World Food Books' programme is largely produced on Kulin Nation land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the first and continuing custodians of this land, and pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
World Food Books is an arts and special interests bookshop in Naarm / Melbourne. Founded in 2010, World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, the avant-garde, the heretic, the marginal.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print books, catalogues and journals spanning the fields of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, illustration, film, literature, poetry, cultural theory, philosophy, sexuality, popular and underground culture in its many radical forms, World Food Books wishes to encourage adventurous, thoughtful and open-minded reading, looking, writing, and exchange of publishing and ideas, both current and historical.
As well as our bookshop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a programme of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
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Interested in selling your old books, catalogues, journals, magazines, comics, fanzines, ephemera? We are always looking for interesting, unusual and out-of-print books to buy. We only buy books in our fields of interest and specialty, and that we feel we can resell.
We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels. We offer cash, store credit, and can take stock on consignment. All
about 25% of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Sell your books any day of the week. You can drop them off and return later. If you have a lot of books, we can visit your Sydney home.
We buy books that we feel we can resell. We offer about 25 % of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Philadelphia Wireman
03 August - 01 September, 2018
World Food Books is proud to announce our next Occasion, the first presentation of sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman in Australia.
The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned in an alley off Philadelphia’s South Street on trash night in 1982. Their discovery in a rapidly-changing neighbourhood undergoing extensive renovation, compounded with the failure of all attempts to locate the artist, suggests that the works may have been discarded after the maker’s death. Dubbed the "Philadelphia Wireman" during the first exhibition of this work, in 1985, the maker’s name, age, ethnicity, and even gender remain uncertain. The entire collection totals approximately 1200 pieces, all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire (along with a few small, abstract marker drawings, reminiscent both of Mark Tobey and J.B. Murry). The dense construction of the work, despite a modest range of scale and materials, is singularly obsessive and disciplined in design: a wire armature or exoskeleton firmly binds a bricolage of found objects including plastic, glass, food packaging, umbrella parts, tape, rubber, batteries, pens, leather, reflectors, nuts and bolts, nails, foil, coins, toys, watches, eyeglasses, tools, and jewellery.
Heavy with associations—anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and socio-cultural responses to wrapped detritus—the totemic sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman have been discussed in the context of work created to fulfil the shamanistic needs of alternative religions in American culture. Curators, collectors, and critics have variously compared certain pieces to sculpture from Classical antiquity, Native American medicine bundles, African-American memory jugs, and African fetish objects. Reflecting the artist’s prolific and incredibly focused scavenging impulse, and despite—or perhaps enhanced by—their anonymity, these enigmatic objects function as urban artefacts and arbiters of power, though their origin and purpose is unknown. Philadelphia Wireman, whatever their identity, possessed an astonishing ability to isolate and communicate the concepts of power and energy through the selection and transformation of ordinary materials. Over the course of the past two decades, this collection has come to be regarded as an important discovery in the field of self-taught art and vernacular art.
Presented in collaboration with Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Robert Heald, Wellington.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
02 February - 10 March, 2018
Susan Te Kahurangi King (24 February 1951 - ) has been a confident and prolific artist since she was a young child, drawing with readily available materials - pencils, ballpoint pens and felt-tip markers, on whatever paper is at hand. Between the ages of four and six Susan slowly ceased verbal communication. Her grandparents William and Myrtle Murphy had developed a special bond with Susan so they took on caring responsibilities for extended periods. Myrtle began informally archiving her work, carefully collecting and storing the drawings and compiling scrapbooks. No drawing was insignificant; every scrap of paper was kept. The King family are now the custodians of a vast collection containing over 7000 individual works, from tiny scraps of paper through to 5 meter long rolls.
The scrapbooks and diaries reveal Myrtle to be a woman of great patience and compassion, seeking to understand a child who was not always behaving as expected. She encouraged Susan to be observant, to explore her environment and absorb all the sights and sounds. Myrtle would show Susan’s drawings to friends and people in her community that she had dealings with, such as shopkeepers and postal workers, but this was not simply a case of a grandmother’s bias. She recognised that Susan had developed a sophisticated and unique visual language and sincerely believed that her art deserved serious attention.
This was an unorthodox attitude for the time. To provide some context, Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to describe work created by self-taught artists – specifically residents of psychiatric institutions and those he considered to be visionaries or eccentrics. In 1972 Roger Cardinal extended this concept by adopting the term Outsider Art to describe work made by non-academically trained artists operating outside of mainstream art networks through choice or circumstance. Susan was born in Te Aroha, New Zealand in 1951, far from the artistic hubs of Paris and London that Dubuffet and Cardinal operated in. That Myrtle fêted Susan as a self-taught artist who deserved to be taken seriously shows how progressive her attitudes were.
Susan’s parents Doug and Dawn were also progressive. Over the years they had consulted numerous health practitioners about Susan’s condition, as the medical establishment could not provide an explanation as to why she had lapsed into silence. Dawn educated herself in the field of homeopathy and went on to treat all twelve of her children using these principles – basing prescriptions on her observations of their physical, mental and emotional state.
