Bureau des contributions directes - receiver's office / RMS. – Vintage Wall Art
![Bureau des contributions directes - receiver's office / RMS., London : Benn Brothers Ltd., [1922] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fe/fe29b6f10437-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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Bureau des contributions directes - receiver's office / RMS. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Bureau des contributions directes - receiver's office / RMS.
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The office of the receiver of direct contributions, a French tax office, is the subject here, and it is an unusual choice for a civic building. This color lithograph appears as plate 24 in *A Modern City*, a collection of designs by the Belgian-born French architect Rob Mallet-Stevens, published in London by Benn Brothers in 1922. The clean, unornamented forms reflect the modernist ideas Mallet-Stevens was promoting at the time, a clear break from the heavy classical styles usually used for government buildings. The image shows that even routine public administration was being reimagined in new architectural terms between the wars.
| 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. 24. |
| Subjects | Government buildings--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,436 × 1,148 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216701 |
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