(Art Deco, Architecture.) SERRURERIE MODERNE FERRONNERIE DE...

Hammer

£200

(Art Deco, Architecture.) SERRURERIE MODERNE FERRONNERIE DE BATIMENT Editions Charles Moreau, undated [1930]. Hardcover. First edition. Rare portfolio bringing together a 4 page table of plates and 36 plates, with creations by Jean Prouvé, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Edgar Brandt, Raymond Subes, Gilbert Poillerat, etc. 32 x 44 cm. Small library stamps in lower margins, otherwise good. This scarce portfolio is a pictorial survey of French Art Deco ironworks in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The 36 striking photographic plates reproduced in heliotype depict numerous realised projects and projects of hand railings, ironwork, stairs, gates, doors and doorways executed by some of the most famous architects and craftsmen of the period.