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HITOSHI ABE
(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
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JB BLUNK
(BLUNK, J.B.). Blunk, J.B., Lucy R. Lippard, Louise Allison Cort, Fariba Bogzaran, Mariah Nielson, Rita Lawrence, Alyssa Ballard & Rick Yoshimoto. Mariah Nielson & Abake, Editors. Inverness, CA: Blunk Books, 2020. First Edition. Small 4to. Pictorial Boards. Decorative Arts Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 228pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Born in 1926 in Kansas, James Blain Blunk was a California-based sculptor who worked primarily with wood and clay. Following a period of apprenticeship in Japan, Blunk settled near the Marin County town of Inverness, California, where he built his own studio, and developed a lifelong friendship with the painter Gordon Onslow Ford. This is the first publication to explore the entire oeuvre of JB Blunk, with previously unseen examples of his work in stone, clay, painting and jewelry. The design beautifully combines archival images of Blunk's work in situ and at his home and his studio, with color plates of newly photographed pieces. In an essay, Lucy R. Lippard discusses Blunk's reverence for ancient art and places, while Smithsonian Curator of Ceramics Louise Allison Cort details Blunk's formative years in Japan. Glenn Adamson, Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, contributes an essay that explores the essence of Blunk himself along with his artwork." A brand new, most handsome example of the already unavailable 2020 first edition of this vital document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-907908-55-2 Inventory Number: 026793
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JB BLUNK
(BLUNK, J.B.). Blunk, J.B., Lucy R. Lippard, Louise Allison Cort, Fariba Bogzaran, Mariah Nielson, Rita Lawrence, Alyssa Ballard & Rick Yoshimoto. Mariah Nielson & Abake, Editors. Inverness, CA: Blunk Books, 2020. First Edition. Small 4to. Pictorial Boards. Decorative Arts Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 228pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Born in 1926 in Kansas, James Blain Blunk was a California-based sculptor who worked primarily with wood and clay. Following a period of apprenticeship in Japan, Blunk settled near the Marin County town of Inverness, California, where he built his own studio, and developed a lifelong friendship with the painter Gordon Onslow Ford. This is the first publication to explore the entire oeuvre of JB Blunk, with previously unseen examples of his work in stone, clay, painting and jewelry. The design beautifully combines archival images of Blunk's work in situ and at his home and his studio, with color plates of newly photographed pieces. In an essay, Lucy R. Lippard discusses Blunk's reverence for ancient art and places, while Smithsonian Curator of Ceramics Louise Allison Cort details Blunk's formative years in Japan. Glenn Adamson, Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, contributes an essay that explores the essence of Blunk himself along with his artwork." A brand new, most handsome example of the already unavailable 2020 first edition of this vital document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-907908-55-2 Inventory Number: 026792
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J.B. BLUNK: SCULPTURES 1952-1977
(BLUNK, J.B.). Noguchi, Isamu & Edith R. Wyle. Los Angeles: Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1978. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Decorative Arts Monograph. Near Fine.. 20pp, 23 monochrome illustrations + color cover. With an exhibition checklist, chronology, exhibition history and collections listing. Issued in conjunction with a comprehensive 1978 survey exhibition held at Los Angeles' Craft and Folk Art Museum, this is the very first monographic publication on the late iconoclastic Northern California sculptor and decorative artist James Blain Blunk. It includes an appreciation by Isamu Noguchi along with illustrations of twenty-four of the one hundred and fourteen objects shown. His organic forms - many hewn from single blocks of wood - look as fresh today as they did when this was published, and makes clear that Blunk's rediscovery by Blum & Poe gallery in 2010 was just a matter of time A bright, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon document for which only a single copy is cited in OCLC WorldCat. Inventory Number: 026791
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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN VOLUME 5: HENRY DREYFUSS
(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
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PHOTOGRAPHS OF A SPLINT, FURNITURE AND A HOUSE OF CARDS
(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
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EAMES AUCTION: 23 MAY 1999
(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
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF FRANK GEHRY - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ARCHITECT
