ODRZYWOLSKI Slawomir - Monuments of the art industry in Poland. Collected ... Yearbook one....

ODRZYWOLSKI Slawomir - Monuments of the art industry in Poland. Collected ... Yearbook one. Cracow 1891. publishing house of the National Commissariat for Industrial Affairs. Folio, pp. [4], plates 36. contemporary cardboard portfolio, original booklet cover of Notebook 1 glued to portfolio.
Minor soiling and staining visible in margins, good condition. Printed on the pasted-on booklet cover: "Published in the month of November 1893". No more printed. "In order to fulfill the practical purpose outlined in the introduction, in it we provide our workers in the industrial and artistic fields with a collection of patterns from which they can draw motives for contemporary products. All of the plates also show the objects in a rather large size, allowing one to get into the details of composition and ornamentation. This publication so far covers the following sections: I. Bronze products. II. Wrought iron products. III. Carpentry products. IV. Goldsmith products" (S. Odrzywolski).
S. Odrzywolski (1846-1933) - architect, conservator of monuments, according to his designs were erected, among others, the building of the "Polonia" hotel, the Cracow Technical Society, tenements on Studencka Street, the building of the Industrial School, the building of the Agricultural Society (all in Cracow); he directed the renovation of Wawel Cathedral in 1885-1904.