Vstroennoe oborudovanie kvartir (Built-in Furniture and Equipment of the Apartments)

Near Fine condition; cover shows slight foxing and darkening to the edges, creases across cover corners, repaired missing minor pieces of the bottom edge of front cover; internally occasional foxing stains and blue pen underlinings in the text in three places.

The book provides an overview of the built-in furniture and equipment of the apartments on the basis of the housing construction experience in the USA. Its author - Ol'ga Grigor'evna Bayar (1902-1978) was an architect and interior designer, member of the Union of Soviet architects of the USSR, graduated Vkhutemas (Higher Art and Technical Studios) in 1925 and received a bachelor's degree in architecture from New York University in 1939. After having lived and studied for a number of years in USA, she proposes a series of build-in furtniture projects designed for the USA’s low cost houses that can be adapted for the Soviet housing construction and repair of after-war period. In author oponion, such new approach of furnishing as a mass production will help to reduce furniture and equipment costs and to optimize living space. Considered use of build-in cupboards, kitchen equipment, bathroom and toilet facilities. Richly illustrated edition includes numerous architectural drawings, plans and photographic images in the text and on the separate coated sheets (90 in total).