Doug was a linguist with an interest in philosophy who devoted what little spare time he had to studying Maori language and culture. To some extent their willingness to explore the fringes of the mainstream made them outsiders too but it was their commitment to living with integrity and their respect for individuality that ensured Susan’s creativity was always encouraged.
Even though Susan’s family supported her artistic pursuits, some staff in schools and hospitals saw it as an impediment to her assimilation into the community and discouraged it in a variety of ways. Her family was not always aware of this and therefore did not fully understand why Susan stopped drawing in the early 1990s. However, rather than dwell on the challenges that Susan faced in pursuit of her artistic practice, they prefer to highlight her achievements. In 2008 Susan began drawing again in earnest, after an almost 20 year interruption, and her work is now shown in galleries around the world.
Susan grew up without television and has been heavily influenced by the comics she read as a child. She is absolutely fearless in the appropriation of recognizable characters, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, in her work. She twists their limbs, contorts their faces, compresses them together, blends them into complex patterned backgrounds - always imbuing them with an incredible energy. Although Susan often used pop culture characters in her work they are not naive or childlike. These are drawings by a brilliant self-taught artist who has been creating exceptional work for decades without an audience in mind.
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People’s Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - “they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me”, “my sweet little lamb”, “work is a disease - Karl Marx”; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
Jonathan Walker
Always Will Need To Wear Winter Shirt Blue + Ochre Small Check Pattern
21 August - 21 September, 2015
Untitled
I am not a great reader of poetry but I always return to the work of Melbourne poet, Vincent Buckley (1925- 1988). Perhaps I find his most tantalising piece to be not a finished poem but a fragment left on a scrap of paper discovered on his desk after the poet’s death.
The poetry gathers like oil
In the word-core, and spreads
It has its music meet,
Its music is in movement.
This fragment is more the shell left behind from a volatile thought than a finished poem. I find the last two lines honest but awkward whereas the first two lines work like an arrow. Most likely he could not find a resolution so it was left. Still, in its present form, it remains an eloquent testimony to the ultimate failure of a medium to express mobile thought and sensation, in Buckley’s case, through verbal language. It’s an important matter because this is something all artists have to deal with regardless of the medium.
I have never written a poem, however, I am forever copying fragments from books on paper scraps in a vain effort to fix certain notions in my head. At first, they function as bookmarks that are sometimes returned to when I open the book. But before long, as they accumulate, they fall out littering the table interspersed with A4 photocopies, bills, books and medications.
To return to Buckley’s fragment, the first two lines very much evoke how I paint nowadays. As you age, detail diminishes and patches of light become more luminous and float. I feel the most honest way of dealing with this is by smearing the oil paint on the canvas with the fingers and working close-up, blind. Only if the patches coalesce into an approaching image can the work gain a life.
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Jonathan Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. In the 1970’s he studied painting at RMIT and won the Harold Wright Scholarship to the British Museum, London. During the 1980’s he exhibited at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond and had work shown at the NGV and Heidi City Art Gallery. Over the same period he designed the cover for the “Epigenesi” LP by Giancarlo Toniutti, Italy and conducted a mail exchange work with Achim Wollscheid, Germany. The work with artists through the post resulted in an article published in the bicentenary issue of Art and Australia 1988. He showed in artist run spaces such as WestSpace in the 90’s and 2000’s, and until 2012, taught painting at Victoria University, which is where we (Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford) as organisers of the exhibition, among many others, had the privilege of being his student.
Walker’s knowledge was imparted to students through the careful selection of music, literature, and artists found in books that he himself had ordered for the library. Walker’s strategy was the generosity of sharing his vast knowledge with references specific to each student and their context.
Walker’s paintings share a similar focus and intimacy.
This exhibition presents a small selection of recent paintings alongside a publication that includes Walker’s writing. Observational and analytical, Walker’s work is a type of material notation — the time of day, colour and how it is blended, the both specific and fleeting location of a reflection on lino or the question of whether a chair leg should be included in a painting.
Please join us on Friday August 21 between 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Curated by Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don’t make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
“BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb.”
“Food Bazaar”
“USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb.”
“RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it’s personal.”
“H. Brickman & Sons.”
“Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn’t absolute in Wurtz’s work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
"Archive"
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
"Habitat"
at Minerva, Sydney (organised by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
“...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing’s face was seared and blackened.”
William Gibson, “Count Zero”, 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980’s, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne’s ‘Fragments’ collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character’ and ‘personality’ in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
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
$100.00 - In stock -
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.
1978, English / Japanese
Softcover, 160 pages, 26 x 12 cm
Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
The National Museum of Art / Osaka
$180.00 - In stock -
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.
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 -
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).
1968, English / German / French
Hardcover (cloth-bound), 166 pages, 22 x 28.5 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Studio Vista / London
$40.00 $20.00 - Out of stock
1967/68 edition of Decorative Art and Modern Interiors, one of the finest book series from Studio Vista (UK).
