World Food Books

IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS
by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

1980, English
Softcover, 56 pages, 21.5 x 13.9 cm
Published by Leete's Island Books / U.S.

$20.00 - Out of stock

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.

Translated from original Japanese to English by Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker.
Foreword by Charles Moore.

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886—1965) was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature, writing numerous acclaimed books, including "The Makioka Sisters "and "Naomi: A Novel." The tone and subject matter of his work ranges from shocking depictions of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions to subtle portrayals of the dynamics of family life within the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society. Frequently, his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which constructions of the West and Japanese tradition are juxtaposed. He was one of six authors on the final shortlist for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, the year before his death.

File under: Jun'ichiro Tanizaki Leete's Island Books / U.S. Architecture / Interior Eros Theory / Essay Art Ceramics / Glass Whole Earth / Crafts

Bruno Munari
Da Cosa Nasce Cosa

2007, Japanese
Softcover (with die-cut cover), 200 pages, 21.4 cm x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Asahi Shimbun / Japan

$90.00 - Out of stock

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This richly illustrated and designed book was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Bruno Munari - Da Cosa Nasce Cosa -", 1 December 2007 - 14 January, 2008, at The Itabashi Museum of Art, Tokyo, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Italian artist Bruno Munari's birth. This lovely copy with bonus inserted exhibition flyer, exhibition ticket and book errata.

Chronologically showcasing his innovative and iconic graphic works in book and poster design, sculpture, illustration, interior/furniture design, games, art objects, and much more, this gorgeous, profusely illustrated exhibition catalogue illustrates Munari's rich creative history through modernism, futurism, and concrete art. It particularly focuses on Munari's book work, both his own authored titles and books and periodicals he created cover artwork for and contributed to/featured in, from his earliest days through. Includes rarely seen images of his illustrated/painted originals and sketches that were featured in the exhibition, along with insight into his relationships and productions in Japan throughout his career. A wonderful archive of material. Texts in Japanese.

Bruno Munari (October 24, 1907, Milan – September 30, 1998, Milan) was an Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphic design) in modernism, futurism, and concrete art, and in non visual arts (literature, poetry) with his research on games, didactic method, movement, tactile learning, kinesthetic learning, and creativity.

Very Good copy with inserted exhibition brochure, exhibition ticket and errata.

File under: Bruno Munari Asahi Shimbun / Japan Architecture / Interior Art Graphic Design / Typography Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Furniture

Medium Design
by Keller Easterling

English
Softcover, 36 pages, 11 x 18 cm
Published by Strelka / Moscow

$18.00 $10.00 - In stock -

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Privileging declarations, right answers, proofs, and universals, culture is often banging away with the same blunt tools that are completely inadequate to address contemporary chemistries of power. On the flip side, medium design offers no dramatic manifestos where things are new or right. Instead it only rehearses a habit of mind that has been eclipsed. Even at a moment of digital ubiquity, medium design treats space as an information system and a broad, inclusive mixing chamber for many social, political, and technical networks. And just as it inverts the typical focus on the object over the field, it may also invert some habitual approaches to problem solving, aesthetics, and politics.

Keller Easterling is an architect, writer and professor at Yale University. Her book, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) researches familiar spatial products that have landed in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world. A previous book, Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America, applies network theory to a discussion of American infrastructure and development formats. A forthcoming book, Extrastatecraft: Global Infrastructure and Political Arts, examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity.

File under: Keller Easterling Strelka / Moscow Theory / Essay Philosophy Sociology / Politics Graphic Design / Typography Architecture / Interior SALE

A+U No. 113 (Special Issue: Peter Cook and Christine Hawley)
February 1980

1980, Japanese / English
Softcover, 29 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by A+U Publishing / Tokyo

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Rare special issue the legendary Japanese architecture magazine, A+U (Architecture + Urbanism), published in 1980. Published by Yoshio Yoshida with Editor Toshio Nakamura and international advisors and correspondents including Paul Rudolph, Hans Hollein, Robert A.M. Stern... This issue is entirely dedicated to the work of Archigram's Peter Cook and Christine Hawley. Lavishly illustrated throughout in glossy full colour and b/w reproductions of Cook and Hawley's visionary architectural mixed media works on paper, plans, drawings, along with biographies, interviews, and articles. The most comprehensive publication on the collaboration between these important English architects to date, only available in Japan.

