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Lot 291
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$500
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[CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE]. The International Competition for a New Administration Building for The Chicago Tribune. Containing all the Designs Submitted in Response to the Chicago Tribune's USD 100,000 Offer Commemorating its Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, June 10, 1922. [Chicago: The Tribune Company, 1923].
Small folio. Etched frontispiece, 281 plates of the designs. Publisher's cloth-backed burlap, leather lettering-pieces gilt to upper cover and spine.
FIRST EDITION, with designs submitted to the controversial contest by the leading architects of the day, including Gropius, Loos, Adler, Bragdon, Burnham & Co., Saarinen, Goodhue, Holabird and Roche, and Phelps Stokes. John Howell and Raymond Hood (who would later build Rockefeller Center in New York) won with their gothic skyscraper design.