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(ABE, HITOSHI). Abe, Hitoshi. Osaka, JAPAN: Yamaki Art Gallery, 1987. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Printed Wrappers. Ceramics Monograph. Near Fine.. 24pp, 41 color and 1 b&w illustration. Text in Japanese and English. With a biography and exhibition history. This is the beautifully illustrated catalogue published in conjunction with a 1987 Osaka gallery exhibition of vases, bowls, cups, and works on paper by prominent Japanese ceramicist Hitoshi Abe (not to be confused with the contemporary architect of the same name). A most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 016821

(ARTS + ARCHITECTURE). Entenza, John, Editor. Los Angeles: John D. Entenza, 1949. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Architecture Periodical. Good.. 50pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Cover Design by F.A. Usher Jr. This September 1949 installment of venerated California magazine "Arts + Architecture" hails from the period of John Entenza's influential editorship. It features contributions on or by Clare Falkenstein, Richard J. Neutra, Edgar Kaufmann Jr., Mario Corbett, Charles Eames' Case Study House for 1949, Margaret De Patta, A. Quincy Jones, Edith Heath, Gregory Ain with Joseph Johnson and Alfred Day, Peter Yates, and more. It also includes scores of informative period gallery, building material, and decorative arts advertisements. A most presentable unmailed example of this uncommon item showing overall wear, handling and soiling. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 023781

(DOMESTIC FURNITURE CO.) (McMAKIN, ROY). McMakin, Roy & Anna O'Cain. Los Angeles: Domestic Furniture Co., 1988. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Furniture Trade Catalogue. Fine.. 32pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and duotone. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the stylishly-produced trade catalogue of the very first year of Roy McMakin's traditional-yet-contemporary pieces designed for his Los Angeles-based Domestic Furniture Co. It is copiously illustrated with photographs and measured drawings of their iconic sturdy chairs, tables, dressers, chests, and more available in maple and cherry wood - many of which are still in production three decades later. A bright, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon - only a single copy is currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - document with the 1988 price list laid in. Inventory Number: 025938

(DREYFUSS, HENRY). Dreyfuss, Henry. New York & Pasadena, CA. ND.: Henry Dreyfuss. First Edition. Small 4to. Gilt-Embossed Cloth. Design Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (56pp), profusely illustrated in b&w gravure. Designed by Doyald Young. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the fifth (and final) self-published monograph on the work of the legendary pioneer of Twentieth Century American Industrial Design, Henry Dreyfuss. This volume documents architectural, industrial, and graphic design projects by Dreyfuss and his firm for such clients as Polaroid, American Safety Razor Company, Singer, The Teletype Corporation, Aerojet General, Bausch & Lomb, Southern California Edison, United California Bank, Bell Telephone, John Deere, and more. A handsome copy showing just a bit of overall wear and handling to the covers. LC 57-9304 Inventory Number: 017091

(DUFY, RAOUL). Ajalbert, Jean. Paris: Eugene Rey Editeur, 1932. First Edition 1/1200. 12mo. Printed Wrappers. Decorative Art Monograph. Very Good -.. np (32pp), 10 b&w illustrations. Text in French. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This 1932 installment of Eugene Rey Editeur's series "Les Peintres de la Manufacture Nationale des Tapisseries de Beauvais" is devoted to the collaborative screens and chairs of the early thirties by noted artist Raoul Dufy and Parisian decorator Andre Groult. An internally most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item showing some light wear, soiling, and a nick to the wrappers along with a previous owner's name in ink on the inside front cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 022599

(DUNAND, JEAN). Bussac, Claire. Paris, FRANCE: Galerie Jacques De Vos, 1991. First Edition. Square 8vo. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Decorative Arts Monograph. Very Good -.. 82pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w, including 3 fold out images. Text in English and French. Published in conjunction with a 1991 Galerie Jacques De Vos exhibition, this elegant catalogue is filled with detailed information about the great French master of Art Deco design Jean Dunand. It includes numerous photographs of his furniture, metal, and lacquer work as well as interiors. A most presentable example of this uncommon item showing a slight dent to the rear of the textblock at the heel of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 015810

