Bibliothèque - library / RMS. – Antique Wall Art
![Bibliothèque - library / RMS., London : Benn Brothers Ltd., [1922] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/91/91f1cf8b297f-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 antique lithograph of Bibliothèque - library / RMS. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Bibliothèque - library / RMS.
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This lithograph shows a library imagined as part of a modern city, drawn in color and published as plate 6 in *A Modern City*, a set of designs by the French architect Rob Mallet-Stevens. Its London publisher, Benn Brothers, issued the volume around 1922, a period when European architects were rethinking public buildings with clean lines, open interiors, and little ornament. Mallet-Stevens, who was born in Belgium and worked mainly in Paris, became one of the leading voices of that modernist style. Because the plate comes from a book of designs, it shows an architect's vision of how a civic reading room might look rather than a building that stood in a particular place.
| 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. 6. |
| Subjects | Libraries--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,458 × 1,146 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216683 |
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