Sir Peter Cook (b. 1936) is an English architect, lecturer and writer on architectural subjects, known as a founding member of Archigram. Christine Hawley (b. 1949) is an accomplished British architect and educator. Cook and Hawley began collaborating in the 1970s, in 1975 creating the award-winning partnership Cook and Hawley Architects.

A+U (Architecture + Urbanism) is a forward thinking monthly architectural magazine from Japan which tackles a diverse range of themes, movements and discussions in the fields of architecture and urbanism. Each issue is comprehensively illustrated and accompanied by plans, maps, sections and details.

Very Good copy.

File under: Peter Cook Christine Hawley Archigram Peter Cook Christine Hawley A+U Publishing / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Drawing

Marc Camille Chaimowicz / Roger Diener
Armadillo House

2022, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 12 x 20.3 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

$48.00 - Out of stock

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A conversation between the artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz and the architect Roger Diener about their collaboration, The Armadillo House in Basel. Chaimowicz claims the interior as a pictorial space while also referencing the history of architecture, art and design. His agenda has been described as the celebration of domestic detritus and his spatial installations appear as painterly tableaus. From the 1970s onwards he advanced a critique of rigid, austere minimalism. For Diener, on the other hand, pictorial space is not a factor. Instead, he puts forward a modernist notion of non-expression, with architecture functioning as its raw material. In his architecture, it is not the insertion of culturally codified images but rather spatial configurations that shape the movement and circulation of inhabitants.

File under: Marc Camille Chaimowicz Roger Diener Walther König / Köln Art Architecture / Interior Furniture Painting Drawing Theory / Essay

Sexuality and Space
by Beatriz Colomina

2000, English
Softocver, 404 pages, 15.2 x 22.9 cm
Published by Princeton Architectural Press / New York

$69.00 - Out of stock

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Sexuality and Space's interdisciplinary essays address gender in relation to architectural discourse and critical theory, focusing on finding the close relationships between sexuality and space hidden within everyday practices. The contributors are Jennifer Bloomer, Victor Burgin, Beatriz Colomina, Elizabeth Grosz, Catherine Ingraham, Meaghan Morris, Laura Mulvey, Molly Nesbit, Alessandra Ponte, Lynn Spigel, Patricia White, and Mark Wigley.

"A milestone in the evolving discourse of architectural history and criticism.... These essays raise crucial questions about design and the experience of architecture, and many attempt to engage ... the rich critical literature of cultural studies." - Alice T. Friedman, JSAH

"Sexuality and Space is important, even necessary.... Both timely and well worth the time." - Thomas Keenan, Newsline

File under: Beatriz Colomina Jennifer Bloomer Victor Burgin Elizabeth Grosz Catherine Ingraham Meaghan Morris Laura Mulvey Molly Nesbit Alessandra Ponte Lynn Spigel Patricia White Mark Wigley Princeton Architectural Press / New York Architecture / Interior Theory / Essay Art Eros

The Politics of Public Space - Volume Two

2020, English
Softcover (cloth), 284 pages, 16.5 x 10.4 cm
Published by Office / Melbourne

$27.00 $15.00 - Out of stock

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The Politics of Public Space is a quarterly publication of transcripts that speak directly to the city and the way we read it.

The second volume addresses the effects of COVID-19, including the sudden changes in the way we interact and view our public spaces. It contains excerpts from Myria Georgiou, Saskia Sassen, Jack Self, Brooke Holmes, Ian Strange and Alfredo Brillembourg.

This publication curates a series of global perspectives as we all come to terms with a new way of life due to the virus. Myria Georgiou observes the emergence of digital solidarity groups throughout the UK as inequalities and vulnerabilities are foregrounded. World-renowned sociologist Saskia Sassen reveals the pervasiveness of power as the fragility of our global connectedness is further disclosed. The true publicness of our cities is revealed in Jack Self’s account of protest and opposition to the political structures. Brooke Holmes depicts an interconnectedness between the health of the city and it’s citizens traced back to antiquity. Australian artist Ian Strange unpacks his understanding of the home as he recounts a decade of practice into the subject. And Venezuelan architect Alfredo Brillembourg calls to arms the architecture profession to deal directly with issues of injustice within the built environment.

