World Food Books

Text Buchstabe Bild (Text, Letter, Image)

1970, German / French
Softcover, 118 pages, 21 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich / Zürich

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Rare, important exhibition catalogue designed by Walter Diethelm, published on the occasion of the exceptional exhibition Text Buchstabe Bild (Text, Letter, Image), held at the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich, July 11—August 23, 1970. Preface by Felix Andreas Baumann. "The point is to present this literature, which is located between writing and images, text and graphics and around the tertium comparationis of typography, to an audience that is probably not too familiar with the techniques and variants of “concrete literature”—from the preface. An incredible and varied anthology of the experimental, poetic, graphic interplay of text and image, profusely illustrated in b/w, accompanied by texts in German and French by Stéphane Mallarmé, F.T. Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, Oyvind Fahlström, El Lissitzky, André Breton, Eugen Gomringer, Augusto de Campos, Decio Pignatari, Haroldo de Campos, Jan Hamilton Finlay, Pierre Garnier, Max Bense, Reinhard Döhl, Carlfriedrich Claus, Seiichi Niikuni, Henri Chopin, Franz Mon, Jiri Kolár, and Bob Cobbing.

Artists included: Stéphane Mallarmé, Arno Holz, Christian Morgenstern, F.T. Marinetti, Carlo Carrà, Lacerba, Ardengo Soffici, Hugo Ball, Georges Braque, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Amédée Ozenfant, Guillaume Apollinaire, Marcel Janco, Tristan Tzara, Raoul Hausmann, Fernand Léger, Richard Hülsenbeck, Vincente Huidobro, Francis Picabia, Jean Pougny, Kurt Schwitters, Paul Klee, Bruno Adler, Jean Epstein, Theo Van Doesburg, El Lissitzky, Jozef Peeters, Sonja Delaunay-Terk, Iliazd, Friedrich Kiesler, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Käthe Steinitz, Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg, Hans Arp, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Henryk Berlewi, Farkas Molnár, Zenit, Hendrik Nicolaas Werkmann, Walter Gropius, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Le Corbusier, and Georges Hugnet.

Very Good ex-NGV library copy, well preserved with only light wear and "National Gallery of Victoria" light stamp to block edge and lower back-cover. No internal stamping/marking.

File under: Carlo Carrà F.T. Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Arno Holz Christian Morgenstern Lacerba Ardengo Soffici Hugo Ball Georges Braque Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Amédée Ozenfant Guillaume Apollinaire Marcel Janco Tristan Tzara Raoul Hausmann Fernand Léger Richard Hülsenbeck Vincente Huidobro Francis Picabia Jean Pougny Kurt Schwitters Paul Klee Bruno Adler Jean Epstein Theo Van Doesburg El Lissitzky Jozef Peeters Sonja Delaunay-Terk Iliazd Friedrich Kiesler Man Ray László Moholy-Nagy Käthe Steinitz Theo van Doesburg Hans Arp Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart Henryk Berlewi Farkas Molnár Zenit Hendrik Nicolaas Werkmann Walter Gropius John Heartfield Marcel Duchamp Le Corbusier Georges Hugnet Walter Diethelm Jiří Kolář Öyvind Fahlström Stéphane Mallarmé F. T. Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Marinetti André Breton Haroldo de Campos Jan Hamilton Finlay Pierre Garnier Max Bense Reinhard Döhl Carlfriedrich Claus Seiichi Niikuni Henri Chopin Franz Mon Bob Cobbing Tristan Tzara El Lissitzky Eugen Gomringer Felix Andreas Baumann Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Helmhaus Zürich / Zürich Group Shows / Collections Concrete Poetry Conceptual Art Dada Fluxus Art Fiction / Poetry Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Graphic Design / Typography Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Poetry Bauhaus

New Furniture / Neue Möbel 10

1971, English / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 162 pages, 30 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Verlag Gerd Hatje / Stuttgart

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Tenth edition of Gerd Hatje's absolutely invaluable and highly collectable modern furniture series, New Furniture / Neue Möbel, published in eleven comprehensive volumes between 1951-1971. This volume particularly special for those lovers of late 1960's European design and radical developments in plastic/modular/space furniture.

Profusely illustrated throughout with 468 gorgeous studio product photographs, featuring the work of manufacturers, architects, designers: Archizoom, Sergio Asti, Cini Boeri, Luigi Colani, Alvar Aalto, Eero Aarnio, Franco Albini, Gae Aulenti, Mario Bellini, Hans Bellmann, Harry Bertoia, Marcel Breuer, Achille and Pier Castiglione, Norman Cherner, Joe Colombo, Le Corbusier, Robin Day, Charles Eames, Eileen Gray, Walter Gropius, Josef Hoffmann, Arne Jacobsen, Grete Jalk, Pierre Jeanneret, Henning Jensen, Knud Joos, Finn Juhl, Arne Karlsen, Poul Kjaerholm, Kaare Klint, Florence Knoll, Estelle and Erwine Laverne, Oliver Lundquist, Charles Rennie Macintosh, Vico Magistretti, Bruno Mathsson, Paul McCobb, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Verner Panton, Pierre Paulin, Sigurd Persson, Warren Platner, Gio Ponti, Harvey Probber, Robert Probst, Gerrit Rietveld, Jens Risom, Eero Saarinen, Tobia Scarpa, Richard Schultz, Ettore Sottsass, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Hans Wegner, Edward Wormley, Marco Zanuso, Artek, Artemide, B&B Italia, Cassina, Domus, Dunbar Furniture Company, Dux Mobel, Fritz Hansen, Kartell, Knoll International, Van Keppel Green, Laverne, Herman Miller Furniture Company, Olivetti, Pierre Paulin, Harvey Probber, Jens Risom, Steelcase, Thonet, and many more (!)

Contents: introduction; illustrations; chairs; seating arrangements, sofas, beds; tables; office furniture; cabinets and shelves; nursery and school furniture; index: manufacturers, designers, photographers.

Edited by Gerd Hatje and Elke Kaspar.
A fantastic furniture resource.
Text in English and German.

Average—Good ex-libris w. only a few markings but general wear to cloth covers and extremities/corners. Lacks dust jacket.

File under: Archizoom Sergio Asti Cini Boeri Luigi Colani Alvar Aalto Eero Aarnio Franco Albini Gae Aulenti Mario Bellini Hans Bellmann Harry Bertoia Marcel Breuer Achille and Pier Castiglione Norman Cherner Joe Colombo Le Corbusier Robin Day Charles Eames Eileen Gray Walter Gropius Josef Hoffmann Arne Jacobsen Grete Jalk Pierre Jeanneret Henning Jensen Finn Juhl Knud Joos Arne Karlsen Poul Kjærholm Kaare Klint Florence Knoll Estelle and Erwine Laverne Oliver Lundquist Charles Rennie Macintosh Vico Magistretti Bruno Mathsson Paul McCobb Ludwig Mies van der Rohe George Nelson Isamu Noguchi Verner Panton Pierre Paulin Sigurd Persson Warren Platner Gio Ponti Harvey Probber Robert Probst Gerrit Rietveld Jens Risom Eero Saarinen Tobia Scarpa Richard Schultz Ettore Sottsass Ilmari Tapiovaara Hans Wegner Edward Wormley Marco Zanuso Artek Artemide B&B Italia Cassina Domus Dunbar Furniture Company Dux Mobel Fritz Hansen Kartell Knoll International Van Keppel Green Laverne Herman Miller Furniture Company Olivetti Steelcase Thonet Verlag Gerd Hatje / Stuttgart Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Textiles Ceramics / Glass

Le Corbusier
The Modulor

1977, English
Softcover, 244 pages, 18 x 18 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Faber & Faber / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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1977 revised re-print of the first UK edition from 1954 of Le Corbusier's classic The Modulor.

