Lot 140 : WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959). Ausgef쳌hrte Bauten und Entw쳌rfe. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1910.
Auction Location: United States of America - 2002
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Description:
4 o text pamphlet (360 x 264 mm); and 100 lithographed plates (480 x 328 mm). Text and plates laid loose as issued in original cloth-backed printed board portfolio (spine partly split). Second edition of Wright's scarce "Wasmuth Portfolio." The Wasmuth portfolio was a collaborative effort between Ernst Wasmuth, a Berlin publisher, and Frank Lloyd Wright. It was Wasmuth's idea to publish a complete folio of Wright's work to date. The project was completed during Wright's first trip to Europe in 1909, and was published in 1910. The collection of Wright's houses and commercial buildings received far more attention and praise in Europe than in the United States, and some contemporary architects called it "the most important book of the century." The Wasmuth lithographs brought Wright's distinctive Prairie Style to the attention of European modernists Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, who were then starting their careers. The first edition was printed on larger paper, with 72 plates and 28 overslips; here the plates are reduced and are without Wright's stamp on each plate. All early editions of the Wasmuth Portfolio are scarce. Sweeney 87.
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