File under: Saskia Sassen Office / Melbourne Theory / Essay Art Architecture / Interior Australian Art SALE

Urban Design in the 20th Century - A History

2022, English
Softcover, 400 pages, 20 x 26 cm
Published by gta Verlag / Zürich

$132.00 $80.00 - Out of stock

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Our time is an urban age. More people than ever before are living in cities, cities are becoming bigger and denser than ever, and urbanity has reached an unprecedented level of complexity. This urbanization boom, which can be observed around the globe today, began at the turn of the 20th century, when technical progress and the extraction of seemingly unlimited natural resources drove urban development. With the steady growth of urban populations, architects and planners not only had to deal with the design of living space and public space, but also new social challenges such as (geo-) political tensions, the reconstruction after two world wars, decolonization, economic crises, responding to growing climatic problems and cultural changes. By analyzing more than one hundred richly illustrated urban planning projects and initiatives, the book offers the first comprehensive story of how these challenges have continuously generated new attitudes and approaches in the urban planning discipline since the early 20th century.

File under: Tom Avermaete Janina Gosseye gta Verlag / Zürich Architecture / Interior Theory / Essay SALE

THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC SPACE - VOLUME THREE

2021, English
Softcover (cloth), 266 pages, 16.5 x 10.4 cm
Published by Office / Melbourne

$27.00 $15.00 - Out of stock

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In July, Melbourne experienced a second wave of the virus and the introduction of further restrictions forced the city to a standstill. Workplaces, student accommodation and universities remained empty as local businesses were also required to close their premises. The structures of the state, city and its residents were again laid bare. This third volume of the quarterly publication addresses many of these issues by gathering talks held prior to the pandemic alongside recent interviews. Kate Shaw shows how the recent lockdown of the housing towers in Flemington and North Melbourne reveals the government’s underlying attitude towards public housing tenants. Tony Birch used the Shrine of Remembrance as the site for his talk on the Indigenous protest movement Camp Sovereignty and the significance of monuments in shaping collective values. Nicole Kalms outlines the experiences of women in Melbourne’s public spaces through data gathered by XYX Lab. Sarah Lynn Rees discusses the complexities of engaging and working respectfully with Traditional Owners when intervening in the built environment. Andy Fergus & Brighid Sammon expose the failings of planning in the modern development of Melbourne, and Philip Brophy declares the general failings of the built environment profession at large.

File under: Philip Brophy Kate Shaw Tony Birch Camp Sovereignty Nicole Kalms XYX Lab Sarah Lynn Rees Andy Fergus Brighid Sammon Philip Brophy Office / Melbourne Art Australian Art Architecture / Interior Theory / Essay SALE

The Avant-Garde in Russia 1910—1930 : New Perspectives

1980/1986, English
Softcover, 288 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts LACMA / Los Angeles

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Catalogue published to accompany an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1980-1981. Edited by Stephanie Barron and Maurice Tuchman, this groundbreaking, richly illustrated (465 items) book documents "the most comprehensive survey of 1910—1930 Russian avant-garde art ever shown in this country"—Portfolio. Covering painting, sculpture, prints, drawing, books, photographs, costumes and examples of industrial, architectural, and theatrical design, with a special focus on Suprematism and Constructivism, this generous volume contains 19 authoritive and enlightening essays, excellent illustrated reference profiles on each artists, biographies, bibliographies, and a detailed chronology of the period. An essential art history reference, containing the works of Natan Altman, Yurii Annenkov, David Burliuk, Vladimir Burliuk, Marc Chagall, Iiia Chashnik, Vasilii Ermlov, Vera Ermolaeva, Alexandra Exter, Pavel Filanov, Naum Gabo, Natalia Goncharova, Vasilii Kamensky, Vasilii Kandinsky, Ivan Kliun, Gustav Klucis, Petr Konchalovsky, Ivan Kudriashev, Mikhail Larionov, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Mansurov, Mikhail Matiushin, Konstantin Medunetsky, Petr Miturich, Alexei Morgunov, Vera Nikolskaia, Liubov Popova, Ivan Puni, Alexandr Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Georgii Stenberg, Vladimir Stenberg, Varvara Stepanova, Nikolia Suetin, Vladimir Tatlin, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Alexandr Vesnin, K.A. Vialov, Georgii Yakulov.

