[CUBIC CONSTRUCTION CENTER ? ELEMENTARY AND FUNCTIONAL DESIGN] Formes cubiques: rapport d'une recherche fondamentale 1955?1970. ? Kubische Gestaltung: Bericht über eine Grundlagenforschung 1955?1970. ? Cubic Design: Report on a Basic Research 1955?1970. Published as double issue 11/12 of the Journal "Revue Integration".

Graatsma, William and Gerrit Jan Slothouber (artists and authors) as well as Herman de Vries (editor).

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Heerlen: Cubic Construction Center, 1976. Quarto (30 × 21.5 cm). Cardboard binder; punched and filed in consecutive pagination of the journal pp. [2], 454? 553, [1], with numerous, mostly full-page figures, including 4 in color; as part of the double issue "Revue Integration", 17 "enclosures" (publications by and about the Cubic Construction Center) were delivered: posters, flyers, catalogs and graphics from 1968 to 1976. With stamped label hand-signed by William Graatsma; very good. First edition of the work report of the "Cubic Construction Center" founded by William Graatsma and Gerrit Jan Slothouber, published as a double issue 11/12 of the journal "Revue Integration" on the occasion of an exhibition about Gerrit Rietveld. William Graatsma and Gerrit Jan Slothouber had a formative influence on Dutch design in the post-war period. They first became known as designers for the Dutch chemical company DSM, for which they designed packaging, advertisements, and fonts, for example. Even then, they experimented with limiting themselves to the cube as a variable basic form. This concept aroused such interest that the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam organized an exhibition of their work in 1965. Soon afterwards, they founded the "Cubic Construction Center" (CCC for short) in order to deepen their concept not only practically but also theoretically. For example, they studied Le Corbusier and the ideal basic dimension of 70 cm in order to develop variations of the basic module using preferably pure primary and secondary colors as well as transparent materials. The guiding principle for this project of strict limitation to the cube was the idea of using the economically simple and universally applicable cube to create an art form appropriate to the social requirements of a democratically organized industrial society. (Cf. Uta Römer, AKL LIX, 2008, p. 481.) This extensive work report includes a comprehensive set of 17 supplements (posters, leaflets, catalogs and graphics from the years 1968 to 1976) which have been specially listed. Among them is the graphic series "Cubic Cosmic City" of 9 color prints experimenting with isometric projections of a sphere composed of small cubes. Each leaf is printed in a different color constellation. The compilation of supplements also includes, for example, a folded poster "Kinderzegels" (children's stamps) (70 × 70 cm), which shows, among other things, children's furniture and toys composed of cubes on the reverse. There is also another print, an isometric projection showing a cube composed of different bodies. The "Catalogus no 1" on the occasion of the 1970 Venice Biennale impressively shows how the sharp-edged cube was also used to experiment with the conception of soft, round, organic forms. Published in an edition of 1.000 numbered copies. As of July 2024, KVK, OCLC does not list a copy of this issue of the "Revue Integration" in North America. Other issues are held at Getty, Yale, Johns Hopkins, and Princeton. Seller Inventory # 54521

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