Between 1942 and 1955 the architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965) developed a universal measuring system known as the "Modulor".

The Modulor represented an attempt to give architecture a mathematical order oriented to a human scale. Starting from the golden ratio and the proportions of the human body, Le Corbusier developed his doctrine for the proportions of construction. He started from an assumed standard size of the human body and marked three intervals related to each other in the proportion of the golden ratio.

Le Corbusier managed to combine the imperial measuring system based on the foot with the metric decimal system and at the same time to relate to human body measurements. As a result, he obtained a systematic planning basis for architecture and industrial products that gained worldwide currency and was applied by countless practitioners.

Le Corbusier published Le Modulor in 1948, followed by Modulor 2 in 1955. These works were first published in English as The Modulor in 1954 and Modulor 2 (Let the User Speak Next) in 1958.

Very Good copy. Not sure what year this print comes from.

File under: Le Corbusier Faber & Faber / London Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare

Design and Art of Modern Chairs

1978, English / Japanese
Softcover, 160 pages, 26 x 12 cm
Out of print title / used / fine
Published by The National Museum of Art / Osaka

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Incredibly rare Japanese publication from 1978, printed on the occasion of a major exhibition entitled "Design and Art of Modern Chairs", August 19—October 15, at the National Museum of Art, Osaka. This wonderful landscape-formatted book is profusely illustrated throughout (in colour and black and white) with the chairs of designers and artists including Gerrit Rietveld, Isamu Kenmochi, Olivier Mourgue, Pierre Paulin, Sadamasa Motonaga, Mario Ceroli, Marcel Breuer, Studio 65, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand, Jan Dranger, Johan Huldt, Robert Haussman, Kwok Hoi Chan, Steen Østergaard, George Nakashima, Mies van der Rohe, Poul Kjaerholm, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Charles Pollock, Aarne Jacobsen, Warren Platner, Roger Tallon, Verner Panton, Earo Aarnio, Bruno Mathsson, Motomi Kawakami, Marco Zanuso, Richard Sapper, Gerd Lange, Vico Magistretti, Alver Aalto, Jonathan de Pas, Paolo Lomazzi, Donato d'Urbino, Giorgio Decursu, Sori Yanagi, Reiko Tanabe-Murai, Wolfgang Mueller-Deisig, Stacy Dukes, Ettore Sottsass, Charles Eames, Hans J. Wegner, Franco Albini, Gio Ponti, Kaare Klint, Enzo Mari, Takeshi Nii, Achille Castiglioni, Achille and Piergiacomo Castiglioni, Tadashi Minohara, Gaetano Pesce, Yrjo Kukkapuro, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Mario Bellini, Cini Boeri, Mario Marenco, Joe Colombo, Piero Gatti, Jonathan de Pas, Paolo Lomazzi, Donato d'Urbino, Ubald Klug, Gerrit Rietveld, Salvador Dali, Poltronova, Cassina, Taro Okamoto. Jiro Takamatsu, Susumu Koshimizu, Shiro Kuramata, Minoru Takeyama, Lucas Samaras, Kozo Mio, Arata Isozaki, Shigeo Fukuda, Takashi Sakaizawa, Constantin Brâncuși, Yoji Kuri, Yayoi Kusama, Vitra, Knoll, Kartell, Herman Miller, Arflex, BBB, Flexform, C&B Italia, Cassina, and many more. Each chair included is detailed with a blurb in Japanese, data/specs of year, designer/artist, manufacture and dimensions. Also includes an illustrated timeline tracing a chronological history of the chairs exhibited, along with a production index and forward texts in English and Japanese. Forms an indispensable index of important modern chair designs from the early 1930s—late 1970s.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Achille Castiglioni Afra and Tobia Scarpa Arata Isozaki Arflex Bruno Mathsson Cassina Charles Eames Charles Pollock Charlotte Perriand Cini Boeri Constantin Brâncuși Donato d'Urbino Eero Saarinen Enzo Mari Ettore Sottsass Franco Albini Gaetano Pesce George Nakashima Gerd Lange Gerrit Rietveld Gio Ponti Giorgio Decursu Hans J. Wegner Harry Bertoia Herman Miller Isamu Kenmochi Jan Dranger Joe Colombo Johan Huldt Jonathan de Pas Kaare Klint Kartell Knoll Kozo Mio Kwok Hoi Chan Le Corbusier Lucas Samaras Marcel Breuer Marco Zanuso Mario Bellini Mario Ceroli Mario Marenco Mies van der Rohe Minoru Takeyama Motomi Kawakami Olivier Mourgue Paolo Lomazzi Piero Gatti Pierre Jeanneret Pierre Paulin Poltronova Reiko Tanabe-Murai Richard Sapper Robert Haussman Roger Tallon Sadamasa Motonaga Salvador Dalí Shigeo Fukuda Shiro Kuramata Sori Yanagi Stacy Dukes Steen Østergaard Studio 65 Susumu Koshimizu Tadashi Minohara Takashi Sakaizawa Takeshi Nii Ubald Klug Verner Panton Vico Magistretti Vitra Warren Platner Wolfgang Mueller-Deisig Yayoi Kusama Yoji Kuri Yrjo Kukkapuro Alvar Aalto Eero Aarnio Arne Jacobsen Tarō Okamoto Jiro Takamatsu Poul Kjærholm Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni The National Museum of Art / Osaka Architecture / Interior Art Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Surrealism Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

The International Design Yearbook 1985/86
Edited by Robert A.M. Stern

1986, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 239 pages, 25 x 31 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

$80.00 $20.00 - Out of stock

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Edited by Robert A.M. Stern, one of the world's leading exponents of the Post-Modern movement, "The International Design Yearbook 1985/86" was "the first volume of an important annual review of domestic design in an international context. It shows the best, the most characteristic and the most exciting recent designs in furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, glass and metalware. It illustrates the work not only of such leading figures as Rossi, Hollein, Venturi, Sottsass and Castiglioni, but of hundreds of other contemporary designers around the world, whose work is notable for its topicality and promise, or for its aesthetic or functional excellence."

As well as contemporary design of the mid 1980's, the annual "deals with the reproduction of classic designs by such masters as Eileen Gray, Hoffman, Mackintosh, Rietveld and Le Corbusier." The annual also functioned as a guidebook to the featured designers and the respective companies, manufacturers and retailers of their designs. Biographies for all those designers featured are included, plus texts throughout.

