Collins Hardware Company
COLLINS HARDWARE COMPANY INCORPORATED: Builders Hardware Catalog
Lynn, MA: Collins Hardware Co. Inc., 1908

Quarto. 16 pp; b/w illustrations. Paperback. G+ to VG-, cover edges a bit brittle, covers soiled. Excellent original illustrated catalog of door knobs, drawer pulls and other items.
Inventory number #011800

W. F. Norman Company
THE W. F. NORMAN SHEET METAL M'F'G CO. Steel Ceiling Catalogue No. 350
Nevada, MO: W.F. Norman Corp, 1980

Oblong octavo. 72 pp; b/w illustrations throughout. Stapled wraps. Very good. Ashworth Co. rubber stamp on cover. Fascimile of 1909 catalog of steel ceiling parts.
Inventory number #011799

Adrian
ADRIAN: The Couture Years, 1942-52
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1996

Quarto. 8 pp; illustrated with a couple b/w photographs in the text. Accordion folded single sheet. Fine condition. Guide from the LA County Museum's 1996 Adrian exhibition. Scarce
Inventory number #011798

Chamberlain, Samuel, ed.
ROCKEFELLER CENTER. A Photographic Narrative
NY: Hastings House, 1949

Octavo. 72 pp; fully illustrated with b/w photographs by Chamberlain & a number of other photographers. Pictorial wraps. VG, staples rusted, light wear to spine.
Inventory number #011797

LePape, Claude & Thierry Defert
Georges Lepape Ou L'elegance Illustree
Paris: Herscher, 1983

Folio. 174 pp; illustrated throughout in color and b/w; bibliography. Text in French. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in near fine jacket with a trace of edge toning. Hundreds of illustrations punctuate this monograph on the illustrator Geroges Lapape, most well known for his fashion posters and pochoirs such as his early work for Gazette du Bon Ton. Lepape also worked for Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Femina, Vogue, and The Art Sheets, as well as creating designs for the theater and advertising.
Inventory number #011796

Rudolph, Paul & Yukio Futagawa
GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE No. 2: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: Kaufmann House, Fallingwater, Bear Run Pennsylvania 1936
Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1975

Second edition. Folio. 48 pp; illustrated with full page color and b/w plates of photographs by Futagawa; reproduction plan of Fallingwater. Intro and closing text in Japanese, list of images on front fold-over are in English. Paperback. Near Fine.
Inventory number #011795

Tanigawa, Masami; edited & photographed by Yukio Futagawa
GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE 15: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: TALIESIN EAST, SPRING GREEN, WISCONSIN, 1925 - TALIESIN WEST, PARADISE VALLEY, ARIZONA, 1938
Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1975

Second edition. Folio. 48 pp; illustrated with full page color and b/w plates of photographs by Futagawa. Intro and closing text in Japanese, list of images on front fold-over are in English. Paperback. Near Fine.
Inventory number #011794

Watt, Judith
OSSIE CLARK 1965-74
London: V & A Publications, 2003

Quarto. 128 pp; illustrated throughout in color and b/w; notes; index. Paper covered boards in unclipped dustjacket. Fine in Fine jacket. 'From 1965 to 1974 Ossie Clark dressed the famous and fashionable in unabashed show-stoppers. His eveningwear was boldly seductive; his tailoring deliciously precise; and above all, his clothes were unfailingly feminine.
Inventory number #011793

Suhonen, Pekka (ed)
PHENOMENON MARIMEKKO
Finland: Amer Group LTD, 1996

Quarto. 144 pp; illustrated throughout in color and b/w; designer list; contributer list; chronological photo list. Text in English. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket has some light edgewear on corners. The must-have monograph on Marimekko.
Inventory number #011791

Iizawa, Kohtaro
CARLO MOLLINO PICTURES
Tokyo: Fiction Inc., 1991

First printing Feb 10, 1991 (stated). Quarto. unpaginated; illustrated with color and b/w photographs. Text in Japanese and English. Paperback in accetate jacket printed with red titles. Near fine in VG dustjacket. Accetate jacket has some light wear to the corners and small split at base of spine. One of the first publications to present Carlo Mollino's erotic female nude polaroids.
Inventory number #011790