(DUPRE-LAFON, PAUL). Desvergnes, Thierry Couvrat. Paris: Editions Xavier Richer & Editions De L'Amateur, 1990. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Decorative Art Monograph. Fine/Fine. 208pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French. Authored by noted decorative art historian Thierry Couvrat Desvergnes, this elegant monograph was the first comprehensive survey of the furniture and interiors of the renowned Parisian master of Art Deco, Paul Dupré-Lafon. A brand new, most handsome examle of the 1990 first edition of this uncommon document. 2-85917-110-X Inventory Number: 026073

(EAMES, CHARLES & RAY). Heiden, John. Introduction By Deborah Perrin. Los Angeles: John Heiden, 1987. First Edition. Square 4to. Wrappers in Pictorial Jacket. Design Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 36pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by John Heiden This is an extraordinary design object assembled and published as a labor of love by graphic designer John Heiden. Offered hors commerce, this lovely item was never commercially for sale. It artistically depicts several Charles and Ray Eames objects in moody, expressionistic photographs by James Wojcik that have been sumptuously reproduced. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item in the publisher's trompe l'oeil molded plywood dust wrapper, as issued. 0-926058-10-X Inventory Number: 012500

(EAMES, CHARLES & RAY). Loughery, Peter. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Modern Auctions, 2000. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Auction Catalog. Near Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This is the catalogue issued to accompany the July 9th, 2000 Los Angeles Modern Auctions sale of furniture, objects, photographs, books, posters and printed ephemera related to the late Charles and Ray Eames. It illustrates each of the one hundred and three lots including items produced by the Eames Office, Herman Miller Furniture Company, Evans Products Company, Herbert Matter, Emerson, Zenith Plastics, Schiffer Prints, Tigrett, The Museum of Modern Art, and many more. A most handsome example of this uncommon reference with the list of prices realized stapled to the inside rear cover. Inventory Number: 022597

(EAMES, CHARLES & RAY). Wright, Richard. Oak Park, IL: Treadway Toomey Wright, 1999. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Auction Catalog. Fine.. 88pp, profusely illustrated in color. This is the catalogue issued to accompany the May 23rd, 1999 Treadway Toomey Wright auction of furniture, objects, photographs, books, posters and printed ephemera related to the late Charles and Ray Eames. It illustrates each of the one hundred and fifty lots including items produced by the Eames Office, Herman Miller Furniture Company, Evans Products Company, Eero Saarinen, Zenith Plastics, Schiffer Prints, and many more. A most handsome example of this uncommon reference with the list of prices realized laid in. Inventory Number: 022596

(GEHRY, FRANK O.). Gehry, Frank, Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Coosje Van Bruggen, Mildred Friedman, Joseph Giovannini, Thomas S. Hines & Pilar Viladas. Foreword by Henry N. Cobb. New York & Minneapolis, MN: Rizzoli International Publications & The Walker Art Center, 1986. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Architecture Monograph. Fine/Fine. 216pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lorraine Ferguson. This is the nicely appointed catalogue published in conjunction with the Walker Art Museum's substantial 1986 survey exhibition of the work of internationally famed architect Frank Gehry. A bright, most handsome example of the first hardbound edition additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "To Frank Pierson / F O Gehry" in black ink on the half title page. The late Mr. Pierson was a renowned Academy Award-winning screenwriter of "Dog Day Afternoon (along with the Academy-nominated "Cat Ballou" and "Cool Hand Luke"), director, and President of both the Writers Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 0-8478-0741-X Inventory Number: 025788

(GIACOMETTI, DIEGO) (GIACOMETTI, ALBERTO). Armbruster, John & Willy Rotzler. New York & St. Louis, MO: Marisa Del Re Gallery & The Greenberg Gallery, 1985. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 52pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With an exhibition checklist. This is the elegant catalogue issued in conjunction with a 1985 exhibition at New York's Marisa Del Re Gallery and St. Louis' Greenberg Gallery of thirty-four sculptures and decorative objects designed by Diego Giacometti - both solely as well as in collaboration with his brother Alberto. A handsome showing a bit of light wear and handling. Inventory Number: 017799

(GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE) (WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD). Tanigawa, Masami. Edited and photographed by Yukio Futagawa. Tokyo. 1972 (1979).: A.D.A. Edita / Global Architecture. Later Printing. Folio. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Architecture Monograph. Very Good.. 48pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. This fifteenth installment in Global Architecture's (GA) series of monographs of the world's most significant examples of modern architecture is devoted exclusively to Frank Lloyd Wright's studios - Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and the later Taliesin West in Paradise Valley, Arizona. It features a text by Masami Tanigawa, and as is typical with all of these GA titles, Yukio Futagawa's images are uncluttered and illuminating. A most presentable example of the 1979 printing showing a patch of adhesive ghosting and white-out tape at the upper foredge corner of the front free endpaper. It has been priced accordingly. 4-87140-015-8 Inventory Number: 024296

(HASSINK, JACQUELINE). Hassink, Jacqueline, Henri Peretz & Raoul Bunschoten. Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Menno van de Koppel, 2000. Second Edition 1/1500. 12mo. Gilt-Stamped Cloth. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 22 b&w and 21 color illustrations. Text in English. Designed by Melle Hammer, Plus X. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "The Table of Power" is Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink's gem-like 1996 artist's book cum interior design typology that like much of her work explores the balance of power conferred in private, public and social settings. It details the meeting rooms of the boards of directors of forty European companies such as British Petroleum, Ciba-Geigy, and Daimler Benz - twenty-one of which she was able to photograph - revealing the rarely-if-ever seen enclaves where corporate decisions that affect the social sphere are made in secret. A brand new, pristine example of the 2000 second edition of this uncommon item (whose first edition is cited on pages 278-279 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II") limited to an additional one thousand, five hundred copies NUMBERED (1477/2500) by rubber stamp on the front cover's gilt panel, as issued. 90-73926-23-8 Inventory Number: 024519

(HASSINK, JACQUELINE). Hassink, Jacqueline, Henri Peretz & Raoul Bunschoten. Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Menno van de Koppel, 1996. First Edition 1/1000. 12mo. Gilt-Stamped Cloth. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 22 b&w and 21 color illustrations. Text in English. Designed by Melle Hammer, Plus X. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "The Table of Power" is Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink's gem-like 1996 artist's book cum interior design typology that like much of her work explores the balance of power conferred in private, public and social settings. It details the meeting rooms of the boards of directors of forty European companies such as British Petroleum, Ciba-Geigy, and Daimler Benz - twenty-one of which she was able to photograph - revealing the rarely-if-ever seen enclaves where corporate decisions that affect the social sphere are made in secret. A brand new, pristine example of the exceedingly uncommon first edition (cited on pages 278-279 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II") limited to one thousand copies NUMBERED (0775/1000) by rubber stamp on the front cover's gilt panel, as issued. 90-73926-14-7 Inventory Number: 024518

(HIGGINS, FRANCES & MICHAEL). Johnson, Donald-Brian & Leslie Piña. Altglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2005. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Decorative Arts Monograph. Fine/Fine. 240pp, 763 illustrations in color and b&w. "With its arresting mix of geometric and curved lines, and bold use of colors, Higgins glass transformed ordinary table and giftware, from chip bowls and cake stands to candleholders and cigarette boxes, into something vibrant and exciting. Useful as well as attractive, the designs of artists Frances and Michael Higgins harnessed vivid imagination to innate practicality. Newly discovered promotional photos, original designs, and advertising materials as well as extensive commentary by Frances Higgins and other Studio personnel highlight the informative, entertaining text, including a personal view of the creation of Higgins glass". One of the most beautiful, and well-designed of the Schiffer modernist decorative arts publications, this is an invaluable guide to more than five decades worth of the Higgins' lovely objects in glass, virtually none of which none of which appear in the authors' previous Higgins monograph - "Adventures in Glass". A pristine copy. 0-7643-0021-0 Inventory Number: 009860

