Dec 07, 2006 - Sale 2097

Sale 2097 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(KRULL, GERMAINE) Confort. With essays by G. Lenotre, Pavl Rebovx, Marcel Prevost, and Pierre Mac-Orlan. Illustrated with numerous gravure reproductions of Krull's modernist photographs. Tall 4to, gilt-pictorial stiff green wrappers, edgewear; shaken, front cover separating from text block. first edition. Paris: La Société Générale de Fonderie, 1931

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With text describing the comforts of personal hygiene during the days of Louis XIV, the nineteenth century, the twentieth century, and 1931, each with a color plate of a woman emerging from a bathtub. The last essay is followed by 29 full-page gravures after photographs by Krull depicting the cycle of making bathrubs, sinks, rradiators, heaters, stoves, etc. from steel and porcelain to the finished product.