The Modern Steel House
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1996.
First Edition. Hardcover.
A history of the Modern steel house from the early examples of the 1920s in Los Angeles and Paris to contemporary examples across Europe, America, Australia, and Japan, including the work of Mies van de Rohe, Philip Johnson, and Jean Prouve, among others. It is a story of the architects, engineers, and owners of Modern steel houses that draws upon documentary and interview material, and is illustrated with drawn plans and original photographs, including images by Julius Shulman, John Donat, and Peter Hyatt.
Item #902295ISBN: 0442024142
8-3/4 x 11-1/8", gray paper over boards, ix, 245pp, acknowledgments, list of interviews and sources, index, fully illustrated with plans and photographs.
Ink owner's presentation inscription first free endpaper, 1/2 x 2" publisher's ISBN label removed rear board with rubbing and glue offset left behind, rubbing to edges of boards, internally clean, square, very good in rubbed dust wrapper with a bit of light creasing to top-edge, in protective mylar.
Price: $75.00