Search Results: Titles starting with I from modern-ISM

Los Angeles Times Books, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A crisp Fine inscribed copy in a Fine dust jacket. 119 pp., illustrations, bibliography. Related ephemera on the Eames House laid in.

Angel City Pr, 2007. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. A crisp Fine inscribed copy. 127 pp., illustrations.

New York, NY: Little Brown & Company, 2000. New Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A crisp Fine copy in a Fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Revised edition with 95 duotone photographs. Introduction by Terrence Riley. Through these photographs and a lively accompanying text, Szarkowski illuminates the philosophy and architectural genius of Louis Sullivan.

Milan: Regione Lombardia, 2004. First Edition . Wraps. As New. Oblong 16mo. A crisp, clean, unread copy. 70 pp., profusely illustrated exhibition catalogue covering the master designer/architect's body of work published in conjunction with the completion of the Pirelli Building restoration in 2004. Laid in is a pamphlet announcing an 6-15-2004 AIA seminar entitled "The Influence of Gio Ponti's Work in Contemporary Italian Furniture Design" at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Chicago.

Milan: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1983. First Edition . Photographic Wraps. As New. Large 4to. 75 pp., 69 plates by many of the greatest photographers of all time including Man Ray, Edward Weston, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and many others, text in Italian.

Pasadena: Pasadena Board of Trade, 1903. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy with a few chips and closed tears.

Paris: Ader Tajan, 1992. First Edition . Glossy Pictorial Hardcover. Near Fine. Oblong 8vo. A crisp, clean copy. [40] pp.auction catalogue, preface by Jacques Tajan, 2 photos of Dufy in his studio, 13 full-page color plates, biography. Text in French.

Monterey Museum of Art, 2002. Photographic Wraps. Very Good. Scarce Very Good copy in lightly rubbed, photographic stapled wraps. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran July 27 through October 6, 2002. Essay by Mary Murray. Includes 40 color and black and white images. Satement from the lenders Kathy and Ron Perisho, catalogue checklist.

Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1999. Reprint . Soft cover. As New. Oblong 8vo. As New, still in the publisher's pictorial cardboard box. Includes invitation to Frey exhibit at UCSB Art Museum March 8- Apri 19, 1992. 95 pp., profusely illustrated. Includes photos of work by Richard Neutra in Los Angeles (V.D.L. Research House), Van Pelt and Lind, Architects in Palm Springs; John Porter Clark in Palm Springs; A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey in New York; Ataria and Schmidt, Hubacher and Steiger, M. E. Haefli, W. M. Moser, and Roth Architects in Zurich; and Gavin Hadden in New York.

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine/Fine. Hint of foxing to top edges of this crisp, unread book. Laid in is a NY Times book review and a 400+ word typed letter signed by the author to an old family friend who lived with the Tilghmans for a summer when the author was three years old catching her up on what became of his two brothers, and his divorced parents. The letter is very revealing in intimate family details.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Da Capo Press, 1975. 2nd Printing . Soft cover. Very Good +. Square 12mo. 143 pp. 413 illustrations Very well documented. Great reference. Slight crease in spine and lower front fore corner, else is well preserved.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Da Capo Press, 1975. 6th Paperback Printing . Soft cover. Very Good +. Square 12mo. A crisp, clean Very Good + copy. 143 pp. Very well documented. Great reference. More than 400 illustrations are presented in chronological order in a format Wright himself designed, revealing an endless assortment of shapes, materials and structural ornament that indicate the scope and focus of Wright's genius. Accompanying the photographs, plans, and perspectives is Hitchcock's perceptive commentary, linking each building to a particular phase in Wright's development and showing how in each case the architect forged the elements of materials, mass, space, and ornament into a powerful visual statement.Hitchcock also contributes a list of the architect's completed projects through 1941, and, in a new foreword specially prepared for this Da Capo edition, assesses Wright's major projects during the last two decades of his life.

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co.,, 1960. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good -. 4to. 212 pp., more than 220 color photos, introduction by Cathrin Seifert and text by Franz Bauer. A crisp, clean copy with sun fading to top edges of boards, front hinge loose, owner's name at top of half title page. Dust jacket has chips missing from spine ends, some neatly mended closed tears and damp stain at top of front cover yet still a very attractive copy. Scarce.

Lancaster, PA: Interior Design Publishing Co., 1949. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Some separation and closed tear at spine ends and bump to bottom forecorner, else Very Good. 76 pp., richly illustrated, featuring work by Edward Wormley, Philip Johnson, Alexander Calder, Charles Eames, T. H. Robjohns-Gibbings, Merlin Dow, Knoll Associates, Harold Bartos, Harvey Probber, George Nelson, Eero Saarinen, and an article "The Detroit Institute of Arts Shows Modern Design" with photos of room installations by Charles Eames, Jens Risom, and George Nelson. Scarce!!!

New York: W. W. Norton, 1932. First Edition . Library Buckram. Very Good +. 4to. An internally crisp, clean, lightly used, Very Good + Michigan Sate University ex-library copy in buckram binding which has a trace of rubbing and soiling. Front pastedown and front free end paper have the usual library markings. No markings to edges. This book and the 1932 companion exhibition and catalogue "Modern Architecture, International Exhibition" published by the Museum of Modern Art in New York were seminal in introducing the "International Style" and modern architecture to the USA. 240 pp., profusely illustrated with photographs and plans, preface by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., director of the Museum of Modern Art, indices of architects and countries represented.

Koln, Germany: Taschen, 2001. First Paperback Edition . Soft cover. As New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A crisp, clean, unread copy. 237 pp., profusely illustrated, chapter headings include: The European Modernists (1919-1933); Defining the International Style (1931-1932); Early Internationalists (1933-1945); Corporate Internationalism (1929-1960); Later Modernists (1945-1960); and Global Manifestations (1936-1966). Also includes exhaustive notes, biographies, bibliography, index and credits. A crisp, unread copy.

London: Fumehurst Ltd., 1979. First Edition . Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good. Oblong 4to. VG + corner creases, some age yellowing, paper clip mark to the first p. of the Gehry article (on his personal residence in Santa Monica which includes 15 Tim Street-Porter photos) and bump to top corner). 72 pp., featuring the work of Frank Gehry, O. Mathias Ungers, and Alvar Aalto. Early Gehry title. Super scarce. Int'l shipping extra due to size.

New York: Rizzoli, 1992. First Edition . Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Square 8vo. Near Fine copy in wraps. 224 pp., richly illustrated, endnotes bibliography, and appendices. Published on the occasion of the retrospective of MoMA's International Style exhibit at the Arthur Ross Architectural Gallery at Columbia University.

Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1928. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged . Stiff Soft Cover. Very Good/Good. Second Edition, Enlarged, Very Good copy in a Good mylar protected dust jacket with pieces missing from spine and some chipping to edges. 55 pp., 137 illustrations of works by Frank Lloyd Wright, Chase McArthur, Richard Neutra, J.J.P. Oud, Hans Poelzig, Walter Gropius, Erich Mendelsohn, Ernst May and many others.

Zurich: Dr. H. Girsberger, 1959. Wraps. Fine. 8vo Oblong. Volume four, number three. English Edition - Engish, French and German 54 pp. "A Vista beyond the present stage of Asbestos-Cement Application" by Richard Neutra, as well as his Eagle Rock Playground Clubhouse; An architect's home in Kamakura, Kanagawa by Gorozo Iizuka; A house in vicinity of Zurich Airport by Peter Klaus; A group of prefabs in Vienna and more. Super scarce.