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JAPANESE AVANT-GARDE. KAWAKITA Renshichiro. ZUKAISHIKI...

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[JAPANESE AVANT-GARDE]. KAWAKITA Renshichiro. ZUKAISHIKI TENPOSEKKEI CHINRETSU ZENSHU (Plans of stores and display windows). Tokyo, Monas, 1940. Fort in-4, full publisher's cloth, illustrated cardboard case. First edition with many plans, drawings and photographs of stores, displays, by Kawakita, who did the layout. Kawakita Renshichiro, modernist architect, interior designer and key figure during the first phase of modernism in Japan, created in 1932, the Institute of New Architecture and Industrial Arts in order to bring the ideas of the Bauhaus school to Japan. Rare.