Palais de justice - law courts / RMS. – Antique Wall Art
![Palais de justice - law courts / RMS., London : Benn Brothers Ltd., [1922] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/15/154a9c4e8240-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.)
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A window into the past: Palais de justice - law courts / RMS., preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Palais de justice - law courts / RMS.
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Rendered in color as plate 21 of *A Modern City*, this lithograph shows a design for a law court, or Palais de justice, by the French architect Rob Mallet-Stevens. The book, published in London by Benn Brothers in 1922, presented his proposals for an idealized contemporary city, a vision that drew on the clean lines and geometric massing of the modernist architecture then emerging in Europe. Civic buildings such as courthouses were a common subject in these speculative designs, which aimed to show how public institutions might look in a planned, modern city. The drawing offers a useful record of how architects of the early 1920s imagined the look of justice in the modern age.
| 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. 21. |
| Subjects | Courthouses--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,454 × 1,158 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216698 |
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