Modern Architecture : designs and models ; Indoor exhibitions : Gewerbehalle and Stadtgartenumgang ; The Weissenhof test lot -- III. The Weissenhofsiedlung. Prologue ; Choice of site and evolution of site layout ; The selection process ; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe : Houses 1, 2, 3, 4 ; Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud : Houses 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ; Victor Bourgeois : House 10 ; Adolf Gustav Schneck : Houses 11, 12 ; Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret : Houses 13, 14, 15 ; Walter Gropius : Houses 16, 17 ; Ludwig Hilberseimer : House 18 ; Bruno Taut : House 19 ; Hans Poelzig : House 20 ; Richard Döcker : Houses 21, 22 ; Max Taut : Houses 23, 24 ; Adolf Rading : House 25 ; Josef Frank : Houses 26, 27 ; Mart Stam : Houses 28, 29, 30 ; Peter Behrens : Houses 31, 32 ; Hans Scharoun : House 33 -- Appendix A: The Deutscher Werkbund announces the 1927 Stuttgart exhibition, December 1926 -- Appendix B: Mies van der Rohe's undated list of types (Siedlungstypen) -- Appendix C: Mies van der Rohe sums up, 1927 -- Appendix D: Some contemporary reactions -- Chronology -- Biographies -- Glossary of German terms. 223p : ill. ; 30 cm. First edition, first impression. Red cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Soft Cover. No Jacket. 1st Edition. with Rectangular Gorey Refrigerator Magnet says Matters of Life & Death Inside, Softcover WRAPS of blue & Black with Bird sitting atop Tombstone, in clear Plastic Hold with Tie-String. 6.3x9, 32pgs, 2000, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, FINE- condition with Tiny Ding outer pgs Edge, SOFTCOVER.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Softcover WRAPS of blue & Black with Bird sitting atop Tombstone, in clear Plastic Hold with Tie-String. 6.3x9, 32pgs, 2000, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, FINE- condition with Tiny Ding outer pgs Edge, AS-IS, , SOFTCOVER First edition; 8vo.; softcover booklet, pamphlets, and refrigerator magnet all contained in a stiff plastic envelope with a string closer; B/W illustrations by Edward Gorey; Includes, sheet on Palliative Care, advance directives, death away from home, a checklist to prepare for death, NY living will, a booklet to fill out to prepare for your final wishes, and a refrigerator magnet; a fine copy. , A packet of information about death and the aftermath, intended to be filled out and put in a safe place for one's survivors. AS NEW. with Rectangular Gorey Refrigerator Magnet says Matters of Life & Death Inside, This was issued in 2000, and was (I think) the last commercial use of Mr. Gorey's work before his death in April of that year.