(HIGGINS, FRANCES & MICHAEL). Johnson, Donald-Brian & Leslie Piña. Altglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2000. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Decorative Arts Monograph. Fine/Fine. 264pp, 645 color illustrations. "Pioneers in fused studio and production glass since the 1940s, Michael and Frances Higgins continue to create some of today's most collectible glass objects. "Higgins: Adventures in Glass" chronicles their careers and accomplishments in the studio, at Dearborn Glass Company, and at Haeger Potteries. A must-have for glass collectors and '50s/'60s fans alike, this new book features reproductions of company catalogs, vintage advertising, interviews with the artists, and a price guide. The Higgins' "modern miracles with everyday glass" will appeal to all with an interest in mid-20th Century design and collectibles". One of the most beautiful, and well-designed of the Schiffer modernist decorative arts publications, this is an invaluable guide to more than five decades worth of the Higgins' lovely objects in glass. A pristine copy. 0-7643-0021-0 Inventory Number: 007584

(JAGUAR). Jaguar Cars Ltd.. Coventry, ENGLAND: Jaguar Cars Limited, 2000. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Velour Over Boards. Automotive Yearbook. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This is the 2001 Jaguar Cars Limited yearbook - covering in depth the esteemed automobile manufacturer's activities of the prior year. Part sales tool, part glossy photography book, this substantive tome presents hundreds of images of the cars, technology, and celebrities that drive (or endorse) them. A most handsome example of the hors commerce deluxe edition used for presentation by Jaguar bound in debossed beige velour-over-boards housed in a velour-lined photographically illustrated clamshell box. This copy hails from the library of the late, great actor and director Dennis Hopper, and bears the publisher's etched brass plaque stating "Presented to Dennis Hopper" affixed to the book's front cover. 0-86024-994-8 Inventory Number: 022010

(JOURNAL OF DECORATIVE AND PROPAGANDA ARTS, THE). Johnson, Pamela, Editor. Miami Beach, FL: The Wolfson Foundation of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Inc., 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Periodical. Near Fine.. 125pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. The eighth issue of the Mitchell Wolfson Foundation's scholarly journal devoted to Modernism in the Arts and Popular Culture features the following contributions: "Documentary and Propaganda: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration" - Michael L. Carlebach, "Painting and Place: Frederic C. Knight in Scranton" - Karal Ann Marling, "Louis Lozowick: From "Machine Ornaments" to Applied Design, 1923 - 1930" - Virginia Hagelstein Marquardt, "Wilhelmina Geddes, Harry Clarke and Their Part in the Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland" - Nicola Gordon Bowe, "An Outpost of the Arts and Craft Movement" - Isabelle Anscombe, "The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Modern Design: 1917 - 1929" - Christine Wallace Laidlaw, "Interview: Timothy F. Rub on the Work of Joseph Urban" - Beth Dunlop, and "London Letter" by Peyton Skipwith. A handsome example. ISSN 0888-7314 Inventory Number: 015591

(JOURNAL OF DECORATIVE AND PROPAGANDA ARTS, THE). Johnson, Pamela, Editor. Miami Beach, FL: The Wolfson Foundation of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Inc., 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Decorative Arts Journal. Very Good -.. 97pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. The tenth issue of the Mitchell Wolfson Foundation's scholarly journal devoted to Modernism in the Arts and Popular Culture features the following contributions: "The Eroticization of Domestic Space: A Mirror by C.R. Mackintosh" - David Brett, "The Art of Dress in the Victorian and Edwardian Eras" - Otto Charles Thieme, "The Rediscovery of Lalique's Jewelry" - Michael Koch, "Mexican Silver: William Spratling and the Taxco Style" - Lucía García-Noriega Nieto, "The Poster in Yugoslavia" - Zelimir Koscevic, "Propaganda Art in the Postage Stamps of the Third Reich" - Frederick Lauritzen, "Mitchell Wolfson, Jr: The Man and His Mission" - John Malcolm Brinnin, and "London Letter" - Peyton Skipwith. A handsome example showing a bit of light wear and rubbing to the covers. ISSN 0888-7314 Inventory Number: 003931

