Wickman, Kerstin
BJORN DAHLSTROM: Designer
Stockholm: Arvinius, 2001

First edition. 9.5" x 7". [124] pp; full of color & b/w illustrations. Text in Swedish and English. Black cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Bjorn Dahlstrom (b. 1957), a Swedish furniture and industrial designer, is well known internationally and has designed a wide variety of products - bicycles, carpets, cookware, furniture, toys - for companies such as Cbi, Magis, Atlas Copco, Iittala, and Marimekko. This book showcases close to forty examples of Dahlstrom designs, everything from cutlery and furniture to a pneumatic drill for Atlas Copco and an advanced bike for Skeppshult. The concept of this book originated in an exhibition of Bjorn Dahlstrom's work held at the Nordic embassies' "Felleshus" in Berlin in the autumn of 2000. From Berlin, the exhibition transferred to the Form/Design Center in Malmo in the spring of 2001, and then an expanded version was held at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm.
Inventory number #010216

O'Brien, Liz
ULTRAMODERN: Samuel Marx Architect
NY: Pointed Leaf Press, 2007

First edition. Large quarto. 216 pp; over 200 illustrations, most in color. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a clean, unmarked copy in fine jacket. This is the first monograph on American architect and furniture designer Samuel A. Marx 1885-1964). 20th-century decorative arts dealer and Marx expert Liz O'Brien reveals many of Marx's undiscovered projects, including houses that have been razed despite preservationist protests, as well as his range of furniture designs.
Inventory number #010180

Sack, Albert
FINE POINTS OF FURNITURE: Early American
NY: Crown Publishers, 1978

27th printing. Small quarto. xvi, 303 pp; fully illustrated with b/w photographs of chairs, beds, bureaus, chests and cupboards, chests-on-chests, clocks, desks, secretaries, highboys, lowboys, mirrors, sideboards, sofas and tables. Cloth with dustjacket. VG in VG jacket.
Inventory number #009827

Sotheby's
THE COLLECTION OF BARRY FRIEDMAN LTD. Friday, December 17, 2004
NY: Sotheby's, 2004

Quarto. 146 pp; 212 lots, all described & illustrated in color; index of makers. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. A first-rate collection of Austrian, Swedish and French decorative arts and design, including superb examples of furniture & objects by Josef Hoffman and his contemporaries; important pieces of furniture by the masters of prewar Swedish design, including Carl Malmsten, Carl Bergsten,, Gustav Bergstrom, Axel Einar Hjort, and textile designer Marta Maas-Fjetterstrom. The many examples of French decorative arts from the 1920s to the 1950s include furniture & objects by Andre Arbus, Ramsay and Raphael, and Poillerat.
Inventory number #009687

Christie's
DESIGNED BY ARCHITECTS. Important Works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Others From an International Private Collection
London: Christie's, 2002

Quarto. 161 pp; 71 lots, all with color photographs, including 4 fold-out pages. Paperback. VG+, a clean copy, minor edge wear, back cover has a couple of light scratches. Auction results laid in. Important works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh - silver candle holder, bronze & glass hanging lamp, flatware, inlaid cabinet, two inlaid gesso panels - Opera of the Wind, Opera of the Sea; carved & inlaid oak settle, cypress display cabinet, cypress double bookcase, stained oak cabinet, white painted oak washstand for Dunglass Castle, metal & leaded glass hanging shade, white painted oak bedroom table for 120 Mains St, Glasgow, 1900; chairs, armchairs & tables for the Argyle Street Tea Room, Glasgow, 1898; ebonised mahogany writing cabinet for Walter W. Blackie Esq, Hill House, Helensburgh, 1904; dark stained Sycamore side chair, designs & drawings, design for a clock face, inlaid and ebonised mantel clock, yellow painted settle for the Willow Tea Room, Glasgow, 1917; fabric designs, bedroom furniture designed for W.J. Bassett-Lowke, and others.
Inventory number #009626

Palardy, Jean
THE EARLY FURNITURE OF FRENCH CANADA
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1978

