Author: DIDIER Charles ( editor ) - Le COTTAGE :
Title: Le COTTAGE Revue Internationale de tout ce qui concerne l'Habitation ( later ) Revue mensuelle internationale de l'habitation à bon marché et de l'art en tout pour tous.
Description: .: 10. Bruxelles, small in-4°, 27,5 x 21 cm, issues of between 30 and 50 pp, after the first 2 issues the pagination is continuous, bound in two not uniform half cloth volumes, original printed wrappers NOT bound in. AVAILABLE : year 1 (1903) issues 1 to 7 (June-December), 342 pp (complete). year 2 (1904) issues 1 to 9 (15th January - 15th December), 306 pp (complete). year 3 (1905) isuues 1 and 2 (15th January - 15 February)(all published). Year 1 and 2 bound in one thick volume. 3rd year (only 2 issues) bound in another volume which contains also some other issues. Complete set (without the wrappers, without some publicty pages) of this rare Brussels' Art Nouveau periodical which deals mostly with town planning , architecture and interior design. Much attention is given to ''garden-cities'' E.g. the very first issue contains a long well illustrated article on Port Sunlight by Lever. In 1904 an extensive double issue on the Belgian coast is published with a coloured map of a new street outlay in the Panne, street outlays at Duinbergen, Westende... and many views and groundfloors of ''cottages'', the villa type which lent its name to the periodical and which was very much en vogue around 1900 at the Belgian coast. Nearly every issue contains at least one coloured full page illustration.. .

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