BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION OF EIGHT INTERWAR-ERA VIENNESE MEN'S SHOE DESIGNS, DRAWN BY HAND FOR ATELIER MODELL MAYER

(MAYER, Robert) ATELIER MODELL MAYER. Men's shoe design drawings. Vienna: Robert Mayer, circa 1930. Eight sheets of onionskin paper (six with stationery headings), measuring from 5-1/2 by 8 inches to 6 by 8-1/4 inches. $650.

Fascinating collection of Viennese men's shoe designs from the interwar period—six hand-drawn in pencil and colored on special onionskin design stationery and two drawn in pencil on plain onionskin.

These beautiful Viennese shoe designs—produced for or at Atelier Modell Mayer, copyrighted, and hand-numbered—reflect a taste for both style and quality. Included are designs for spectator shoes, three different monk shoes, low sherpa-lined boots, pointy-toed brogues, casual low-front brogues, and more.

Fine condition.