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(KENNA, MICHAEL). Kenna, Michael & Noel Jouenne. Preface by Frederic Mathieu. CALAIS LACE: PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL KENNA - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2003. First American Edition 1/1000. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 91pp, 52 duotone + 18 text illustrations. With a bibliography. "Since 1993 Michael Kenna has visited Calais many times and wandered at length throughout the town, photographing its urban landscapes and its proud industrious heart: the lace factories. Kenna's photographs capture a past deeply ingrained in the life of this town. The artist's own childhood in a working-class neighbourhood near Liverpool, together with his work on the Lancashire and Yorkshire cotton mills, led him to develop a language specific to a geography of disaster, the poetics of working-class escapism and the outdoors as a refuge. In Calais Lace, Kenna captures the spirit of this town and marks out the character-traits of a hardworking people." A pristine copy BOLDLY SIGNED by Michael Kenna in blue ink on the title page. 1-59005-050-9 Inventory Number: 011671
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(MILLER FURNITURE CO., THE HERMAN) (NELSON, GEORGE) (EAMES, CHARLES). Pina, Leslie. CLASSIC HERMAN MILLER. Altglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1998. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Decorative Arts Monograph. Fine/Fine. 214pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. This is another of Leslie Pina's surveys of the modernist furniture and interiors produced by The Herman Miller Furniture Co. It is illustrated with vintage photographs from the company's archive, and features selections of the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Gilbert Rohde, Alexander Girard, Robert Propst, Jack Kelley, Don Chadwick, Bill Stumpf, Tom Newhouse, Geoff Hollington, Bruce Burdick, Stephen Frykholm, Paul Laszlo, Poul Kjaerholm, Verner Panton, and others. A pristine copy. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-7643-0471-2 Inventory Number: 015681
$ 49.95 order/inquire
(MILLER FURNITURE CO., THE HERMAN) (NELSON, GEORGE) (EAMES, CHARLES). Pina, Leslie. HERMAN MILLER INTERIOR VIEWS. Altglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1998. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Boards in Jacket. Decorative Arts Monograph. Fine/Fine. 224pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. This is another of Leslie Pina's surveys of the modernist furniture and interiors produced by The Herman Miller Furniture Co. It is illustrated with trade catalogue pages, publicity material, and vintage photographs from the company's archive illustrating the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Gilbert Rohde, Alexander Girard, Robert Propst, Jack Kelley, Don Chadwick, Bill Stumpf, Tom Newhouse, Geoff Hollington, Bruce Burdick, Stephen Frykholm, Poul Kjaerholm, Verner Panton, and others in the context of an overall interior environment. A pristine copy. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-7643-0503-4 Inventory Number: 009455
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(MILLER FURNITURE CO., THE HERMAN) (NELSON, GEORGE) (EAMES, CHARLES). Pina, Leslie. HERMAN MILLER OFFICE. Altglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2002. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Decorative Arts Monograph. Fine/Fine. 224pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. This is another of Leslie Pina's surveys of the modernist furniture and interiors produced by The Herman Miller Furniture Co. It is illustrated with trade catalogue pages, publicity material, and vintage photographs from the company's archive illustrating the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Gilbert Rohde, Robert Propst, Jack Kelley, Don Chadwick, Bill Stumpf, Tom Newhouse, Geoff Hollington, Bruce Burdick, Peter Protzmann, Ray Wilkes, Jorgen Rasmussen, and others in the context of creating the overall office environment. A pristine copy. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-7643-1650-8 Inventory Number: 014833
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Lacroix, Christian. HISTOIRES DU JEANS DE 1750 A 1994. Paris: Musee De La Mode et Du Costume, 1994. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Fashion Monograph. As New 176pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French. Published in conjunction with a massive 1994 Palais Galleria exhibition surveying the history of denim fabric, this is the lavishly illustrated, highly informative catalogue that is a must-have for fashion historian and jeans collector alike. A pristine copy of this uncommon item still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 2-87900-180-3 Inventory Number: 015434
