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199225326New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1992. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Lovely clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 287 pp. With 250 illustrations including 82 in full color plus bibliography and index. A near fine copy in dustwrapper. Marvelous. For fans of the history of American interpretation of European rococo design in the 18th century. A large and heavy book. Metropolitan Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art unknown books
198328093Detroit and New York: The Detroit Institute of Arts and The metropolitan Museum of Art 1983. First edition. Cloth. Very Good /very good . 4to. 352 pp. With 265 illustrations including 62 plates in full color. A monumental monograph concerning the Cranbrook school a still vital community in Bloomfield Hills Michigan. Essays by Mary Riordan Joan Marter and many others. A close to near fine copy in black cloth binding in lightly used photo-illustrated dustwrapper. Light spotting to edges. Please note that this is a large and heavy volume. Additional postage will apply for international buyers. The Detroit Institute of Arts and The metropolitan Museum of Art unknown books
198712551New York: E. P. Dutton 1987. First edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. 4to. 214 pp monograph on this well known designer. Sharp well bound copy in black cloth binding in near fine price intact dustwrapper. Highly recommended for fans of this art deco designer. <br/><br/> E. P. Dutton hardcover books
200520761Gloucester: Rockport Publishers 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good /near fine. Hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 239 pp. Illustrated primarily in color. Foreword by Tony Kushner. Steven Heller interviews Milton Glaser. A marvelous collection of protest poster art from all over the globe. Small blemish to bottom of front board else a solid near fine copy in dustwrapper. A large and heavy volume. Recommended. <br/><br/> Rockport Publishers hardcover books
1989010136New York: Hudson Hills Press 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/No. Fine first edition in thick bound wrappers. Superb monograph of this popular furniture designer. 152 pp. <br/><br/> Hudson Hills Press paperback books
193515904New York: Prentice-Hall Inc 1935. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8vo. 572 pp. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Color wheel present and with two pages of color samples. A good copy in reddish brown buckram. Binding a bit shaken and preliminary leaves are tender. Presumed first printing with no additional mention of printings on copyright page. A classic text in the use of color in design elements. <br/><br/> Prentice-Hall, Inc hardcover books
200418693Basel Boston and Berlin: Birkhauser 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Wide hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. Text by Franco Bertoni. 221 pp. A fine copy in lightly used dustwrapper. Featuring text and illustrations on such minimalist designers as Donald Judd Robert Wilson Dieter Rams Enzo Mari Jean Nouvel Piero Lissoni and several others. A large and heavy volume. <br/><br/> Birkhauser hardcover books
199129321New York: Rizzoli 1991. First American edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Tall thick clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 414 pp. A dense illustrated study of the Jourdain family of designers. A handsome near fine copy in dustwrapper. Very large and heavy book. Additional shipping charges may apply. Rizzoli unknown books
194711679Stockholm: Snenska Slojdforeningens Tidscrift 1947. First edition. Paperback. Good . Second issue of this Swedish design magazine. Includes an interview with Aalto Alvaro and other articles. A good copy in tall photo-illustrated wrappers. <br/><br/> Snenska Slojdforeningens Tidscrift paperback books
19651002159Rome: Faro Disegni 1965. Beautiful archive of midcentury porcelain designs each an original hand-colored work of art spanning a wide variety of botanical geometric and figural styles. Some feature realistic portraits of flowers and birds while others are much more stylized: traditional folk motifs linear Art Nouveau florals bright mod blossoms. This is a working archive: many of the images are annotated and corrected in pencil and themes like the firebird are developed over multiple sheets. Of the 168 designs that survive eight are unnumbered and the others are numbered as follows: 1-47 49-67 69-138 140-144 146-155 157-165. Roman firm Faro Disegni is best known for their textile designs; this archive testifies to their participation in other aspects of the decorative arts. A remarkable survival. Collection of 168 original hand-colored designs for porcelain plates each on a separate sheet of various sizes: a group of 111 designs executed in pencil ink and watercolor on heavy paper most measuring 14.5 x 13 inches and a smaller group of 57 sketches executed primarily in pencil and crayon on onionskin measuring less than 12 inches square. Most designs labeled "Faro Disegni" and numbered in ink; a few designs mounted many marked in pencil with annotations in French and English. Housed in two chemises within a custom clamshell box. Faro Disegni unknown books