This large book is richly illustrated with wonderful examples of the featured designers in their many forms via 520 illustrations, 382 in colour. Many works rarely (some possibly never) seen documented in any other book.

Includes the work of: Verner Panton, Nathalie du Pasquier, Charlotte Perriand, Paolo Piva, Andrée Putman, Dieter Rams, Gerrit Rietveld, Aldo Rossi, Stanley Tigerman, Brian Faucheux, Jay Stanger, Yrjo Kukkapuro, Hans Gunnarsson, Studio Alchimia, Gabrielle Regondi, John Smith, Alberto Salvati and Ambrogio Tresoldi, Paolo Deganello, Alessio Sarri, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Matteo Thun, Pierre Jeanneret, Memphis, Giuseppe Terragni, Robert George Sowden, SITE, Afra Scarpa, Tobia Scarpa, Robert Venturi, Ugo La Pietra, Le Corbusier, Ettore Sottsass, Adolf Loos, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Richard Meier, Alessando Mendini, Fujiwo Ishimoto, Hans Hollein, Josef Hoffmann, William Morris, Frank Gehry, Robert A.M. Stern, Eileen Gray, Michael Graves, Michele De Lucchi, Joe Colombo, Achille Castiglioni, Mario Bellini, Gae Aulenti, Hans Ansems, Ron Arad, Emilio Ambasz, Alver Aalto, Daniel Weil, Marco Zanini, to name but a few!

Very Good copy with VG dust jacket, light tanning to page edge.

File under: Robert A.M. Stern Verner Panton Nathalie du Pasquier Charlotte Perriand Paolo Piva Andrée Putman Dieter Rams Gerrit Rietveld Aldo Rossi Stanley Tigerman Brian Faucheux Jay Stanger Yrjo Kukkapuro Hans Gunnarsson Studio Alchimia Gabrielle Regondi John Smith Alberto Salvati and Ambrogio Tresoldi Paolo Deganello Alessio Sarri Charles Rennie Mackintosh Matteo Thun Pierre Jeanneret Memphis Giuseppe Terragni Robert George Sowden SITE Afra Scarpa Tobia Scarpa Robert Venturi Ugo La Pietra Le Corbusier Ettore Sottsass Adolf Loos Robert Mallet-Stevens Richard Meier Alessando Mendini Fujiwo Ishimoto Hans Hollein Josef Hoffmann William Morris Frank Gehry Eileen Gray Michael Graves Michele De Lucchi Joe Colombo Achille Castiglioni Mario Bellini Gae Aulenti Hans Ansems Ron Arad Emilio Ambasz Alver Aalto Daniel Weil Marco Zanini Robert A.M. Stern Thames and Hudson / London Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture Ceramics / Glass Out-of-print / Rare Architecture / Interior Textiles SALE

Decoration : Tradition et Renouveau
Collection Connaissance des Arts

1973, French
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 288 pages, 25 x 32 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Réalités - Hachette / Paris

$690.00 - In stock -

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First and only printing of one of the heaviest hitters of interior design books ever, the enormous, lavishly illustrated "Decoration : Tradition et Renouveau" (Collection Connaissance des Arts) published in 1973. Without a doubt one of the most sought after interior design books and now extremely rare.

This heavy, prestigious, cloth-bound volume travels through some of the world's most incredible domestic interiors by the 20th century's top interior designers and decorators, including Francois Catroux, Serge Royaux, Gae Aulenti, Alberto Pinto, Maria Pergay, Charles Sevigny, Martine Dufour, Isabelle Hebey, Michel Boyer, David Mlinaric, Karl Lagerfeld, Quasar Khanh, Marc du Plantier, Yves Vidal, Jacques Grange, Valentino, Aldo Jacober, David Hicks, Piero Pinto, Henri Samuel, Nanda Vigo, John Stefanidis, Paolo Tommasi, and more, including the homes of major architects, fashion designers, art and antiquities collectors, celebrities, and interior designers themselves, showcasing objets d'art, historical artifacts, furniture and decor (from Mies van der Rohe, Lucio Fontana, Nicola L, Cesar, Jean Dubuffet, Pablo Picasso, Arman, Gae Aulenti, Marcel Breuer, Cy Twombly, Le Corbusier, François-Xavier Lalanne and Claude Lalanne, Quasar Khanh, Roger Tallon, Pierre Jeanneret, Enzo Mari, Pierre Paulin, Carla Venosta, Nanda Vigo, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Marcel Breuer, Ruth Francken, Afra + Tobia Scarpa, Charles Eames, Joe Columbo, Verner Panton, Bruno Munari, Mario Bellini, Henri Michaux, Jean Fautrier, Tom Wesselman, Sonia Delaunay, Marimekko, Superstudio, Man Ray... just to name a few) adorning decorated interiors ranging from "Tradition" ("a formula that allows one to integrate older items, furniture and artwork in a contemporary context"); "le Renouveau" (contemporary interiors of the 1970's and "a section dedicated to design of the time offering a selection of the finest furniture, objects and accessories created by top designers"); and "l'Avant-garde" (displaying some of the most experimental, idiosyncratic, and forward-thinking interiors that bring together modern materiality, pop art and space design to create inspired interior living architectural spaces).

"How to reconcile antique furniture and contemporary structures? Can we adapt modern furniture within a traditionally inspired framework? This book, illustrated with beautiful photographs, mostly in color, reproducing the finest achievements of the great contemporary designers, responds to these questions."

Preface by Francis Spar. All texts in French. Hundreds of beautiful photographs in vivid colour and b/w. A must-have for the interior design lover.

Very good, beautifully preserved copy, strong binding, and seldom now seen with original dust jacket (also VG).

File under: Achille Castiglioni Afra and Tobia Scarpa Afra Scarpa Anna Castelli Arman Bruno Munari Charles Eames David Hicks De Pas D'Urbino Enzo Mari Gae Aulenti Harry Bertoia Jean Dubuffet Joe Colombo Jorgen Rasmussen Karl Lagerfeld Le Corbusier Lucio Fontana Man Ray Marcel Breuer Marco Zanuso Mario Bellini Michel Boyer Mies van der Rohe Nanda Vigo Nicola L Pablo Picasso Pierre Jeanneret Pierre Paulin Roger Tallon Sonia Delaunay Tobia Scarpa Tom Wesselmann Verner Panton Paolo Lomazzi Eero Saarinen Jean Fautrier Henri Michaux Serge Royaux Alberto Pinto David Mlinaric Aldo Jacober Fleur Vulliod Piero Pinto Carla Venosta Maria Pergay Martine Dufour Isabelle Hebey Karl Largerfeld Claude and Francoise-Xavier Lalanne Claudio Dini Gunter Sachs Michelangelo Pistoletto Quasar Khanh Superstudio Marimekko Ruth Francken Valentino Charles Sevigny Jacques Grange Marc du Plantier Yves Vidal John Stefanidis Henri Samuel Paolo Tommasi Cy Twombly César Francis Spar Réalités - Hachette / Paris Architecture / Interior Art Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Ceramics / Glass Textiles

1970-1980 : Dal Design Al Post-Design
Edited by Isa Vercelloni

1980, Italian
Hardcover, 50 pages, 32 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Casa Vogue / Milan Edizioni Condé Nast / Milan

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First edition, published in 1980 by Edizioni Condé Nast / Casa Vogue (Milan), of this little known furniture book, edited by Casa Vogue editor Isa Vercelloni, who brought us the 1985 classic “Styles of Living: The Best of Casa Vogue”.