Good copy, with some general cover wear.

File under: Natan Altman Yurii Annenkov David Burliuk Vladimir Burliuk Marc Chagall Iiia Chashnik Vasilii Ermlov Vera Ermolaeva Alexandra Exter Pavel Filanov Naum Gabo Natalia Goncharova Vasilii Kamensky Ivan Kliun Gustav Klucis Petr Konchalovsky Ivan Kudriashev Mikhail Larionov El Lissitzky Kazimr Malevich Pavel Mansurov Mikhail Matiushin Konstantin Medunetsky Petr Miturich Alexei Morgunov Vera Nikolskaia Liubov Popova Ivan Puni Alexandr Rodchenko Olga Rozanova Georgii Stenberg Vladimir Stenberg Varvara Stepanova Nikolia Suetin Vladimir Tatlin Nadezhda Udaltsova Alexandr Vesnin K.A. Vialov Georgii Yakulov Kasimir Malevich Kazimir Malevich Wassily Kandinsky Vasilii Kandinsky The MIT Press / Massachusetts LACMA / Los Angeles Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Architecture / Interior Photography

GI (Global Interior) #1
HOUSES IN U.S.A., 1971

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

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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)

File under: Bruce Goff Charles Eames Charles W. Moore Craig Ellwood Edward A. Killingsworth Edward L. Barnes Eero Saarinen Herbert Greene John Lautner John M. Johansen Joseph Esherick Marcel Breuer Moore and Turnbull Paul Rudolph Richard Meier Robert Venturi Yukio Futagawa A.D.A Edita / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Furniture Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Japanese Photography

GI (GLOBAL INTERIOR) #2
Latin America, 1972

1972, Japanese / English
Softcover, 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

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Rare second issue from 1972 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 floor-plans/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 #2
Latin America
1971

Contents include:
Paulo A. Mendes Da Rocha (Da Rocha House); Joaquim Guedes (Pereira House); Carlos Millan (Millan House); Stroater & Antonacio (Carvalho House); Arnald A. Martino (Martino House); Paulo Sergio S. Silva (Silva House); Oscar Niemeyer (Niemeyer House); Sergio Bernandes (Bernandes House); Luis Barragan (Barragan House); Jaime Ortiz Monasterio (Obregon House); Francisco Artigas (Artigas House); Artigas & Luna (House in San Angel); Francisco Artigas (Rojas House); Manuel Gonzarez Rul (House in Tlacopac); Juan O’Gorman (O’Gorman House); David Muñoz Suarez(House in Tecamachalco); Martinez, Avendaño & Sotomayer (Santos House A, Santos House B); Martinez & Avendaño (Martinez House, Ochoa House); Susana Prias de Kovacs (Kovacs House); Oscar Tenreiro (Tenreiro House); Carmona & Puig (Toro House); Carlos Raúl Villanueva (Villanueva House in La Florida, Villanueva House in Caraballeda)…

Very Good copy with slipcase (wear and marks).

File under: Yukio Futagawa Paulo Mendes Da Rocha Joaquim Guedes Carlos Millan Manuel Gonzarez Rul Oscar Niemeyer Paulo Sergio S. Silva Jaime Ortiz Monasterio Francisco Artigas Susana Prias de Kovacs Oscar Tenreiro Luis Barragán A.D.A Edita / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Furniture Japanese Photography

GI (GLOBAL INTERIOR) #4
Southern Europe, 1972

1972, English / Japanese
Softcover, 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

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Rare fourth issue from 1972 (complete with original issue printed slip-case) 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 floor-plans/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 #4
Southern Europe
1972