(JOURNAL OF DECORATIVE AND PROPAGANDA ARTS, THE). Johnson, Pamela, Editor. Miami Beach, FL: The Wolfson Foundation of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Inc., 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Decorative Arts Journal. Good +.. 84pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. The fourth issue of the Mitchell Wolfson Foundation's scholarly journal devoted to Modernism in the Arts and Popular Culture features the following contributions: "The Search for Visual Democracy" - Isabelle Anscombe, "New Classicism Design of the 1920s in Denmark" - Claire Selkurt, "Otto Gutfreund and the Czech National Decorative Style" - Penelope Curtis, "Joe Jones: Regionalist, Communist, Capitalist" - Karal Ann Marling, "DAPA Duoview": Dianne Pilgrim and Richard Guy Wilson, "Rome Letter: From Exoticism to Abstraction Through the 1930s" - Mario Quesada, and "London Letter" - Peyton Skipwith. A presentable example showing some moderate wear and rubbing to the covers. ISSN 0888-7314 Inventory Number: 003928

(JOURNAL OF DECORATIVE AND PROPAGANDA ARTS, THE). Johnson, Pamela & John E. Bowlt, Editors. Miami Beach, FL: The Wolfson Foundation of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Inc., 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Periodical. Near Fine.. 179pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. The fifth issue of the Mitchell Wolfson Foundation's scholarly journal devoted to Modernism in the Arts and Popular Culture is a special "Russian Theme" installment that features the following contributions: "The Decorative Arts in Russian Architecture: 1900 - 1907" - William Brumfield, "Stage Design and the Ballets Russes" - John E. Bowlt, "Experiments in Book Design by Russian Artists" - Evgenii Kovtun, "A Public Art: Caricatures and Posters of Vladimir Lebedev" Nicoletta Misler, "The Psychology of Urban Design in the 1920s and 1930s" - Boris Brodsky, "Lamps and Architecture 1930 - 1950" - Abram Damsky, "Artificially Created Spaces: Projects and Realizations of the ARGO Group" - Francisco Infante, "The Solomenko Embroidery Workshops" - Wendy Salmond, "Constructive Fabrics and Dress Design" - Natalia Adaskina, and "The Soviet Garment Industry in the 1930s" - Tatiana Strizhenova. A handsome example showing a bit of light wear to the covers. Inventory Number: 021747

(KAVANAUGH, GERE). Kavanaugh, Gere, Louise Sandhaus & Kat Catmur. Hudson, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2019. First Edition. Small 4to. 1/4 Cloth Over Illustrated Boards. Design Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.

224pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. The designer Gere Kavanaugh is an irrepressible force of nature who epitomized the craft and folk vibe of the sixties and seventies California design scene and remains a larger-than-life personality today. Raised in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1952 Kavanaugh became only the third woman to earn a degree at Cranbrook Academy of Art's design program. After successful stints as one of GM's so-called Damsels of Design and as director of interiors for Victor Gruen's architecture and planning firm, she opened Gere Kavanaugh/Designs. There, Kavanaugh put her unique stamp on textiles, furniture, toys, graphics, store and restaurant interiors, holiday decor, housewares, and public art as well as designing and curating exhibitions. But perhaps her most enduring project has been the joyful, open-ended, ongoing experiment of her own lifestyle and homes, a dream of color and handcraft. Kavanaugh was awarded the AIGA Medal in 2016, recognizing her "prodigious and polymathic approach to design." A brand new, most handsome example of this comprehensive, monograph on the esteemed Ms. Kavanaugh additionally SIGNED by the authors.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of “A Colorful Life...” will be signed by authors Gere Kavanaugh, Louise Sandhaus and Kat Catmur at our event on Tuesday, May 21st, and shipped beginning Wednesday, May 22nd.

978-1616897628 Inventory Number: E000GKACL

(KOENIG, PIERRE). Steele, James & David Jenkins. Foreword by Norman Foster. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1998. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Dust Jacket. Architecture Monograph. Fine/Fine. 160pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. . "This is the first full study of Pierre Koenig's career, providing an unparalleled insight into the evolution of Modernism on the West Coast. Koenig designed and built his first exposed steel house in 1950. In 1957 he was chosen to design Case Study Houses #21 and #22. These houses have become iconic, capturing the excitement and optimism of the period. This book includes new and vintage photographs together with the architect's original drawings". A brand new, pristine example of the 1998 hardbound first printing of this vital document devoted to the late Los Angeles architectural pioneer that is filled with vintage images by Julius Shulman and Marvin Rand additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Pierre Koenig 12-23-98" in the year of publication in black ink on the title page. 0-7148-3753-9 Inventory Number: 023659

