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Lot 215
City Planning.- London.- Goldfinger (Erno) Colin Penn, Planning Your Homes, [for the Air Ministry & Admiralty Education Department], [1945].
Hammer Price: £1,900
Description
City Planning.- London.- Goldfinger (Erno) and Colin Penn. Planning Your Homes, 20 sheets, 500 x 360mm., colour, small holes at corners, some light toning, mainly marginal, some light chipping to edges, [for the Air Ministry & Admiralty Education Department], [1945].
⁂ Rare, unrecorded on Library Hub or any copies in commerce.
Goldfinger designed a number of exhibitions during World War II for public bodies, envisioning a pragmatic and modernist take on improved city living. Like 'Planning Your Neighbourhood' (see next lot), each exhibition series comprised drawings, photographs and graphics on boards designed to be reproduced and toured. 'Planning Your Homes' is another in this series, this one exceedingly rare.
The sheets here include plans of rooms in accordance with family size, comparisons for insulation materials; how to achieve optimum warmth, quiet, light, and fresh air, as well as designs for everyday activities - "A good plan must co-ordinate these physical and functional requirements" - sheet 12.
Description
City Planning.- London.- Goldfinger (Erno) and Colin Penn. Planning Your Homes, 20 sheets, 500 x 360mm., colour, small holes at corners, some light toning, mainly marginal, some light chipping to edges, [for the Air Ministry & Admiralty Education Department], [1945].
⁂ Rare, unrecorded on Library Hub or any copies in commerce.
Goldfinger designed a number of exhibitions during World War II for public bodies, envisioning a pragmatic and modernist take on improved city living. Like 'Planning Your Neighbourhood' (see next lot), each exhibition series comprised drawings, photographs and graphics on boards designed to be reproduced and toured. 'Planning Your Homes' is another in this series, this one exceedingly rare.
The sheets here include plans of rooms in accordance with family size, comparisons for insulation materials; how to achieve optimum warmth, quiet, light, and fresh air, as well as designs for everyday activities - "A good plan must co-ordinate these physical and functional requirements" - sheet 12.
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