Contents include:
Harnden & Bombelli (House in Malaga), Harnden & Bombelli (Cluster House in Port-Lligat), Harnden & Bombelli (Summer House in Port-Lligat), Harnden & Bombelli (Summer House in Montras), José Antonio Coderch (Tapies House), José Antonio Coderch (House in San Cugat del Valles), José Antonio Coderch (House in Sitges), Antonio Bonet (Villa La "Ricarda"), Tobia Scarpa (Scarpa House), Tobia Scarpa (Benetton House), Angelo Mangiarotti (House in Cisano), Angelo Mangiarotti (Bianchi House), Baldassini, Bichocchi & Monsani (House in Castiglione della Pescaia), Calro Moretti (House in Crenna), Vittoriano Vigano (House along Lake Garda), Luigi Moretti (Villa "La Saracena"), Piero Sartogo (Summer House in Circeo), Piero Sartogo (Cluster House in Circeo), Piero Sartogo (Sartogo House), Morassutti & Gussoni (Carlevaro House), Gio Ponti & Nanda Vigo (House in Malo), Umberto Riva (House in Taino), Cini Boeri (House in Osmate), Vico Magistretti (Cassina House)...
…

Very Good copy.

File under: Angelo Mangiarotti Antonio Bonet Cini Boeri Gio Ponti Harnden & Bombelli José Antonio Coderch Luigi Moretti Morassutti & Gussoni Nanda Vigo Piero Sartogo Tobia Scarpa Umberto Riva Vico Magistretti Vittoriano Vigano Carlo Moretti Afra and Tobia Scarpa Afra Scarpa Yukio Futagawa A.D.A Edita / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Furniture Ceramics / Glass Japanese Photography

GI (GLOBAL INTERIOR) #5
Apartment Interiors, 1973

1973, English / Japanese
Softcover, 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

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Rare fifth issue from 1973 (complete with original issue printed slip-case) 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 floor-plans/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 #5
Apartment Interiors
1973

Contents include:
Apartment interior profiles by Nanda Vigo, Cini Boeri, Carla Venosta, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Joe Colombo, Gae Aulenti, Baldassini, Bicocchi and Monsani, Vico Magistretti, Piero Sartogo, Salvati and Tresoldi, Mario Bellini, Carlo Moretti, Francois Catroux, Taller de Arquitectura, Paul Rudolph ...

Very Good copy preserved in worn slipcase (spine tanning and general wear).

File under: Carla Venosta Carlo Moretti Cini Boeri Ettore Sottsass Francois Catroux Gae Aulenti Joe Colombo Mario Bellini Nanda Vigo Paul Rudolph Piero Sartogo Vico Magistretti Yukio Futagawa A.D.A Edita / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Japanese Photography

GI (GLOBAL INTERIOR) #7
Houses in Northern Europe 2, 1974

1974, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. original cardboard slipcase), 182 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 - In stock -

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Rare seventh issue from 1974 (complete with original issue printed slip-case) 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 floor-plans/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 #7
Houses in Northern Europe 2
1974

Contents include:
Rennie Mackintosh (Mackintosh and Hill House), Tarquini Martensson, Jorn Utzon, Ralph Erskine, K. Gullichsen and J. Pallasmaa, Erkki Kairamo, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld ― A. van Eijck, Aldo van Eijck, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, E. J. Jelles, Van der Grinten, Heijdenrijk and Manche, Atelier 5, Erich Schneider―Wessling, Krier, Siemer and Siwik, Richard and Su Rogers, Richard Rogers and Norman and Wendy Foster, Peter Biihlmann …

Condition: Very Good (book is a clean, tight copy throughout, kept protected by its original cardboard case - general light shelf-wear to box and tanning to box spine) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Aldo van Eijck Gerrit Rietveld Peter Biihlmann Ralph Erskine Yukio Futagawa A.D.A Edita / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Furniture Japanese Photography

GI (GLOBAL INTERIOR) #8
Houses in Southern Europe 2, 1974

1974, English / Japanese
Softcover, 182 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

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Rare eighth issue from 1972 (complete with original issue printed slip-case) 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 floor-plans/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 #8
Houses in Southern Europe 2
1974

Architects profiled include:
F. Higueras Diaz and A. Milo, E. Marquez, Antonio Bonet, Harnden and Bombelli, Luis Clotet and Oscar Tusquets, Antonio Fernandez Alba, Vittoriano Vigano, A. Salvati and A. Tresoldi, Federico Motterle, Ico e Luisa Parisi, G.+L. Bicocchi, R. Monsani, L. Baldassini, , Nanda Vigo and Franco fiorio, E. Bonfanti, C. Macchi-Cassia and M. Porta, P. Derossi, G. Ceretti, R. Rosso...

