The New Style Architecture And Decorative Design - A Survey Of Its First Phase In Europe And America Casteels, Maurice
London, B.T. Batsford Ltd.; New York, Charles Scribner's, 1931 1931 English 54, [1], v, [1] pages 144 plates hardback

English edition of Casteels tomb on the emerging modernist style published in 1931 - still prescient in the architects and output he captured. Images of exterior and interior architecture with a small section on furniture and lighting at the end. Features work by Victor Horta, Maurice Dufrene, Walter Gropius, Robert Mallet-Steven, Mendelsohn, Richard Neutra, Hans, Poelzig, Djo Bourgeois, Mies Van Der Rohe etc. 


Condition: Dustjacket is present but in two pieces chipped and torn. Paste down prize label to front and crease to top of pages - see images. Contents though are very clean. 

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