Collection containing about 200 paper items - plans, architectural drawings and illustrations, interior design drawings and furniture designs, from the estate of the architect, designer and painter Uriel Kahana. Rome, London, Haifa and Tel-Aviv, ca. late 1920s through 1930s.
The collection includes items from different periods of Kahana's architectural career - items from his period of studies in Europe, from the period he worked in Haifa and from his private office on Rambam street 15 in Tel-Aviv.
Among the items in the collection: * Proposal for a building for the National Institutes in Jerusalem (1927). * Plans for Huebner House on Ahad HaAm street 88 (Tel-Aviv). * Plans for Pilz house on Hayarkon street 81 (Tel-Aviv). * Drawings and illustrations from the period of his studies in Rome and London (some are very professional, drawn on thick paper of good quality, for display). * Drawings and plans for an architectural contest in England. * Drawings and plans for buildings in Haifa, created when he worked with the architect Prof. Alexander Berwald. * Plans of interior design and drawings of furniture: tea cart, lighting lamps, openwork for an arm chair, a table, chairs (made of hollow pipes in a modernist style), arm chairs, and more. The collection also includes a number of lists handwritten by Kahana, printed letters and several photographs of buildings which he designed.
For more information about the architectural career of Uriel Kahana, see introduction on p. 228 and the article by architect Shmuel Yavin, "Architectural work of Uriel Kahana", in: "One of the last in a Generation - Uriel Kahana - Architect, Painter, Designer", catalogue of an exhibition in the Bauhaus Center, Tel-Aviv, 2003. pp. 12-17.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Stains and tears to some items. Some of the drawings and photographs are matted.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.