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PLISHKE, E.A. - Design and Living
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PLISHKE, E.A.
Design and Living

Wellington, New Zealand: Dept of Internal Affairs, Date: 1947. 92p, illustrated. Pages browned as usual 750mm original brown card wrappers with white titles light wear to hinges and edges, ex library stamp to back cover and 2 stamps inside front cover, even so a very nice copy.
The first book written on the New Zealand style of architecture at the request of Prime Minister Peter Fraser to provide returning servicemen with ideas about healthy modernist & affordable housing.
Ernst Plischke’s modernist designs made an important contribution to post-war New Zealand architecture.