Each handsomely designed volume showcases a selection of the finest examples of new architecture, interior design, environmental design, textiles, furniture and product design, including profiles on highlighted architectural projects that are documented through beautiful colour and b&w photography, descriptive texts, and axonometric, plan and section drawings, plus "Trends in Furnishings and in the Decorative Arts", which gives fine examples of new design in furniture, lighting, ceramics, glassware, silverware, textiles, etc.
This 1967/68 edition includes work by architects, designers, manufacturers : Bruno Munari, Stig Lindberg, Sergio Asti, Enzo Mari, Gillian Lowndes, Raili Konttinen, Alexander Girard, Bent Severin, Sigurd Persson, Joe Colombo, Angelo Mangiarotti, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Cassina, Emma Gismondi Schweinberger, Vico Magistretti, Eero Aarnio, Helmut Jacoby, George Ciancimino, Roberto Menghi, Rolf Middelboe, Jørn Utzon, Leo Venchiarutti, Lanfranco Bombelli, John C. Parkin, Esko Pajamies, Toivo Korhonen, Arflex, Raija Tuumi, Lucie Rie, Robert Welch, Arne Jacobsen, Børge Mogensen, Marco Zanuso, Claudio Salocchi, Cesare Casati, Tecno, Sormani, Gino Sarfatti, Robert Welch, Jo Hammerborg, Pierre Paulin, Ilmari Lappalainen, Marcel Breuer, Beisl leuchten, Bruno Morassutti, Anna Castelli, Vicke Lindstrand, Oiva Toikka, Bjørn Wiinblad, Annikki Hovisaari, Nanny Still, Josef Hurka, Kartell, Artemide, Hans-Agne Jakobsson, Mosuke Yoshitake, Søren Georg Jensen, Timo Sarpaneva, Danese, Emma Schweinberger, Carl Pott, and so many more; plus an introduction by editor Ella Moody. Translated from English to additional German and French.
An invaluable series of books on architecture, interior and product design from the 1960s-1980s.
Good copy, missing dust jacket, ex-library with usual stamps/markings, otherwise clean, good throughout.
1975 / 1983, English
Softcover, 135 pages, 20.5 x 20.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Thames and Hudson / London
$65.00 - Out of stock
Design and Form is the most complete document of one of the landmarks of modern education in art — the famous Basic Course at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. Itten was the teacher who organized it at the invitation of Walter Gropius. First published in 1963 when Itten was still alive, the book has been revised and updated by Itten's widow, Anneliese Itten, and includes new material fro the basic course at the Bauhaus, as well as visual examples and descriptions of the refinements made by Itten in later courses in Berlin (1926—1932), Krefeld (1932—1938), and Zurich (1938—1960)."—publisher
Revised 1975 edition, 1983 printing.
Very Good copy. Small bump to back cover lower corner.
1971, Japanese / English
Softcover (w. original slipcase), 184 pages, 22.5 cm x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
A.D.A Edita / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
Scarce first issue from 1971 of this now classic 1970's architectural series, the great GI (Global Interior) from Tokyo, Japan.
One of the finest interior architecture journal series ever published, GI "The Series of Global Interior" came from the producers of the highly esteemed GA (Global Architecture), GA Document, GA Houses, etc. architectural publications.GI was produced throughout the 1970's in a total of ten volumes. Each large volume highlighted a selection of architectural projects by renowned international architects, some volumes focusing on a specific architect entirely, and highlighted their work for houses and domestic spaces.
Beautiful architectural photography of house interiors, exteriors and room details of living spaces, along with texts (mostly in Japanese) and floorplans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured building or environment. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and printed journals (each more a book than a magazine) make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.
Edited and Presented by Yukio Futagawa
GI Global Interior #1
Houses in U.S.A.
1971
Contents include:
MLTW/Moore and Turnbull (Caygill House, McComber Houses, Hines House, Reid House, Sea Ranch Condominium); Joseph Esherick (Bermak House, Cary House);
John Lautner (Malin House); Edward A. Killingsworth (Case Study House No.25);
Craig Ellwood (Rosen House, Daphne House); Charles Eames (Eames House); Herbert Greene (Greene House); Bruce Goff (Price House); Eero Saarinen
(Miller House); Crites and McConnell (Crites House A, Crites House B); Charles W. Moore (Moore House); Edward L. Barnes (Country House); John M. Johansen (Taylor House); Richard Meier (Smith House, Saltzman House); Paul Rudolph (Hirsch house); Marcel Breuer (Gagarin House, Stillman House); Robert Venturi (Mrs. Venturi House)...
Very Good copy preserved in worn slipcase (light general wear)
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
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.
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
$140.00 $60.00 - Out of stock
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.
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
$160.00 - Out of stock
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.
2018, English
Hardcover, 560 pages, 24 x 34 cm
Published by
Phaidon / London
$210.00 $100.00 - Out of stock
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.
