Item #522 [SOVIET IKEA] Mebel’ i oborudovanie novykh kvartir: (Al’bom sostavlen po materialam Vsesoiuznogo konkursa na mebel’ provedennogo Gosstroem SSSR v 1958 g.) [i.e. Furniture and Furnishing New Apartments: Album Based on Materials of All-Union Competition in Furniture Designs Held by Gosstroi of USSR in 1958]
[SOVIET IKEA] Mebel’ i oborudovanie novykh kvartir: (Al’bom sostavlen po materialam Vsesoiuznogo konkursa na mebel’ provedennogo Gosstroem SSSR v 1958 g.) [i.e. Furniture and Furnishing New Apartments: Album Based on Materials of All-Union Competition in Furniture Designs Held by Gosstroi of USSR in 1958]
[SOVIET IKEA] Mebel’ i oborudovanie novykh kvartir: (Al’bom sostavlen po materialam Vsesoiuznogo konkursa na mebel’ provedennogo Gosstroem SSSR v 1958 g.) [i.e. Furniture and Furnishing New Apartments: Album Based on Materials of All-Union Competition in Furniture Designs Held by Gosstroi of USSR in 1958]
[SOVIET IKEA] Mebel’ i oborudovanie novykh kvartir: (Al’bom sostavlen po materialam Vsesoiuznogo konkursa na mebel’ provedennogo Gosstroem SSSR v 1958 g.) [i.e. Furniture and Furnishing New Apartments: Album Based on Materials of All-Union Competition in Furniture Designs Held by Gosstroi of USSR in 1958]
[SOVIET IKEA] Mebel’ i oborudovanie novykh kvartir: (Al’bom sostavlen po materialam Vsesoiuznogo konkursa na mebel’ provedennogo Gosstroem SSSR v 1958 g.) [i.e. Furniture and Furnishing New Apartments: Album Based on Materials of All-Union Competition in Furniture Designs Held by Gosstroi of USSR in 1958]
[SOVIET IKEA] Mebel’ i oborudovanie novykh kvartir: (Al’bom sostavlen po materialam Vsesoiuznogo konkursa na mebel’ provedennogo Gosstroem SSSR v 1958 g.) [i.e. Furniture and Furnishing New Apartments: Album Based on Materials of All-Union Competition in Furniture Designs Held by Gosstroi of USSR in 1958]

[SOVIET IKEA] Mebel’ i oborudovanie novykh kvartir: (Al’bom sostavlen po materialam Vsesoiuznogo konkursa na mebel’ provedennogo Gosstroem SSSR v 1958 g.) [i.e. Furniture and Furnishing New Apartments: Album Based on Materials of All-Union Competition in Furniture Designs Held by Gosstroi of USSR in 1958]

Item #522

Moscow: [Gosstroi], 1960. [8] pp., 68 leaves with designs in illustrated folder with laces. Folder with Soviet bookshop’s stamp, rubbed and soiled, otherwise very good.

First and only edition. Very rare. One of 5000 copies. Folder designed by V.A. Briun, art directors - Briun and E.I. Matveenko.
This album includes designs of furniture sets recommended for mass production. Numerous designs of furniture and furnishing Soviet apartments in 1960s divided in sections of one, two and three bedroom apartments as well as kitchens and built-in wardrobes. Album was compiled by architects based on All-union competition of furniture designs held in 1958. A small brochure has a list of organizations which provided samples of new furniture mastered by furniture enterprises since 1959.
A remarkable and exemplary evidence of a new era in Soviet people lives, the Khrushchev Thaw.

Worldcat locates an only copy in The Berlin State Library.

Price: $1,250.00