THE AVANT-GARDE LETTERHEAD
Crane Business Papers
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
Crane Papers: THE AVANT-GARDE LETTERHEAD. Dalton, MA: Crane Business Papers in conjunction with the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, 1996. First edition. A thick cardboard porfolio printed in black, red and silver enclosing 5 reproductions of stationary from various art movements (De Stijl, Dada, Surrealism, the Bauhaus and El Lissitzky¹s personal letterhead), a reproduction of a Futurist postcard and a small exhibition pamphlet. On the opposite side of the portfolio is a reproduction tablet (26 sheets) of writing paper designed by Herbert Bayer in 1924 for the director of the Bauhaus,Walter Gropius. Fine and uncommon with its original wraparound band. Extraordinary paper promotion issued in conjunction with the LETTERS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum curated by Ellen Lupton and Elaine Lustig Cohen. Includes letterhead design by Theo van Doesburg, El Lissitzky, Herbert Bayer, Tristan Tzara, and Andre Breton.
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