Nov 10, 2009 - Sale 2195

Sale 2195 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ARCHITECTURE.) Koolhaas, Rem. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. Hundreds of color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. 4to, original pink boards, a touch of fading along edges in some areas; publisher's dust jacket, few minor chips. New York, 1978

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first edition. Koolhaas's study of architecture and design in New York from 1890 to around 1940, with long discussions of Coney Island, the Waldorf-Astoria, Rockefeller Center, and skyscrapers. The Pritzker Prize-winning architect called the city "the 20th century's Rosetta Stone."