1969, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 162 pages, 29.5 x 22.5 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Universe Books / New York
$140.00 - Out of stock
First 1969 English language edition of the collectable Modern Interiors by legendary Italian interiors editor Franco Magnani, originally published in Italian under the title "idee per la casa". This edition was also printed in Italy, evident from the stunning crisp, colour-saturated photographic reproductions of the contemporary home at the close of the 1960s. Almost 200 images capture that wonderful period of transition from the organic 1950s into the dynamic environments of 1960s pop and the space age, featuring the work of designers, manufacturers, architects, and artists such as Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Tobia Scarpa, Vico Magistretti, Cassina, Charles Eames, Herman Miller, Arteluce, Venini, Achille Castiglione, Flos, Knoll, Artemide, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, Kartell, Marco Zanuso, Cini Boeri, Arflex, Dino Frigerio, Enrico Peressutti, Thonet, Joe Colombo, Carla Venosta, Roberto Mango, Fontana Arte, Giuseppe Ajmone, Marco Zanuso, Artemide, Paleari Arredamenti, Driade, Marco Comolli, Antonio Calderara, Carlo Graffi, Alberto Rosselli, Gavina, Claudio Dini, Marcello Grisotti, Rafaella Crespi, Emilia Sal Giorgio Madini, Giuseppe Gibelli, Lorenzo Forges, Bruno Munari, Arredamenti Pillinini, Tito Agnoti, Mario Passanti, George Coslin, and many more! Includes diagrams, plans, and identifications of all the designers and manufacturers of the furniture, fabrics, wall coverings, tiles, lamps and accessories illustrated, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in the decorative arts of the 1960s.
Fine - Very Good copy with VG dust jacket preserved under mylar wrap.
1969, English
Hardcover (library bound), 162 pages, 29.5 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Universe Books / New York
$90.00 $40.00 - Out of stock
First 1969 English language edition of the collectable Modern Interiors by legendary Italian interiors editor Franco Magnani, originally published in Italian under the title "idee per la casa". This edition was also printed in Italy, evident from the stunning crisp, colour-saturated photographic reproductions of the contemporary home at the close of the 1960s. Almost 200 images capture that wonderful period of transition from the organic 1950s into the dynamic environments of 1960s pop and the space age, featuring the work of designers, manufacturers, architects, and artists such as Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Tobia Scarpa, Vico Magistretti, Cassina, Charles Eames, Herman Miller, Arteluce, Venini, Achille Castiglione, Flos, Knoll, Artemide, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, Kartell, Marco Zanuso, Cini Boeri, Arflex, Dino Frigerio, Enrico Peressutti, Thonet, Joe Colombo, Carla Venosta, Roberto Mango, Fontana Arte, Giuseppe Ajmone, Marco Zanuso, Artemide, Paleari Arredamenti, Driade, Marco Comolli, Antonio Calderara, Carlo Graffi, Alberto Rosselli, Gavina, Claudio Dini, Marcello Grisotti, Rafaella Crespi, Emilia Sal Giorgio Madini, Giuseppe Gibelli, Lorenzo Forges, Bruno Munari, Arredamenti Pillinini, Tito Agnoti, Mario Passanti, George Coslin, and many more! Includes diagrams, plans, and identifications of all the designers and manufacturers of the furniture, fabrics, wall coverings, tiles, lamps and accessories illustrated, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in the decorative arts of the 1960s.
Good copy throughout but with library-binding/covering over cloth and associated library markings.
1971, Japanese / English
Softcover, 184 pages, 22.5 cm x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
A.D.A Edita / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
Rare first issue from 1971 of this now classic 1970's architectural series, the great GI (Global Interior) from Tokyo, Japan.
One of the finest interior architecture journal series ever published, GI "The Series of Global Interior" came from the producers of the highly esteemed GA (Global Architecture), GA Document, GA Houses, etc. architectural publications.GI was produced throughout the 1970's in a total of ten volumes. Each large volume highlighted a selection of architectural projects by renowned international architects, some volumes focusing on a specific architect entirely, and highlighted their work for houses and domestic spaces.
Beautiful architectural photography of house interiors, exteriors and room details of living spaces, along with texts (mostly in Japanese) and floorplans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured building or environment. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and printed journals (each more a book than a magazine) make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.
Edited and Presented by Yukio Futagawa
GI Global Interior #1
Houses in U.S.A.
1971
Contents include:
MLTW/Moore and Turnbull (Caygill House, McComber Houses, Hines House, Reid House, Sea Ranch Condominium); Joseph Esherick (Bermak House, Cary House);
John Lautner (Malin House); Edward A. Killingsworth (Case Study House No.25);
Craig Ellwood (Rosen House, Daphne House); Charles Eames (Eames House); Herbert Greene (Greene House); Bruce Goff (Price House); Eero Saarinen
(Miller House); Crites and McConnell (Crites House A, Crites House B); Charles W. Moore (Moore House); Edward L. Barnes (Country House); John M. Johansen (Taylor House); Richard Meier (Smith House, Saltzman House); Paul Rudolph (Hirsch house); Marcel Breuer (Gagarin House, Stillman House); Robert Venturi (Mrs. Venturi House)...
Very Good copy (light wear).