This fantastic hardcover book, the first in Casa Vogue's book library, is dedicated entirely to showcasing furniture by (amongst many other deisgners) Aldo Rossi, Gaetano Pesce, Andrea Branzi, Ettore Sottsass, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Toshiyuki Kita, Achille Castiglioni, Alchimia, Paolo Nava, Antonio Citterio, Enzo Mari, Alessandro Mendini, B&B Italia, Cassina, Flos, Poltronova, Vico Magistretti, Artemide, Stilnovo, Mario Bellini, Josef Hoffman, Studio Driade, Poltronova, Carlo Scarpa, Gae Aulenti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Eileen Grey, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Gerrit T. Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, , Pierre Jeanneret, C&B Italia, Mario Ceroli, Cini Boeri, Arflex, Zanotta, Superstudio, Archizoom, Knoll, Meret Oppenheim, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Jonathan de Pas, De. Pas + D'urbino + Lomazzi, Donato d'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Gufram, Giani Ruffi, Piero Gilardi, Joe Columbo, Sergio Asti, Hans Hollein...

Scarce, wonderfully compiled Italian title of 1970's-1980's furniture design and its influences.

Very Good copy.

File under: Achille Castiglioni Alessandro Mendini Angelo Mangiarotti Antonio Citterio Archizoom Arflex Artemide Carlo Scarpa Cassina Charles Rennie Mackintosh Charlotte Perriand Cini Boeri De Pas Donato d'Urbino D'Urbino Eileen Gray Enzo Mari Gae Aulenti Gerrit Rietveld Giani Ruffi Gufram Hans Hollein Joe Colombo Jonathan de Pas Josef Hoffmann Le Corbusier Mario Bellini Mario Ceroli Max Ernst Meret Oppenheim Paolo Lomazzi Paolo Nava Piero Gilardi Pierre Jeanneret Poltronova René Magritte Sergio Asti Stilnovo Studio 65 Studio Driade Superstudio Toshiyuki Kita Vico Magistretti Zanotta B&B Italia Isa Vercelloni Casa Vogue / Milan Edizioni Condé Nast / Milan Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Ceramics / Glass Pop Art Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation

Styles of Living
The Best of Casa Vogue

1985, English
Hardcover (w. dustjacket), 224 pages, 30 x 22.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rizzoli / New York

$200.00 - Out of stock

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First edition, published by Rizzoli in 1985, of this classic interior design book, "Styles of Living: The Best of Casa Vogue"

Making appearances in these rooms: Gae Aulenti, Man Ray, Enzo Mari, Carlo Scarpa, Pablo Picasso, Josef Hoffman, Cinzia Ruggeri, Max Ernst, Wols, Matteo Thun, Ettore Sottsass, Le Corbusier, Salvador Dali, René Magritte, Lucio Fontana, Eileen Grey, Daniel Buren, Gaetano Pesce, Charles Eames, Verner Panton, Massimo Vignelli, Andy Warhol, Frank Lloyd Wright, Antoni Tàpies, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alver Aalto.....

"Ever since the end of the Second World War, Italian style, design and decoration have maintained an unprecedented predominance in the Western World. It was in the early 1950s that a great surge of decorative talent welled up in Italy, and this resulted in the 'Italian look' in clothes and in homes - a new standard of chic inventiveness.

The Italian view of interior design has been most enterprisingly expressed in the magazine Casa Vogue, which was founded in 1968 and has consistently been one of the most admired publications of Condé Nast International.

This book, garnered from the many issues of Casa Vogue, has been written and produced under the guidance of Isa Vercellonim who has been its editor ever since its inception. The choice of picture-stories is intended to reflect the unusual and distinctive diversity of the magazine - ranging from traditional decoration to the more advance examples of minimal design, most the most significant of contemporary buildings to the spectacular reconstructions and reconversions of old palazzi and coachhouses, from the 'post modern' to the 'anti-modern' and any other 'moderns' that may have been advocated recently. Italian trends naturally provide the main focus, but Casa Vogue also includes developments in the United States, France, Switzerland - indeed, wherever unusual and meaningful designs are being created."

Very good copy in Good dust-jacket, protected under mylar wrap.

File under: Andy Warhol Antoni Tàpies Carlo Scarpa Charles Eames Cinzia Ruggeri Daniel Buren Eileen Gray Enzo Mari Ettore Sottsass Frank Lloyd Wright Gae Aulenti Gaetano Pesce Josef Hoffmann Le Corbusier Lucio Fontana Man Ray Massimo Vignelli Matteo Thun Max Ernst Michelangelo Pistoletto Pablo Picasso René Magritte Salvador Dalí Verner Panton Wols Alvar Aalto Rizzoli / New York Architecture / Interior Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Pop Art Ceramics / Glass Arte Povera

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 830 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

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First English edition of this monumental 830 page book for documenta X, the last documenta of the twentieth century and the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David, brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists in an extraordinary anthology of seminal texts and images of, on, and about the development of Western cultural and critical theory since 1945.

The book "seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopaedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavour which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity."—from the book jacket.

A comprehensive work in itself, rich with enmeshed texts and illustrations of artworks, film stills, historical documents throughout in colour and in black and white.

Writers include: Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Celan, Amílcar Cabral, Masao Miyoshi, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Tadao Sato, Youssef Ishaghpour, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rem Koolhaas, Sandra Álvarez de Toledo, Witold Gombrowicz, Herve Joubert-Laurencin, Jean-François Chevrier, Marguerite Duras, Edward Said, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Uwe Johnson, Jerzy Grotowski, James Clifford, Primo Levi, Pierre Clastres, Andrea Branzi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Gérard Chaliand, Stig Björkman, Daniel Defert, Saskia Sassen, Catherine David, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Virilio, Serge Daney, Étienne Balibar, Nadia Tazi, and many others.....

Artists include : Archigram, Martin Kippenberger, Archizoom Associati, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlström, Samuel Beckett, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, Nancy Spero, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Jörg Herold, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Robert Adams, Peter Friedl, Paweł Althamer, Liam Gillick, Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler & Diedrich Diederichsen, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Aldo van Eyck, Heiner Goebbels, William Kentridge, Ulrike Grossarth, Richard Hamilton, Vito Acconci, Raymond Hains, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Siobhán Hapaska, Ecke Bonk, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lois Weinberger, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Marc Pataut, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christian Philipp Müller, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reinhard Mucha, Álvaro Siza, Toyo Ito, John C. Portman Jr., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mariella Mosler, Josef Beuys, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean Dubuffet, Kerry James Marshall, Maria Lassnig, Rem Koolhaas, Joachim Koester, Suzanne Lafont, Sigalit Landau, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Brassaï, Le Corbusier, Antonin Artaud, and so many more...

