100 beste Plakate 10: Deutschland
Mainz: Schmidt, 2011. 4to. Printed boards. FIRST EDITION.
Design
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...
Made in Meisenthal
New York: Collectif, 2008. In French. 4to. 189 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial wrappers; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
Ornamenti Diversi. Inventati Disegnati ed esequiti
[Milan, 1782]. Large folio (585 x 430 mm). 24 engraved ornamental illustrations by Giacomo Mercoli after Giocondo Albertolli (the last 4 on 2 plates), all with fine contemporary coloring, contemporary blue tissue guards. Contemporary Italian gilt-paneled sprinkled calf, artist's name gilt-lettered on covers. Some light staining to covers, a generally fine...
L'Arredamento Moderno
Milan: Hoepli, 1955. 4to. 471 pages. Black-and-white and color photographs. Original blue cloth boards. FIRST EDITION.
Commume: Designed in California
New York: Abrams, 2014. 4to. 256 pages. Lavishly illustrated in color. Pictorial wrappers; slipcase. FIRST EDITION, signed by all four authors on the title-page and inscribed "All four one..." and dated 11.2.14. "Commune was established in Los Angeles in 2004 by four like-minded souls--Roman Alonso, Steven Johanknecht, Pamela Shamshiri, and...
The Personal House: Homes of Artists and Writers written with Ambur Hiken
New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1961. Folio. 80 pp. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Worn at ends of spine, small stain and light rubbing to front cover, front joint cracked, but an internally clean and generally fresh copy. FIRST EDITION, showing homes in Westchester, Rockland, Fairfield, and Bucks...
5 Sensors of an Age: Japanese Contemporary Design Series
Japan: Rikuyo-sha, 1985. In Japanese and English. 4to. 381 pages. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs. Pictoral wrappers; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. This weighty volume brings together five artistic leaders of Japan--architect Tadao And , interior designer Takashi Sugimoto, fashion designer Rei Kawakubo, industrial designer Toshiyuki Kita, and product designer Masayuki...
Poems
Zurich: JRP|Ringier, 2014. Text in English and German. 4to (10.5 x 10.5 inches). 144 pages. Printed boards. FIRST EDITION, published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Museum zu Allerheilgen Schaffhausen, curated by Lynn Kost. A well-illustrated survey of Andre's work.
Designer British Silver: From Studios Established 1930-1985
ACC Distribution, 2015. 4to. 560 pages. Cloth; dust jacket; slipcase. FIRST EDITION. "Designer British silver' explores the designer-silversmiths who have shaped British silver from the 1950s through to the present day. Covering a complete generation of craftsmen and women, and featuring one-to-one interviews with key figures, the book reveals the...
Meubles
Paris: circa 1560. The set of 46 engravings, plates 190 x 140 mm, sheets 320 x 210 mm, good impressions, watermark Edmond de (?), with margins. 19th-century calf gilt. Four plates re-margined, old reinforcements along gutters, occasional pale staining and paper toning, otherwise in good condition. Provenance: purchased from Librairie...
Reveal: Interior Design as a Reflection of Who We Are
London: Clearview, 2015. Oblong folio. 160 pages. Color and black-and-white photographs. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Harriet Anstruther is a leading interior designer whose work has featured in the New York Times's T Magazine amongst many others. This, her first book, showcases her projects and inspirations and provides an...
Design and the Elastic Mind
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2008. 8vo. 191 pages. Pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. "Organized by Paola Antonelli, Museum of Modern Art Curator of Architecture and Design, Design and the Elastic Mind focuses on the ability of designers to grasp momentous advances in technology, science and social mores, and to...
Tankards and Mugs: Drinking from Chinese Export Porcelain
London: Jorge Welsh, 2016. 4to. 352 pages. Decorated boards. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies. "The first comprehensive study on Chinese Porcelain Tankards and Mugs, with pieces from 23 museums, 18 private collectors and 3 dealers, from around the world.; Tankards and mugs are vessels that illuminate many aspects of...
Atelier Gassner. Visual Essays
Vienna: Sonderzahl, 2017. 4to. 285 pages. Text in German and English. Original die-cut wrapper over boards. FIRST EDITION.
Kirigami: The Art of 3-Dimensional Paper Cutting
New York: Sterling Publishing, 2000. 4to. 160 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Create a whole world out of a sheet of paper! In the Japanese art of kirigami it takes just a cut and a fold to form three-dimensional trees, animals, and buildings, as well as...
I Wonder
New York: Monacelli Press, 2010. 8vo. 192 pages. Photographs and illustrations. Pictorial boards, all edges gilt. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. "Quirky, poignant, astute, funny--this beautiful book presents a compelling collection of observations on visual culture and design, written and illuminated by world-renowned typographic illustrator Marian Bantjes" (the publisher).
AR--Artistic Research
Walther Konig Verlag, 2014. 4to. 131 pages. Cloth. FIRST EDITION. "AR-Artistic Research addresses the legendary scholar and artist György Kepes' advocacy of artistic intervention on a civic scale and in the urban environment. This publication renews Kepes' insistence that artistic research be placed on the same level as scientific research"...
Max Bill
Fundacion Juan March, 2016. 4to. 352 pages. Pictorial boards.
Gyo Obata
Australia: Images Publishing Group, 2010. 8vo. 240 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Gyo Obata is an internationally recognised architect and one of the founding partners of HOK. This book not only tells the story of the various buildings that Obata designed, but also encourages the belief in good design...
Design Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread
London: Merrell, 2004. Folio. 215 pages. Color photographs. Boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "The most comprehensive and authoritative book available on the domestic furniture, lighting and design objects of Minimalist and Post-Minimalist artists from the 1960s to the present, including Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Robert Rauschenberg, John Baldessari...
Works
London: Phaidon, 2012. Folio. Original printed boards. Signed by the Bouroullec's on the dedication leaf (verso of title).
Keepsakes: A Design Memoir
New York: Pointed Leaf Press, 2015. 8vo. 144 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Introducing Keepsakes: A Design Memoir, by noted Russian designer Constantin Boym. Featuring a specially curated group of personal objects, some designed by Boym, and others collected through his travels from Russia to Turkey, Italy, Qatar...
Grand Luxe: The Transatlantic Style
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1988. First edition. Oblong folio. 232pp. Illustrated with color photographs in text. Original red cloth; dust jacket.
Sergio Camargo
Cosac & Naify Edicoes, 2000. 4to. 127 pages. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. One of 2000 copies.