Raymond noemi p (5 resultados)

Comb bound. Condición: Good. 119 pages : chiefly illustrations. This is a good copy, with wear at its edges and a break without loss to its plastic comb-binding. The heavy paper wrappers are use-darkened at the fore-edge of the front panel; an ownership name has been scribbled out at the verso of the front wrapper, the contents are age-toned but unmarked. 470 grams.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very good(-). First edition, third printing. Large brown burlap oblong quarto, metal spiral binding, 4 preliminary leaves, 116 b&w plates (including diagrams) on 59 leaves, 1 leaf 30 x 23 cm. Ex-library book, with minimal markings (a single stamp) Signed by author. Architecture; Japan. An assemblage of drawings and photographs showing Czech architect Antonin Raymond's residential work in Japan completed in the 1920s and 1930s. Trained at Czech Technical University, Raymond immigrated to the United States in 1910 and worked with Cass Gilbert on the Woolworth Building (completed 1913) and Frank Lloyd Wright, eventually traveling with Wright to Tokyo for that city's Imperial Hotel (completed 1921). The self-published Architectural details provides advice for the designer using Raymond's work and philosophy as a model. In interior plans and elevations, sectional drawings, and examples of dramatic self-supporting staircases, concrete proves an optimal material in both aesthetics and durability. Raymond's talent for incorporating traditional Japanese elements {shoji, tatami (grass mats), and hinoki (Japanese cypress) is illuminated in pages of black-and-white photographs, showcasing the realization of his design concepts.1938. Extremely mild wear to spine head and foot, hardly bumped corners, black-ink ownership name and design to front free endpaper, few to several faint brown marks to title page and forward page, subtle rubbing wear to edges, faint stamp to endpaper, else Very good(-) to very good(+). …

First edition. Preface by Elie Faure. Square quarto. 29 pages of text followed by 104 pages of illustrations. Spiral-bound cloth-covered card with large title-label. Raymond was a Czech American architect who was one of the founders of modern architecture in Japan.Covers dusty and slightly marked. Very good. …

Spiral_bound. Condición: Very Good. First printing. Oblong 11 x 12". Metal spiral binding.38pgs of preface and introduction plus 104 pgs. of plates some of which are printed in rich photogravure. Brown silk cloth with band of vellum paper with title. Preface by Elie Faure. Text in Japanese, English and French. Edited by K. Nakamura. Ex Gumps reference library with a very light number on cover and a blank pocket inside front cover. Important and beautifully designed book. Czech born American citizen Raymond and his wife and partner Noemi both worked for Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesen and then on the Imperial Hotel in Japan. He left to do his own work in 1921. Though influenced by Wright and Corbusier he wanted to incorporate more Japanese traditions in his designs. He is considered one of the fathers of modern Japanese Architecture. Most of his assistants were Japanese and some followed him to the US in 1939. He designed projects around the world and in post war Japan following his principles of simplicity, economy, elegance and lightness.…

N.Y., Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1947. 3 pp. 117 plts. Ringbinding. - Good condition* This is the defacto first edition because the original printing was partly destroyed.