Very Good coy, light wear. Good dust jacket with some creasing and edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Carsten Höller Rosemarie Trockel Archigram Martin Kippenberger Archizoom Associati Art & Language Hans Haacke Samuel Beckett Franz West Andrea Zittel Heimo Zobernig Jean-Luc Godard Marcel Broodthaers Lygia Clark Jörg Herold Fischli & Weiss Dan Graham Robert Adams Peter Friedl Öyvind Fahlström Paweł Althamer Liam Gillick Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Ed van der Elsken Walker Evans Aldo van Eyck Siobhán Hapaska Reinhard Mucha Mariella Mosler Steve McQueen Chris Marker Lothar Baumgarten Kerry James Marshall Maria Lassnig Rem Koolhaas Joachim Koester Suzanne Lafont Sigalit Landau Helen Levitt Garry Winogrand Jean-Luc Moulène Hélio Oiticica Thomas Schütte Christian Philip Muller Gabriel Orozco Olaf Nicolai Michelangelo Pistoletto Gerhard Richter Marc Pataut Gordon Matta-Clark Matt Mullican Antoni Muntadas Heiner Goebbels William Kentridge Ulrike Grossarth Richard Hamilton Vito Acconci Raymond Hains Ecke Bonk Carl Michael von Hausswolff Lois Weinberger Carsten Höller Pier Paolo Pasolini Joseph Beuys Nancy Spero Le Corbusier Brassaï Jean Dubuffet Alvaro Siza Toyo Ito Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paulo Mendes Da Rocha John C. Portman Jr. Antonin Artaud Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine David Yana Milev Klaus Biesenbach Nancy Spector Hans-Ulrich Obrist Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Celan Amílcar Cabral Masao Miyoshi Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Jacques Rancière Tadao Sato Youssef Ishaghpour Josef Beuys Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rem Koolhaas Sandra Álvarez de Toledo Witold Gombrowicz Herve Joubert-Laurencin Jean-François Chevrier Marguerite Duras Edward Said Henri Alleg Pierre Vidal-Naquet Uwe Johnson Jerzy Grotowski James Clifford Primo Levi Pierre Clastres Andrea Branzi Fabrizio Gallanti Gérard Chaliand Stig Björkman Daniel Defert Saskia Sassen Benjamin Buchloh Paul Virilio Serge Daney Étienne Balibar Nadia Tazi and many others documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Conceptual Art Film / Video Sound / Music Painting Photography Ecology

Charlotte Perriand
By Elisabeth Vedrenne

2005, English
Hardcover (w. dust jakcet), 80 pages, 22 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Assouline / Paris

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Now long out-of-print hardcover book on Charlotte Perriand published in France by Assouline as part of their collectible memoire series — each volume like a glossy photo-portraits, scrapbooking the works of important icons in art and design — Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons, Picabia, Yohji Yamamoto, Pierre Paulin, Balenciaga, etc. An important figure of modernism in the 1930s, and the principal protagonist of organic design in the 1950s, Charlotte Perriand was a true 20th century pioneer. Although her name has long been inseparable from that of Le Corbusier, in this volume Charlotte Perriand is brought to a new light as her vital energy as well as the simple, rigorous, and natural forms of her furniture and integrated spaces are examined. Ultimately, this is the portrait of a free and generous woman, with a fascinating and active life, whose accomplishments continue to embellish our everyday life. Lavishly illustrated throughout wit text (in English) by Elisabeth Vedrenne.

As New copy.

File under: Charlotte Perriand Le Corbusier Elisabeth Vedrenne Assouline / Paris Furniture Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Ceramics / Glass

Young Designs in Living

1969, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 28.2 x 24.1 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Viking Press / New York

$65.00 $45.00 - Out of stock

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Published in 1969 by New York’s Viking Press and edited by the great editor Barbara Plumb, who also brought us "Houses That Architects Live In" (1977), "Young Designs in Living" is "a rich source of lively ideas that reﬂect the visual currents of our time. Young design is not the property of any particular age group; more than anything else, it is a point of view that says “today.” Boldness of color, a rejection of provinciality, an indication that we are living in a jet age of new themes and new materials, a spirit of fun and informality, a new approach to scale and space are all elements apparent in varying degree in the exciting interiors which Barbara Plumb presents in these pages."

Richly illustrated throughout with large photographs of incredible international interiors (inc. those of residences designed by Paul Rudolph, Luis Barragan, Aarno Ruusuvuori, Poul Kjærholm, William Turnbull Jr., Marco Zanuso, Charles W. Moore, Harry Bates, Richard Meier, Ludovico Magistretti, Robert A.M. Stern, Olivier Mourgue), with art and furniture by the likes of Pierre Paulin, Le Corbusier, Charles and Ray Eames, Poul Kjærholm, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Marcel Breuer, Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, and many more.

File under: Richard Meier Pierre Paulin Charles Eames Charles and Ray Eames Le Corbusier Frank Stella Roy Lichtenstein Marcel Breuer Josef Albers Alexander Calder Paul Rudolph Aarno Ruusuvuori Poul Kjærholm William Turnbull Jr. Marco Zanuso Charles W. Moore Harry Bates Ludovico Magistretti Robert A.M. Stern Olivier Mourgue Luis Barragán Barbara Plumb Viking Press / New York Architecture / Interior Furniture Textiles Out-of-print / Rare SALE

Living Spaces

1978, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 120 pages, 22 x 29 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Studio Vista / London The Whitney Library of Design / New York

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First English hardcover edition of Living Spaces, originally published in 1977 by Milan's Gorlich Editore as “L'Arredamento Oggi”, the translated edition of this lavish interior design book was published in 1978 by the great Studio Vista and the Whitney Library of Design, New York.

"Living Spaces" walks you through a collection of modern international furnished interiors, capturing 150 of the finest examples of interior architecture and decoration of the late 1970's. Showcased across saturated full-colour pages are the designs and productions of Alvar Aalto, Ugo La Pietra, Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Gaetano Pesce, Ettore Sottsass, Duggie Fields, Charles and Ray Eames, Joe Colombo, Gufram, Studio 65, Piero Gilardi, Eero Aarnio, Knoll, Verner Panton, Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Robert Stern, Mario Ceroli, plus so many more.

First English edition in dust jacket.
Good copy in Good dust jacket preserved under mylar wrap. Discounted due to one missing page (pg 11/12), otherwise a beautifully preserved copy throughout.

File under: Alvar Aalto Ugo La Pietra Pierre Jeanneret Le Corbusier Charlotte Perriand Gaetano Pesce Ettore Sottsass Duggie Fields Charles and Ray Eames Joe Colombo Gufram Studio 65 Piero Gilardi Eero Aarnio Knoll Verner Panton Marcel Breuer Mies van der Rohe Robert Stern Mario Ceroli Studio Vista / London The Whitney Library of Design / New York Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture Out-of-print / Rare SALE

Exhibitions, Exhibits, Industrial and Trade Fairs

1968, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 208 pages, 23.2 x 16.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Architectural Press / London

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First edition of "Exhibitions, Exhibits, Industrial and Trade Fairs", published in 1968 by the Architectural Press in London.