60830DESIGN. DESIGN DOCUMENTS. Drawings and Design Documentation for the Applied Arts 1840-1940. Exhibition catalogue. London: Yu-Chee Chong Fine Art n.d. Oblong 8vo. printed wrappers illustrated in color and black & white. Touch of scuffing to wrappers else fine. unknown books
19402563801940. c 26 watercolor designs. 4to. VG. c 26 watercolor designs. 4to. unknown books
18171002752London: Rudolph Ackermann 1817. Delightful example of the "line and dot" caricature craze of the Regency period. Although the art of the stick figure dates back to prehistoric times English caricaturist George Moutard Woodward is generally credited with inspiring the modern "pinmen" genre with his "Multum in Parvo or Lilliputian Sketches" early in the nineteenth century. Soon publishers across London were turning out prints of comically expressive pinmen hunting riding dueling flirting and acting Shakespeare. In February 1817 Ackermann's Repository of Arts published a satirical poem "Dottator et Lineator Loquitur" from the perspective of an exultant caricaturist: "I know that I can do much more / Than artists ever did before; / With but a DOT and eke a LINE / In ev'ry shape and act I'll shine." The poem was illustrated with a series of pinmen performing scenes from a ball: "Asking to Dance" "Cross Hands" "Hornpipe" and so on. This engraving printed on heavy paper and trimmed within the plate mark features the same dancers depicted in the pages of Ackermann's. A very good caricature print. Engraved caricature print measuring 3.75 x 8.25 inches imprint trimmed. Occasional stray spot. [Rudolph Ackermann] unknown books
1950136469N.p.: N.p. 1950. Two vintage black and white photographs advertising the legendary Ohrbach's department store in the Wilshire Prudential Insurance Company building today home of the Screen Actors Guild. An strong example the apex of its mid-century design in Los Angeles. Stamped on the verso by Woro Studio the agency who shot and struck the photographs for the store's use at<br/><br/>Ohrbach's was a moderately-priced department store with a merchandising focus primarily on clothing and accessories. From its modest start in 1923 Ohrbach's expanded dramatically after World War II and opened numerous branch locations in the metro areas of New York New Jersey and Los Angeles. The growth of the fashion industry in California encouraged the company's expansion to the state and the firm employed the services of a buying office in Los Angeles as early as 1939 and opened its own office in 1945<br/><br/>In 1948 Ohrbach's leased three floors and the mezzanine in a wing of the Prudential Insurance Company building designed by Welton Becket and William Wurdeman on Wilshire Boulevard's Miracle Mile. The success of the Miracle Mile store led the firm to open another branch in Downtown Los Angeles in 1953 when it acquired the twelve-story Milliron's building at 5th and Broadway. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1951WRCLIT57619Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs 1951. 4pp. plus forty-six plates 74 images. Quarto. Loose sheets paid into cloth-backed decorated board portfolio. Light foxing to endsheets of portfolio two plates minutely nicked in extreme margins a few smudges of offsetting on versos of a few plates otherwise very good. First edition. An intriguing assemblage of samples of work done by various artists for use in wallpapers and decorative papers including work by Fini Henry Moore Matisse Bonfils Prassinos Berard Ackermann et al. Six of the full-page plates are in color via pochoir or screen-printing. Librairie des Arts Décoratifs hardcover books
86884DESIGN. SAIKÔKYÛ MIRAAKOOTO-KAMI TOPPAN-ZURI OODAMATCHI MIHONCHO NP ND Japan 1960s. 16.3 X 24.5 cm. Leatheroid covers 23 pages of 5.5 x 8 cm designs for matchbox covers done in a "mirrorcoat" process of relief printing. One sample clipped for color matching. The back covers is loosening. Overall a good copy of this very scarce and ephemeral catalogue. unknown books
