Arti decorative e design

Church Silver of Colonial Virginia

Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum, Feb. 2 to Mar. 8, 1970 · 1970 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

1970. Softcover. White wraps. 112 pp. 46 bw plates. Exhibition catalogue. Good, exlibrary with minimal markings. Sold as a reference copy only .

Marcel Breuer: Furniture and Interiors

Wilk, Christopher · 1981 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1981. Softcover. Black wraps. 192 pp. 199 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1981 exhibition featuring Marcel Breuer's furniture. "Offers the first comprehensive study of Marcel Breuer's enormously influential designs for furniture and ...

Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1875-1900

Peck, Amelia and Carol Irish · 2001 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$80.00 (€72.59 | £60.56 | ¥12,775)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth, gilt letters on spine, bronze & color illus. dust jacket with mylar cover, 288 pp. 102 BW illus. 86 color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2001-2002 exhibition featuring the ...

Highly Important Americana from the Collection of Stanley Paul Sax

NY: Sotheby's, Jan. 16 and 17, 1998 · 1998 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

NY, Sotheby's, 1998. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth with illustrated dj. 250+ pp. Numerous color illustrations. Sale 7087. A stunning collection of American furniture and decorative arts. Introduction by Wendell Garrett, and a remembrance by David Gutow. Lists 579 works. Includes s...

A Scene of Adornment: Decorations in the Victorian Home

Margret Woodbuty Strong Museum · 1975 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Rochester, NY, 1975. Softcover. White and color illustrated wraps with black lettering, 109 pp. 24 bw, 41 color plates. Essay by H.J. Swinney (The Reassuring Quality of Victorian Adornment). The catalogue features about 100 of the collections 500 pieces. Rochester, NY: Memoria...

Masterpieces of American Silver

Buhler, Kathryn C. · 1960 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1960. Softcover. Spiral bound. Gray papers covers. 99 pp. 102 small bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1960 exhibition of silver pieces. With chapters by Kathryn Buhler include The Hand Craft Era in American Silver (18th-19th ce...

Americana from the Daphne Farago Collection

Sanderson, Carol C. and Christopher P. Monkhouse · 1985 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Providence, RI, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1985. Softcover. Tan color illustrated wraps. 96 pp. 12 color, 132 bw plates. The 10-page essay "Folk Art Through the Eyes of Rhode Island Collectors" with 30 notes by Christopher Monkhouse profiles Eliza Radeke, Ab...

The Treasures of Tiffany

McKean, Hugh · 1982 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

Chicago, IL, Chicago Review Press, 1982. Softcover. Color illustrated wraps with white lettering, 72 pp. 4 bw, 33 color plates. A special exhibition by the Chicago Tribune at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago from the collection of the Charles Hosmer Morse Foundati...

In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 1650-1830/Fifty Years of Discovery Since the 1929 Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition

Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, Feb. 17 to July 6, 1980 · 1980 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

NY, Knopf, 1980. Softcover. Color wraps. 280 pp. 52 color, 308 bw plates. Chapters by Wendy A. Cooper include the documented object; the art of the upholstered object; special commissions; economics in fashion and workmanship; regionalism: old and new approaches; production ou...

In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 1650-1830 / Fifty Years of Discovery Since the 1929 Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition Hardbound Edition

Cooper, Wendy A. · 1980 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

NY, Knopf, 1980. Hardbound. Black cloth with color illustrated dustjacket. 280 pp. 52 color, 308 bw plates. HARDBOUND edition. An uncommon hardbound copy of this book, though it has the same ISBN as the paperbound edition. Chapters by Wendy A. Cooper include the documented obj...

New American Furniture: The Second Generation of Studio Furnituremakers

Boston, MA: MFA, Dec. 8, 1989 to Mar. 18, 1990, two other locations · 1990 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

1990. 2nd printing. Softcover. Wraps. 131 pp. 80 bw, 23 color plates. Foreword by Jonathan L. Fairbanks. 19-page essay with three pages of notes examines American furniture makers and furniture design from the 1950s to the 1980s. Includes biographical information on each artis...

She Walks in Splendor: Great Costumes 1550-1950

Covallo, Adeolph S. · 1963 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, 1963. Softcover. Candy striped wraps. 84 pp. 24 color, 10 bw plates. Subtitled "An Exhibition of Costumes, Costume Accessories and Illustrations from the Museum's Permanent Collections." Foreword by Perry T. Rathbone. Includes a bibliography. C...

Weathervanes and Whirligigs

Fitzgerald, Ken · 1967 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Bramhall House, 1967. Hardcover. Red cloth. 186 pp. 180 illustrations. This book takes you through the history of weathervanes and whirligigs from back in knighthood days when the boys who earned the banners used them as part of their heraldic tradition. The designs have a...

Bon Voyage: Designs for Travel

NY: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1986 · 1986 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

1986. Softbound. Wraps. 127 pp. 42 color, numerous bw plates. A thorough and in-depth examination of containers and conveyances designed to move or carry other items. Includes lots of luggage, hat boxes, steamship labels, trunks, rickshaws, pouches, purses, backpacks, etc. Qui...

American Pewter in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1974 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

Greenwich, New York Graphic Society, 1974. Hardcover. Orange cloth. 119 pp. Catalogue lists 411 works, which are listed by State, Pewterer, and then Unknown. A fair portion of the photographs have additional annotation in a knowledgeable hand. Introductory essay by Jonothan Fa...

The Folk Arts and Crafts of New England

Lord, Priscilla Sawyer and Daniel J. Foley · 1966 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Radnor, PA, Chilton Book Company, 1966. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Tan cloth; Tan illus. dj. 287 pp. 500+ bw plates. Includes detailed examination of jewelry, samplers, painted tin, hooked and woven rugs, tavern signs, toys, cigar store Indians, hatboxes, bandb...

The "Lost" Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany

McKean, Hugh F. · 1980 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

NY, Doubleday, 1980. Hardcover. Black cloth. Color-pictorial dj. 304 pp. 60 bw, 200+ color plates. An essential reference when trying to understand the breadth and depth of Tiffany's creative activities. Wonderful color plates, and a very comprehensive bibliography, followed b...

Yankee Weathervanes, Illustrated with Drawings by Corinne Pascoe

Kaye, Myrna · 1975 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1975. Hardcover. Black paper boards with red cloth spine, black and blue and illus. dust jacket in mylar cover. xvii, 236 pp. 130 illustrations. Discusses the history of the weathervane and all its many variations for rich/poor, city/farm...

Connecticut Pewter and Pewterers

Thomas, John Carl · 1976 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

Connecticut Historical, 1976. Hardcover. Grey cloth. 194 pp. 200+ bw plates. THE book on pewter from Connecticut. Very well illustrated, with a very useful Checklist at the rear, giving the name, working location and dates. Includes a bibliography and index. VG .

Southern Antiques & Folk Art

Morton, Robert · 1976 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Birmingham, AL, Oxmoor House, Inc, 1976. Hardcover. Oatmeal cloth with copper lettering on spine. 251 pp. plus colophon; color and bw illustrations throughout. Quite a lovely production, just loaded with color and bw plates which are all annotated and described. Includes furni...