Industriekultur: Peter Behrens and the AEG, 1907-1914
by Tilmann Buddensieg
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- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0262521172
- ISBN 13
- 9780262521178
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About This Item
MIT Press, 1984. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine. Fine copy of first US paperback edition. Pages are crisp intact and unmarked. Some light wear to front and back cover in area next to book spine. 520 pages including bibliography and index. Illustrated with 600 halftones, 31 line drawings, and 53 fourcolor plates, and augmented by substantial essays. Unusual , short landscape size of 9 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Most histories of 20th century design cite Peter Behrens's seminal influence on three of his former protégés-Gropius, Mies, and Le Corbusier-and mention the turbine factory and arc-lamp he designed for the German electric company, the AEG. Now the full story of the extraordinary collaboration between Peter Behrens and the AEG is disclosed in this extensive account of his industrial, graphic, and architectural designs
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- Modern First Editions Boston (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001090
- Title
- Industriekultur: Peter Behrens and the AEG, 1907-1914
- Author
- Tilmann Buddensieg
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0262521172
- ISBN 13
- 9780262521178
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Architecture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....