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Editore: [Tokyo, 1997
Da: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
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Large 8vo, pp. [2], [68] (paginated to 33 on rectos only); text in Japanese and English; architectural images and plans throughout; printed pictorial wrappers, fine. With a list in English of attendees, a six-page pamphlet on the architecture of Minneapolis' Christ Church Lutheran, and a typescript letter signed from William F. Davis to the pastor of the Church soliciting the pamphlet all laid in. Davis was an apprentice of Wright and friend of Endo, the last Japanese apprentice of Wright's before Wright's death. He led annual tours with groups of Japanese architects through the US, not just to see Wright's buildings (Fallingwater, Beth Sholom etc.) but also notable buildings from other architects, such as the Lutheran church above and the Rasmussen house of Lake Forest, Illinois, built by another of Wright's apprentices, Robert R. Rasmuusen. All in all, sixteen sites are listed and briefly described. Printed for the twenty-three members of the tour and their companions, so the edition was likely a small one. Not found in OCLC.
Editore: New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in Association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation., [1990]., 1990
Da: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. pp. 303, [1]. 309 illus. (134 colour; 2 folding). index. cloth. dw.
Editore: Verlegt bei Ernest Wasmuth, Berlin, 1911
Da: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
141pp. Large quarto (30 x 21.5 cm). Medium tan wrapper, printed in dark brown. Color lithographed frontis, 193 illustrations. Some careful restoration to the upper and lower extremities of the spine, trace of faint foxing early and late, but a very good, or somewhat better, copy. First edition in this format of one of the earliest books of interior and exterior photographs and plans of Wright's buildings executed before his 1909 departure from Chicago. With a Forword by C.R. Ashbee (in German), set in double columns. This work, which is close kin with the same publisher's FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, CHICAGO (published the same year as "8. Sonderheft der Architektur des XX Jahrhunderts)" was prepared at Wright's direction due to his dissatisfaction with that work. It is expanded somewhat, with additional images, and the distribution of the other work was restricted to Europe. SWEENEY 96.
Editore: Santpoort, Holland: C.A.Mees, 1925., 1925
Da: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
oblong 4to. pp. 164. profusely illus. (incl. plans). original cloth, rebacked with spine mounted (extremities frayed, some dampstaining in lower margins, several leaves with repaired tears with a few letters affected on p. 92 only). This book consists of seven special numbers of the art magazine Wendingen, edited and typographically arranged by H. Th. Wijdeveld, who wrote the introduction. With contributions by Lewis Mumford, H.P.Berlage, J.J.P.Oud, Robert Mallet-Stephens, Erich Mendelsohn (in German), Louis H.Sullivan (on Wright s Imperial Hotel in Tokyo), and Frank Lloyd Wright himself.
Da: Antiquariaat FORUM BV, Houten, Paesi Bassi
Prima edizione
30, [1], [1 blank] pp.; pllus 100 lithographed plates.Extremely rare first edition, of the complete collection of plates prepared from drawings made by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) at his Oak Park Studio, illustrating seventy buildings and projects completed between 1893 and 1909. It is the first major publication by one of the greatest innovators of modern architecture. The work boosted Wright's fame in European architectural circles and influenced key figures in contemporary architecture including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Peter Behrens and Le Corbusier. The plates show perspective views, plans, sections and interior and exterior details. Plate LVI, with an interior view of the living room of the Coonley House, is one of the most important and desirable of the series. Other works represented are the Frederic Robie House, Susan Lawrence Dana House, Ward Willets House, Darwin Martin House, Avery Coonley House, the Larkin Building, and Unity Temple, showing the variety of his buildings.Although each plate is embossed with Wright's blind stamp, Sweeney notes that Wright completed the work alongside assistants and collaborators, including Marion Mahony Griffin and Wright's son, Lloyd. The work was printed by Ernest Wasmuth, a massive undertaking. The original plans and presentation drawings had to be lithographed on large stones. The text volume, written by Wright, was printed both in German and in English, containing an essay on his architectural style and a list of the plates. The text part starts with the introduction by Wright, translated into German by Wasmuth, and is dated ''Florenz, Italien, 15. Mai 1910'' and is followed by an annotated list of plates (pp. 21-30). An English version of the introduction was printed in Chicago by Ralph Fletcher Seymour being dated "Florence, Italy, June 1910".The edition is scarce due to a fire at Wright s home and studio, Taliesin, in August 1914. The fire destroyed the bulk of the American copies of this portfolio, in addition to much of Wright s other work. So many of the copies intended for the American market were destroyed, with the result that the work was far better known in Europe than in the United States.The wrappers and ties of the two portfolios are browned, both spines are worn (with the portfolios otherwise still intact) and the front board of portfolio II shows a seriously water damaged spot. All text leaves, plates and plates on overlay paper are foxed, the edges of the plates and overlays are show very slight water stains and are occasionally slightly frayed and browned, the overlays of plates LVIII and IL show a marginal tear, not affecting the image. The main surface of the plates (including the whole or the majority of the designs) are fine and clean. Overall a complete set with the plates, booklet and the two original publisher's portfolios still in good condition, being Wright's extremely rare magnum opus that secured his status in Europe: one of the most influential architectural publications of the century.l Kruft 210; Robert L. Sweeney, Frank Lloyd Wright: an annotated bibliography, 1978, 87; Thieme-Becker XXXVI, 279.
Da: Antiquariaat FORUM BV, Houten, Paesi Bassi
Prima edizione
30, [1], [1 blank] pp.; plus 100 lithographed plates.Extremely rare first edition, of the complete collection of plates prepared from drawings made by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) at his Oak Park Studio, illustrating seventy buildings and projects completed between 1893 and 1909. It is the first major publication by one of the greatest innovators of modern architecture. The work boosted Wright's fame in European architectural circles and influenced key figures in contemporary architecture including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Peter Behrens and Le Corbusier. The plates show perspective views, plans, sections and interior and exterior details. Plate LVI, with an interior view of the living room of the Coonley House, is one of the most important and desirable of the series. The edition is scarce due to a fire at Wright s home and studio, Taliesin, in August 1914. The later portfolio worn: a little stained, edges a little worn, head and outer protective flap half loose, bottom protective flap loose but present, linen ties somewhat frayed. Two ties of the second plates portfolio are torn and frayed. Text volume, some plates and the wrappers of both portfolios somewhat foxed, some plates with occasional marginal tears (never affecting the image), overlays a little toned. Overall a complete set with the plates, booklet and the two original publisher's portfolios still in good condition, being Wright's extremely rare magnum opus that secured his status in Europe: one of the most influential architectural publications of the century.l Kruft 210; Robert L. Sweeney, Frank Lloyd Wright: an annotated bibliography, 1978, 87; Thieme-Becker XXXVI, 279.