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Archibald Knox
London Art Media 2001
304pp, with over 800 colour and b/w plates. 4to. Boards, Very good with good dust wrapper. 18 essays which provide a definitive picture of the life and work of Archibald Knox, designer originating from the Isle of Man and who made his name as a jewellery designer etc for Liberty and Co amongst others and has great stature as someone who bridged in his work the Arts and Crafts Movement, Celtic Revival, Art Nouveau, and Modernism.
Stock ID: 22138More details Price: £80.00 -
Archigram 8 Milanogram Incluso Popular Pak
London Archigram 1968
Milanogram/Milan Triennale/population growth). Yellow envelope folder with pocket; cover image on inside. Contents: eight pages 420mm x 150mm, folded; seventeen sheets, double sided, 210mm x 150mm, and one 300mm x 210mm. Not numbered or ordered, but punch card codification down the edge of sheets. Sheets inserted in folder. Wallet designed to be posted to readers. Priced at 5 shillings. Collated from the Archigram Archival Project. Envelope a little browned and dusty.
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Architectural Design in Concrete
Stock ID: 21286More details Price: £85.00
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Architectural Drawing Perspective & Rendering
A Handbook for Students and Draughtsmen
B T Batsford Ltd 1949
viii + 96pp with 68 b/w, colour and half-tone plates and 35 b/w line figures, 4to, cloth, dw. Dw sl. faded along spine and bumped along edges else vg copy. Second edition. A detailed survey of architectural draughtsmanship in England.
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Architecture: A Modern View.
Thames & Hudson, 1990.
64pp, 74 b/w illustrations. Very slighly bumped on one corner else very good in dust wrapper. The book of Richards Roger's talk given at the 22nd annual Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture covering four inter-related themes of Patronage and Capitalism, Modernism, Post-Modernism and the Future. Signed by Richard Rogers and with Michael and Jose Manser's book plate on front end paper. Loosely inserted printed card saying "With all good wishes for the New Year, Richard Rogers."
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Architecture and Personalities
Country Life Ltd 1944
224pp illus. with b/w plates throughout. Sm 4to. VG. With chipped dust wrapper. Important review of the work of Sir Herbert Baker, tracking his career and friendship with Cecil Rhodes, his move to New Delhi, Kenya and back to the UK where he became active with the War Graves Commission work and Country House architecture alike.
Stock ID: 20789More details Price: £85.00 -
Architecture and Politics in Germany 1918-1945
Cambridge Mass Harvard (1968) 1985
reprint. 278pp illus. with b/w plates. 4to. Good. Previous owner's name on front end paper.
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Aus englischen Gartenstädten. Beobachtungen und Ergebnisse einer sozialen Studienreise.
Stock ID: 22580More details Price: £320.00
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Bally:
Paris E Chambrelent Ste Ame E.T.I.O.P. 1933
Cockade 'Vent du Nord' type fan with wooden handles.The paper leaf is printed on one side with an adaptation of a poster design showing male and female hands holding footwear by Bally; signed and dated d'apres CAPPIELLO, 1933.BALLY: Swiss company designing/producing shoes for the high end market. Founded in 1851 by Carl Franz Bally (1821–1899) and his brother Fritz in the basement of their family home. CAPPIELLO, Leonetto: b. 1875, Livorno, Italy - d. 1942, Cannes, France. Celebrated Italian poster art designer who lived in Paris. Beautiful condition.
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Barnett Freedman the Graphic Art
With an essay on Freedman as master lithographer by Michael Twyman.
Stock ID: 21461More details Price: £280.00
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Basil Spence: Buildings & Projects
London RIBA Publishing 2012
372pp+ numerous b/w and colour photographic plates. Large square 4to. Paper covered boards, white illuminated lettering. Fine. In-depth chronological examination of the works of Basil Spence, with accompanying illustrative photographic plates. Introduction by Louise Campbell. Useful list of major projects. Ex libris Gavin Stamp with his bookplate.
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Beach Huts at Ste Adresse
Edinburgh 1963
Pen and Ink Drawing. In black frame, mounted behind glass. With stamp of Foulis Gallery on verso and hand written picture title. Paper a little aged. New mount and frame preserving original label. Richard Demarco is an artist, writer, producer and director of programmes and projects of theatre and visual art. Born in Scotland in 1930 with ancestors from Ireland, France and Italy, he initiated and activated new, forward-looking collaborations across Europe in the legacy of WWII, and since the 1950s has practised as a leading European advocate for contemporary art. He was a co-founder of the Edinburgh based Traverse Theatre in 1963 and in 1966 founded his own gallery in the city. [Closed 1992]
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Beautiful Houses; Being a Description of Certain Well-Known Artistic Houses
with a preface
London London Sampson Low, Searle & Rivington Ltd 1882
v +115pp illustrated with frontis + initial letters representing some aspect of the houses described. Small 8vo. Decorated paper covered overprinted with red and black letter titles. These are dusty and a little worn. Internally good. The book describes 12 artists' houses including, Sassoon, Leighton, Hazeltine, William Burgess, Morrison, Alma Tadema and The British Embassy in Rome and Villa Campana. Attractive book which is sought after because of the artist houses represented.
Stock ID: 21993More details Price: £65.00 -
Before the Merchant Adventuers: building the hall
An account books of the fraternity of Jesus and Mary York 1357-69
Stock ID: 21997More details Price: £15.00
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Beirut: A City in Crisis
London The New English Library 1983
126pp illustrated with b/w photographs by McCullin with portrait frontis of McCullin By Terence Donovan. Very good with very good dust wrapper.
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Berlin und die Berliner
Berlin Rembrandt-Verlag 1958
96pp illustrated with b/w plates. Square 4to. 235 x 225mm. Photographs by McBride and Millar. Text in English and German. Collection of black and white images of Berlin seen through the eyes of two Americans. A near fine copy, dust jacket has some light wear.
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Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses
Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art and MIT Press 1989
256pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Essays on Case Study Houses by Ester McCCoy, AmeliaJones, and Elisabeth A T Smith, Reyner Banham and others. Long 4to. Vg in slightly worn dw. Scarce.
Stock ID: 22038More details Price: £125.00 -
Bobby Shuttle un his woife Sayroh's visit to Manchester:
un to th' greight Hert Treasures Eggshibishun, at Owd Trafford. Written for Bobby hissel by th' editor oth "Bowton Luminary" ..
Manchester J Heywood 1857
80pp 12mo. Blue decorated paper wrappers Very good. Wrappers a little dusty. Written in Lancashire dialect, one of a series of books written to explore Manchester and Lancashire people and places including Yetton Park, The Mechanic's Institute and other places. This particular volume explore the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Humorous account but insightful on how ordinary people responded to the exhibition. Uncommon.
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Book of the firm's history and its construction projects. Undated
nd c1938
Unpaginated. c12pp Introduction briefly outlining the development of the firm followed by c60pp illustrations of projects + c12pp period ads for building products and specialist firms. Long 4to. Green cloth covered boards with art deco style gilt lettering on upper board. At the time of production, the firm was based in Stockwell, London with specialist woodworking department in Margate. Inter – war projects illustrated include various Odeon cinemas, mansion blocks including Nell Gwynn House, Chelsea, the Bexhill Pavilion, Margate Lido, various suburban housing schemes, offices and shops, schools and colleges. Work centred on London and the south east. The Architects noted for most of the projects that are illustrated.
Stock ID: 22578More details Price: £145.00 -
Boxford
1974
Etching and aquatint on wove paper 400 x 625mm Framed and mounted no 95 of 150
Stock ID: 20977More details Price: £550.00