Author: T.C.&E.C. JACK (publ)
Title: International Competition of the Carnegie Foundation. The Palace of Peace at The Hague. The 6 Premiated and 40 other designs chosen by the Society of Architecture at Amsterdam and reproduced under its direction
Description: London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1907. iv, incl engraved title, 34pp, explaining the background to the competiton & its rules, list of entries and prizes, biographies. In lettered pictoral card folder + high-quality plates, some in colour (plates 1&2 being photos of Carnegie & The Committee). All loosely inserted in original lettered ribbon-tied cloth portfolio, 50x38. Plate 39 (entry of H. van Buren Magonigle, NY) in xerox facsimile. A little wear and some browning to portfolio, contents good. This fine volume, complete in itself, describes in full the architecture of the competition for the new Palace of Peace (being part V of a larger report). The competition required a Court House and Library. First prize was awarded to L M Cordonnier of Lille. Other prizes, in descending order, went to A.Marcel, F. Wendt, O. Wagner, Creeley & Olin, and F. Schwechten. There were also entries from Berlage, E. Saarinen, Cuypers, Eklund, Belcher, I. Puig Cadalfach, W. Kreis and others. Scarce.

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