HORIZONS Norman Bel GEDDES Ist Edition DJ Art Deco Streamline Machine Age RARE
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:64176 | Type: Book |
| Age: 1900-1940 | Style: Machine Age / Modernist |
| Original/Repro: Original |
HORIZONS | Norman Bel Geddes | 1932
International First Edition
Published by Little, Brown & Co, Boston
Hardback, complete with RARE dust jacket.
Silver and black boards
Size approx. 210 mm x 267 mm x 30 mm
It's no exaggeration to describe Norman Bel Geddes as one of the most important designers of the Art Deco period.
His unrepentantly visionary approach to industrial design is best documented in this book, i...n which the designer himself lays out in words, plans photographs and drawings his startling futuristic manifesto for modernising transport, architecture, interior and stage design and town planning. Incidentally, Norman Bel Geddes was the father of Barbara Bel Geddes of Hollywood and TV fame (she played Miss Ellie in Dallas).
Condition: An excellent copy - binding is tight and the pages very bright and clean. Expected browning to the page edges and minor wear to the boards. Unsurprisingly the fragile dustjacket is a little torn and chipped, but this is confined to the edges.
Don't miss this rare opportunity to acquire an excellent first edition copy of this seminal machine age art deco book, complete with elusive dustjacket.
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