183 - Henry van de Velde. The Renaissance in Modern Decorative Arts. Berlin, Bruno and Paul Cassirer, 1901. With a header vignette repeated seven times. Original cardboard cover with ornamental decoration.

Henry van de Velde. The Renaissance in Modern Decorative Arts. Berlin, Bruno and Paul Cassirer, 1901. With a header vignette repeated seven times. Original cardboard cover with ornamental decoration. Starting time: approx. 1:46 p.m. (Schedule subject to change) First edition. — Van de Velde designed the book’s ornamentation himself. — A counterpart to William Morris’s renewal of the English arts and crafts movement. In the winter of 1900, Henry van de Velde gave a series of seven lectures at Cornelia Richter’s salon—where, among others, Walther Rathenau, Maximilian Harden, and museum directors Wilhelm von Bode, Hugo von Tschudi, and Max Lippmann, among others. - In 1898, Henry van de Velde had designed the art salon of Bruno and Paul Cassirer at Viktoriastraße 35, thereby contributing to the fame of the young company. In 1901, the decision was made to appoint him as director of the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar, a move that had been driven by persistent “tea-table politics” (see Sembach/Schulte, p. 260). - From the library of Fritz H. Ehmcke, the innovator of German book art, who had founded the Steglitz workshop a year earlier; featuring his bookplate. Brinks 58. - Weber 31. - Feilchenfeldt/Brandis 197 19.7 × 14.5 cm. 147, [3] pages. - Front joint slightly cracked.