From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe, Cape
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
on Jul 13th, 2025. Artwork published in
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First UK edition of From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe’s narrative on modern architecture, published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape.
Both the author’s name and the title are shown in Milton Glaser’s Baby Teeth, using the Letraset version issued in 1974. Jacket designer Craig Dodd did a few modifications, though: the horizontal in H was made thinner, and the W was turned upside-down and repurposed as M, apparently to make Wolfe’s first and last names rhyme visually. Last but not least, Dodd opened up the O with a vertical slit – after all, this letter appears quite a lot, and the default counterless shape would have be too dominant. The O in the last line escaped this treatment – it’s hiding behing a stylized building anyway.