1969, English
Hardcover, 186 page, 32 x 24.5 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Reynal & Company / New York
$65.00 - Out of stock
First English edition of this wonderful hardcover volume of European interiors from the 1960s, edited by L'ŒIL creators Georges and Rosamond Bernier. Profusely illustrated throughout, all the material in this volume was selected from the pages of France's L'ŒIL magazine. "This book leads the reader into some of the most distinguished and original homes of Europe. Here are glimpses into the lives of gifted, glamorous people whose taste sets style around the globe. Whether Lombard palazzo or Paris roof-top, highly diversified interiors are the source of stimulating ideas that can often be translated into American terms."
L'ŒIL (French: The Eye) is a French magazine created by Rosamond Bernier (née Rosenbaum) and her second husband, Georges Bernier, in 1955 to celebrate and reflect contemporary art creation. It was one of the finest documents of interior design, architecture, fine and applied arts and design in the 1950s-1970s, marrying the historical with the modern and profiling many artists and designers in France for the first time.
Includes large chapters on each of the following: the Villar Perosa villa of Signor & Signora Giovanni (Marella) Agnelli; London apartment of Mr & Mrs Stanley Rubin designed by Jon Bannenberg; a Milanese apartment designed by Marcello Pietrantoni & Carla Venosta; architect J. Anthony Cloughley's London apartment, designed with help from Rubin de C. Albrizzi; Karl Lagerfeld's Paris apartment; a one-story modern country house designed by Martine Dufour and Caumont & Collard for Monsieur & Madame Claude Labouret; The Villa Montecchia; decorator Isabelle Hebey's Marais apartment; Palazzo Brandolini in Venice (Renzo Mongiardino); Saint-Tropez apartment designed by Andree Putman; the Parisian apartment of Marc Bohan (of Christian Dior); The house of David Hicks in the South of France; Prince Bao-Long's Isabelle Hebey-designed apartment; Hugh Chisolm's Paris apartment (designed by Charles Sevigny); the Villa Fiorentina at St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, belonging to Lady Kenmare & her son Roderick Cameron; Leonard Goulandris's London apartment designed by Jon Bannenberg; Van Day Truex's Vaucuse home; Philippe Guibourge's Paris apartment; Eugene Berman's Rome apartment; the Villa La Tana; Jacques Chazot's Paris apartment; Jacques & Andree Putman's Saint-Tropez home.
1968, German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 370 pages, 22 x 22 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Württembergischer Kunstverein / Stuttgart
$120.00 - Out of stock
The amazing Bauhaus book, published in 1968 and designed and typeset to abolish all Upper Case letters by Herbert Bayer (one of the most influential members of the Bauhaus) for the first major Bauhaus survey exhibition after the Second World War, curated by Prof. Ludwig Grote, dr. Dieter Honisch, Herbert Bayer and Hans Maria Wingler, at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart.
This is the hard cover edition of what is without a doubt one of the most comprehensive and characteristic Bauhaus reference books ever published.
370 pages (with multiple paper stocks) contain no less than 650 colour and black and white illustrations selected from the Bauhaus Archiv, documenting the output of the Bauhaus from Weimar to Dessau to Berlin. This heavy, exhaustive volume is split into the following sections : preliminary course and teaching (includes Iteen, Moholy-Nagy, Albers, Schlemmer, Hirschfield-Mack, Klee and Schmidt); workshops (includes Teaching on Architecture, Sculpture, Stage, Stained Glass, Photography, Metal, Carpentry, Pottery, Typography, Mural Painting and Weaving); architecture and design (includes Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Hilberseimer, Brenner, Heiberg, A. Mayer, Stam Wittwer, Arndt, Bayer and Breuer); painting, sculpture, graphics (includes Josef Albers, Arndt, Bayer, Feininger, Itten, Kandinsky, Klee, Marcks, Moholy-Nagy, Muche, Schlemmer, Wols, etc.); life at the bauhaus; continuation of the teaching; biographies; bibliographies; index.
Includes introductory essays by Ludwig Grote, Walter Gropius, Heinz Winfried Sabais, Otto Stelzer, Hans Eckstein, Nikolaus Pevsner, Jurgen Joedicke, Will Grohmann and Hans M. Wingler.
Artists included: Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Gunta Stolzl, Joost Schmidt, Oskar Schlemmer, Walter Peterhans, Georg Muche, Lilly Reich, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Hannes Meyer, Gerhard Marcks, Johannes Itten, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Max Bill, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Alfred Arndt, Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Herbert Bayer, Paul Klee, Josef Hartwig, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Christian Dell, Otto Lindig, Theodor Bogler, Wols, and so many others.
Includes references to all aspects of the Bauhaus, including: Itten's Preliminary Course, Klee's Course, Kandinsky's Course, Color Experiments, Carpentry Workshop, Stained Glass Workshop, Pottery Workshop, Metal Workshop, Weaving Workshop, Stage Workshop, Wall Painting Workshop, Display Design, Architecture, Typography and Layout; the Bauhaus Press, the Weimar Exhibition, 1923, Moholy-Nagy's Preliminary Course, Albers' Preliminary Course, Bauhaus Building, The Masters' Houses, Other Buildings in Dessau, Architecture Department, Weaving Workshop, Typography Workshop: Printing, layout, posters, Photography, Exhibition Technique, Wall Painting Workshop: Wall paper, Sculpture Workshop, Stage Workshop, Extracurricular Activities, Spread of the Bauhaus Idea, Bauhaus Teaching in the United States and much more.
