From Bauhaus to Our House
Wolfe, Tom. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981 (5th Printing). Hardbound. Jacket photo by Tom Victor. In this takedown of dehumanizing post-war aesthetics, Wolfe asks why elites became suddenly 'willing to accept that glass of ice water to the face, that bracing slap across the mouth, that reprimand for the fat on one's bourgeois soul, known as modern architecture.' Features a Bauhaus-by-way-of-the-Memphis-Group jacket design by Kiyoshi Kanai, which integrates nicely with book design by Sheila Wolfe (née Berger), who met the author while they both worked at Esquire, and eventually went on to marry him.
Spine is tight, but has a slight lean. Clean, unmarked interior. Only very light shelf-wear to both book and price-clipped jacket. 143 pp. Architecture.
