Cercle populaire - popular club / RMS. – Vintage Print
![Cercle populaire - popular club / RMS., London : Benn Brothers Ltd., [1922] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/07/07717f190f6a-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Cercle populaire - popular club / RMS.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Cercle populaire - popular club / RMS.
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
*Cercle populaire*, or "popular club," is a plate from *A Modern City*, a 1922 London publication of designs by the Belgian-born French architect Rob Mallet-Stevens. Rather than showing a single finished building, the color lithograph presents a social hall as one part of a larger imagined urban plan, with the clean planes and stacked volumes that made Mallet-Stevens a leading figure in early modernist design. It shows how architects of the 1920s pictured clubhouses as civic spaces where ordinary residents could meet. The British publisher's decision to reproduce it also reflects how quickly continental modern architecture was spreading across Europe after the First World War.
| Created / published | London : Benn Brothers Ltd., [1922] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Architectural drawings 1920-1930.Lithographs Color 1920-1930. |
| Notes | Illus. in: A Modern city / designs by Rob Mallet-Stevens, architect, pl. 4. |
| Subjects | Clubhouses--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,457 × 1,161 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216681 |
More from the Work & Industry collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