Very Good copy preserved in worn slipcase (spine tanning and general wear).

File under: Gae Aulenti Yukio Futagawa A.D.A Edita / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Furniture Japanese Photography

100 Kostbarkeiten

1963, German
Hardcover (clothbound), 216 pages, 24.5 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft / Stuttgart

$25.00 - Out of stock

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Published in 1963, lavishly illustrated book of 100 Treasures from museums around the world, spanning art history, antiquity, archaeology, handicrafts, biology, architecture, with text by Dr. Traudl Seifert, edited by J.E. Schuler. Includes the throne of Tutankhamun, Order of the Golden Fleece, Venus von Milo, Nike von Samothrake, Ming dynasty vase, Arabian celestial globe, the Taj Mahal, Meißner porcelain, Louis XIV pistols, Renaissance Venetian cabinet, statue of Uta von Naumburg, Venus von Milo, Altar of Verdun, Nike von Samothrake, The Tabatière rifle, the bust of Nefertiti, The lady and the Unicorn
... the work of Michelangelo, Veit Stoss, Aristide Maillol, Tilman Riemenschneider, Albrecht Dürer, and many more.

Good copy with general wear and rubbing to linen boards.

File under: Albrecht Dürer Michelangelo Veit Stoss Aristide Maillol Tilman Riemenschneider Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft / Stuttgart Group Shows / Collections Painting Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Art Architecture / Interior Textiles

Brick Index (reprint)

2021, English
Softcover, 190 pages, 17cm x 28 cm
2nd Edition, 700 copies,
Published by Centre Centre / London

$59.00 - Out of stock

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New (brown cover) edition of the quickly out-of-print, fantastic Brick Index, first published in 2019. 'Brick Index' is a collection of named bricks and the unseen makers' marks stamped by brickworks from across the UK. It celebrates the humble brick, relishing the textures, colours and graphics debossed into their 'frogs'. This collection serves to rethink a ubiquitous material and honour the graphic stamps hidden all around us. The book features 155 beautifully photographed bricks, printed at actual size, accompanied by an index that states the time, place, and maker of each brick.

Featuring an introduction from David Kitching, a brick historian and an essay from Professor Rick Poynor. Photography by Inge Clemente.

Limited to 700 copies

File under: Centre Centre / London Architecture / Interior Ceramics / Glass Art

Hans Richter
New Living. Architecture, Film, Space.

2001, English
Hardcover, 128 pages, 25 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Lars Müller / Zürich

$60.00 - In stock -

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New Living (Das Neue Wohnen) was the title of an exceptional architectural propaganda film created in 1930 by German avant-garde artist and filmmaker Hans Richter. It showcased exemplary modernist buildings and furniture--some of which were on view shortly after in the prestigious exhibition The International Style--and contrasted them with the impractical, unhygenic living spaces that were the norm. Visually diverse and full of experimental montage techniques, New Living pioneered a radical method of portraying architecture on celluloid.

First English edition of this long out-of-print book by Lars Müller Publishers. Essays by Andres Jensen and Arthur Ruegg, and running commentary and extensive film sequences of each of Richter's films.

Hans Richter was born in Berlin in 1888. Throughout his career, he was involved with the Blue Rider group, the cubists, "Die Aktion", the Zurich Dadaists, the November group, and De Stijl. In 1921 he made the first abstract film, "Rhythme 21" and in 1957 finished "Dadascope". Richter died in 1976.

Good copy. Some shelf wear to hardcovers, light tanning to page edges, otherwise Very Good throughout.

