packet ephemera (2 Ergebnisse)

Folder. Zustand: Very Good. Tri-fold folder containing 3 stapled press releases, 3 single page releases, and a glossy printed isometric drawing by Eugene Aubry of the then soon to be opened chapel. There are some handling bends to the corners of the folder, but otherwise the contents are clean, sharp, and crisp condition. Release 1: General release about the opening in Houston on February 27, 1971. Release 2: Details about the founding and mission of the Institute of Religion and Human Development, who owned and operated the Chapel at the time of its opening. Releases 3/4: Brief biographies of Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, who both died the previous year. Release 5: Biographies of Howard Barnstone and Eugene Aubry, credited as the architects (Philip Johnson having pulled out of the project several years earlier). Release 6: Background on John and Dominique de Menil, sponsors of the project. Book.

From folio size to business cards, including Poltroon catalogues, prospectuses, invitations, announcements, advertising material, etc., in broadside, broadsheet, bifoliate, and chapbook formats. Forty-one pieces in all, as collected by Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.