(LEVICK, MELBA). Woods, Douglas & Melba Levick. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2014. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 240pp, profusely illustrated in color. "The masterpieces of small-house living featured here will serve as inspiration to those who struggle with the challenges presented by contemporary life in petite-size homes. "Dreaming Small" is a celebration of jewel-box homes, each marked by a sense of style that marries eclecticism, practicality, beauty, and livability. From quintessential bungalows and classic casas to Tudor fantasies, these delightful abodes are models of rich diversity and inspired living. In brilliant new photography, the book explores the possibilities that exist in these mostly unpublished gems by legendary architects Irving Gill, Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, Craig Ellwood, and Paul R. Williams, among others. The houses, each under two thousand square feet, are examples of what is possible in the small home and offer the reader a colorful palette of ideas from which to artfully transform spaces into comfortable, contemporary living". A brand new, pristine example of the 2014 first printing of this charming survey of intimate Southern California interiors additionally BOLDLY SIGNED by author Douglas Woods and photographer Melba Levick in black ink on the title page. 0-8478-4231-2 Inventory Number: 023138

(LUKENS, GLEN). Levin, Elaine. Los Angeles: Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, 1982. First Edition 1/1000. Small 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Ceramics Monograph. Fine.. np (40pp), 16 b&w and 9 color illustrations. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. This is the lovely catalogue published in conjunction with a 1982 posthumous retrospective exhibition of sixty-one vessels and plates by the influential Los Angeles-based studio ceramicist Glen Lukens. A most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item. Inventory Number: 025089

(MACKINTOSH, CHARLES RENNIE) (PROCESS: ARCHITECTURE). Kimura, Hiroaki, Editor. Preface by Andy McMillan. Tokyo: Process Architecture Publishing Co., Ltd., 1984. First Edition. Large 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Decorative Arts Monograph. Fine.. 152pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in English and Japanese. This is a monographic issue of the always comprehensive Japanese journal "Process: Architecture" devoted to noted Scottish architect, artist and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It is filled with hundreds of illustrations of his drawings, plans, and period photographs of completed furniture, interiors and buildings. A brand new, most handsome example. 4-89331-050-X Inventory Number: 023552

(MILLER FURNITURE CO., THE HERMAN) (NELSON, GEORGE) (EAMES, CHARLES). Pina, Leslie. 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 brand new, pristine example. 0-7643-1650-8 Inventory Number: 014833

(MILLER FURNITURE CO., THE HERMAN) (NELSON, GEORGE) (EAMES, CHARLES). Pina, Leslie. Altglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2001. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Boards in Jacket. Decorative Arts Monograph. Fine/Fine. 200pp, 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 contains vintage advertisements, brochure and catalogue pages, drawings, posters, panels, internal graphics, and web page designs reproduced from the company's archive illustrating the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Gilbert Rohde, Robert Propst, Don Chadwick, Bruce Burdick, Ray Wilkes, Jorgen Rasmussen, Alexander Girard, Fritz Hansen, Poul Kjaerholm, Verner Panton, and others. Graphic Designers and/or illustrators whose work is included here include the Nelson, Girard, and Eames offices, Saul Steinberg, Per Arnoldi, Armin Hoffman, Steve Frykholm, and more. A brand new, pristine example. 0-7643-1303-7 Inventory Number: 014827

(MOLLINO, CARLO). Colombari, Rossella, David Palterer & Ambrogio Allemandi. Preface by Gillo Dorfles. Milan, ITALY: Idea Books, 2005. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Design Monograph. As New.. 112pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Italian and English. With an exhibition history, auction history, and bibliography. Published in 2005, this is noted Italian decorative arts gallerist Rossella Colombari's comprehensive, beautifully illustrated catalogue of the furniture of modernist master Carlo Mollino. A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 88-88033-35-1 Inventory Number: 023997

(NATZLER, GERTRUD AND OTTO) (SHULMAN, JULIUS). Natzler, Otto. Foreword by Gregor Norman-Wilcox. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966. First Edition 1/2500. Oblong 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Ceramics Monograph. Fine.. np (48pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Tom Woodward. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. This is the exceptionally beautifully designed and printed catalogue published in conjunction with a 1966 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by noted California studio ceramicists Otto and Gertrud Natzler that featured one hundred and seventy-five objects - including many from the Leonard Sperry collection - created between 1939 and 1966. These have been gorgeously photographed by the renowned Julius Shulman. A most handsome example of this uncommon document. Inventory Number: 024489

