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Item Details
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| Author: |
Requa, Richard |
| Title: |
Architectural Details: Spain and the Mediterranean... |
| Place: |
Los Angeles |
| Publisher: |
The Monolith Portland Cement Company |
| Date: |
[1926] |
| Item # : |
212882 |
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| Sale Number |
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452 |
| Lot Number |
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176 |
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| Fine Americana with Travel & Exploration, Cartography & Cruise Ship Memorabilia |
| Sale Date |
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04/21/2011 |
| Price realized |
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$ 390 |
| includes 20% buyer's premium |
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| Description: |
| Unbound portfolio containing four pages of text and 12 fascicles (each with 12 plates), 11x14", all housed within original publisher's cloth folding box, ties broken. Limited Special Architect's Edition of 1000 copies, out of series. |
| The plates are made from photographs taken by Requa himself during his travels in Mediterranean countries, show buildings, country houses, facades, door details, windows, iron work, gardens, patios, towers, balconies, etc., in Spanish cities and the western Mediterranean. This deluxe Special Architect's Edition was issued a year before the regular book version, and was presented to architects, schools and libraries in California to influence architectural design in southern California. According to Requa's foreword: "... the main reason for the rapidly increasing interest in the western Mediterranean countries is the growing appreciation of fact that the logical, fitting and altogether appropriate architecture for California and the Pacific southwest is a style inspired and suggested by the architecture of those countries." Requa's firm Requa and Jackson was instrumental in creating what is known as the California style, based on the Spanish and Mediterranean models depicted in this beautiful portfolio of plates. Requa later popularized this style through his buildings for the 1935-1936 California Pacific Exposition in Balboa Park. An important work for the history of California and Spanish architecture. |
| Condition: |
| Box hinges worn and cracking; very good. |
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