185 - Henry van de Velde - Maurice Casteels. Henry van de Velde. Brussels, Editions des Cahiers de Belgique [1932]. With 29 photographic plates, one of which is double-page in size. Original paperback with a photograph on the front cover. — Signed copy.

Henry van de Velde - Maurice Casteels. Henry van de Velde. Brussels, Editions des Cahiers de Belgique [1932]. With 29 photographic plates, one of which is double-page in size. Original paperback with a photograph on the front cover. — Signed copy. Starting time: approx. 1:47 p.m. (schedule subject to change) First edition. — Endpaper with a handwritten dedication by the author: “To my dear Petiot, to my dear little Simone, as a token of love. Your Maurice.” - The photographs document van de Velde’s architecture from his years in Ghent and as director of the newly founded Institut Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs (ISAD) in Brussels. The photographic negatives for the copper intaglio prints were taken by Willy Kessels (Brussels) and Edmund Lill (Hanover); the latter became known for his photographs of Gropius’s Fagus Works. 19.5 × 14.5 cm. 16, [32] pages.