HOUSES
Volume 2 of The Things We See series
Lionel Brett
Lionel Brett: HOUSES. Middlesex: Penguin Books 1947. First edition, Volume 2 of The Things We See series. 8vo. A very good to near-fine softcover book in photographically illustrated wrappers.: lightwear overall. Interior unmarked and very clean. Wonderfully-designed and produced series from England after World War II with gravure printing. Out-of-print.7.25 x 8.5 softcover book with 64 pages and 96 b/w gravure plates of modern housing in England built in the 1930s. Excellent volume that shows many examples of the Art Deco / Machine Age / Streamline / International styles of building --whatever you call it, it's all here.
This is the second volume in the The Things We See Series.The Series was undertaken as a result of suggestions made to the publishers by the Council of Industrial Design, the body set up in December 1944 to promote by all practicable means the improvement of design in the products of British industry. The Series' aim was to educate the public in the essentials of good design. These books are all beautiful little productions, with excellent design throughout and fine production values: all photography is reproduced in gorgeous gravure--suitable for framing.
Excellent snapshot of the Modern movement in England inthe thirties and forties, spotlighting the international stylings of Erno Goldfinger, Maxwell Frye, F.R.S. Yorke, Walter Gropius, Patrick Gwynne, Wells Coates, Christopher Nicholson, Marcel Breuer, Bernard Lubetkin and Tecton, Gardner Dailey, Serge Chermayeff, and many others.
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