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Design-For-Today, Rare Modernist Magazine, Complete Bound Set, 1933 to 1935, UK

$4,364.74per set
£3,200per set
€3,724.86per set
CA$6,017.61per set
A$6,604.47per set
CHF 3,470.75per set
MX$78,591.92per set
NOK 44,366.48per set
SEK 40,542.19per set
DKK 27,828.43per set

About the Item

Design-For-Today, a short lived modernist avant-garde magazine, 1933 to 1935, UK. A rare and hard to come by complete bound set. Articles, images, designs by British architects and designers, as well as emigres ones . Gerald Summers, Wells Coates, Marcel Breuer, Alvar and Aino Aalto, Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Betty Joel, Serge Chermayeff, Keith Murray, Charles Boyton, Ronald Grierson, Marion Dorn, Colin Lucas, Marian Speyer, Berthold Lubetkin, Erich Mendelsohn, Erno Goldfinger, Ernst Freud.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11.03 in (28 cm)Width: 4.73 in (12 cm)Depth: 8.47 in (21.5 cm)
  • Sold As:
    Set of 3
  • Style:
    International Style (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1933-1935
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. Minor structural damages. Minor fading.
  • Seller Location:
    London, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2132332982422

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