All texts in German.
Of all the artists to pass through the Bauhaus, none lived the Bauhaus ideal of total integration of the arts into life like Herbert Bayer (1900 - 1985). He was a graphic designer, typographer, photographer, painter, environmental designer, sculptor and exhibition designer. Between 1925 and 1928, Bayer was head of the printing workshop at the Bauhaus and produced many designs that became standards of a Bauhaus "style." Bayer was instrumental in moving the Bauhaus to purely sans serif usage in all its work, and is especially known is his lowercase, which continues in this 1968 catalogue.
Hardcover 2nd edition w. illustrated dust jacket (protected under plastic wrap) - good copy throughout, with the common bind-splitting at some intervals due to old glue and paper weight (seems to have been previously repaired). All pages still bound and present. Heavy spotting to outer top block edge, tanning to pages edges, otherwise bright and very clean throughout. Good jacket, only light wear.
1984, English
Softcover, 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by
U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan
$50.00 - Out of stock
Softcover edition of "LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE", the heavy 342 page volume anthology of the first 21 years of the world's most important modern and art journal. An incredibly valuable collection of art theory.
Edited by Amy Baker Sandback, designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath and published in 1984 by U.M.I. Research Press, this dense volume, bound in hardcover to the dimensions of a copy of ARTFORUM, begins with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from ARTFORUM's June 1962 inaugural issue, and ends with Barbara Kruger reviewing the film "TRON" for the November 1982 issue. An amazing compendium of articles and reviews from the magazine's important first 21 years, featuring contributions by the likes of John Cage, Robert Morris, Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Boris Groys, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, J. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. Artists featured include: Josef Albers, Richard Tuttle, Jo Baer, Carl Andre, Ant Farm, Hans Arp, Max Bill, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Lee Bontecou, Constantin Brancusi, Bertholt Brecht, Richard Avedon, Francis Bacon, Diane Arbus, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Lynda Beglis, Larry Bell, Terry Fox, James Byers, Rober Barry, Marcel Breuer, AA Bronson, Luis Buñel, Daniel Buren, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Caro, Marcel Broodthaers, John Chamberlain, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Merce Cunningham, Sonia Delauney, Walter de Maria, Bruce Connor, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Walker Evans, Dan Flavin, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Lucio Fontana, Hollis Frampton, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, Gilbert & George, Philip Glass, John Cage, Nancy Graves, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Nancy Grossman, Walter Gropius, Hans Haacke, Hairy Who, David Hockney, Douglas Huebler, Jorg Immendorff, Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Keinholz, Paul Klee, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Barbara Kruger, Jannis Kounellis, Markus Lüpertz, El Lissitzky, Rene Magritte, Robert Mapplethorpe, John McCracken, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Ree Morton, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzio, A. R. Penck, Irving Penn, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Larry Poons, Ken Price, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Roman Polanski, Jackson Pollock, Steve Reich, Gerrit Rietveld, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dorothae Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Lucas Samaras, Kurt Schwitters, Oscar Schlemmer, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Robert Venturi, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Saul Steinberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Taut, Jean Tinguely, Anne Truitt, Paul Wunderlich, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred Hitchcock, and so many more.
A Good copy throughout, with cover rubbing and corner bumping. Tightly bound and clean copy internally.
1987, German
Hardcover, 236 pages, 21.5 x 27.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Wolf und Sohn / Münich
$80.00 - Out of stock
"Möbel als Kunstobjekt" ("Furniture as Art Object") was published in 1987 to accompany an exhibition of the same name held in Munich in 1987-1988.
First hardcover edition.
This heavily researched book profiles an amazing selection of fine artists, designers, and architects that have challenged the field of furniture design and experimented with furniture design forms in their practice. It traces a long history of furniture as a field of endless provocative artistic forms and publishes here alongside essays and timelines, profiles and illustrated examples of work from no less than: Peter Josef Abels, Volker Albus, Sandra Antal, Ron Arad, Richard Artschwager, Elvira Bach, Joachim Bandau, Joseph Beuys, Bernhard Johannes Blume, Rudolf Bott, Heinrich Brummack, Marcel Breuer, Carlo Bugatti, Scott Burton, Tony Cragg, Miles Davies, Otto Dressler, Andre Dubreuil, Charles Eames, Egon Eiermann, Hildegard Erhard, Suzan Etkin, Rainer Fettin, Uwe Fischer/Klaus Achim Heine, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Wolfgang Flatz, Rupprecht Geiger, Frank Gehry, Jochen Gerz, Walter Gropius, Al Hansen, Christian Hasucha, Wolfgang Hausler, Anne Jud, Donald Judd, Bruno K., Margaret Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jurgen Klauke, Imi Knoebel, Lawrence Compton Kolawole, Huub Kortekaas, Shiro Kuramata, Heinz Landes, Wolfgang Laubersheimer, El Lissitzky, Adolf Loos, Inge Mahn, Wasa Marjanov, Peter Monnig, George Nelson, Meret Oppenheim, Aribert von Ostrowski, Bruno Paul, Sarah Pelikan, Gaetano Pesce, Pino Poggi, Gerrit Rietveld, Thomas Ruff, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Denis Santachiara, Berthold Schepers, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Klaus Schmitt, Ettore Sottsass, Daniel Spoerri, Patricia Maria Staudenhochtl, Stiletto, Axel Stumpf, Gunther Uecker , Timm Ulrichs, Karl Valentin, Hermann Waldenburg, Rupert Walser, Helmut Weber, Herbert Jakob Weinand, Stefan Wewerka, Georg Wirsching, Carl Emanuel Wolff, Bernd Zimmer, Stefan Zwicky... and so many more.
