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The architect and the industrial arts : an exhibition of contemporary American design, the eleventh in the museum series, New York, February 12 to March 24, and continued to September 2, 1929

Various artists/makers

1929

Not on view

Of this book, designed by David Silve, with ornaments by W. A. Dwiggins, ten thousand copies were printed at the Plandome Press, Inc., in February and twenty-five hundred copies in a second edition in May, 1929.

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The architect and the industrial arts : an exhibition of contemporary American design, the eleventh in the museum series, New York, February 12 to March 24, and continued to September 2, 1929, David Silve

The architect and the industrial arts : an exhibition of contemporary American design, the eleventh in the museum series, New York, February 12 to March 24, and continued to September 2, 1929, David Silve

The architect and the industrial arts : an exhibition of contemporary American design, the eleventh in the museum series, New York, February 12 to March 24, and continued to September 2, 1929, David Silve

The architect and the industrial arts : an exhibition of contemporary American design, the eleventh in the museum series, New York, February 12 to March 24, and continued to September 2, 1929, David Silve

The architect and the industrial arts : an exhibition of contemporary American design, the eleventh in the museum series, New York, February 12 to March 24, and continued to September 2, 1929, David Silve

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Front Cover

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Title Page

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Exhibits List, page [10]

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Backyard Garden, page 31

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Apartment House Loggia, [illustration no. 11]

Title: The architect and the industrial arts : an exhibition of contemporary American design, the eleventh in the museum series, New York, February 12 to March 24, and continued to September 2, 1929

Designer: David Silve

Subject of book: William Addison Dwiggins (American, Martinsville, Ohio 1880–1956 Hingham, Massachusetts)

Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Printer: Plandome Press, Inc.

Date: 1929

Geography: New York, New York

Dimensions: 83 pages, 3 leaves : illustrations, plates ; Height: 8 11/16 in. (22 cm)

Object Number: 159.4 N486

Chronology

The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.-present

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