Davies, Colin
KEY HOUSES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Plans, Sections, and Elevations
NY: W.W. Norton, 2006

Quarto. 240 pp; well illustrated; bibliography. Includes CD-ROM with digital files of all the drawings. Paperback. Bottom corner bumped, else Fine. This book includes classic residential works by such seminal architects as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, as well as houses by more recent masters such as Tadao Ando, and Rem Koolhaas. Includes scale plans of every floor together with elevations, sections, and site plans where appropriate, for each house.
Inventory number #004423

Cohen, Edie
WEST COAST ROOMS: Portfolios of 41 Architects and Interior Designers
Gloucester, MA: Rockport Publishers, 2001

First edition. Quarto. 192 pp; profusely illustrated with color photographs; directory of design & architecture firms, and photographers. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers show light wear. Presents the portfolios of forty-one of the West Coast's best designers, including Barbara Barry, Thomas Beeton, Olson Sundberg, and Kelly Wearstler.
Inventory number #004422

Stoneman, Vernon C.
JOHN AND THOMAS SEYMOUR Cabinetmakers in Boston 1794-1816
Boston: Special Publications, 1959

First edition. Quarto. 393 pp; descriptive catalogue of over 250 desks, secretaries, sideboards, tables, and bureaux, all illustrated with photographs, including 9 in color; references and bibliography. Cloth. Limited edition of 2000 copies. Ex-library copy - stamp on all 3 edges, glue stain on rear pastedown where pocket was removed. Head & tail of spine starting to fray, backstrip & all corners rubbed, front cover has a few scratches, spine & top inch of covers sunned. A good reference copy.
Inventory number #004378

Le Grice, Lyn
THE ART OF STENCILLING
NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1986

Quarto. 160 pp; numerous color photos and illustrations; materials; suppliers; recommended reading list. Paperback. VG.
Inventory number #004288

Brown, Jane
BEATRIX: The Gardening Life of Beatrix Jones Farrand 1872-1959
NY: Viking Press, 1995

First edition. Quarto. 252 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations; appendices; index. Cloth with dj. Near fine/VG. Garden historian Jane Brown's biography conveys both the privileged social world in which Farrand grew up and the genius of her work at such places as Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., and the Eyrie, the Rockefeller garden at Seal Harbor, Maine.
Inventory number #004282

Packer, Charles
PARIS FURNITURE by the Master Ebenistes. A Chronologically Arranged Pictorial Review of Furniture by the Master Menuisiers-Ebenistes
Newport: Ceramic Book Company, 1956

Limited edition of 1000 copies. Quarto. xxv, 104 pp plus 237 b/w plates; bibliography. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. #556/1000. VG-, lighter areas along spine edge & bottom edge. Based mainly on pieces in American collections, this work gives a commentary on the styles and techniques of the 17th and 18th century furniture makers, a list of the masters from Boulle to Jacob, and a useful pictorial review of pieces arranged in chronological order. An appendix lists some architects, sculptors, painters etc. who influenced French furniture design from the latter part of the 17th C. to the beginning of the 19th C.
Inventory number #004267

Gassner, Hubertus
KRIEG UND FRIEDEN: Eine Deutsche Zarin in Schloss Pawlowsk
Hamburg: Dolling & Galitz, 2001

First edition. Quarto. 459 pp; illustrated with numerous color & b/w illustrations; bibliography. Text in German. Powder blue boards with blue velour cut outs. Slight bump to two corners, else a fresh new copy. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Haus der Kunst Munchen, November 9, 2001-February 10, 2002. Includes some letters of Maria Feodorovna.
Inventory number #004218

Montgomery, Charles
AMERICAN FURNITURE The Federal Period in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
NY: Viking Press, 1966

First edition. Quarto. 497 pp; 491 b/w photographs; 127 illustrations of inlays in color; 21 room settings (11 in color; 46 cabinetmakers' labels and 39 furniture details for regional identification; cabinetmakers' biographies; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG, light chipping at top & bottom of dj spine & bottom corner, dj price clipped. The important reference book on American Federal furniture; and an essential work for the serious student of American decorative arts. Arntzen P218, Franklin 2300
Inventory number #004216

Reeh, Henrik
ORNAMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS: Siegfried Kracauer and Modern Urban Culture
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005

First edition, review copy. Quarto. 248 pp; 36 b/w photographs by Reeh; notes; index. Cloth with unclipped jacket. Fine in near fine jacket. Includes MIT Press promotional sheet and bookmark. Variations on the theme of ornament in Siegfried Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can reappropriate urban life.
Inventory number #004210