Deeply researched and profusely illustrated with exceptional black and white photography, architectural plans and diagrams, with text by author Wolfgang Clasen, this unique and inspiring book makes the point that "Architectural documentation is particularly important when dealing with a category of works of architecture which are not built to last."

This book perfectly captures a special and most innovative period in modern design and architecture. As the jacket announces: "We are living in an Exhibition Age: Expo 67 in Montreal is scarcely over and we are already looking ahead to the next World Exhibition in Osaka in 1970. In addition to their primary function of communication, exhibitions have a secondary function of almost equal importance: for because of the temporary nature of most exhibition buildings they provide architects and designers with a testing ground where new ideas, new structures and techniques can be tried out.
This book illustrates and describes eighty examples of exhibitions of all kinds taken from thirteen countries and all five continents; the period covered is from 1960 to the present day. Particular emphasis is laid on the newest trends and on such things as nature of most exhibition buildings they provide architects and designers with a testing ground where new ideas, new structures and techniques can be tried out."

Amongst the many fine examples of cultural exhibitions, commercial and trade expos and temporary pavilions are examples of works by Gio Ponti, Buckminster Fuller, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Wim Crouwel, Total Design, Vittorio Gregotti, Eero Saarinen, Angelo Mangiarotti, Will Burtin, Charles and Ray Eames, Paolo Nestler, Henri Kay Henrion, Rolf Gutbrod, Xenakis, Frei Otto, Ulf Linde, Per-Olof Ultvedt, Will Burtin, Walter Kuhn, and many more.

Separate chapters on fair stands, display units and exhibit systems round off this exhaustive treatise on exhibition architecture with a full index of architects and designers.

Text in English and German.

Very good copy, with original Gio Ponti dust-jacket protected under mylar wrap. Light wear/tan/dust to edges.

File under: Gio Ponti Buckminster Fuller Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Le Corbusier Wim Crouwel Total Design Vittorio Gregotti Eero Saarinen Angelo Mangiarotti Will Burtin Charles and Ray Eames Paolo Nestler Henri Kay Henrion Rolf Gutbrod Xenakis Frei Otto Ulf Linde Per-Olof Ultvedt Walter Kuhn Ettore Sottsass Wolfgang Clasen Architectural Press / London Architecture / Interior Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

English Style In Interior Decoration

1967, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 144 pages, 37 x 28.5 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Viking Press / New York

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Handsome and rare first 1967 hardcover edition of "English Style In Interior Decoration", A Studio Book, published in London by Bodley Head and in New York by The Viking Press, and edited by Mary Gilliatt and Michael Boys. This gorgeous over-sized landscape-format interior design book covers the chapters: the Post-Festival influence; Sturdy English; the Purists; the New Wave; English Style; old-houses renewed; Fantasy in Fashion; the English Decorators; Synthesis - surveying a diverse array of English interiors from the end of the 1960's through the large full-colour photographs of Michael Boys.

Includes interiors, furniture and artwork by Charles Eames, Harry Bertoia, Arne Jacobsen, Marcel Breuer, Lynn Chadwick, Robin Day, Lucienne Day, Anthony Caro, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Eduardo Paolozzi, Eero Saarinen, Francis Bacon, Le Corbusier, Terence Conran, Olivier Mourgue, William Morris, Phillip King, Milton Avery, Clement Meadmore, Tim Scott, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Cecil Beaton, Mario Praz, Edinburgh Weavers, George Nelson, Donald Brothers fabrics, Biba, Habitat, and many more.

Very difficult to find preserved with the original dust jacket. Very Good copy with Good jacket, only light wear to this large book.

File under: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Achille Castiglioni Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Charles Eames Harry Bertoia Arne Jacobsen Marcel Breuer Lynn Chadwick Robin Day Lucienne Day Anthony Caro Eduardo Paolozzi Eero Saarinen Francis Bacon Le Corbusier Terence Conran Olivier Mourgue William Morris Phillip King Milton Avery Clement Meadmore Tim Scott Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Cecil Beaton Edinburgh Weavers George Nelson Donald Brothers fabrics Biba Habitat Mario Praz The Viking Press / New York Furniture Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Ceramics / Glass

GA Residential Masterpieces 16: — Le Corbusier, Shodhan House

English / Japanese
Softcover, 74 pages, 26 x 36 cm
Published by A.D.A Edita / Tokyo

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One of the finest architecture series ever published, the world renowned GA (Global Architecture) series, presented by the highly esteemed publishing house that also published the GA Document, GA Houses, and GI (Global Interior) architectural publications.

Each over-sized photographic folio issue of the special GA Residential Masterpieces series highlights a renowned international architect and takes a detailed look into their creations for residence.

Absolutely stunning and vivid large-format architectural photography of the selected building’s interiors, exteriors and architectural details, along with texts (in English and Japanese) and floor-plans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured architectural project. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and beautifully printed over-sized publications make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.

In this volume, photographer Yukio Futagawa recounts his pilgrimage to Le Corbusier’s modernist villa in Ahmedabad, India, built between 1951-56. A symbol of the famed architect’s domestic architecture, the private residence integrates traditional features of local design, such as the double-height living room on the ground level, with key aspects like sun, wind and landscaping. The raw concrete form frames the open character of its interior spaces and the overall plan, a five-level cube divided by beams and slabs. In a lovingly photographed and recounted experience, Futagawa makes a tribute to the house like none other.

Printed in Japan.

File under: Le Corbusier Yoshio Futagawa A.D.A Edita / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Furniture Periodicals

GA Residential Masterpieces 10: Le Corbusier — Sarabhai House, Ahmedabad

English / Japanese
Softcover, 124 pages, 26 x 36 cm
Published by A.D.A Edita / Tokyo

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One of the finest architecture series ever published, the world renowned GA (Global Architecture) series, presented by the highly esteemed publishing house that also published the GA Document, GA Houses, and GI (Global Interior) architectural publications.

Each over-sized photographic folio issue of the special GA Residential Masterpieces series highlights a renowned international architect and takes a detailed look into their creations for residence.

Absolutely stunning and vivid large-format architectural photography of the selected building’s interiors, exteriors and architectural details, along with texts (in English and Japanese) and floor-plans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured architectural project. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and beautifully printed over-sized publications make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.

Since before the second world war, Le Corbusier has been in search of a place for putting his own architectural theory into practice outside the closed stagnation of Europe. And it was India that has been chosen, after WWII, to become his new horizon. In 1950 he was commissioned to design the city of Chandigarh, the new capital for the State of Punjab. This huge project led him to work on a number of smaller ones in India. The Sarabhai House in Ahmedabad is an example of these projects done between 1951 and 1955.

Printed in Japan

File under: Le Corbusier Yoshio Futagawa A.D.A Edita / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Furniture Periodicals

Atlas of Brutalist Architecture

2018, English
Hardcover, 560 pages, 24 x 34 cm
Published by Phaidon / London

$210.00 $100.00 - Out of stock

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Awarded the The New York Times Best Art Book of 2018, this is the only book to thoroughly document the world's finest examples of Brutalist architecture. More than 850 buildings - existing and demolished, classic and contemporary - are organized geographically into nine continental regions.