1987, German
Softcover, 236 pages, 21.5 x 27.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Wolf und Sohn / Münich
$60.00 - Out of stock
"Möbel als Kunstobjekt" ("Furniture as Art Object") was published in 1987 to accompany an exhibition of the same name held in Munich in 1987-1988.
This heavily researched book profiles an amazing selection of fine artists, designers, and architects that have challenged the field of furniture design and experimented with furniture design forms in their practice. It traces a long history of furniture as a field of endless provocative artistic forms and publishes here alongside essays and timelines, profiles and illustrated examples of work from no less than: Peter Josef Abels, Volker Albus, Sandra Antal, Ron Arad, Richard Artschwager, Elvira Bach, Joachim Bandau, Joseph Beuys, Bernhard Johannes Blume, Rudolf Bott, Heinrich Brummack, Marcel Breuer, Carlo Bugatti, Scott Burton, Tony Cragg, Miles Davies, Otto Dressler, Andre Dubreuil, Charles Eames, Egon Eiermann, Hildegard Erhard, Suzan Etkin, Rainer Fettin, Uwe Fischer/Klaus Achim Heine, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Wolfgang Flatz, Rupprecht Geiger, Frank Gehry, Jochen Gerz, Walter Gropius, Al Hansen, Christian Hasucha, Wolfgang Hausler, Anne Jud, Donald Judd, Bruno K., Margaret Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jurgen Klauke, Imi Knoebel, Lawrence Compton Kolawole, Huub Kortekaas, Shiro Kuramata, Heinz Landes, Wolfgang Laubersheimer, El Lissitzky, Adolf Loos, Inge Mahn, Wasa Marjanov, Peter Monnig, George Nelson, Meret Oppenheim, Aribert von Ostrowski, Bruno Paul, Sarah Pelikan, Gaetano Pesce, Pino Poggi, Gerrit Rietveld, Thomas Ruff, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Denis Santachiara, Berthold Schepers, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Klaus Schmitt, Ettore Sottsass, Daniel Spoerri, Patricia Maria Staudenhochtl, Stiletto, Axel Stumpf, Gunther Uecker , Timm Ulrichs, Karl Valentin, Hermann Waldenburg, Rupert Walser, Helmut Weber, Herbert Jakob Weinand, Stefan Wewerka, Georg Wirsching, Carl Emanuel Wolff, Bernd Zimmer, Stefan Zwicky... and so many more.
1982, English / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 308 pages, 30.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
The Design Council / London
$80.00 - Out of stock
First edition of "Contemporary Furniture : An International Review 1950 to the Present", edited by Klaus-Juergen Sembach and published in English in 1982. This hardcover volume highlights and reproduces the best in contemporary furniture from the eleven volumes of Gerd Hatje's absolutely invaluable and highly collectable Neue Mobel [New Furniture] series, published between 1951-1971.
Profusely illustrated throughout with 1033 photographs from the original editions, spanning 308 pages, featuring the work of manufacturers, architects, designers: 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, classical models reproduced, chairs and armchairs, seating arrangements, sofas, beds; tables, office furniture, cabinets and shelves, nursery and school furniture, index: manufacturers, designers, photographers.
An fantastic furniture resource. Text in English and German.
Good hardcover (ex-libris) with dust jacket.
1975, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 598 pages, 26 x 22 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Holt
Rinehart and Winston / New York
$40.00 - Out of stock
Edited by Ray And Sarah Faulkner and published in 1975, Inside Today's Home is a comprehensive overview of modern / mid century interior design, periodically updated, revised, and expanded since the early 1950s. This huge volume, illustrated with over 900 images spanning 598 pages, features the designs of some of the world's most renowned architects and designers, as well as nonprofessional people, including designs by Charles Eames, Richard Neutra, Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Wendell Castle, Verner Panton, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Charles Moore, Allan Liddle, Paul Rudolph, Warren Platner, Philip Johnson, Elliot Noyes, and many more. Includes photos by Julius Shulman, Ezra Stoller, etc. alongside richly informative and practical texts and plans.
