Description
Ole Meyer (photos) & text by Jørgen Rasmussen:Gamle Teglværker / Old Brickworks (Functional Tradition). Denmark: Arnold Busck NNF / Bianco Luno, 1968. Small oblong 8vo in original wraps with hessian cover. Around 100 unpaginated pages. Text in both Danish and English. Illustrated richly with black and white photographs by Ole Meyer. Fine copy
First and only edition – this copy inscribed by Rasmussen to Anker Tiedemann, the Danish architect and design critic who edited Bo Bedre and a number of famous Danish design books. Extremely rare architectural photobook by the Ole Meyer, famous for De Tavse Bygninger. “Old Brick-works” has the same photographic style as Tavse Bygninger but with a very different original book design made by Ole Meyer with Rasmussen and is a book in the tradition of Eric de Mare and Richards “The functional tradition in early industrial buildings