Revised edition. Quarto. 411 pp; over 600 b/w photographs, numerous pen and ink drawings, appendices, bibliography, glossary, index. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine lightly faded. The definitive work on traditional French-Canadian furniture by Palardy, who has devoted more than 40 years to the study of French-Canadian culture. A valuable sourcebook on the design and workmanship of French-Canadian furniture from the 17th to the first half of the 19th century. The catalogue raisonne includes armoires, buffets, chairs, commodes, beds, as well as spinning-wheels, chandeliers, mantelpieces, stoves, doors, locks, and latches. All are described and illustrated in detail. Includes lists of woodworkers' tools and descriptions of their working methods.
Inventory number #009497

O'Gorman, Patricia
PATIOS AND GARDENS OF MEXICO
Stamford, CT: Architectural Book Publishing, 1979

Quarto. xv, 254 pp; over 300 b/w photographs & drawings. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. The photos in this book record a myriad examples of outdoor planning and decoration in gardens representing a wide range of periods of Mexican architecture from the 16th-century colonial through contemporary. Included are gates, entrances and paths, walls, terraces, stairs, water fountains, swimming pools, sculpture, furniture, lighting, balconies, roof gardens, and more.
Inventory number #009390

Honour, Hugh
GOLDSMITHS & SILVERSMITHS
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971

Quarto. 320 pp; b/w and color photographs and illustrations throughout; bibliography; index. Cloth with unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. Former owner's name in pen on half-title page, no other markings of defects observed. Published as a companion volume to Hugh Honour's Cabinetmakers and Furniture Designers, this book consists of fifty studies of goldsmiths and silversmiths of ten nations and eleven centuries. They range in date from Vuolvinus, maker of a gold and silver altar in ninth-century Milan, to Wilhelm Wagenfeld, who studied at the Bauhaus and is one of the outstanding industrial designers of our time. Sculptors and painters who worked in precious metals are included, as well as the makers and designers of ordinary household plate.
Inventory number #009373

Sokolova, T.M. & K. A. Orlova
RUSSIAN FURNITURE IN THE COLLECTION OF THE HERMITAGE
Leningrad: Khudozhnik, 1973

Quarto. 254 pp; 195 color & b/w illustrations, most full page. Text in Russian with a 4-pp English summary & English captions. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy. 18th & 19th century Russian furniture.
Inventory number #009352

Sweeney, John A.
THE TREASURE HOUSE OF EARLY AMERICAN ROOMS
NY: Bonanza, 1978

Reprint. Quarto. 179 pp; profusely illustrated in color and b/w; index. Cloth with unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in near fine jacket. The rooms, furniture and objects are from Winterthur collections. 17th - 19th century decorative arts are well represented.
Inventory number #009166

Kjellberg, Pierre
Le Mobilier du XXe Siecle: Dictionnaire des Createurs
Paris: Les Editions de L'Amateur, 1994

First edition. Stout quarto. 693 pp; 540 color & 410 b/w illustrations; bibliography. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine in Fine jacket, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket bright, with no wear. The major reference book of twentieth-century furniture designers, listing more than 600, from Alvar Aalto to Charles Zublena.
Inventory number #008983

de Groer, Leon
DECORATIVE ARTS IN EUROPE 1790-1850
NY: Rizzoli, 1986

Quarto. 357 pp; 640 illustrations, some in color; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG. A comprehensive and well-illustrated study devoted to the neoclassic style -- French Empire, English Regency, American Federal, German Biedermeier. The author, curator-in-chief of objets d'art at the Louvre, looks at furniture, interior decoration, lighting, bronzes, pendulum clocks, vases, curtains, wallpaper, and carpets.
Inventory number #008760

Madigan, Mary Jean, et al
NINETEENTH CENTURY FURNITURE Innovation, Revival and Reform
NY: Arts & Antiques Book, 1982

