Furnish: Furniture and Interior Design for the 21st Century
Berlin: Gestalten Verlag, 2007. Folio. 271 pages. Full page color illustrations. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION.
New Arrivals
Europaisches Besteck-Design / Modern European Cutlery Design: 1948-2000: The Bauer Design Collection
Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH, 2008. Folio. 207 pages. Full-page illustrations. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "After WWII, stainless steel (also known by the abbreviation 18/8) was the working material preferred by cutlery designers. Table culture attained a high profile with this new material. The industrialists Hugo Pott, W. Seibel...
Walter Potter and his Museum of Curious Taxidermy
Ascot, Berkshire: MPM Publishing, 2008. 4to. 112 pages. Many color photographs. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and design on cover. FIRST EDITION.
Jonas: The Art of Fine Upholstery
Andrea Monfried Editions, 2015. 4to. 192 pages. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. "Inside look at the best-known custom upholstery workshop in the US, with specially commissioned photographs of the workroom process and the finished pieces . "When you go shopping, you can usually divide objects into three categories: good, better, and best...
American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum
New York: American Folk Art Museum / Harry N. Abrams. Folio. 571 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy, inscribed to Libby Pataki, signed by Ralph Esmerian, Stacy Hollander and Gerard C. Wertkin, Director of the Folk Art Museum.
The Louvre: A Tale of a Palace
Paris: Somogy, 2008. Folio. 191 pages. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Showcasing one of the world s most prestigious museums, this history tells the tale of the eight centuries that shaped the Louvre in Paris, from the monumental royal palace s beginnings as amedieval fortress to the Great Louvre known worldwide...
Pricked: Extreme Embroidery
New York: Museum of Arts & Desgn, 2007. 8vo. 106 pages. Color illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION.
Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby: Ascent
London: Haunch of Venison, 2011. Oblong 8vo. 48 pages. Color illustrations. Blue-grey cloth boards. FIRST EDITION. "Acclaimed London based designers Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby will present an ambitious new project for their debut exhibition at Haunch of Venison, London. Barber and Osgerby are two of the most innovative designers...
Beauty: Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial
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...
Decorative Furnishings and Objets D'Art in the Louvre from Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette
+, 2015. Large 4to. 568 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial boards. "The new galleries devoted to 17th- and 18th-century decorative arts in the Louvre opened in May 2014. Some two thousand items are displayed in nearly 20,000 square feet of exhibition space, representing one of the world s finest collections of...
Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkstatte
New Haven: Yale University Press / Neue Galerie, 2002. 4to. 512 pages. Profusely illustrated. Cloth; dust jacket.
Fabio Novembre. Ediz. illustrata
Milan: Skira, 2008. 4to. 229 pages. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION.
Power + Faith + Image: Philippine Art in Ivory from the 16th to the 19th Century
Makati City, Philippines: Ayala Foundation, 2004. 4to. 303 pages. Lavishly illustrated. Brown cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
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New York: Glitterati, 2009. 4to. 192 pages. Lavishly illustrated. Black cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Ralph Pucci is a luminary in the design community. Having inherited his parents' mannequin business, he has built on that foundation by liaising with the most important designers and artists today (furniture, rugs, lighting, photography...
Spectaculaire: Second Empire
Paris: Musée d'Orsay, 2016. 4to. 320 pages. Lavishly illustrated. Original pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION.
Lapislazzuli: Magia del Blu
Sillabe, 2015. 4to. 391 pages. Lavishly illustrated. Pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION.
Paper Illusions. The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave
New York: Abrams, 2008. Folio. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Belgian artist, designer, and interior decorator Isabelle de Borchgrave has created exquisite paper dresses evoking high fashions from the courts of the Medici in the Renaissance to the legendary Fortuny silks of the early 20th century. Their historical authenticity, combined...
Silk
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Folio. Profusely illustrated. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
Ikat Silks of Central Asia. The Guido Goldman Collection
London: Laurence King / Alan Marcuson, 1997. Folio. 368 pages. 500 illustrations, of which 424 in color. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of this fine reference for textile scholars, collectors and designers.
The International Style: Architecture Since 1922
New York: W. W. Norton, 1932. 4to. 240 pages. 82 full-page photographs of contemporary buildings, accompanied by plans. Cloth; dust jacket. Provenance: Samuel M. Nickerson (pencil inscription dated Sept. 11 1934 on front free endpaper), possibly a descendent of Samuel M. Nickerson (1830-1914) of Chicago, banker and owner of the...
The Dyer's Art. Ikat, Batik, Plangi
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.
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Ikat, Batik, Plangi [3 volumes complete]. Reservemusterungen auf Garn und Stoff aus Vorderasien, Zentralasien, Südosteuropa und Nordafrika.
Basel: Pharos, 1972. Three volumes, 4to: 1) 347 pages with 59 line drawings in the text. 2) 88 pages with 21 tables and 4 foldout maps. 3) Approximately 450 unnumbered pages, with 24 color plates and 506 black-and-white illustrations. Batik covered cloth; slipcase. FIRST EDITION of this monumental study of...
Liz Larner
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...
Pure Form. Classical Chinese Furniture. Vok Collection
Padova: Maria Vok / Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst. 2004. Folio. 129 pages. Lavishly illustrated in color. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, English language edition. The first catalogue to document the Vok Collection of important Chinese furniture.
New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America
Turner, 2014. 4to. 264 pages. Decorated cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "New Territories examines creative practices in today's globalized world, in which disciplines overlap more than ever before. Looking in particular at countries such as Brazil, Cuba, Panama, Columbia, Mexico, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Chile, this volume discusses...