Important special issues on the Werkbund exhibition „Die Wohnung“

Form, Die. Zeitschrift für gestaltende Arbeit. Vol. 2, 1927. Issue 1-12 (all).

Edited by Walter Riezler.

Berlin, Verlag Hermann Reckendorf 1927.

392 pp., (4) pp. index „Mitteilungen des Deutschen Werkbundes“, with numerous photo illustrations.

30 x 21 cm. Original wrappers.

EUR 800

The official Journal of the Deutsche Werkbund. Main emphasis is on the new movement in architecture, there is good coverage of many aspects of design, including photography and film, typography etc.

Volume 2 contains articles by: Fritz Block „Wohnform und Wandlungsfähigkeit“; Jan Tschichold „Zeitgemäße Buchgestaltung“; Werner Gräff und Wilhelm Lotz „Werkbund-Ausstellung `Die Wohnung´; Bruno Taut „Arbeiterwohnhaus“; and many others.

Furthermore, this volume includes the two important special issues on the Werkbund exhibition „Die Wohnung“.

Overall, a very fine copy; two issues have very tiny tears in the covers, three issues have pages that are very slightly warped in places.