(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
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DIEGO GIACOMETTI
(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
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GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE 15: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: TALIESIN EAST, SPRING GREEN, WISCONSIN, 1925 - TALIESIN WEST, PARADISE VALLEY, ARIZONA, 1938
(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
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JACQUELINE HASSINK: THE TABLE OF POWER
(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
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ROGER HERMAN: CERAMICS - SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION OF TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES
(HERMAN, ROGER). Connors, Matt & Roger Herman. Los Angeles: Self-Published, 2019. First Edition 1/250. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New. 426pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Ross McLain / Art Design Office. This is the massive, beautifully illustrated book documenting Roger Herman's polychrome ceramics.It features a brief text by artist Matt Connors, followed by hundreds and hundreds of color images of nearly two decades worth of the noted Los Angeles artist's striking pieces. A brand new, pristine example of this comprehensive monograph limited to two hundred and fifty copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the artist in pencil on the title page, as issued. 0-578-50456-1 Inventory Number: E000RHC
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HIGGINS: POETRY IN GLASS
(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
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HIGGINS: ADVENTURES IN GLASS
(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
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ROBERT IRWIN KENNETH PRICE
(IRWIN, ROBERT) (PRICE, KEN). Leider, Philip & Lucy R. Lippard. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966. First Edition 1/1000. Small Square 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. np (42pp), 15 b&w and 2 color illustrations. Designed by John and Marilyn Neuhart. With an exhibition checklist and biographies. This is the austere catalogue published in conjunction with the important 1966 two person exhibition of works by Robert Irwin and Kenneth Price held at the Lytton Gallery at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Both were then affiliated with the legendary Ferus Gallery, with Robert Irwin exhibiting five recent paintings on canvas and Price seventeen ceramic sculptures. As was Irwin's policy at the time, none of his work was allowed to be photographed for reproduction, so the catalogue consists of two essays and plates of Price's sculptures only. An internally bright, most handsome example only of this elusive item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies showing some light wear and soiling to its white covers. Inventory Number: 026425
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THE JOURNAL OF DECORATIVE AND PROPAGANDA ARTS: 8 - SPRING 1988
(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
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THE JOURNAL OF DECORATIVE AND PROPAGANDA ARTS: 5 - SUMMER 1987: RUSSIAN/SOVIET THEME ISSUE
(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
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DONALD JUDD: RAUME SPACES (KUNST + DESIGN / ART + DESIGN)
(JUDD, DONALD) (EBERLE, TODD). Judd, Donald, Franz Meyer, Rudi Fuchs, Renate Petzinger & Todd Eberle. Wiesbaden & Ostfildern-Ruit, GERMANY: Museum Wiesbaden & Cantz Verlag, 1993. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 160pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and German. With a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This lovely monograph on the late, great Minimalist giant Donald Judd was published in conjunction with his selection as recipient of the Stankowski Foundation Prize in 1993. It focuses on his buildings at 101 Spring Street, New York and Marfa, Texas, and his work to transform their interior spaces by means of architecture, furniture design, and the artwork displayed within. Noted photographer Todd Eberle was commissioned to newly document these spaces, and his austere images aptly reflect the aesthetic of the artist. These capture Judd's private interiors, showing his own artwork, furniture and cabinetry work, as well as his extraordinary collection of pieces by the likes of Josef Albers, John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin, Claes Oldenburg, Ad Reinhardt, Lucas Samaras, Frank Stella, John Wesley, and more. A bright, most handsome example of the 1993 first hardbound edition. 3-89322-618-4 Inventory Number: 026412
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A COLORFUL LIFE: GERE KAVANAUGH, DESIGNER - SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS
(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.