File under: Hans Richter Lars Müller / Zürich Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Bauhaus Architecture / Interior

Pattern: A Study of Ornament in Western Europe 1180-1900 ( Volume I: The Middle Ages)
by Joan Evans

1976, English
Softcover, 234 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Da Capo Press / New York

$15.00 - Out of stock

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First softcover edition of this heavy volume from 1976, Pattern: A Study of Ornament in Western Europe 1180-1900 ( Volume I: The Middle Ages), first published by Clarendon Press in Oxford in the 1930s. Profusely illustrated throughout, this extensive study traces the development of European ornamental art from the beginning of the Gothic period in France to the end of the Middle Ages, explaining and illustrating in fascinating detail the Pastoral vision of nature used in art of every sort, as well as the rise of Decorative Heraldry. Includes bibliographical references.

Good copy with light wear to covers.

File under: Joan Evans Da Capo Press / New York Textiles Architecture / Interior Theory / Essay Fashion Art Painting Drawing Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

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

$80.00 - Out of stock

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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

Post-Soviet Art And Architecture

1994, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by A.D. (Architectural Design) / London

$25.00 - Out of stock

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Published in 1994 and long out-of-print, this volume presents a view of recent developments in Russian art and architecture in the context of the critical debates of postmodernism and national cultures. The return to popular national sources in the 1960s through the 1980s was a means for Soviet artists in a multi-ethnic state to avoid submersion in the official ideology of "Socialist-Realism". The transition from totalitarianism to pluralism is evident in the diversity of work featured by both artists and architects from different regions of the former USSR. The essays presented here are by leading Russian and Western art and literary critics, including Charles Jencks, Alexander Rappaport, Alexei Tolstoy, and Nadezhda Yurasovskaya. They provide a critical, historical and personal context for a survey of the work produced in Russia since the fall of Communism.

Very Good copy, only light wear, small split to spine edge.

File under: Charles Jencks Alexander Rappaport Alexei Tolstoy Nadezhda Yurasovskaya A.D. (Architectural Design) / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Film / Video Theory / Essay Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

TOKYO STYLE
BY KYOICHI TSUZUKI

1993 / 1996, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 386 pages, 26 x 26 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Shashin Kagaku Co. / Kyoto

$320.00 - Out of stock

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Very collectible early hardcover edition of what is now one of the truely iconic interior "design" books - Tokyo Style. Over a period of two years, Japanese writer-photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki visited apartments, condos and suburban homes in Tokyo, and documented exactly what he saw in colour photography. First published in 1993 in this large photo book format, Tokyo Style is a collection of these photographs along with Tsuzuki's texts. Divided into eight sections - Beauty in Chaos, The Fancy Fetish, Artsy Pads, The Traditional Touch, Monomaniacs, Kiddie Kingdoms, Inertial Living and Hermitages - the book shows readers a demystified Tokyo and the ordinary lifestyles of the Tokyo people. No wide-angles or post-production here, just the most amazing compendium of hundreds of tiny Tokyo living spaces, no two alike.

Very Good copy in Good dust jacket with some small chipping and wear to corners and edges.

File under: Kyoichi Tsuzuki Shashin Kagaku Co. / Kyoto Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography

Conserving Active Matter
Edited by Peter N. Miller and Soon Kai Poh

2022, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 400 pages, 23 x 15.3 cm
Published by Bard Graduate Center Gallery / New York

$95.00 - Out of stock

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For as long as people have made things and kept things, they have cared for them and repaired them. The field of conservation developed in Europe and the United States and then spread around the world. Today’s conservator uses a variety of tools and categories developed over the last 150 years to do this work. But in the next decades, new kinds of materials and a new scale of change will pose unprecedented challenges. Thinking through the lens of “active matter,” as understood by philosophers, historians, materials scientists, conservators, and those who work on Indigenous artifacts, this project raises questions and establishes new lines of inquiry for the future rethinking of conservation and the human sciences of the object.

Conserving Active Matter draws together the main lines and interim conclusions of a five-year research project embedded in a ten-year effort to reimagine the relationship between conservation knowledge and the humanistic study of the material world—Cultures of Conservation. The effort to conserve things is part of the human struggle with the pervasive activity of matter.

Peter N. Miller is dean and professor at Bard Graduate Center.
Soon Kai Poh is a conservator and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postgraduate Fellow at Bard Graduate Center.

File under: Peter N. Miller Soon Kai Poh Bard Graduate Center Gallery / New York Theory / Essay Art Curatorial Architecture / Interior Painting Ecology