1002574France: no publisher no date early twentieth century. Striking hand-colored sheet of six "images d'Épinal." Inexpensive broadsides like these were hugely popular in France in the nineteenth century: naïve woodcuts brightly colored featuring images of Catholic saints Napoleonic battles and storybook characters. By the turn of the twentieth century lithography had emerged as the primary printing process and the range of subjects had greatly expanded but there was still a market for images printed in the old style a graphic tradition that influenced modernists from Henri Rousseau to Alfred Jarry. This group of six separate images printed from blocks on a sheet of Ingres d'Arches paper may be a publisher's proof. The military and religious subjects include uniformed soldiers on horseback the Madonna and child and Saint Hubert's encounter with Christ in the form of a stag. A bright fine example. Single sheet of six woodblock prints printed recto only and colored en pochoir measuring 14.75 x 19 inches. no publisher unknown books
19301002556Springfield Massachusetts: McLoughlin Brothers 1930. Vintage coloring book featuring thirty different subjects from individual toys to full-page seaside landscapes issued in the shape of a traveling trunk covered with international hotel labels. The preface offers an introduction to mixing colors and technical tips for young painters. Subjects vary widely from realistic animals including a striking lobster to a dressed-up family of anthropomorphic mice from nursery scenes to depictions of outdoor sports and play. A charming survival. Single volume measuring 7 x 10 inches: 124. Original blue cloth spine stiff paper boards upper board color-printed to resemble a three-dimensional traveling trunk book trimmed in that shape. Text printed on one side only with thirty uncolored scenes facing their colored counterparts. Light shelfwear and soiling to binding with minor loss to spine; hinges starting; closed tear to one uncolored scene. McLoughlin Brothers unknown books
200225180NY: Ryland Peters & Small. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 1841722715 . Text by Ali Watkinson. Color photographs throughout by Chris Tubbs. First printing. Gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Ryland Peters & Small hardcover books
19531327723Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; First edition; G/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine green with white print; DJ has tears at spine ends and flap corners small portions at top and bottom of spine torn away tear to rear top and bottom edge and to front top edge peripheral soiling shelfwear; Boards in blue cloth with blue print mild wear to corners and spine caps slight peripheral soiling; Text block has name stamp to half-title page else clean and tight; xi 207 pages. 1327723. FP New Rockville Stock. John C. Winston Company hardcover books
1981UDESGUA00KHRidge Press 1981. Very Good. de St. Jorre John. The Guards. Edgeworth photographs Anthony; Antupit design Samuel N. NY: Ridge Press 1981. 255pp. Illustrated. Small folio. Bright red cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped edges and faded upper edge. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with gently bumped and chipped edges and soiling in dust jacket protector. Ridge Press hardcover books
191844382Basle: C.-A. Junger 1918. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt with design by Masereel; xxviii329523pp.; photographic frontispiece. Rear cover badly dampstained though only slightly affecting interior spine gilt a bit dulled textblock uniformly toned else Very Good and sound. Study of women's rights by the eccentric meat packing millionaire and playwright John Wesley de Kay who concludes that "industrial toil should be performed exclusively by men and machines" p. vii. C.-A. Junger unknown books
197321023New York: Vantage Press 1973. Hardcover. 352p. very good first edition stated in yellow cloth boards and unclipped bright yellow dj. Young 911. A "year in the life of Pete Clayburn an attractive homosexual cowboy from Amarillo Texas who searches determinedly for a permanent and meaningful relationship amidst the instability and superficiality of modern gay life." - dj. Vantage Press hardcover books
2003126228London: Laurence King Publishing 2003. First edition. Softcover. 175 pages. Foreword by Eizi Hayashi. Essay by Yuichi Yamada. Includes numerous color illustrations. A fine copy in French style wrappers. Laurence King Publishing unknown books
199839611NY:: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0684837250 . Color photographs throughout. First printing. Front free endpaper has been removed else very good in a fine dust jacket. . Simon and Schuster, hardcover books
