Maisons ouvrières - workmen's houses / RMS. – Historic Reproduction
![Maisons ouvrières - workmen's houses / RMS., London : Benn Brothers Ltd., [1922] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/26/2690218ec81d-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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This rare antique lithograph captures Maisons ouvrières - workmen's houses / RMS. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Maisons ouvrières - workmen's houses / RMS.
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Titled "Maisons ouvrières," or workers' houses, this color lithograph is a design plate by the French architect Rob Mallet-Stevens, reproduced as plate 14 in *A Modern City*. The book was published in London by Benn Brothers, and the catalog gives the date as approximately 1922 because the imprint shows it in brackets. The subject, cheap housing for laborers, was a live concern in the years after World War I, when European cities faced acute housing shortages and architects were testing new ideas about affordable, standardized dwellings. The drawing is worth looking at for how it presents modern housing as orderly, repeatable, and close to the street.
| 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. 14. |
| Subjects | Dwellings--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,455 × 1,157 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216691 |
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