Mexico City: Landucci Editores, 1999. 13.5 x 9.75 inches. 302 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Second edition, number 786 of 5000. Boldy inscribed by Rodrigo Rivero Lake on flyleaf.
New York: Karma, 2016. 4to. 168 pages. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. "Published to coincide with her solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, this catalogue surveys over five years of Los Angeles-based artist Liz Larner's (born 1960) wall-based ceramic works. Larner's process explores the natural compression and fragmentation of the.....
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976. Folio. 272 pages. Lavishly illustrated. Decorated cloth. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 70 of 129 copies signed by Larson, Bühler and the Solyoms.
[Circa 1788]. 29 plates (of 40) including title, plates 345 x 220 mm, sheets 495 x 330 mm. Some printed on tinted blue paper. Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards. Plates 26-28 with some pale staining. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, a rare proof copy before changes to the title. A CHARMING.....
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2016. Folio. 248 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "A revealing look at the designer behind Promemoria's stunning handmade furniture, and the luxurious interiors that embody his passion, refined taste, and eclecticism" (the publisher).
New York: Rizzoli, 2005. 12.25 x 9.25 inches. 271 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. "Here, in his own words, is the first complete look at the career of Albert Hadley, legendary interior designer. A lavishly illustrated celebration of more than half a century of stunning.....
[New York]: Tiffany Foundation, 1921. 8vo. [96] pages. 12 black-and-white plates. Original gilt-lettered wrappers. FIRST EDITION of this scarce catalogue of Chinese and Japanese decorative arts from the Tiffany Foundation. Carroll wrote the descriptions of the Chinese room and the objects in both the Chinese and Japanese collections. Matsuki wrote.....
[New York]: Tiffany Foundation, 1920. 8vo. [48] pages. 10 black-and-white plates. Original gilt-lettered wrappers. FIRST EDITION of this scarce catalogue of rugs and carpets from the Tiffany Foundation. Mumford provided the introductory note and descriptions of the Asia Minor prayer rugs, the Saracenic rugs, and the Chinese carpet. Carroll wrote.....
New York: Cooper Hewitt, 2015. Folio. 276 pages. Pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. "Beauty--the book, born out of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's 2015 Triennial of the same name, curated by Andrea Lipps and Ellen Lupton--showcases some of the most exciting and provocative design created around the globe during the past.....
Stuart Devlin Company, [1974]. 4to. 40 pages. Black-and-white and color photographs. Brown cloth with photograph mounted on front cover. FIRST EDITION. A history with photos in black-and-white and color of the work of Australian silversmith and goldsmith Stuart Devlin.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1998. 4to. 104 pages. Color illustrations. Silver board-backed patterned cloth. FIRST EDITION, signed by Cara McCarty, the fiber artist Sheila Hicks (to whom the book is dedicated), and five Japanese artists: Chiyoko Tanaka, Naomi Kobayashi, Wakae Nakamoto, Yasuhisa Kohyama, and one unidentifed (M. Kokyushu?).....
London: Thames & Hudson, 2000. 10.25 x 9 inches. 192 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original white cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, inscribed by the author on half-title. "This work concentrates on the ceramics produced during the 1920s and 1930s throughout Britain, Europe, the USA and Japan. It provides.....
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. First edition. Quarto. Profusely illustrated. Original pictorial cloth.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. First edition. 4to. Profusely illustrated. Original pictorial cloth. Pulbished on the occasion of the exhibition held 10 May to 19 August 2012.
Belgium: Lannoo Publishers, 2013. Folio. 256 pages. Pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. "A large, wonderfully finished, and luxurious book. Both inspirational and practical, the book is the first to reveal the secrets of Piet Boon Styling. This lavishly illustrated book is a source of inspiration for all adepts of the recognizable.....
No place: circa 1973. 34.5 x 22 cm. Text in English. Double page spreads reproducing Mo's drawings, one double-page photograph by Lorenzo Capellini. Original parchment-backed boards. Signed by Carlo Mo, the Tacino artist known for his furniture designs.
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2014. Folio. 240 pages. Color photographs. Printed cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "With beautiful historic photographs and drawings from Jensen's extensive archive, which display the incredible craftsmanship and technical innovations of the highly skilled silversmiths, Georg Jensen is a sumptuous visual celebration of Danish design.....
London: Sydney L. Moss, 1993. 11.5 x 8.5 inches. 220 pages. Fully illustrated in color. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Paris: Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, 1973. 12x5.25 inches. 121 pages. Full page black-and-white and color illustrations. Pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION.
Copenhagen: Andr. Fred. Høst & Søns Forlag, 1967. 10.25 x 9.75 inches. Four-language edition: Danish, English, German, and French.40 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. A well-illustrated survey of 34 Scandinavian designers, including Tapio Wirkkala, Henning Koppel, Arne Jon Jutrem, Kristian Vedel, and others.
Leipzig: Georg Voss, 1804. Oblong folio (18 x 10.75 inches; 455 x 273 mm). Engraved title in the form of a sampler, 52 pages, 50 engraved plates, consisting of 25 plates in two states, colored and uncolored. 19th-century stiff marbled paper wrappers; modern cloth-backed fitted case. SCARCE: Only the Metropolitan.....
Prestel, 2006. 10.25 x 8.25 inches. 144 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. Text in German and English. An important study of the Lobmeyr collection at the MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts.
Hatje Cantz, [2006]. First edition. Folio. Densely illustrated. Embossed front board over glazed boards.
Houston: Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2008. Folio. 137 pages. Pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. "Collecting by Design: Silver and Metalwork of the Twentieth Century from the Margo Grant Walsh Collection" (the publisher).
Japan: Daihi Mokuzai Co. / Archive of Woodcraft and Lumbering History, 1982. 9 x 8 inches. Text in English and Japanese. Color and black-and-white photographs of sumitsubo. Cloth; board slipcase with title labels. Sumitsubo are shaped like a small pot to hold ink, used to mark long, straight lines on.....
