New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. xxiii, 337 pp. 8vo. Dust Jacket is in mylar cover.
Inscribed by both authors on half-title page. Very Good / Very Good. More
New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1941. Hard Cover. First Edition. xi, 249 pp. Black cloth boards with light staining at edges. Exciting red polka dot endpapers, clean within. Lacking dust jacket. Very Good. More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1938. Good. First Edition. 111 pp. Folio. Dust jacket has considerable wear, chipping, and losses; now in mylar cover. Beige buckram cover with brown horizontal lines printed across front and rear boards; some staining. Preliminary pages front and rear have darkened from age and water damage at one point in its life. Clean within.
An important work by Paul Frankl (1886-1958) that looks beyond his well-known work in furniture design to encompass both the architecture and interior design style then known as Art Moderne era, later to be known as Art Deco. Frankl rode the Art Moderne wave, but one can see from this publication how he was beginning to adapt that streamlined style to one that evolved..... More
New York: Brewer & Warren Inc., 1928. First Edition. Second Printing. 79 pp. 122 Plates. Folio. Orange cloth boards with black embossed titling to cover and spine; wear and scuffing overall, bumped corners, sunning to spine. Clean within.
An important work by Paul Frankl (1886-1958) that looks beyond his well-known work in furniture design to encompass both the architececture and interior design syle then known as Art Moderne era, later to be known as Art Deco, which was taking the world by storm at the time of publication, soon to be slowed by a worldwide economic depression. Very Good. More
Gross, Geoffrey. Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. 128 pp. Oblong 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
An in-depth study of the house, it's creator, and the context in which it was built and its interiors designed. Fine / Fine. More
Haavisto, Kari. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang. Hardcover. 255 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Paris: Editions d’art Charles Moreau, [1929]. Portfolio. First Edition. With 48 plates of edifices, including 6 in color. Housed in publisher’s portfolio of gray cloth spine over boards, cloth ties lacking. The portfolio has some wear and soiling but quite nice for a white portfolio from 1929. Plates have light age toning but quite sharp.
A stunning collection of early Art Moderne architecture and interior design. Plates consists of some drawings but mostly photographs of what was on the cutting edge in architecture at that time. Included in the plates are 6 colored pochoir plates that are absolutely fabulous. In addition to René Herbst, portfolio includes structures by Le Corbusier, Gerrit Rietveld, J. J. P. Oud [Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud], and Jan Buys [Jan Willem..... More
Paris: C. H. Moreau, 1925. Portfolio. First Edition. Unpag. Oblong Folio. 54 Plates. Title-page and contents page on one folded folio leaf and 54 numbered black & white plates. Housed in publisher’s portfolio of black cloth backstrip, decorative front board, plain rear board, original cloth ties. Light wear overall, occasional soiling to portfolio, plates toned and rubbed, with occasional thumbsoiling or foxing, bookseller’s ticket on front pastedown of portfolio. Text in French.
A stunning, complete work by René Herbst (1891-1982) that was one of the first to document the growing Art Moderne (later coined "Art Deco" that was building in Paris and New York between the wars. Focused on storefronts and some interiors, this shows how department and specialty shops were often the leading in..... More
Pfeiffer, Walter. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 254 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Paris: Charles Moreau Editeur, 1928. Portfolio. First Edition. Unpag. Folio. 48+ Plates. Title-page and contents page on two folded folio leaves and 42 numbered black & white plates and 6 color plates that are renderings of interiors. Housed in publisher’s portfolio of black cloth backstrip, decorative black and yellow front board, original black cloth ribbon ties. Light wear overall, occasional soiling to portfolio. Contains one additional plate from Volume III of Intérieurs, #16. Text in French.
A stunning portfolio of early Art Moderne furniture and interior design. Included in the plates are 6 colored pochoir plates of interior designs that are then paired with a black and white photograph of the interior as installed. Very Good. More
Rohd, Gilbert. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiii, 274 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 176 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Paris: Editions Albert Lévy, 1927. First Edition. Unpag. Folio. 48 Plates. Title-page and contents page on three folded folio leaves and 27 numbered black & white plates and 21 color plates. Housed in publisher’s portfolio with an ivory cloth backstrip, splitting along joints, light gray paper covers with some soiling and bumping to corners, original gray cloth ribbon ties. Plates are all clean and sharp. Text in French.
A stunning portfolio of early Art Moderne storefront designs. Included in the plates are 21 colored pochoir plates. The designs represent designers René Herbst, Pierre Chareau, Eric Bagge, René Prou, and many others. More
New York: Atheneum, 1982. First Edition. xvii, 366 pp. 8vo. Very light scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Fine / Very Good. More
New York: Abrams, 2019. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 302 pp. 4to. Dust jacket is quite sharp, now in mylar cover. Slight bumping to head and foot of spine, clean and tight within. Very Good / Fine. More