Maison de rapport - mansions / RMS. – Historic Reproduction
![Maison de rapport - mansions / RMS., London : Benn Brothers Ltd., [1922] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ca/ca941814e9b8-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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Step back in time with Maison de rapport - mansions / RMS., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Maison de rapport - mansions / RMS.
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Plate 30 in *A Modern City*, Rob Mallet-Stevens's designs published in London by Benn Brothers, shows a *maison de rapport*, the French term for a rental apartment block. The color lithograph presents the building as an orderly, repeated block of flats, the kind of housing that European architects of the early 1920s hoped would bring light and order to crowded cities. Mallet-Stevens was one of the French designers associated with modernism in that decade, and the plate offers a useful view of how urban housing was imagined just after the First World War. Its flat, geometric facade is worth noticing.
| 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. 30. |
| Subjects | Apartment houses--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,148 × 1,453 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216707 |
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