Seebohm, Caroline & Christopher Simon Sykes
PRIVATE LANDSCAPES: Creating Form, Vistas, and Mystery in the Garden
NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1989

First edition. Square octavo. xi, 251 pp; profusely illustrated with photographs & plans; appendix; source guide; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj, VG/VG. A compendium of 19 gardens in England and America that have been designed for lasting appeal -- the shapes, views, vistas and surprises that landscape architects speak of.
Inventory number #004202

Baker, Martha & Sara Evans
THE OUTDOOR LIVING ROOM
NY: Clarkson Potter, 2001

Quarto. 224 pp; profusely illustrated with color photographs; resources. Hardcover with dj. Fine/Fine. Landscape designer Martha Baker offers more than 45 examples where porches, pools, patios, decks, and gardens have been turned into outdoor living spaces. The styles include classic, rustic, romantic, modern, whimsical, and in town. The resource section illustrates and describes garden furniture, architectural and landscape elements, and decorative items.
Inventory number #004200

Cooper, Guy & Gordon Taylor
THE CURIOUS GARDENERS: Obsession and Diversity in 45 British Gardens
London: Headline Book, 2001

First edition. Quarto. 192 pp; color photos throughout; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj. Near fine/Near fine. A very personal tour throughout Britain by these two innovative landscape designers. They categorize the gardens as either traditional, eccentric, or contemporary.
Inventory number #004198

Suleiman, Susan Rubin
BUDAPEST DIARY: In Search of the Motherbook
Lincoln, NE: Univ of Nebraska Press, 1996

First edition. Octavo. 232 pp. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine. A clean, unmarked copy; jacket has light edgewear with minor wear to spine ends & bottom corner. The author left Budapest in 1949 as a young child with her parents, fleeing communism. This is the diary of her return 35 years later and her search for personal history.
Inventory number #004165

Whiteman, Robin
The English Lakes
NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989

First American edition. Oblong quarto. 160 pp; profuse color photographs; bibliography; index. Publisher's blue cloth with unclipped dustjacket. VG{/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; edges of jacket flaps yellowed, else VG. An interesting photographic tour of England's Lake District and its range of landscapes. The book features Ambleside & the Central Lakes, Keswick & the Northern Lakes, Kendal & the Eastern Lakes, Windermere & the Southern Lakes, Ravenglass & the Western Lakes, and Buttermere & the North-Western Lakes.
Inventory number #004158

Bowe, Patrick & Michael George
THE GARDENS OF IRELAND
NY: New York Graphic Society, 1986

First edition. Quarto. 189 pp; profusely illustrated in color; horticultural index. Cloth with dj. Near fine in near fine jacket. Twenty-one gardens in the English country house tradition.
Inventory number #004125

Osler, Mirabel
THE SECRET GARDENS OF FRANCE
NY: Prentice Hall Press, 1993

First edition. Octavo. 158 pp; illustrated in color throughout; index. Cloth in unclipped dust jacket. Near fine / VG, slight edgewear to jacket.
Inventory number #004124

Lovatt-Smith, Lisa
NEW YORK LIVING
NY: Whitney Library of Design, 1999

First edition. Quarto. 214 pp; color illustrations throughout; bibliography. Cloth in unclipped jacket. Near fine in near fine jacket.
Inventory number #004109

Radice, Judi
MENU DESIGN: Marketing the Restaurant Through Menu Graphics
NY: PBC International, 1985

First edition, second printing. Quarto. 250 pp; illustrated in color; appendix; list of designers; list of printers; index. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in VG jacket, minor edgewear to dj.
Inventory number #004106

Brown, Lancelot; Landscape Institute; Tyne and Wear County Council Museums
CAPABILITY BROWN AND THE NORTHERN LANDSCAPE
Newcastle upon Tyne: Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, 1983

Quarto. 48 pp, illustrated with b/w illustrations throughout. Stiff printed wrappers. A fine copy.
Inventory number #004083

Tracy, Berry B
FEDERAL FURNITURE AND DECORATIVE ARTS AT BOSCOBEL
NY: Boscobel Restoration / Harry N. Abrams, 1981

Square quarto. 165 pp; nearly 200 color & b/w illustrations; selected bibliography; index. Paperback. A fine, unused copy. A remarkable collection of Federal furniture and decorative arts is displayed at Boscobel, a fully restored example of New York Federal domestic architecture at Garrison, NY. The collection includes furniture by such important NY cabinetmakers as Duncan Phyfe, Charles-Honore Lannuier, and Michael Allison, paintings by Benjamin West, Ralph Earl, Ammi Phillips, an a pair of portraits attributed to the 18th century limner John Watson.
Inventory number #004040