Lutens, Serge
SERGE LUTENS
Paris: Assouline, 1998

Deluxe edition. 152 pp; illustrated throughout in color. Cloth in dustjacket and illustrated slipcase. Fine, in near fine jacket with a trace of edgewear, in VG- slipcase. Slipcase would be near fine if not for a gouge repair near the spine on the back panel. Its not very visible, but it should be mentioned. Serge Lutens has been art director at Shiseido for 15 years. His work apprears regularly in publications around the world, including frequent features in Elle, Vogue, and Vanity Fair.
Inventory number #011789

Smith, Kathryn
SCHINDLER HOUSE
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2001

Quarto. 88 pp; illustrated in color and b/w; appendix; bibliography; index. Paperback. VG+ to about fine except for some light shelf wear to front cover.
Inventory number #011788

Packer, William
FASHION DRAWING IN VOGUE
NY: Thames and Hudson, 1989

First paperbcak edition. Quarto. 240 pp; full of b/w & color drawings; sources; index. Paperback. Very good, light toning to cover margins. Collection of Vogue fashion art. Introduction by David Hockney.
Inventory number #011786

Packer, William
FASHION DRAWING IN VOGUE
NY: Coward, McCann, 1983

First edition. Quarto. 240 pp; full of b/w & color drawings; sources; index. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. VG+/VG+, Light wrinkles to top edge of jacket. Collection of Vogue fashion art.
Inventory number #011785

Kamitsis, Lydia
PACO RABANNE Les Sens de la Recherche- A Feeling for Research
Paris: Michel Lafon, 1996

First American edition. Quarto. 222 pp; illustrated throughout in color and b/w photographs and drawings. Text in French and English. Silver boards. VG-- Top edge of rear board has crush and abrasion damage to the foil coating, front corner bumped, slight shelfwear, contents about fine. Paco Rabanne (born 1934) is a Franco-Spanish fashion designer. He originally had an architect's education but became known as the enfant terrible of the French fashion world in the 1960s. Rabanne started his career in fashion by creating jewelry for Givenchy, Dior, and Balenciaga. He started his own fashion house in 1966. He used such unconventional materials as metal, paper and plastic for his outlandish and flamboyant designs. Paco Rabanne is known for his costume designs for such films as Barbarella.
Inventory number #011784

House Beautiful
A House Beautiful Tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
NY: Hearst, 1992

Quarto. 48 pp; illustrated throughout with color photographs. Paperback. VG+ to near fine. Light shelf wear to covers. A special issue devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright and the Guggenheim Museum, includes a list of 16 Wright buildings open to the public.
Inventory number #011783

Smith, Kathryn
R.M. SCHINDLER HOUSE 1921-22
West Hollywood: Friends of the Schindler House, 1987

Tall octavo. 39 pp; illustrated throughout with b/w photographs, drawings and plans. Stapled wraps. Fine about new condition. Special guide to Schindler's King's Road house in West Hollywood, CA. Published for the 10th anniversary of the Friends of the Schindler House, a preservation group founded in 1977 in response to the 1969 destruction of Eric Gill's Dodge house a block away on King's Road.
Inventory number #011782

Batterberry, Michael & Ariane
MIRROR, MIRROR: A Social History of Fashion
NY: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1977

First printing. 400 pp; illustrated throughout in color and b/w; bibliography; index. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in VG+ jacket. Dustjacket has light edgewear/shelfwear and a small closed tear at crown. A beautiful first printing.
Inventory number #011781

Lynam, Ruth (ed.)
COUTURE: An Illustrated History of the Great Paris Designers and Their Creations
NY: Doubleday & Company, 1972

Quarto. 256 pp; illustrated throughout in color and b/w. Cloth in dustjacket. Near fine in VG- dustjacket. Jacket has light edgewear and a large crumple on the top edge of back panel, not affecting boards.
Inventory number #011779

Lee, Sarah Tomerlin
AMERICAN FASHION: The Life and Lines of Adrian, Mainbocher, McCardell, Norell, Trigere
NY: Quadrangle / The New York Times Book Co., 1975

First edition. Quarto. xi, 509 pp; many color & b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Blue cloth in dustjacket. VG in VG- jacket. Some light edgewear to jacket. Endpapers a little soiled and top edge of cloth a little sunned.
Inventory number #011778