Meister der Innen-Kunst. I Baillie Scott. London.... Lot 118

Meister der Innen-Kunst. I Baillie Scott. London. Haus eines Kunst-Freundes. II. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Glasgow. Haus eines Kunstfreundes. III. Das Haus eines Kunst-Freundes. Ein Entwurf in zwölf Tafeln von Leopold Bauer. Darmstadt, Alexander Koch, 1902 3 parts, large folio, loose under publ. (?) portfolio (soiled, corners defect., partly waterstained, cloth spine locally torn off), titled label on upper cover, [1]-3 ff., x pl., [1]-3 ff., 14 pl., [1]-2 ff., xii pl. (sl. brown. and dusty, marg. traces of use, some fox., esp. in part II and III, title of part II brown. with small lack of paper in upper right corner, 2 Baillie Scott plates with pencil sketches on verso or at margin).  Very rare publication, complete with text, 3 frontispieces and 36 lithogr. plates of which 4 printed in b/w and 32 printed in colours; 5 plates have additionnal pochoir col. in gold and silver (3 in the Mackintosh set and 2 in the Bauer set). Representing architectural plans and elevations, external drawings and internal details of rooms, wall hangings and furniture, including Rennie Mackintosh's famous chairs and Margaret Macdonald's wall panels and decorative glass. Introductory texts by H. Muthesius (I & II) or F. Commichau (III).  "In 1901 Alexander Koch, editor of the German magazine "Zeitschrift fur Innendekoration", sponsored a competition to design a "Haus eines Kunst-Freundes [House for an Art Lover]". There were thirty-six entries and the three judged as the best were published in this series of portfolios. The overall winner was Baillie Scott with Leopold Bauer as runner-up. The entry by Rennie Mackintosh was disallowed for not containing the correct number of perspective drawings, but presumably impressed the judges who awarded him a prize and requested the designs be included for publication. The three artists were not widely known before the competition which proved to be their springboard to success. None of the designs were realised at the time, although in 1996 Renni