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PIERRE KOENIG - SIGNED AND DATED BY THE ARCHITECT
(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
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF JOHN LAUTNER
(LAUTNER, JOHN). Weintraub, Alan & Alan Hess. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. First Edition. Square 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Architecture Monograph. Fine/Fine. 276pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Zand Gee. Featuring contemporary color photographs by Alan Hess, this massive, beautifully appointed volume was the second, and is arguably still the most substantial monograph on the innovative late Los Angeles architect John Lautner. A former Frank Lloyd Wright associate at Taliesin, he pioneered what became known as the "Googie" style of forward thinking mid-century restaurant and commercial design as well as some of the most beautiful and innovative residences in the world. A brand new, most handsome example of the 1999 first Rizzoli edition. 0-8478-2222-2 Inventory Number: 026644
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GLEN LUKENS: PIONEER OF THE VESSEL AESTHETIC
(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
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PROCESS: ARCHITECTURE NUMBER 50: CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH
(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
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JOHN MASON: SCULPTURE - DESIGNED BY ED RUSCHA
(MASON, JOHN). Coplans, John. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966. First Edition 1/1000. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Ceramics Monograph. Fine.. np (26pp), 16 b&w illustrations + b&w covers. Designed by Edward Ruscha. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1966 Los Angeles County Museum of Art retrospective, this is the elegant catalogue designed by Ed Ruscha on the pioneering ceramic work of late Los Angeles-based artist John Mason. Mason showed at the legendary Ferus Gallery, and along with Otis Art Institute Ceramic Center colleague Peter Voulkos helped give birth to the West Coast Abstract Expressionist ceramics movement. A most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies. Inventory Number: 026759
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HERMAN MILLER OFFICE
(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
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GRAPHIC HERMAN MILLER
(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
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CARLO MOLLINO: CATALOGO DEI MOBILI / FURNITURE CATALOGUE
(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
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THE CERAMIC WORK OF GERTRUD AND OTTO NATZLER
(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
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OCTOBER 133: ART/ THEORY/ CRITICISM/ POLITICS - SUMMER 2010
(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
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PICASSO'S CERAMICS
(PICASSO, PABLO). Ramie, Georges. New York: Chartwell Books, 1979. First Edition Thus. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Catalogue Raisonné. Good/Near Fine. 296pp, 419 b&w and 340 color illustrations. Text in French. Published in 1974 by Paris' Editions Cercle D'Art, this elegant hardbound undertaking represents Georges Ramie's first catalogue raisonné of Pablo Picasso's ceramic works. Photographed at Vallauris by Edward Quinn, it contains illustrated entries for over five hundred unique works and editions executed by the master between 1947 and 1970. A most presentable example of the 1979 English language edition of this important reference showing some mild creasing, foxing, and insect damage to the extremities of the textblock. It has been priced accordingly. 0-89009-281-8 Inventory Number: 026099
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KEN PRICE: THE LARGE SCULPTURES
(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
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JEAN PROUVE
(PROUVE, JEAN). Prouve, Jean, Patrick Seguin, Enrico Navarra, Catherine Drouin-Prouve, Claude Prouve, Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, Joseph Belmont, Catherine Coley, Paul Virilio & Claude Parent,. Paris: Galeries Jousse Seguin & Galerie Enrico Navarra, 1998. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Design Monograph. Very Good -.. 270pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French and English. With a biography, bibliography, exhibition history, and chronology. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the beautifully photographed and illustrated catalogue published in conjunction with a significant 1998 Parisian exhibition of furniture and decorative works by the renowned French Architect and Designer Jean Prouve presented jointly at Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra. It features both new and vintage mages of Prouve's works along with concise texts by influential dealer / collectors Patrick Seguin and Enrico Navarra as well as Catherine Drouin-Prouve, Claude Prouve, Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, Joseph Belmont, Catherine Coley, Paul Virilio, Claude Parent, and Prouve himself. An otherwise handsome example of this fantastic document showing some light wear and soiling to the extremities along with some slight rippling to the foredges of the pages at the rear of the textblock due to contact with moisture, It has been priced accordingly. 2-909187-04-7 Inventory Number: 026640
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF R.M. SCHINDLER