(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, David Joselit, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey & Adam Lehner, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2010. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Fine.. 152pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Roundtable: The Global Before Globalization - Barry Flood, David Joselit, Alexander Nagel, Alessandra Russo, Eugene Wang, Christopher Wood, and Mimi Yiengpruksawan, Wake, Vestige, Survival: Sustainability and the Politics of the Trace in Allora and Calzadilla's Land Mark - Yates McKee, A Spectral Universality: Mona Hatoum's Biopolitics of Abstraction - Jaleh Mansoor, Wild Shanghai Grass - Molly Nesbit, Maison Tropicale: A Conversation with Manthia Diawara - Judith Rodenbeck, The Objective Case: A Review of Objectivity - D. Graham Burnett, and Index: Numbers 130-133 (Fall 2009-Summer 2010). A most handsome example. 0-262-75283-2 Inventory Number: 023563

(PRENTICE, MARCIA). Prentice, Marcia. New York: teNeues Publishing Company, 2015. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 224pp, profusely illustrated in color. How We Live" "is an intimate photographic journal of designers' and artists' homes from around the world including Mumbai, Beirut, Marrakech, Reykjavik, Mexico City, and Amsterdam. Los Angeles-based photographer Marcia Prentice traveled to each of these international cities to experience and present 'the soul' of a diverse selection of domestic spaces, revealing the unique spirit of each creative environment. The book includes homes shown in the context of both more-established design-cities as well as urban locales where economic disadvantage and strife impacts daily life. Each of the eighteen featured homeowners provides a glimpse into their private, interior world to show us how the design and atmosphere created in one's own home can be the ultimate artistic canvas". Marcia Prentice is an American photographer whose style captures the intersection of emotion and design in the home. Her work has been featured in such publications as Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair Italia, and Casa International (Beijing). A brand new, pristine example additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Marcia Prentice" in black marker on the title page. 3-8327-3218-7 Inventory Number: 024829

(PRICE, KEN). Hopps, Walter & Edward Lebow. Houston, TX: The Menil Collection & Houston Fine Art Press, 1992. First Edition. Small 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 114pp, 57 color and 17 b&w illustrations. Designed by Marilyn Muller. With a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. Published in conjunction with the extraordinary 1992 Walter Hopps-curated retrospective exhibition for Houston's Menil Collection, this is a lovely catalogue featuring forty ceramic sculptures and cups executed by the late, great Kenneth Price between 1959 and 1989. A most handsome example of this important document with the publisher's errata slip laid in showing just a bit of soiling across the top edge of the textblock. 0-940619-08-3 Inventory Number: 025146

(PRICE, KEN). Kitnick, Alex. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2014. First Edition. Large 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 80pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Joseph Logan and Rachel Hudson. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a posthumous 2014 New York gallery presentation of Kenneth Price's large format, painted bronze composite sculptures executed between 2006 and 2011. A brand new, pristine example. 1-880146-83-5 Inventory Number: 023490

(PRINCE, RICHARD). Prince, Richard & Valerie Duponchelle. New York & Paris: Gagosian Gallery & Galerie Patrick Seguin, 2009. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 91pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Dan Miller Design. Published by Gagosian Gallery, this beautifully designed and photographed hardbound catalogue documents the 2008 exhibition installed at Paris' Galerie Patrick Seguin of Richard Prince's latest hybridized sculptural objects that combine photographs, collages and book/objects with modernist furniture. Also included is a transcribed interview between Richard Prince and Valerie Duponchelle discussing this new work, including the artist's fondness for Jean Prouve and Pablo Picasso. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-932598-93-6 Inventory Number: 025410

