Arti decorative e design

Marks of Early American Silversmiths with Notes on Silver, Spoon Types and List of New York City Silversmiths 1815 - 1841

Currier, Ernest M. · 1970 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Watkins Glen, NY, The American Life Foundation, 1970. Hardcover. Silver cloth with black lettering. 171 pp. Many bw ills. Illustrations by Currier. Edited with introduction by Kathryn C. Buhler. Alphabetized list of silversmiths, including descriptions, marks, and dates of act...

English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton

Cescinsky, Herbert · 1929 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Grand Rapids, MI, Dean-Hicks Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth. 438 pp. 900+ bw illus. A concise account of the development of English furniture and woodwork from the Gothic of the fifteenth century to the Classic Revival of the early nineteenth with the mini...

Introduction to Twentieth Century Design from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Drexler, Arthur and Greta Daniel · 1959 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

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NY, MoMA, 1959. Softcover. White wraps. 95 pp. 132 bw plates. An overview of major arts movements and objects of the modern age, such as art nouveau, Bauhaus, etc. Good+, some rubbing and sunning to cover, interior VG .

Domestic American Textiles: A Bibliographic Sourcebook

Gordon, Beverly · 1979 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

Ambridge, PA, Center For History of American Needlework, 1979. Softbound. Printed wraps. 217 pp. A nice copy. VG. ex-museum libris w/ plate to inside cover; ID sticker to front cover & discard marked barcode to back cover. spine sunned. interior appears free of marginalia/nota...

Decorated Stoneware Pottery of North America

Webster, Donald Blake · 1971 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Rutland, VT, Tuttle Company, 1971. Hardbound. Embossed tan cloth. 232 pp. with 300 illustrations in bw. A definitive work on this subject, and still a classic after 30+ years. From the dustjacket: "Historically, the reader will trace the growth of folk pottery from the small o...

Etruscan and Villanovan Pottery

DePuma, Richard D. · 1971 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1971. Softcover. Brown stapled paper wraps, French flaps, 35 pp. Numerous bw illus. Issued in conjunction with a 1971 exhibition of 52 Italian ceramic pieces from Midwestern collections. Arranged thematically: Villianov...

Catalogue of a Collection of Pottery and Porcelain Illustrating Popular British History Lent by Henry Willett, Esquire, of Brighton

Willett, Henry · 1899 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

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London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1899. Softcover. Faded light blue wraps. 123 pp. 13 bw line drawings. On spine: Willett Collection of Pottery and Porcelain. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition of these historical pieces assembled by British collector Henry Willet...

An American Tea Party: An Exhibition of Colonial Tea and Breakfast Tables, 1715-1783

Levy, Bernard and S. Dean Levy · 1988 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

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New York, NY, Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc, 1988. Softcover. Color illustrated stapled wraps with white and black lettering, 52 pp. 42 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1988 exhibition of these American colonial tables. Contains a brief introduction and an illustrated and...

Early Furniture of Louisiana, 1750-1830

Poesch, Jessie J. · 1972 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana State Museum, 1972. Softcover. Tan wraps with black lettering, bw ilustration, 85 pp. 1 color plate tipped in as frontispiece, 61+ bw illus. Issued in conjunction with a 1972 exhibition. With an introductory essay by Jessie J. Poesch. The anno...

Dutch Tiles in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

van Dam, Jan Daniel et al. · 1984 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984. Softcover. Cream color illustrated wraps; French flaps. 229 pp. with more than 200 bw and color plates. Survey of the tiles from the Museum's collection. Includes floor tiles, flora and fauna, figural, land and sea, ornamenta...

The Pennsylvania German Collection

Garvan, Beatrice · 1982 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

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Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982. Softcover. White ill. wraps. xxviii, 370 pp. 1115 bw ills. Features the museum's permanent collection of PA Dutch art and objects. Includes ceramics, glass, furniture and household objects, fraktur and books, tools, textiles, and...

The Pennsylvania German Collection

Garvan, Beatrice · 1982 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982. Softcover. White ill. wraps. xxviii, 370 pp. 1115 bw ills. Features the museum's permanent collection of PA Dutch art and objects. Includes ceramics, glass, furniture and household objects, fraktur and books, tools, textiles, and...

Modernism: 1860 - a Century of Style & Design - 1960

Sotheby's, NY: 1993 · 1993 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York, Sotheby's, 1993. Softcover. Grey ill. wraps. 64 pp. Profuse bw plates. Catalog featuring the gallery participants of the Sanford Smith's Modernism Expo. With articles about the Herter Brothers and Darius Ogden Mills, and the Raymond Loewy Automobile. VG+ .

Design in Sweden

1985 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

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Stockholm, The Swedish Institute, 1985. Softcover. White ill. wraps. 142 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. Surveys design in furniture, industrial design, graphic design, textiles, and glass. VG- (Ex-library, with labels and few marks) .

The Restoration of Ancient Bronzes and Other Alloys

Fink, Colin G. and Charles H. Eldridge · 1925 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

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New York, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925. Softcover. Pale wraps. 53 pp. Approx 20 bw ills. Includes introduction and report of experimental research carried out at Columbia University for the Met. Quite scarce!. VG- (Ex-lib. label at front and rear cover, inside fr...

Inventaire de Tous Les Meubles Du Cardinal Mazarin, Dresse En 1653, Et Publie D'Apre L'Original, Conserve Dans Les Archives de Conde

1861 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.70 | ¥15,969)

Londres (London), Whittingham et Wilkins, 1861. Hardcover. Brown embossed cloth, gilt letters on spine, 404 pp. No illus. Text is in French. An inventory of the furniture and fixtures owned by Cardinal Marzarin (1602-1661), Italian cardinal and chief minister of France from 16...

Buttons

Epstein, Diana and Millicent Safro · 1991 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1991. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering, white dust jacket color illustrated, 176 pp. 208 color plates. Celebration of all things button. Foreword by Jim Dine and Preface by Tom Wolfe. Presents more than 1,000 examples of the fine art...

Aluminum by Design

Nichols, Sarah · 2000 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2000. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. 296 pp. 385 bw and color plates. Examines the creative uses of aluminum from a variety of perspectives. Essays chronicle the technological development of aluminum and explore its use in archite...

Post-War Design from Various Sources

Hillier, Bevis · 1984 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

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London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1984. Softcover. Black/grey ill. wraps. Unpaginated. Numerous bw and color plates. Price list laid in. Catalogue from the auction of April 12 - 16, 1984. Wirkkala, Venini, Eames, Olivetti, Christofle, de Poli, etc. Eye candy catalogue of thing...

Princely Treasures

von Habsburg, Geza · 1997 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, The Vendome Press, 1997. Hardcover. Black cloth, pictorial DJ. 224 pp. 290 bw and color plates. Examines the decorative arts collecting habits of European medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Europe royalty. Jean, Duc de Berry created the first princely treasure chamber...