Search Results: Decorative Arts from modern-ISM

Oakland, CA: Oakland Museum, 1980. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Oblong 4to. 16 pp., essay by John Kelsey, profusely illustrated with work by Eric Hansen, Sam Maloof, Don Braden, Garry Bennett, John Nyquist, Alan Marks, Martha Rising, Jim Bacigalupi, John Snidecor, Michael Chinn, Michael Graham, and others. Artist bios and exhibitions. A crisp, clean, unread copy with a few edge scrapes.

London: The Studio Publications, 1948. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. A crisp, clean Near Fine copy with tope edges dyed maroon, in cream cloth with maroon lettering on the spine and front, in a Very Good mylar-protected dust wrapper with some chipping along the edges and a piece missing from the spine crown and top of back cover.128 pages plus ads and index.; xvi., Illustrated with photographs in color and monochrome of work by Richard Neutra, Paul Frankl, Dunbar, Alexander Girard, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Dorothy Liebes, William Lescaze, Herman Miller, George Nelson, Edward Durrell Stone, Russell Wright, Eva Zeisel and many others.

Jena: Verlegt Bei Eugen Diederichs, 1914. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, clean, Fine copy, edges dyed brown, tan boards and spine with black lettering. The extremely scarce, bright and clean, light green Dust Jacket is present with light edge wear and an abrasion and small hole in the back panel. 104 pp. of text by Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, Bruno Paul, Max Schmid, Josef Hoffmann, Peter Jessen, Fritz Hoeber, August Endell, John B. Hambrook, Karl Ernst Osthaus, Karl Scheffler, Ernst Neumann, Albert Scheibe, Rudolf Bosselt, Wilhelm Ostwald, Ernst Jackh, and others. 122 pp. of b&w plates of architecture and industrial design by Paul Wolf, Georg Metzendorf, Louis Eilers, Jacob Hilgers Rheinbrohl, Lossow & Kuhne, Eliel Saarinen, Paul Bonatz and F. E. Scholer, Heinrich Kathrein, Rudolf Grimm, Cremer & Wolffenstein, Bruno Mohring, A. F. Grenander, Solf & Wichards, E. Schaudt, Raabe & Wohlecke, Peter Behrens, Karl… Read More

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970. First Edition . Spiral-Bound Wraps. Very Good. Square 8vo. Some damage to plastic comb binding and rubbing to black wraps. Unpaginated, intro by Arthur Drexler, 55 full-page illustrations backed with descriptions.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Square 4to. FINE xxiv + 251pp., with illustrated 500 exhibition items, 17 essays on the design process and product categories, designer biographies, and bibliography. Contributors include Alvar Aalto, Anni Albers, Max Bill, Gae Aulenti, Mario Bellini, Harry Bertoia, Achille Castiglioni, Joe Colombo, Lucienne and Robin Day, De Pas, D'Urbino, Lomazzi, Charles Eames, Frank Gehry, Alexander Girard, Poul Henningsen, Arne Jacobsen, Georg Jensen, Finn Juhl, Poul Kjaerholm, Florence Knoll, Raymond Loewy, Vico Magistretti, Enzo Mari, Bruno Mathsson, Paul McCobb, Bruno Munari, George Nakashima, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Eliot Noyes, Verner Panton, Pierre Paulin, Gaetano Pesce, Warren platner, Gio Ponti, James Prestini, Eero Saarinen, Richard Sapper, Timo Sarpaneva, Tovia and Afra Scarpa, Ettore Sottsass, Van Keppel-Green, Paolo Venini, Leila and Massimo vignelli, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Hans Wegner, Tapio Wirkkala, Russell Wright, Edward… Read More

New York: Galerie Metropol. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A crisp, Near Fine copy with a trace of edge wear. Scarce in this condition. 164 pp., no date, profusely illustrated throughout with photos, plans, and drawings of Josef Hoffmann's architecture, furniture and decorative object designs for the Sanatorium Purkersdorf. Text in German and English.

London: Collins, 1984. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, clean copy. 256 pp. featuring the work of more than 180 contemporary potters from around the world illustrated with color and b&w photos, reading list and index.