"KUNSTGEWERBLICHE SCHMUCKFORMEN FUR DIE FLACHE; MONATSHEFTE FUR DIE VERZIERENDE KUNST." BY CHRISTIAN STOLL. 30 TAFELN . [Palauen: Verlag Christian Stoll, Bucch, c. 1915] A trail-blazing German design book. First edition with original soft covers; all original; no replacements and in very good condition. Thirty leaves of decorative images and patterns, brightly colored by stencils, mounted on black leaves, each with a small label at margin. The colored plates stunningly fresh and bright. This portfolio evidently comprises two parts of the eighth volume of this illustrated periodical of design motifs that was issued in a total of 21 volumes between 1909 and 1939. The publisher seems to have specialized in these sorts of portfolios. Each plate is divided into between two and eight fields of highly imaginative, boldly colored images and patterns in styles that might be described as Jugendstil or Art Moderne or pre-Art Deco Estimate $1,000-1,500
