Dandanah, the fairy palace : building blocks of solid glass / invented by Blanche Mahlberg ; models and designs by Bruno Taut.

[Germany?] : [publisher not identified], [1919-1920]

1 set of building blocks (62 pieces) : glass, color ; in wood box 28 x 28 x 4 cm + 7 sheets

For special consultation only.

With its dazzling glass components in modified geometric shapes, this set is a partial realization in miniature of the idea of a world given new life by glass architecture, expressed verbally by Paul Scheerbart in his "Glasarchitektur" of 1914, and visually by Bruno Taut in his "Alpine Architecture" of 1919. The blocks permit a variety of structures easily associated with Taut's real "Glass House", the pavilion erected at Cologne for the German Werkbund Exhibition in 1914 and bearing some of Scheerbart's mottoes about glass.

Glass (material) Building blocks.
Building blocks.

Mahlberg, Blanche.
Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938.
Luxfer-Prismen Gesellschaft.

Localisation: Bibliothèque cage plus 23236
Cote: TS2301.T7.G5 Z9 1919
Notes: FOR SPECIAL CONSULTATION ONLY
Statut: Disponible