Bureau de postes - post office / RMS. – Antique Wall Art
![Bureau de postes - post office / RMS., London : Benn Brothers Ltd., [1922] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b5/b51fc9bd4299-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Bureau de postes - post office / RMS.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Bureau de postes - post office / RMS.
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A color lithograph of a post office, this sheet presents a building as one piece of a larger imagined city rather than as a standalone structure. It appears as plate 7 in *A Modern City*, a set of designs by the French architect Rob Mallet-Stevens, published in London by Benn Brothers around 1922. Mallet-Stevens was known for clean, geometric modernism, and his work of this period helped shape the look of the new civic buildings that European cities were beginning to plan after the First World War. Viewed now, the print shows how architects of the 1920s imagined public infrastructure as an expression of modern life.
| 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. 7. |
| Subjects | Post offices--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,466 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216684 |
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