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PLISHKE, E.A. - Design and Living
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$100 - $120
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$250
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Description
PLISHKE, E.A.
Design and Living
Wellington: Army Education Welfare Service 1947. vii, [2] l., 92p, illustrated, 270mm original card wrappers, brown with white titles, edge worn. G+ copy.


Ernst Anton Plischke was a key figure in the introduction of modernism into Wellington & New Zealand architecture in the period following the Second World War. His most influential writing first appeared in the Army Education and Welfare Service bulletin About houses in 1943; this text was then expanded to become Design and living. Scarce.
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