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Gerspach, M.. LES TAPISSERIES COPTES. Paris, FRANCE: Maison Quantin, 1890. First Edition. 4to. Decorative Boards. Good. np, 9 color and 143 b&w illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Text in French. This fragile pictorial survey of Coptic Textiles shows all the frailties typical for this book. Its highly acidic paper has browned at the edges and endpapers, both hinges are starting, and there is some exterior loss of cloth at the lower rear hinge. The boards are somewhat mottled, as usual. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 000232
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(VIONNET, MADELEINE). Kirke, Betty. MADELEINE VIONNET. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998. First American Edition. Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Fashion Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. 244pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Originally issued in Japan in 1991, this lavishly printed, massive volume is the major reference to the twenties and thirties chic haute-couture of influential French designer Madame Madeleine Vionnet. In addition to reproducing hundreds of vintage and archival images (the photographers include Cecil Beaton, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Baron Adolf de Meyer, Andre Durst, Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene, Therese Bonney, Man Ray, Martin Munkacsi, Irving Penn, Albert Seeburger, Charles Sheeler, Edward Steichen, and many more), this publication is most significant for its reconstruction and presentation of actual patterns for the dresses and gowns pictured herein. A most handsome copy of the 1998 first American edition (NOT to be confused with the 2005 Chronicle reprint) in the publisher's green cloth and dust jacket with silver endpapers. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-8118-1997-3 Inventory Number: 016242
$ 325.00 order/inquire
Stafford, Cora E.. PARACAS EMBROIDERY: A STUDY OF PERUVIAN TAPESTRY DESIGNS. New York: JJ Augustin, 1941. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Fair. np (approximately 180pp), 31 full-page sepia toned plates + full color frontispiece. This is a comprehensive, scholarly study of the complicated and intricately embroidered Andean textiles found wrapped around four hundred and twenty-nine mummies discovered on the Paracan Peninsula in 1929. A most presentable copy of this uncommon title whose brittle dust jacket shows much creasing, chipping and some paper loss. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 000389
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Meurant, Georges. SHOOWA DESIGN: AFRICAN TEXTILES FROM THE KINGDOM OF KUBA. New York. 1986 (1995).: Thames & Hudson Inc., Second Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. 208pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a bibliography. One of the most sumptuous monographs published on African weaving and design to date, this is a vibrant, authoritative stylistic guide to the centuries old textile tradition of the Kuba people of Zaire. A most handsome copy of the 1995 hardbound edition of this uncommon item. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-500-97331-8 Inventory Number: 013522
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(MILLER FURNITURE CO., THE HERMAN) (NELSON, GEORGE) (EAMES, CHARLES). Introduction By Nelson, George. New Preface by Leslie Pina. THE HERMAN MILLER COLLECTION: THE 1955/1956 CATALOG. Altglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1998. First Edition Thus. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Boards in Jacket. Decorative Arts Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (168pp), profusely illustrated in b&w and duotone. Designed by George Nelson and Charles Eames. This is the 1998 facsimile reprint of the beautifully produced trade catalogue for the production year 1955-56 of furniture and interior pieces designed by George Nelson, the Eames, and Alexander Girard for The Herman Miller Furniture Co. It is illustrated with archival photographs from the designers' offices, and really snappy mid-Century modernist graphics using multi-colored inks (though there is a bit less of that here than in the original edition). This features a new preface by Leslie Pina, and the inclusion of the April 1956 Herman Miller factory price list. A most handsome copy. 0-7643-0440-2 Inventory Number: 008690
$ 39.95 order/inquire
Kraatz, Anne. VELOURS. Paris: Adam Biro, 1995. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket,Slipcased. Fashion Monograph. Fine/Fine. 160pp, 135 color illustrations. Text in French. Designed by Pascale Ogee. Published only in France, this is a lavishly produced history of the Velour fabric, with numerous beautiful illustrations depicting its representation in art and fashion design. A most handsome copy in the publisher's patterned Velour slipcase with pastedown, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 2-84660-170-2 Inventory Number: 009134
$ 175.00 order/inquire
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