HERBST RENÉ - Lot 83

HERBST RENÉ "25 années UAM. 1930-1955", Paris, Édition du Salon des arts ménagers, 1956. Approx. 150 pp. n.p.; flat-backed paperback in filled folder. Prefaces by friendly administrative figures, followed by reproductions of Louis Chéronnet's 1934 manifesto "Pour l'art moderne", an intervention by R. Mallet-Stevens, then G.H. Pingusson's 1949 manifesto and lists of UAM members at successive dates. The book then becomes essentially iconographic, with one to eight photos (usually 3 or 4) per page, presented in the following sections, distinguished by different paper colors from their initial page: UAM Exhibitions / Architecture / Interior Architecture / Lighting / Furniture / Seating / Miscellaneous / Useful Forms. Edition of 1500 copies (good condition, despite faded spine and last section detached from binding). (GZ02)