Presented in an oversized format with a specially bound case with three-dimensional finishes, 1000 beautiful duotone photographs throughout bring the graphic strength, emotional power, and compelling architectural presence of Brutalism to life. From 20th century masters to contemporary architects, much-loved masterpieces in the UK and USA sit alongside lesser-known examples in Europe, Asia, Australia, and beyond - 102 countries in all. Twentieth-century masters included in the book: Marcel Breuer, Lina Bo Bardi, Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, Ernoe Goldfinger, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Oscar Niemeyer, and Paul Rudolph. Contemporary architects featured include Peter Zumthor, Alvaro Siza, Coop Himmelb(l)au, David Chipperfield, Diller and Scofidio, Herzog & de Meuron, Jean Nouvel, SANAA, OMA, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando, and Zaha Hadid.

From the publisher of This Brutal World.

NEW COPY marked-down due to cover edge bumping.

File under: Peter Zumthor Alvaro Siza Coop Himmelb(l)au David Chipperfield Diller and Scofidio Herzog & de Meuron Jean Nouvel SANAA OMA Renzo Piano Tadao Ando Zaha Hadid Marcel Breuer Lina Bo Bardi Le Corbusier Carlo Scarpa Ernoe Goldfinger Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Oscar Niemeyer Paul Rudolph Phaidon / London Architecture / Interior SALE

JAPAN INTERIOR DESIGN
no. 120 March 1969

1969, Japanese / English
Softcover, 96 pages, 32.5 × 25.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Interior Publishing Co. Ltd. / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Japan's finest magazine for interior design, architecture and home furnishings, edited by Moriyama Kazuhiko. JAPAN INTERIOR DESIGN presented "a monthly comprehensive view of traditional, contemporary, and contemplated environmental designs and pure art forms both Japanese and foreign, through pictures and critical reviews. English captions and summaries of major articles are provided each issue." The in-depth analysis in which JAPAN INTERIOR DESIGN committed to covering new international furniture, textile, product, environmental, and interior design developments and major events from the period (1950s-1980s), places it soundly alongside its Italian comrade Domus. Lavishly illustrated throughout with beautiful photography in colour and b/w, with comprehensive plans, drawings and elevations bringing many innovative and long lost architectural and industrial designs into sharp focus. A wealth of archival reference material in each issue for any enthusiast of modern and space age design.

no. 120 March 1969
CONTENTS :
FEATURE OF THE MONTH : New Designs in Flexible Furniture

Compact = Unit Disposable = Free-form - Kiyonori Kikutake, Masayuki Kurokawa & Tadao Shimizu
Expo '70 Toshiba IHI Pavilion produce: Shinya Izumi architectural design: N. Kurokawa Architect & Associates interior design: Onami Suzuki
Expo '70 Takara Group Pavilion architectural design: N. Kurokawa Architect & Associates
Essay: A New Concept of Forms in Art-3 Teruo Fujieda
Restaurant "Chateau Briand" design: Tadao Ando planning: Shuji Mukai 50 Club "Amore" design: Hikotani Architect & Associates
Noriyasu Fukushima—his ENVIRONMENT as an influence on his art—Teruo Fujieda
Polyester Chairs design: Alberto Rosselli
FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS OF THE WORLD 3 Asko Osakeyhtiö and Eero Aarnio
A Design for Stereo—from The 17th Mainichi Industrial Design Exhibition—design: Mikio Yokota
'69 New Casement Designs—C. Kondo Shoji, Suminoe Orimono, Soei, Tokiwa Shoji—Takashi Sakaizawa
after-IMAGE from the movie by Elio Petri. Photographed by Takayuki Ogawa.
Corbusier Center design: Le Corbusier cover design: Editorial Section

File under: Kiyonori Kikutake Masayuki Kurokawa Tadao Shimizu Shuji Mukai Tadao Ando Alberto Rosselli Asko Osakeyhtiö Eero Aarnio Mikio Yokota Takayuki Ogawa Le Corbusier Shigeru Uchida Ikuyo Mitsuhashi Enzo Mari Joe Colombo Claudio Salocchi Achille Castiglioni Masanori Umeda Terrance Cashen Albert Leclerc Renato Toso Noti Massati Teruo Fujieda Moriyama Kazuhiko Interior Publishing Co. Ltd. / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Ceramics / Glass Architecture / Interior Furniture Textiles

Takashi Homma
Looking Through / Le Corbusier Windows

2020, English / Japanese / French
Paperback, 192 pages, 22 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Koenig Books / London

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Takashi Homma first encountered the work of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Chandigarh, India in 2013, while producing photographs commissioned by the CCA. Following that experience, he decided to research and photograph the spatial and perceptual richness of windows in other works by Le Corbusier across the world. His research is part of the Windowology program initiated by the Window Research Institute, which aims to define the position of windows in the history of architecture across cultures—in this particular case, their role as spaces, rather than surfaces, that connect the interior of a building and the surrounding landscape, or the private and the public.

An essay by Tim Benton complements Homma’s photographs by tracing the evolution of the concept of windows in Le Corbusier’s work.

English, French and Japanese text.

File under: Takashi Homma Le Corbusier Tim Benton Koenig Books / London Art Photography Japanese Photography Architecture / Interior

What Ever Happened to New Institutionalism?
James Voorhies (Ed.)

2016, English
Hardcover, 192 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts / Cambridge

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Contributions by Martin Beck, Nina Beier, Silvia Benedito, Ulla von Brandenburg, Katarina Burin, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Jonas Ekeberg, Alex Farquharson, Fernanda Fragateiro, Simon Fujiwara, James Goggin, Tone Hansen, Owen Hatherley, Henriette Huldisch, Damon Krukowski, Le Corbusier, Maria Lind, Markus Miessen, Eline Mugaas, Elise Storsveen, Gloria Sutton, James Voorhies, Naomi Yang, Amy Yoes

New Institutionalism, a mode of curating that originated in Europe in the 1990s, evolved from the legacy of international curator Harald Szeemann, the relational art advanced by French critic and theorist Nicolas Bourriaud, and other influential factors of the time. New Institutionalism’s dispersed and varied approaches to curating sought to reconfigure the art institution from within, reshaping it into an active, democratic, open, and egalitarian public sphere. These approaches posed other possibilities and futures for institutions and exhibitions, challenging the consensual conception, production, and distribution of art. Practitioners engaged the art institution with renewed confidence by imbuing it with the potential for new aesthetic experiences and different relationships among artists, institutions, and spectators beyond engrained modernist ideologies. Working in these new modes, the art institution could become a site of fluidity, unpredictability, and risk.

What Ever Happened to New Institutionalism? reflects upon the aspirations of these curatorial strategies and assesses their critical efficacy today within the landscape of contemporary art and globalized culture. The first in a series of readers examining changing characteristics of art institutions, this publication thinks through New Institutionalism by bringing together facsimiles of seminal texts, new critical essays, a history of trends and practices, and commissioned artist projects and contributions. These are complemented by documentation from the inaugural year of programming at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University focused on reimagining CCVA as a twenty-first-century institution.

