Arti decorative e design

In Black & White. The Graphics of Charles Tomlinson

PAZ Octavio · 1976 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Cheadle, Carcanet New Press, 1976. 25pp text and 53 plates. Boards, 23x15. Very good copy in very good dust wrapper. Includes three short essays by Tomlinson.

City of Norwich Catalogue of A Loan Exhibition of The Modern Movement in British Water-Colour Painting at Norwich Castle Museum

NORWICH MUSEUMS COMMITTEE · 1957 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Norwich, 1957. 32pp inc short bibliog, catalogue of 78 numbers, 4pp plates. Card covers, 23x15. Covers a little rubbed round edges, inscription on title-page, very good copy thus. Clausen to Piper. 25 artists.

Edward Burra Watercolours and Drawings October 7th-31st 1970

ROTHENSTEIN John (intro) · 1970 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Hamet Gallery, 1970 8pp inc 2 full page plates, catalogue of 35 numbers, short chronology. Card covers, 23x21. Faintly sunned on spine else very good copy.

Catalogue of a Collection of Worcester Porecelain in the Musem at the Royal Porcelain Works by ...

BINNS R W · 1882 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Worcester, Worcester Royal Porcelain Company, 1882. vii, 183pp inc many illustrations. Gilt lettered cloth, 22x15. Top and bottom of spine pulled with little loss, corners bumped and cover faintly mottled but giilt lettering fresh, binding tight and contents very nice. Good s...

Chess Table. Paris 1925. Paper Model, Scale 1:7. Including a booklet of Rodchenko's furniture designs

NIEMIEJER J and OVERVOORDE Chr. (booklet compiled by) · 1989 · Inch's Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Amsterdam, Thoth, 1989. Booklet, 12pp inc illustrations PLUS stiff card sheets in red and black for making the model with assembly instruction sheet. Texts in Dutch and English. Attractive card box, 21x21. Box a little rubbed and creased, contents very good. Unusual and attra...

Glas Silber 1980

SCHMITT Peter · 1980 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Karlsruhe, Badisches Landmuseum, 1980. 102pp inc photos, catalogue of 132 numbers, artist biographies, bibliog. Wraps, 21x21. Very good copy. Exhibition catalogue of modern glass and siverware.

Ebbe Weiss-Weingart Schmuck 1946-1983

SCHMITT Peter (intro) · 1983 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Karlsruhe, Badisches Landmuseum, 1983. 130pp, list of exhibitions, bibliog, illustrations, catalogue of 64 numbers. Wraps, 19x16. Very good copy. Particularly nice gold jewelry, but also includes other material. Style is modern.

Adam and Eve. A collection of original material

BRODERICK Laurence · 1975 · Inch's Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

unpublished, c1975-c1995. 13 original photos mounted single-sided on blackpaper, 5 in colour, of the sculpting of Adam and Eve, plus 6 further original photos, 5 mounted on stiff card, plus one letter to Derek Bottomley and three pages of hand written notes by Broderick regar...

A Calender of British Taste. From 1600 To 1800 being A Museum of Specimens & Landmarks chronologically arranged.

CARRITT E F · 1948 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Routledge & Keegan Paul, nd [1948]. xiii, 476pp. Cloth, 22x14. Pages browned round edges else good copy in dust wrapper. A chronological picture of British taste in art, nature and manners.

Designing With Light. Public Spaces. Lighting solutions for exhibitions, museums and historic places.

TURNER Janet · 1998 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Crans-Près-Céligny, RotoVision, 1998. Pictoral end papers, 159pp inc photos. Association copy with inscription to David Rock from Janet Turner. Cloth, 24x23. Smal bump bottom left corner else fine in dust wrapper. Over 15 case studies with detailed information plus over 100 l...

Stanley Morison: His typographic achievement.

MORAN James · 1971 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Lund Humphries, 1971. 184pp, many illustrations, a few in colour, list of Morison's writings, brief bibliography. Cloth. 31x22. ery good copy in dust wrapper Best source for Morison's contribution to modern typography.

A Passion For Wings. Aviation and the Western Imagination 1908-1918.

WOHL Robert · 1994 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

New Haven, London, Yale, 1994. vii, 320pp, incl 348 illustrations , many in colour and very evocative, 22 pages of notes. Cloth, dw. 27x22. Fine copy. Hard back version of this wide-ranging and authoritative study.

Contemporary Japanese Design

EVANS Sian · 1991 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Collins & Brown, 1991. Decorated end papers, 224pp inc hundreds of photos, further reading list. Boards, 26x26. Evidence of label on spine else very good copy. Interesting if a little out of date now. Japanese design had incorporated many design ideas from the west. D...

Ideo. Masters of Innovation

MYERSON Jeremy (foreword) · 2002 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Lawrence King, 2002. 160pp inc 200 colour photos. Wraps, 28x24. Two staple holes on front cover else very good. First in-depth study of Ideo, created in Silicon Vallley in 1991 by Mike Nuttall, David Kelley and Bill Moggridge. Interviews, essays and case studies. Love...

Towards Post-Modernism: Design Since 1851.

COLLINS Michael · 1987 · Inch's Books

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London, British Museum Press, (1987), 1994, revised ed. 191pp, 174 illustrations, 16 in colour, A-Z of artists and designers, bibliog. Pictoral wraps, 25x19. Near fine copy. Evolution of the decorative arts from the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Tihany Design.

TIHANY Adam D, with McCARTHY Nina · 1999 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

NY, Montacelli Press, 1999. 320pp, a great many colour photos, biography. Introduction by Paul Goldberger. Cloth. 34x23. Fine copy in dust wrapper. Features over forty of Adam Tihany's restaurant designs, as well as his furniture, tableware, china etc. Heavy item, may require...

Designs for 20th-century Interiors

LESLIE Fiona · 2000 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, V&A, 2000. 144pp, colour illustrations. Cloth, 28x21. Fine copy in dust wrapper. From collections at the V&A

Documenting Design: Works on Paper in the European Collection of the Royal Ontario Museum.

COLLINSON Howard Creel · 1993 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, 1993. viii, 120pp, many attractive b&w illustrations, bibliog. Cloth, 29x22, wrapper Fine. Very good source, showing the role of prints and drawings in design history from the Renaissance to the present.

Shop Planning and Design.

HARTNELL A P. · 1944 · Inch's Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

George Parnall & Co Ltd, nd, c1944? 87pp, including photos, plans, drawings. Cloth, 29x22. Very good copy in clipped dust wrapper and original transparent cover (this with pieces missing from front and inside rear flap) which is printed with the text 'With the Compliments of ...

The Decoration and Renovation of the Home... A Practical Handbook for House Owners and Tenants, Architects, Decorators and Others, with 14 Coloured Plates, showing 89 harmonious Colour Schemes for wall decoration, etc, and many Illustrations in the Text by...With a Chapter on "Period Furniture and Appropriate Mural Decoration" By Herbert E Binstead

JENNINGS Arthur Seymour · 1920 · Inch's Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Trade Publishing Co, (1920), nd[1923] 2nd ed. 220pp plus illustrations and 22 pages related adverts. Also 19 plates of colour samples. Cloth, leather spine, probably an early rebind, 29x21. One plate has an ancient Oxford Public Library stamp on reverse. No other libr...