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Jardins Modernes à l'Exposition Internationale de 1937
Paris Charles Moreau 1937
4pp text and 48 photographic plates which are heliotypes. Loose leaf portfolio with ribbon ties. Portfolio a little worn and dusty but good and the photographs inside are fabulous. Designers given. Introduction by Jacques Gréber,: Works illustrated include projects by Guyon, Despres, Prou, Subes, Tournon, Barsacq, Lardat, Fissore Laprade et BazinDuiliu, Gyorgyi, Jasson, Moser Barot amongst others Focuses on modernist private and public gardens.
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John Campell: Dediscovery of an Arts and Crafts Architect
London The Prince of Wales Insitute of Architecture 1997
60pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Small Square 4to. Wrappers. Very good copy. Campbell 1878-1947 is little known. Worked in England and Germany and this is the first book about his life and work.
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John Nash Architect of the Picturesque
London English Heritage 2013
198pp illustrated. Essays on aspects of his work. 4to. Boards. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper. The aim of this book, which originated in a symposium held by the Georgian Group in September 2009, was to bring together this recent scholarship in a single volume. Useful collection of essays on Country houses, Regent Street and London work etc.
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John Ruskin: The Early Years 1819-1859
London Yale University Press 1985
301pp illustrated with b/w plates. Very good with good dust wrapper. Loosely inserted A.L.S. typed from Tm Hilton to John Hutchinson, architectural historian and Ruskin devotee. Hilton was responding to detailed remarks about his book made by John Hutchinson.
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Joseph Cornell Portfolio
Stock ID: 21572More details Price: £85.00
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Kandinsky
London Thames and Hudson 1983
431pp illustrated. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. First edition of this very good monograph.
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Kenneth Armitage Life and Work
With a Foreword by Alan Bowness and a text edited by Tamsyn Woollcombe in association with the artist
Stock ID: 22339More details Price: £55.00
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King's College Chapel Cambridge: The Side-Chapel Glass
The Cambridge Antiquarian Society and the Provost and Scholars of King's College 1988
xi + 220pp w 8 colour plates and b/w illustrations throughout, 4to, wraps. Vg copy. The text contains a catalogue of approx. 23 stained glass windows and an overview of the history and context of stained glass at the King's College Chapel.
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Knight's Guide to the Arrangement and Construction of Workhouse Buildings
with notes and diagrams on the requirements and recommendations of the Local Government Board in regard to the erection of Poor Law Institutions
London Knight and Co. 1889
115pp + diagrams of work house layouts etc. Also c 12pp period ads printed on contrasting grey paper and including yellow end paper with adverts. Cloth with gilt titles. Very slightly rubbed at head and base of spine and corners else very good copy. Royal 8vo. Fascinating on the design of the buildings written at a time where approaches to the poor and under privileged were being addressed by the new class of professional architects in association with those in local government who were involved in the planning and regulation of housing and cities.
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L'Art Decoratif D'Aujourd'hui
Paris, Editions Vincent Freal & Co (1925) 1959 Collection de "L'Esprit Nouveau" 1959
218pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. throughout. Decorated wraps. Vg indeed. Revised edition of one of the original L'Esprit Nouveau, promoting the works and ideas of Le Corbusier and his contemporaries. From the library of Kenneth and Diana Rowntree without signatures.
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La Basquaise: Guafretterie: Bisuiterie
Montreui sur Bois Published by the firm nd c1920
16pp, stapled, 4pp text including covers and 12pp chromolitho plates of the wafers etc including their dimensions. One page shows equipment for sale for ice cream dispensing. The firm patented the ice cream scoop. The Gomez-la Basquaise biscuit factory was operating from about 1900. It ceases its activity in 1980. The biscuit factory specialised in articles for ice cream parlours and gauffreteries. It won a bronze medal in Limoges in 1927 and a gold medal at the colonial exhibition in 1931. Lower wrapper has pencil notes and scribbles, unrelated to content.
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La ferronnerie Moderne. 3eme serie.
Paris, Ch. Moreau, 1930
(8) pages et 32 planches en heliogravure. Loose leaf portfolio with stylish modernist design and ribbon ties. Cover a little scuffed, otherwise a good copy with bright clean plates. A brief introduction in French by Clouzot is accompanied by single-sided stiff card plates depicting superb art-deco wrought iron-work. A stunning resource for 1930s metalwork and design applied to fixtures and furnishings, interior and exterior.
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Les Jardins
Poëme
Paris Chez Levrault, Freres, Libraires 1801
New expanded edition. xxxi + 166pp. Illustrated frontispiece. Tree calf binding with black gilt lettered spine label. A little rubbed at corner else a good copy. Culturally important poem by this protégé of Marie-Antoinette in which the author extols the virtue of nature as the inspiration for the garden and landscape. First published in 1782. Lovely copy of a much translated poem.
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Lettering for Architects and Designers
London B T Batsford 1962
160pp. Illustrated with b/w plates throughout. Decorated end papers. 4to. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. Comprehensive survey in in relation to entrances, interiors, public buildings, shops and supermarkets, illuminated signs, exhibitions etc.
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Lettering in Book Art
The application of lettering for display work on jackets, title-pages and in the text of books. Traditional forms in relation to present day tendancies
St Gall, Switzerland Zollikofer and Co
95pp. Illustrated in b/w. Small 4to (255 x 220mm) Vg in dust wrapper which is slightly frayed at the edges.
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Lewis Foreman Day (1845-1910) Unity in Design and Industry
Woodbridge Antique Collectors Club 2007
300pp illus with b/w and colour plates. Large 4to. Like new. Fine in dust wrapper. An appraisal of a rather neglected figures in late nineteenth-century design. In evaluating Day's parallel career as an industrial designer and a major writer and critic, the book shows his relationship to other influential design figures of the time and explores his relationships with colleagues including William Morris, Walter Crane, W.A.S. Benson etc.
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Liberty Silks Sample Book G39 Sirang Silk
London Liberty and Co nd c 1930
50 tiny samples of coloured silk in binding. Lovely miniature item. 3 x 5 inches approximately. Nine samples have been clipped so there are corners or small parts missing. 37 have British Standard Colour paper numbers stuck to samples, as issued and so 13 tiny labels have gone astray. Very good. Colours have not faded over time. Despite the little clipping missing, the item is a really nice one showing the range of silks sold by Liberty when selling fabric was part of the major enterprise of the firm.
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Light box
London Architectural Association Box 1 1985
32pp text-booklet ('sketchbook'), + collection of material comprising piece of silk screened fabric, tin & copper-plate, 'chessboard' & two circuit boards. 320x320mm in presentation purple box with decorative gilt title on front. Vg. With introductory essays by: Dawn Ades, Nigel Coates, J. Christopher Joner, John Thackara. Collection of material for Daniel Weil's 'Light Box' installation. Mechanism of opening box slightly damaged because of poor assembly when made. Hard to find. The box explores the 1980s works of the 1980s. Best known for his deconstructed radio in a clear bag which challenged the idea of audio equipment always being in a black box.
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Liturgy and Architecture
Barrie and Rockliff 1960
xv+191pp,53 b/w photographs+many line drawings. With slightly worn d/w. With Reyner Banham's bookplate on front paste down. On re-ordering of churches to meet modern liturgical forms.
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Living Traditions of Scotland published for the Festival of Britain with the catalogue (revised) for the Exhibition of the same name.
HMSO 1951
90pp booklet illus with b/w plats illustrating traditional crafts and including period ads. Lists exhibits by Catalogues and the firms and individuals who contributed.
Stock ID: 21963More details Price: £25.00