Pair of original folded exhibition guides (8.75 x 8.75 inches folded), one preserved as issued and the second extensively annotated throughout in blue ink by noted architectural historian Carol Herselle Krinsky. Prepared for the landmark retrospective held at the MET from November 21, 1972-January 7, 1973 surveying Breuer's career from the Bauhaus through his late institutional commissions. Provided by Knoll International, Inc. Krinsky's working copy contains numerous contemporaneous critical observations on individual projects, addressing composition, materials, structural expression, spatial planning, and formal development across Breuer's oeuvre, effectively constituting an unpublished running critique of the exhibition itself. Together with a clean reference copy, an exceptional survival from the working library of one of America's leading historians of architecture, documenting her direct engagement with a pivotal exhibition devoted to one of the twentieth century's defining modernists. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, with small closed tears to folds.
Pair of original folded exhibition guides (8.75 x 8.75 inches folded), one preserved as issued and the second extensively annotated throughout in blue ink by noted architectural historian Carol Herselle Krinsky. Prepared for the landmark retrospective held at the MET from November 21, 1972-January 7, 1973 surveying Breuer's career from the Bauhaus through his late institutional commissions. Provided by Knoll International, Inc. Krinsky's working copy contains numerous contemporaneous critical observations on individual projects, addressing composition, materials, structural expression, spatial planning, and formal development across Breuer's oeuvre, effectively constituting an unpublished running critique of the exhibition itself. Together with a clean reference copy, an exceptional survival from the working library of one of America's leading historians of architecture, documenting her direct engagement with a pivotal exhibition devoted to one of the twentieth century's defining modernists. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, with small closed tears to folds.
