Search Results: Authors starting with R from modern-ISM

Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2004. 2004 Dover Reprint . Soft cover. Fine. A crisp Fine copy of the Dover Reprint of the 1931 original. AUDAC Annual. 176 pp., illustrations, index. An introduction by architectural critic Lewis Mumford is followed by commentaries by such notables as Frank Lloyd Wright on design principles; theatrical and industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes on outfitting business interiors; and Edward Steichen on commercial photography.

Cleveland, OH: Modern Homes Publishing, Co., 1934. First Edition . Stapled Wraps. Very Good. Very Good copy with overall general wear. 34 pp., profusely illustrated with period house and garden ads and work by George Howard Burroes, Victor Civkin, Winchton Risley, and others.

Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Square 4to. A crisp, clean, A New copy in a bright, As New dust jacket in a protective mylar cover) inscribed by the late noted architectural photographer Marvin Rand. 222 pp., introductory essay by Daniel Gregory, followed by 250 stunning Marvin Rand color photographs. Related ephemera laid in. Some of Rand's clients over a long and illustrious award-winning career are: Frank Gehry, Cesar Pelli, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Gwathmey/Siegal & Associates, Gregory Ain, William Pereira & Associates, John Lautner, Craig Ellwood and many others.

Phaidon Inc Ltd, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 255 pp., profusely illustrated, chronology, bibliography, endnotes and index. Rand was a major force in editorial design, advertising and corporate identity. He was art director at "Esquire" and "Apparel Arts" magazines, and he designed the ground-breaking covers for the cultural journal "Direction". He worked at the Weintraub Advertising Agency from 1941-1954 and, in 1955, established his own design studio, acting as consultant to companies such as IBM, Westinghouse and UPS. His logos for these companies are world-renowned design classics. This book comprises a definitive collection of Rand's works, through an exploration of his advertising, publishing and corporate identity work. Steven Heller's text, with a foreword by designer Armin Hofmann, introduction by advertising guru George Lois, and a concluding essay by designer and writer Jessica Helfand, offer an insight into Paul Rand's… Read More

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1949. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 388 pp. Original, not a reprint. Chronicals Chicago history from beginnings, evolution of buildings before the fire and after, the development of skeleton construction. Includes great b/w photographs and illustrations. Foxing, silverfish marks to cover and free end papers and suntanned spine. Owner name in small letters in upper right corner of cover. Content very clean.

New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 2001. First Edition . Soft cover. As New/Fine. Catalogue of the exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which travelled to 5 other US institutions in all between October 2001and June 2003. Foreword by Arnold L. Lehman; introduction by Stayton; includes a selected bibliography and index.

Paris: Editions Charles Moreau, 1925. First Edition . Cloth Portfolio. Very Good. Eight pages of text on pairs of folded sheets with all 32 heliotype loose plates present. Second of the series of three illustrated with photos of art deco sculptures found in and on the buildings of the ground breaking l'Exposition des Arts Decoratifs de 1925. List of artists, introduction by Henri Rapin, (test in French), list of other portfolios put together for the exhibition, table of plates including works by Lalique, Bourdelle, Bouraine, Sequin, Jean and Jacques Adnet, Bernaux, Binquet, Max-Blondat, Bottiau, Garnier, Albert Guenot, Hairon, Janniot, Jallot, Le Bourgeois, Malcles, Joel and Jan Martel, Pologne, and Saupique. Portfolio is 12 1/2 x 16 inches. Some wear and rubbing to binding, mainly on the back, some corners bumped, both pairs of cloth ribbon ties present, some splitting of hinges at the spine ends. Plates are in wonderful condition with a trace of foxing and dusting and a few have mild corner… Read More

The Monacelli Press, 2001. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy with light shelf wear, creased corner. 303 pp., illustrations.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, clean, unread copy. 544 pp., more than 360 drawings and more than 400 additional illustrations from 29 projects, commentary by Frank Gehry, Edwin Chan, and Craig Webb, definitively places drawing at the heart of Gehry's creative process. Boldly signed by Gehry on the half-title page.

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.