First printing. Quarto. 160 pp; 100 color plates; 150 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dj. Some closed tears and wear to corners & spine tips of dj. Very good in a VG- dustjacket. Former owner stamp on ffep and same owner blindstamp on title page. Survey of American furniture design of the 19th century. Contributions by David Hanks, Katharine Morrison McClinton, Marian Page, Christopher Wilk, Craig Gilborn
Inventory number #008636

Brentjens, Yvonne
K.P.C. DE BAZEL (1869-1923) Ontwerpen Voor het Interieur
Zwolle: Waanders, 2006

Quarto. 239 pp; 215 color & b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Text in Dutch. Softcover. Fine, a new, unused copy. Published in connection with an exhibition held March 25-June 11, 2006, Gemeentemuseum, Hague, and July 4-October 15, 2006, Drents Museum, Assen. This book is the first to feature the furniture of Dutch architect K.P.C. de Bazel whose work rivaled that of H.P. Berlage.
Inventory number #008615

Christie's
THE HUMPHREY WHITBREAD COLLECTION. Thursday, 5 April 2001
London: Christie's, 2001

Quarto. 149 pp; illustrated throughout in color. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; Price Results List stapled to front free endpaper. Many full-page plates.
Inventory number #008599

Albrecht, Donald
PARIS / NEW YORK: Design, Fashion, Culture 1925-1940
NY: Monacelli Press, 2008

Tall quarto. 240 pp; over 250 color & b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. A new copy. Twelve essays by leading French and American scholars and 250 illustrations vividly recreate the contributions of the era's legendary figures, including Josephine Baker, Chanel, Salvador Dali, Raymond Hood, Ely Jacques Kahn, Raymond Loewy, Paul Poiret, Helena Rubinstein, and Henri Soule. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.
Inventory number #008457

Olson, Roberta J.M. & Margaret K. Hofer
SEAT OF EMPIRE
NY: New York Historical Society, 2002

Quarto. 39 pp; 18 color photographs; checklist. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. This catalogue was produced in conjunction with the exhibition 'Seat of Empire' held at the New-York Historical Society from October 8, 2002 to January 12, 2003.
Inventory number #008435

Fomin, Y.V.
THE ART OF MARQUETRY IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY RUSSIA
Moscow: Sovyetkaya Rossiya, 1989

Folio. 182 pp; 202 full-page color plates; annotated catalogue; glossary. Text in Russian, with English summary, and detailed captions. White laminated boards, no slipcase. Near Fine. Lavishly illustrated account of late 18th century Russian marquetry furniture, panelling, and flooring.
Inventory number #008362

Workman, Liz
DR. JOHNSON'S DOORKNOB and Other Significant Parts of Great Men's Houses
NY: Rizzoli, 2007

First edition. Square octavo. 207 pp; color illustrations & photographs throughout. Cloth with dustjacket in slipcase. A new, unused copy This small book of Liz Workman's photographs doesn't stop at doorknobs. It shows us other unexpected details from eminent homes -- George Washington's mantelpiece, for example, Thomas Jefferson's bed, Charles Darwin's soup tureen, Victor Hugo's skirting board, and Sigmund Freud's mirror. The book features 103 items in ten chapters - doorknobs, crockery, mantelpieces, chairs, desks, books, banisters, mirrors, skirting boards and beds. There is no text, just brief captions and an index of addresses.
Inventory number #007717

Impey, Oliver
THE CECIL FAMILY COLLECTS: Four Centuries of Decorative Arts from Burghley House
Alexandria, VA: Art Services International, 1998

Quarto. 231 pp; 29 b/w illustrations; 12 floor plans of Burghley from 1623, 1688, 1738, 1770s, 1804, 1998; catalogue of 166 items, described & illustrated in color; glossary; bibliography; family tree. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; looks unread. The catalogue contains paintings, sculpture, and architectural drawings related to the Cecil family and Burghley House; miniatures; Virtu: the Countess’s jewels; other virtu; Grand Tour objects; sculpture; European ceramics; Chinese ceramics; Japanese ceramics; furniture & furnishings; and silver.
Inventory number #007569