Contents Include: Space, Design And Color, Materials, Wood, Masonry, Glass, Ceramics, Fabrics, Flatware, Interior Design, Exterior Design, Prefab Homes, Geodesic Domes, Landscaping, International Style, De Stijl, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Scandinavian Design, and much more.
Very good, unmarked copy with Very Good dust jacket, tanning to spine.
1972, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 210 pages, 32 x 24 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Collins / London
$90.00 - Out of stock
One of the great books on 1960s-70s interior design, Modern Furniture and Decoration, edited by Robert Hartling and published by Collins and Condé Nast in 1971/1972, presents over 200 pages of over-sized, colour-saturated photographs from around the world by the leading interior photographers of the period, bound into one heavy hard-covered volume. One of the must for any design library.
From the dust jacket:
"The contemporary revolution in interior design has a very tolerant philosophy. It accepts with delight unusual combinations of periods, motifs, products, colours, notions. An eighteenth-century commode, an Art Nouveau lampshade, a rare Benin head, a mass-production poster - any one of them is equally likely to be placed in a room alongside a Breuer tubular chair, an Italian lamp, or a Saarinen table."
Features the work of Joe Colombo, Oliver Mourgue, Alvar Aalto, George Nelson, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Ralph Erskine, Robin Day, Verner Panton, Pierre Paulin, Gae Aulenti, Billy Baldwin, Warren Platner, Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Karl Largerfeld, Charles Eames, Kartell, Achille Castiglioni, Vico Magistretti, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Alexander Liberman, Morris Louis, Thonet, Georg Jensen, Eero Aarnio, Cy Twombly, Erwin and Estelle Laverne, Mario Bellini, Ristomatti Ratia, Anthony Caro, Jules Olitski, David Smith, Cassina, Mark Rothko, Marimekko, Terence Conran, and many more, spanning living and workspaces.
Very Good copy in Good dust jacket, preserved in plastic wrap.
1984, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 18 x 18.2 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by
University of Chicago Press / Chicago
$40.00 - Out of stock
Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and on the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic work, Banham has added considerable new material on the use of energy, particularly solar energy, in human environments. Included in the new material are discussions of Indian pueblos and solar architecture, the Centre Pompidou and other high-tech buildings, and the environmental wisdom of many current architectural vernaculars.
1977, Italian
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 120 pages, 22 x 29 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
Gorlich Editore / Milan
$100.00 - Out of stock
Another lavish interior design volume from Milan's Gorlich Editore.
“L'Arredamento Oggi”, published in 1977, 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 edition in dust jacket.
1982, German
Hardcover (limited ed. Laminate cover), 260 pages, 24 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by
Werkbund / Bremen
$350.00 - Out of stock
Beautiful over-sized book published on the occasion of a special exhibition in Lower Saxony and Bremen in 1982 entitled "Provokationen. Design Aus Italien : Ein Mythos Geht Neue Wege".
Published more broadly as a softcover book in 1982, here is one of the very limited edition hardcover versions, produced in collaboration between the designers Andrea Branzi, Paola Navone, Mario Radice, Ettore Sottsass Jr. and Superstudio with Firma Abet Laminati in Turin, especially for the exhibition. Each of the limited hardcover copies is sandwiched between two pieces of actual laminate panels designed by the designers and produced by Abet Laminati.
This particular copy features the work of Superstudio (front cover laminate) and Paola Navone (back cover laminate).
A very collectable copy of an incredible, scarce, heavy Italian design book!
Handsomely designed and profusely illustrated throughout with large black and white examples of the work of Enzo Mari, Sergio Asti, Gae Aulenti, Andrea Branzi, Superstudio, Achille and Piergiacomo Castiglioni, Marco Zanuso, Roberto Arioli, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Emma Schweinberger Gismondi, Angelo Mangiarotti, Mario Bellini, Gio Ponti, Martine Bendin, Daniela Puppa, Antonia Astori de Ponti, Franco Mirenzi, Joe Colombo, Ennio Lucini, Elio Martinelli, Sottsass Associates, Alessandro Mendini, Franco Raggi, Studio Alchimia, Gaetano Pesce, Franco Mello, Guido Drocco, Studio 65, UFO, Jonathan De Pas, Donato D'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Aldo Rossi, Vico Magistretti, Achille Castiglioni, Sergio De Michiel, Paolo Nava, Mario Dell'Orto, Antonio Citterio, Anrea Bellosi, Richard Sapper, Bruno Munari, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Giulietto Cacciari, Man Ray, Gigi Sabadin, Antonia Astori de Ponte, Mario Ceroli, Lucchino Oltrona Visconti, Michele De Lucchi, Michael Graves, Paolo Portoghesi, Stanley Tigerman, Oscar Tusquets, Robert Venturi, Kuzumasa Yamashita, and more.
And also the work of Gerrit Rietveld, Giuseppe Terragni, Alvar Aalto, Eileen Gray, Sonja Delaunay, Marcel Breuer, Karl Josef Jucker, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Josef Hoffman in their original, influential forms, and their re-inventions by Alessandro Mendini and co.