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[LENINGRAD VKHUTEMAS] Otdel proektirovaniia Proizvodstvennogo biuro Akademii hudozhestv [i.e. Department of Projects in Production Bureau of Academy of Arts] Issue 3.

Leningrad: Tipografiia Akademii khudozhestv, [1926]. Item #1087

28, [4] pp.: ill. 15,5x11 cm. In original illustrated wrappers in constructivist style. In very good condition, slightly rubbed.
One of 1000 copies. Very rare.
Design was produced by Iakov Rubanchik (1899-1948), the Soviet architect and artist who studied in Vkhutein at that time. The label of Projecting Department on the front cover produced by A. Litvinenko.
Reforms of the Academy of Arts presented the new formation, Leningrad Art Studios which later became the Leningrad Vkhutein. Like Moscow organization, this institute attracted influential figures to supervise the student projects and generated art experiments. Founded in 1924, the Production Bureau of Academy of Arts consisted of departments where students designed and brought to life their architecture, sculpture, painting and graphics projects. The bureau was tightly connected with studios and distributed their production as well.
The Projecting Department built the new constructions: civil, industrial, agricultural, public, cultural buildings; restored them; designed interior and shop windows. Their major projects included model housing for Azneft town, constructivist model of street stationary, anti-shamanist poster (all of them are supplemented by illustrations). For the first time, such an institute organized scientific and artistic expertise.
It includes the mounted coloured labels for products of Leningrad cosmetic company ‘Zhirtrust’. A curious point is Rubanchik’s advertising poster of the Production Bureau printed inside the folding flap of the back cover.

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