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Casteels, Maurice
DIE SACHLICHKEIT IN DER MODERNEN KUNST.
Paris & Leipzig, Verlag Henri Jonquières, 1930.
29 cm. 126 pp. + 144 sepia-toned photogravure plates.

Publisher's linen, lettered in black, dust-jacket (worn at edges).

$ 125

First edition in German. A French edition, L'Art moderne primitif, appeared in 1930. The new style : architecture and decorative design, a survey of its first phase in Europe and America. Introduction by Henry van de Velde. Illustrations of the works of Adnet, Berlage, Dufresne, Alfred Fischer, Gaudi, Gropius, Horta, Le Corbusier, Mallet-Stevens, Mendelsohn, van der Rohe, John Russell Pope, Taut, Otto Wagner, Wijdeveld, and others. Includes reproductions of photographs of  Manhattan by Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott.