Eliel Saarinen: Finnish-American Architect, Albert Christ-Janer, 1979, Revised Ed.
Eliel Saarinen: Finnish-American Architect, Albert Christ-Janer, 1979, Revised Ed.
Eliel Saarinen: Finnish-American Architect, Albert Christ-Janer, 1979, Revised Ed.
Eliel Saarinen: Finnish-American Architect, Albert Christ-Janer, 1979, Revised Ed.

Eliel Saarinen: Finnish-American Architect, Albert Christ-Janer, 1979, Revised Ed.

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Christ-Janer, Albert. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 1979,
English, Revised Edition, Very Good hardcover, folio, 13” x 9 ⅝”, 169 pp.
ISBN: 0226104648 

Very Good folio, gray cloth over boards, blind-stamped logo to front, stamped silver lettering to front and spine, dark red endpapers, includes ephemera, 8 loose magazine pages relating to Eliel Saarinen from the Magazine of Building, Architectural Forum, July, August, 1950, soiling, bumping to head and tail, bumping to tips, edgewear to bottom edge, clean interior. Text in English, Foreword by Alvar Aalto, replete with black-and-white architectural plans, rendering and photographs, an exquisite biography on Saarinen, a successful international Finnish architect known for his Midcentury Modern architecture. Saarinen helped his country gain self-confidence and architectural literacy amidst isolation from larger cultural centers of the Western world.