Copublished with Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Design by James Goggin, Practise

File under: Amy Yoes Damon Krukowski Eline Mugaas Elise Storsveen Fernanda Fragateiro Gloria Sutton Henriette Huldisch James Voorhies Katarina Burin Le Corbusier Maria Lind Martin Beck Naomi Yang Nina Beier Owen Hatherley Simon Dybbroe Møller Simon Fujiwara Ulla von Brandenburg Alex Farquharson Eline Mugaas James Voorhies Jonas Ekeberg Markus Miessen Silvia Benedito Tone Hansen Sternberg Press / Berlin Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts / Cambridge Art Curatorial Theory / Essay SALE

Discovery of the Circle, Discovery of the Square
by Bruno Munari

1965, English
Softcover, 84 pages / 88 pages, 15.5 x 15.5 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by George Wittenborn Inc. / New York

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Discovery of the Circle and Discovery of the Square, first 1965 English-language editions, printed in Italy and published in New York by George Wittenborn Inc. The first two volumes (followed a decade later by the triangle) of legendary Italian artist/designer Bruno Munari's visual case studies on shapes. The square, circle, and triangle are the most basic shapes on Earth, supporting structures both synthetic and natural. In the 1960s, Italian artist Bruno Munari explored the visual history of these shapes in three iconic encyclopaedic books, which have become design classics. However, there’s a broader appreciation for this eccentric exploration of the three shapes through Munari’s omnivorous approach. Using examples from ancient Greece and Egypt, as well as works by Buckminster Fuller, Le Corbusier, and Alvar Aalto, Munari never nails down what any of the shapes are, yet looks at every aspect of what they mean, where they appear, and even their significance in language.

Bruno Munari was an Italian artist and designer, who contributed fundamentals in many fields of visual arts (paint, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphics) and non visual arts (literature, poetry, didactic) with the research on the game subject, infancy and creativity.

Both good with some cover and spine wear, general ageing.

File under: Bruno Munari Josef Albers Le Corbusier Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Mies Van der Rohe Mies van der Rohe Max Bill Bruno Munari George Wittenborn Inc. / New York Graphic Design / Typography Out-of-print / Rare Architecture / Interior Art

GA Residential Masterpieces 05: Le Corbusier - Villa Savoye

2008, Japanese / English
Softcover, 84 pages, 26 x 37 cm
Published by A.D.A Edita / Tokyo

$75.00 - Out of stock

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One of the finest architecture series ever published, the world renowned GA (Global Architecture) series, presented by the highly esteemed publishing house that also published the GA Document, GA Houses, and GI (Global Interior) architectural publications.

Each over-sized photographic folio issue of the special GA Residential Masterpieces series highlights a renowned international architect and takes a detailed look into their creations for residence.

Absolutely stunning and vivid large-format architectural photography of the selected building’s interiors, exteriors and architectural details, along with texts (in English and Japanese) and floor-plans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured architectural project. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and beautifully printed over-sized publications make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.

Le Corbusier’s masterpiece, the Villa Savoye, is one of the iconic architectural buildings of the twentieth-century. According to Kengo Kuma, in his introduction to this edition, it is a house that ‘stands aloof, beautiful as ever, at a turning point – a turning point for a genius.’ Here the building is revisited in this elegant and large scale tribute to the architect. Both full-page, black and white and colour photographs document the interior and exterior of the residence, with particular attention afforded to finer details. Plans and sections are also included alongside Kuma’s introduction.

Printed in Japan

File under: Le Corbusier Kengo Kuma A.D.A Edita / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Furniture

8 European Artists (Braque, Chagall, Le Corbusier, Matisse, Moore, Picasso, Sutherland)
by Felix H. Man

1954, English / French / German
Hardcover, 240 pages, 30 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by William Heinemann / London

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First buckram-bound edition of the oversized 8 European Artists published in 1954 by William Heinemann, London, Sydney, Toronto. Felix H. Man's photo documentary on eight masters of Modern Art: Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Graham Sutherland. Each artist is represented through generous chapters made up of varying paper stocks of vivid kodachrome photographs 9colour and b/w) of the artist's at work in their studios, original contributions from each artist in the form of a drawing and a handwritten text reproduced in facsimile with translations, and a chronological biography. Photographs, foreword and book design by Felix H. Man; introductions by Graham Greene and Jean Cassou. Texts in English, French, German.

Hans Felix Sigismund Baumann aka Felix H. Man (1893 – 1985) was a leading pioneer photojournalist and later an art collector.

Good-VG oversized buckram bound edition, light ageing/buckling, otherwise tight and clean throughout.

File under: Georges Braque Marc Chagall Le Corbusier Henri Matisse Henry Moore Pablo Picasso Graham Sutherland Graham Greene Jean Cassou Felix H. Man William Heinemann / London Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Ceramics / Glass Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Photography

EXHIBITIONS, EXHIBITS, INDUSTRIAL AND TRADE FAIRS

English, 1968
Hardcover, 208 pages, 23.2 x 16.7 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York

$60.00 - Out of stock

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First US edition of "Exhibitions, Exhibits, Industrial and Trade Fairs", published in 1968 by the Architectural Press in London and Praeger in New York.

Deeply researched and profusely illustrated with exceptional black and white photography, architectural plans and diagrams, with text by author Wolfgang Clasen, this unique and inspiring book makes the point that "Architectural documentation is particularly important when dealing wit a category of works of architecture which are not built to last."

This book perfectly captures a special and most innovative period in modern design and architecture. As the jacket announces: "We are living in an Exhibition Age: Expo 67 in Montreal is scarcely over and we are already looking ahead to the next World Exhibition in Osaka in 1970. In addition to their primary function of communication, exhibitions have a secondary function of almost equal importance: for because of the temporary nature of most exhibition buildings they provide architects and designers with a testing ground where new ideas, new structures and techniques can be tried out.
This book illustrates and describes eighty examples of exhibitions of all kinds taken from thirteen countries and all five continents; the period covered is from 1960 to the present day. Particular emphasis is laid on the newest trends and on such things as nature of most exhibition buildings they provide architects and designers with a testing ground where new ideas, new structures and techniques can be tried out."

Amongst the many fine examples of cultural exhibitions, commercial and trade expos and temporary pavilions are examples of works by Gio Ponti, Buckminster Fuller, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Wim Crouwel, Total Design, Vittorio Gregotti, Eero Saarinen, Angelo Mangiarotti, Will Burtin, Charles and Ray Eames, Paolo Nestler, Henri Kay Henrion, Rolf Gutbrod, Xenakis, Frei Otto, Ulf Linde, Per-Olof Ultvedt, Will Burtin, Walter Kuhn, and many more.

Separate chapters on fair stands, display units and exhibit systems round off this exhaustive treatise on exhibition architecture with a full index of architects and designers.

Text in English and German.

Good ex-library copy, without dust jacket.

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