(SCHINDLER, R.M.). Smith, Elizabeth A.T., Michael Darling, Kurt G.F. Helfrich, Robert Sweeney & Richard Guy Wilson. Los Angeles & New York: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles & Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Architecture Monograph. Fine/Fine. 284pp, xxx b&w and 107 color illustrations. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Amanda Washburn. With an exhibition checklist, alphabetical listing of buildings and projects and bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 2001 retrospective exhibition held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, this well-appointed catalogue reproduces scores of drawings and renderings by the renowned influential modernist Los Angeles architect R.M. Schindler as well as numerous vintage black and white images of completed projects - many by Julius Shulman. It contains textual contributions by Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Michael Darling, Kurt G.F. Helfrich, Robert Sweeney, and Richard Guy Wilson. A brand new, most handsome example of the hardbound first printing. 0-8109-4223-2 Inventory Number: 026599
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THE SOFT PORCELAIN OF SEVRES. WITH AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION BY EDOUARD GARNIER. ROYAL FOLIO, TEN PARTS, FIVE PLATES IN EACH, FIFTY IN ALL, REPRESENTING TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY WATER-COLOUR SUBJECTS AFTER THE ORIGINALS - 1891 EDITION LIMITED TO 283 COPIES
(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
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KONSTRUKTSIIA ARKHITEKTURNYKH I MASHINNYKH FORM / CONSTRUCTIONS DES FORMES D'ARCHITECTURE ET DES MACHINES / KONSTRUKTION DER ARCHITEKTUR UND MASCHINENFORMEN (THE CONSTRUCTION OF ARCHITECTURAL AND MACHINE FORMS)
(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
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GIUSEPPE TERRAGNI
(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
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THRESHOLDS 21: READINGS
(THRESHOLDS). Guaraldo, Anthony L., Matthew J. Simitis & Katherine Wheeler Borum, Editors. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department & MIT Press, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Architecture Periodical. Near Fine.. 100pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. The twenty-first issue of this thematic, semi-annual theoretical journal from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department is entitled "Readings", and includes contributions by Katherine Wheeler Borum, Elizabeth Grossman, Garyfallia Katsavounidou, Martin Hogue, Stephanie Hammer, Helene Lipstadt, Hanna Hamplova, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Vittorio Gregotti, Douglas Cooper, Mark Jarzombek, Kim Dovey, Alex Haw, Omar Khan, Alfred B. Hwangbo, Zissis Kotionis, David Sledge, and John Fernandez. A handsome example. ISSN 1091-711X Inventory Number: 016450
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THRESHOLDS 20: BE-LONGING
(THRESHOLDS). Guma, Anthony, Katherine Wheeler Borum & Jennifer Mack, Editors. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department & MIT Press, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Architecture Periodical. Very Good.. 100pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. The twentieth issue of this thematic, semi-annual theoretical journal from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department is entitled "Be-Longing", and includes contributions by Jennifer Mack, Leonie Sandercock, Jennifer Bloomer, Mark Jarzombek, Omar Kahn, Jamie Horwitz, PLY +, Li Lian Tan, Nan Ellin, Lucia Allais, June Williamson , Ash Lettow, Matthew Amster, Teddy Cruz, Michelle Apigian, Teresa Tourvas, Jae-Chol Lee, Miriam Levy, and Krista Shepard. A handsome example showing a tiny dent to the upper foredge corner. ISSN 1091-711X Inventory Number: 016449
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THRESHOLDS 24: REPRODUCTION AND PRODUCTION
(THRESHOLDS). Hasiotis, Aliki, Janna Israel & Carl Solander, Editors. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department & MIT Press, 2002. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Architecture Periodical. Fine.. 100pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. The twenty-fourth issue of this thematic, semi-annual theoretical journal from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department is entitled "Reproduction and Production", and includes the contributions: Introduction - Aliki Hasiotis; Perspectives of Technology: Rudolf Schwarz on the Artifice and its Reproducibility - Panos Mantziaras; Diversified Lifetimes: Orchestrated Obsolescence for Intelligent Change - John Fernandez; Disclaimer: Reproducing Negative Thought - Winnie Won Yin Wong; Genomic Cartography - Benjamin Fry; Houria Niati's No To Torture: A Modernist Reconfiguration of Delacroix's Women of Algiers in Their Apartment - Sarah Rogers; Cabin 3 - Seth Weiner; Use/Mis-Use of Pahlavi Public Monuments and their Iranian Reclaim - Talinn Grigor; Emergence of the Semi-Living - Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts; Notes on Repetition - Christine Tarkowski; Dynamics of Stillness - Afsheen Rais Rohani; Tennis Board - Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla; (Re)Building Mt. Hymettus - Zissis Kotionis; Guns and Architecture - Michael Silver; The Aura in Post Modern Photography: Annette Messager, Doug and Mike Starn, and Bill Barrette - Samantha Hoover; Hardnesses In Motion: Retrieving Johannesburg After Apartheid - Paul Schlapobersky. A brand new, most handsome example. ISSN 1091-711X Inventory Number: 010383
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THRESHOLDS 27: EXPLORATION
(THRESHOLDS). Kroiz, Lauren, Patrick Haughey & Talia Dorsey, Editors. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department & MIT Press, 2003. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Architecture Periodical. Fine.. 100pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. The twenty-seventh issue of this thematic, semi-annual theoretical journal from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department is entitled "Exploration", and includes contributions by Lauren Kroiz, Helene Lipstadt, Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, Bradley McGilvary Pitts, Peter Galison and Jennifer Ferng, Thomas Beischer and Marion Lee, Jedediah Smith Ela, Raoul Bunschoten, Brigitte Desrochers, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Prodromos Nikiforidis, Bernard Cuomo, Paraskevi Tarani, Martin Hogue, Lisa Hsieh, B. Alex Miller, and Neyran Turan. A most handsome example of this unavailable issue. ISSN 1091-711X Inventory Number: 016451