Balcony Press, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A crisp, clean Fine copy in Fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Oversized interesting book charting the history of the legendary club. 180 pages illustrated with full color photos and drawings.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2004. First Edition . Flexibind. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. A crisp, clean Fine copy. 240 pp., illustrations, appendix. In 1940, The Museum of Modern Art staged a retrospective of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, the great American architect, then in his 70s, who had experienced a professional rebirth over the previous decade after many years of relative invisibility. Wright was a full collaborator in the organization of the project, which he intended, he said, to be "the show to end all shows." To accompany the exhibition, the Museum planned a publication in the form of a Festschrift, commissioning essays from many of the best-known architecture figures of the day--Alvar Aalto, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Richard Neutra, Mies van der Rohe, and others. Wright, however, took issue with certain parts of the book, complimentary though it was, and after an incendiary exchange of correspondence, including the architect's threat to cancel the entire exhibition,… Read More

Rizzoli, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. As New still in publisher's shrinkwrap. 368 pp., 550 illustrations, 300 in full color. This book studies the Italian influences on Picasso's art resulting from his travels there between 1917-1924. No int'l shipping due to weight.

East Stroudsburg, PA: Reinhold Publishing Co., 1938. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A solid Very Good copy with some rubbing and soiling to the white coversnd some light chipping to the spine. Contains Roger Sturtevant photos of Wurster's office, and Wurster's Kaplansky, Sloss, Hollins, Neff, Pope, Forbes, Balding, Gregory, Jensen, Butler, Miller, Jarvie, Berry, Seebe, McIntosh, King, Randall, Campbell and Thomas D. Church Residences. Very scarce.

East Stroudsburg, PA: Reinhold Publishing Co.. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A solid Very Good copy with some light damp staining and wrinkling along the bottom and fore edges of the last half of the issue. Special California A.I.A. Convention issue. Features work by Gregory Ain, Roland E. Coate, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Douglas Honnold, Gordon Kaufmann, H. Roy Kelley, Richard J. Neutra, R. M. Schindler, Sumner Spaulding, Lloyd Wright, Gardner Dailey, John Dinwiddie, Clarence Mayhew, William Wilson Wurster and many others.

East Stroudsburg, PA: Reinhold Publishing Co.. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A clean, somewhat rubbed copy with some light edge wear mainly on the spin ends and edges and a small tear at the spine bottom. Still a nice collectable copy overall. 64 pp. of wonderful period ads, 74 pp. of articles featuring the work of Antonin Raymond (Pitt Petri Shop, Buffalo), Albert Harkness (Gorham Showrooms, Providence), Rene C. Brugnoni and T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings (Shop for John-Frederics), Bloch & Hesse (Schrafft's Stores), William W. Dodge, Jr., Aymar Embury, Morris Ketchum,

Stamford, CT: Reinhold Publishing Co., 1937. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 6A Very Good copy. 8 pp. of ads, 64 pp. of issue, profusely illustrated with work by Royal Barry Wills, Small House Specialist "The Architect and the House", William & Geoffrey Platt, "Open Porches" and many others. Soiling and rubbing to the wraps and chipping at the spine ends. Scarce.

East Stroudsburg, PA: Reinhold Publishing Co.. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, clean copy with some scattered foxing to the edges and some spine edge wear, mild bump to the top corner and a neat tape repair at the spine bottom. A very nice copy overall. Well-illustrated articles featuring work by Alan Mather, Fuller & Forbes, Eric Kebbon, Talbot Hamlin, Frank Lloyd Wright (incl. 3 photos of Taliesen West, Sweeney No. 512), Frank J. Forster, Paul Laszlo (Julius Shulman photo of a Laszlo fireplace), The Monograph Series Vol. XXVI, No. 6, the index for Vol. XXI and more.

East Stroudsburg, PA: Reinhold Publishing Co.. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A solid copy with some rubbing and soiling to the white covers. "Wurster" inked on spine. Special William Wilson Wurster issue with cover line "The Architect and the House: William Wilson Wurster." Fine point ink underlining in many of the Wurster captions. Pages 515-526 neatly removed which happened to be an article titled Dry Point by Samuel Chamberlain and not related to the Wurster material. Contains Roger Sturtevant photos of Wurster's office, and Wurster's Kaplansky, Sloss, Hollins, Neff, Pope, Forbes, Balding, Gregory, Jensen, Butler, Miller, Jarvie, Berry, Seebe, McIntosh, King, Randall, Campbell and Thomas D. Church Residences. Very scarce.

East Stroudsburg, PA: Reinhold Publishing Co.. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, somewhat rubbed copy with a small tear and edge crease on the top of the back cover near the spine. 62 pp. of articles, 72 pp. of wonderful period ads, featuring the work of Albert Mayer; Don Graf; 18 pp. article on Alden B. Dow (Dow Offices at Midland, MI, Arbury Residence, Mary Dow House, Hanson House, Heath Residence, Ball House, Pardee House, Grant House, Barclay Residence, MacMartin House, and S. Gordon Saunders Residence); Scott & Teegen; Paul Thiry; Alfred S. Alschuler & R. N. Friedman; Albert Kahn; and others.