Vienna 1900: Architecture and Design, Very Good Viennese Secession hardcover

Franco Borsi; Ezio Godoli. Rizzoli, 1986.

ISBN: 0847806162

Very Good 9 1/2" x 11 1/2" chocolate brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering stamped to spine, minor bumping to head and foot of spine and tips, very minor trace of moisture stain to back cover bottom edge, otherwise clean and unmarked with tight binding in Very Good pictorial dustjacket, green lettering to cover and spine, some very minor shelf wear, a 1 1/2" closed tear to front cover not affecting text or imagery, else unclipped, intact and protected by a paper-backed plastic sleeve. 351 pp. including an Introduction and four essays by Franco Borsi, and four essays by Ezio Godoli. Also includes Chronology, Bibliography, and Index. Replete with full-color and black-and-white photographs, drawings and illustrations. From the dustjacket: "Borsi illuminates the expressive heights attained by Olbrich and Hoffmann, each of whom is the subject of a separate chapter. Ezio Godoli goes on to reveal, in texts as well as splendid photographs, works by lesser-known figures such as Max Fabiani, Josef Plecnik, Jan Kotera, Ludwig Muller, and Karl Dorfmeister." An exceptionally beautiful book.