(SEVRES PORCELAIN). Garnier, Edouard. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. First American Edition 1/283 Deluxe. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Decorative Arts Monograph. Very Good -.. 32pp + np (8pp), ten printed paper portfolios each containing five 8 ½ x 11 ¾" individual heavy card sheets printed recto only by chromolithography, 250 color illustrations. With an index. This is the 1891 deluxe first American edition of Edouard Garnier's important illustrated survey of the soft porcelain of the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres. Limited to two hundred and eighty-three numbered copies, this lavish publication consists of two descriptive text booklets accompanied by ten paper portfolios printed by letterpress each housing five beautiful loose chromolithographic plates - most including stunning gold metallic inks to reproduce the use of gilt in the original ceramic works. These reproduce a total of two hundred and fifty watercolour renderings of significant examples of the mark, including numerous pieces from collections belonging to European royalty and nobility. This example contains all fifty plates along with their individual caption sheets and the publisher's hand-numbered limitation sheet (#5/283). The plates and captions show tiny discreet ink numbers at their corners that in no way detract from the images themselves. Fourteen plates exhibit some insignificant to mild foxing to the versos, however due to the thickness of the paper stock on which they have been printed, only three show a minute trace of spotting on the recto. Several of the paper portfolios have very minor wear, age-patination and soiling; with three bearing some brief ink annotations. All in all this is a bright, most handsome, fully-collated copy of this exceedingly uncommon and lovely reference. Inventory Number: 021477

(SHULMAN, JULIUS). Shulman, Julius & Mark Edward Harris. Introduction by Richard Neutra. Los Angeles: Balcony Press, 2000. First Edition Thus. 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 158pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. "Photographing Architecture and Interiors" is Julius Shulman’s first book, which he considered his most genuine reflection on the profession and his own artistic philosophy. Originally published in 1962, it includes a forward by Richard Neutra. Frank Lloyd Wright once said that to his mind no better photos had been taken of Taliesin West than those of Julius Shulman. Now reprinted intact with a new foreword by Julius Shulman and digitally scanned reproductions from original prints, this new edition of a classic work is better than the original". A most handsome example of the 2000 first printing additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION "To ...! Julius Shulman 10/04" in black ink along with the discreet blindstamp of the recipient on the title page. 1-890449-07-5 Inventory Number: 022002

(TCHERNIKHOV, IAKOV aka YAKOV CHERNIKOV). Tchernikhov, Iakov Georgievich & Erikh Fedorovich Gollerbakh. Leningrad, RUSSIA: Leningradskogo ob-va arkhitektorov (Leningrad Society of Architects), 1931. First Edition 1/5150. 4to. Printed Boards. Architecture Monograph. Good -/No Jacket - As Issued. 214pp, profusely illustrated in black and white. Text in Cyrillic Russian. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. The is the second of the three visually striking books written and illustrated by the pioneering Russian modernist architect Iakov Tchernikhov - better known in the west as Yakov Chernikov - published in Leningrad between 1927 and 1933. It features an introduction to Constructivism by Erikh Fedorovich Gollerbakh, two hundred and seventy-eight graphic text illustrations accompanied by forty full page plates by the author printed by letterpress. An internally bright and sound example of the 1931 first edition of this standout of Russian Revolutionary illustrated bookmaking (cited as entry 928 on page 227 in Margit Rowell and Deborah Wye's "The Russian Avante-Garde Book", entry 126 on page 40 in Jean-Louis Cohen, David Woodruff, and Ljiljana Grubisic's "Russian Modernism: The Collections of the Getty Research Institute for the Arts", and entry 72 on page 20 in Peter Hellyer's "A Catalogue of Russian Avante-Garde Books 1912-1934") showing typical notable wear, rubbing, and chipping to its brittle green decorative boards along the edges and spine. This seminal work was originally acquired from the library of the noted Russian-born, Southern California-based architect Samuel Reisbord, and bears his owner's signature in black ink on the front pastedown. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 025575

(TERRAGNI, GIUSEPPE). Zevi, Bruno. London: Triangle Architectural Publishing, 1989. First English Language Edition. Small Square 4to. Pictorial Wrappers in Jacket. Architecture Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 208pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. With a biography, catalogue of projects, and bibliography. This is the 1989 English translation of noted architectural historian Bruno Zevi's detailed 1980 Italian monograph on the work of influential pre-war modernist architect Giuseppe Terragni. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item. 1-871825-00-8 Inventory Number: 025092