Flower, Sibylla Jane
DEBRETT'S THE STATELY HOMES OF BRITAIN: Personally Introduced by the Owners
NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982

First American edition. Quarto. 240 pp; color & b/w illustrations; appendix; bibliography; index. Gilt-stamped cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy in price-clipped jacket. This book features 20 of Great Britain's most beautiful country houses, chosen as fine examples of their period and each introduced by the present-day owners.
Inventory number #009449

Volker, Angela
Wiener Mode + Modefotografie: Die modeabteilung der Wiener Werkstätte 1911-1932. Katalog des Österreichischen Museums für Angewandte Kunst
Munich: Schneider-Henn, 1984

Quarto. 283 pp; 33 color & 360 b/w illustrations; list of designers. Text in German. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. ** Vienna Fashion + fashion photography. The fashion department of the Vienna Workshop 1911-1932. Catalogue of the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts **
Inventory number #009418

Jullian, Philippe
THE ORIENTALISTS: European Painters of Eastern Scenes
Oxford: Phaidon, 1977

First English edition. Oblong quarto. 210 pp; 24 color & 116 b/w illustrations; appendices. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, jacket has small chip where head of spine meets top of front panel, also two 1-in. closed tears at head of spine.
Inventory number #009416

Gasthaus, Ruth et al
100 JAHRE TEXTILMUSEUM KREFELD
Krefeld: Stadt, 1980

Octavo. 48 pp; color illustrations throughout. Text in German. Paperback, Very good +, 1-in. vertical strip at spine slightly faded, else a clean, unmarked copy. Published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Krefeld Textile Museum, this book illustrates 45 important pieces in the collection, primarily silks and velvets..
Inventory number #009398

Raulet, Sylvie
SALON INDIEN: L'influence de l'Europe sur L'architecture
Paris: Hazan, 1996

First edition. Folio. 293 pp; profusely illustrated with color photographs; bibliography. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket has light wear at top edge. This book focuses on the influence Europe has had on Indian architecture, decorative arts, and the Indian way of life by featuring twenty of the Maharajas' palaces.
Inventory number #009391

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

Metz, Katharina et al
EUROPEAN TEXTILE DESIGN OF THE 1920'S
Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 1999

Quarto. 159 pp; 185 color illustrations; catalogue of textiles; artists' biographies; index of companies, workshops and schools; glossary; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. A fine copy in fine jacket. Outstanding examples of textile art from Germany, Austria, France, Italy and England document general currents in textile design during the twenties.
Inventory number #009383

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

Jiang, Bizhen
Miao Costumes of Southeast Guizhou
Taipei: Textile and Clothing Graduate Institute, Fu Jen Catholic University, 2000

Quarto. 436 pp; illustrated throughout with full-page color plates and color images in the text. Text in Chinese. Printed silk over boards with illustrated endpapers and gilt titles. Near FIne. An iIllustrated research directory. Scarce copy of this landmark work by the Graduate Institute.
Inventory number #009370

Brolin, Brent C.
FLIGHT OF FANCY: The Banishment and Return of Ornament
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1985

Octavo. 338 pp; over 250 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. This book explains why ornament was banished in the 1920s, and why it was revived in the last few years.
Inventory number #009359

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

Wichmann, Siegfried
KONSTRUKTIVER JUGENDSTIL 1900-1908. Wiener Secession
Munich: Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, 1977

Quarto. 32 pp; b/w photographs. Text in German. Paperback. Near Fine
Inventory number #009347

Kitamura, Tetsuro
THE KAMEI COLLECTION: 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN TEXTILES Volume 1: Dyeing, Weaving and Wallpaper
Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 1988

Quarto. Unpaginated. 325 plates, some full-page, rest smaller. Paperback with jacket. Fine/Fine. This book illustrates textiles and other specimens selected from over 16,000 pieces collected by Count Koreaki Kamei (1861-1896) while he was studying aesthetics and art history in Germany from 1886 to 1891.
Inventory number #009334

Durant, Stuart
THE DECORATIVE DESIGNS OF C.F.A. VOYSEY
NY: Rizzoli, 1991

Quarto. 96 pp; 64 color illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. A near fine, unmarked copy - looks new. The designs are from The Drawings Collection, The British Architectural Library, and The Royal Institute of British Architects. C.F.A. Voysey (1857-1941)
Inventory number #009332

Worden, Helen
ROUND MANHATTAN'S RIM
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1934

First edition. Octavo. 302 pp; illustrated by the author. Original blue cloth, maps on endpapers. No jacket. VG, spine lightly sunned, else a clean, unmarked copy. Helen Worden Erskine, 1896-1984, journalist and author of The Real New York, Here is New York, and Out of this World (about the Collyer Brothers and other hermits).
Inventory number #009314

James, Theodore, Jr.
THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
NY: Harper & Row, 1975

First printing. Octavo. 180 pp; many b/w illustrations; appendix: statistics; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, remainder mark on top edge; jacket has small chip at top edge, now protected in mylar.
Inventory number #009283

Beng, Tan Hock
INDONESIAN ACCENTS : Architecture, Interior Design, Art
NY: Visual Reference Publications, 1999

Square quarto. 216 pp; profusely illustrated with color & b/w photographs; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG
Inventory number #009277

Schoeser, Mary
SANDERSON: The Essence of English Decoration
NY: Thames & Hudson, 2010

First edition. Quarto. 200 pp, with over 200 color illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a new copy. For 150 years Sanderson has been at the vanguard of significant movements in European decorative arts, from Arts and Crafts and Art Deco to 1980's country-house style to the vibrant interiors of the twenty-first century. The book features over 200 patterns specially selected from the Sanderson archives and reproduced in color.
Inventory number #009268

Koenig, Lilli
NATURE STORIES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS
NY: Thomas Crowell, 1958

First American printing. Octavo. 158 pp; 24 half-tone plates and numerous sketches by the author. Cloth in dustjacket. Near fine in near fine dj. Small adhesive stain to each ffep and mild contact tanning to end papers from earlier jacket protector, else near fine. With an introduction by Konrad Lorenz. Lilli Koenig has chosen the wildlife around her home in the deep woods near Vienna as the subjects of her delightful animal biographies. Each tale is the life story of an animal, full of adventure yet scientifically accurate and informative.
Inventory number #009242

Taylor, Henrika Dyck
THE CLASSICIST No. 7
NY: The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, 2007

Quarto. 203 pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Paperback. A new copy, still in shrink wrap. This issue focuses on the civic realm and includes essays by Francis Morrone, David Mayernik, and Dino Marcantonio, as well as portfolios of student and professional work. No. 7 features a cover drawing by architectural renderer, Andre Junget, which celebrates the ingenuity of Grand Central Station engineer William Wilgus.
Inventory number #009241