[ARCHITECTURAL VISION AGAINST CONFORMITY: THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF CHERNIKHOV’S ORNAMENTS] Ornament: Kompozitsionno-klassich. Postroyeniya [i.e. Ornament: Compositional-Classical Constructions]
Leningrad: Izdaniye avtora, 1930. 221, [5] pp., 8 color plates: ills. 30x21 cm. Owner’s cloth binding with original wrappers preserved. Binding rubbed, but otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. Text in Russian. An exceptionally rare and visually striking course in ornamental drafting by Yakov Chernikhov (1889-1951)—one of the..... More