Usine électrique - electrical works / RMS. – Vintage Print
![Usine électrique - electrical works / RMS., London : Benn Brothers Ltd., [1922] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d6/d66b227db4af-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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Usine électrique - electrical works / RMS.
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Titled *Usine électrique* ("electrical works"), this color lithograph shows an imagined power plant rather than a real site. It appeared as plate 22 in *A Modern City*, a set of designs by the Paris-based architect Rob Mallet-Stevens, published in London by Benn Brothers around 1922. Mallet-Stevens was a leading figure in 1920s modernist architecture, and his work favored clean geometric forms and bold masses. The print shows how European designers of the period pictured utility buildings as emblems of the modern machine 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. 22. |
| Subjects | Electric utility companies--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,455 × 1,168 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216699 |
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