Arti decorative e design

Classic Fabrics

Spencer-Churchill, Henrietta · 1996 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, Rizzoli, 1996. Hardcover. Red cloth boards, color illus. DJ. Over 200 vibrant color photos. The author shares her knowledge of the long history and art of decorating with fabrics, enabling anyone to recognize and use traditional textures and patterns to shape great r...

Richard Jolley and Tommie Rush: A Life Glass

Jolley, Richard; Tommie Rush; Peter Morrin (essay) · 2011 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Mobile, Alabama, Mobile Museum of Art, 2011. Softcover. Translucent wraps with black printing, stapled binding. 24 pp. Profuse color images. Includes and essay and a checklist of 113 works in the exhibition, which was held at the Mobile Museum of Art from April 22-July 10, 201...

American Silversmiths and Their Marks

Ensko, Stephen G. C. · 1927 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

New York, Privately Printed, 1927. Hardcover. Brown leather over boards; 219 pp.; 10 bw plates. Includes a bibliography and information about silversmiths active in Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire...

American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection

Warren, David B.; Michael K Brown; Elizabeth Ann Coleman; Emily Ballew Neff · 1998 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Houston, TX, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Princeton University Press, 1998. Paperback. Color illustrated glossy wraps. XXII 468 pp. 700 halftones, 75 color plates. A heavy book. From the DJ: the book records over 1,100 superb examples of furniture, paintings and decorative a...

American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection

Warren, David B.; Michael K Brown; Elizabeth Ann Coleman; Emily Ballew Neff · 1998 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Houston, TX, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Princeton University Press, 1998. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards, burgundy glossy illustrated DJ. XXII 468 pp. 700 halftones, 75 color plates. A heavy book. From the DJ: the book records over 1,100 superb examples of furniture, paintin...

Pewter in America: Its Makers and Their Marks

Laughlin, Ledlie Irwin · 1940 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. Hardcover. Half-leather calf over worn marbled boards. Vol. 1: xvii, (3), 138 pp. with 58 pp. illustrating over 150 items. Vol. 2: plates 59-78. pp. [9], 1-242. Traces development of pewter in England and America. Chapters cover the busi...

Elegant Eating: Four Hundred Years of Dining in Style

Glanville, Philippa and Hilary Young (editors) · 2002 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$70.00 (€63.51 | £52.98 | ¥11,178)

London, England, V&A Publications, 2002. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards; Color pictorial dj.; Illus. endpapers; 144 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. Highlights of dining in Europe from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries, particularly the dressing of the t...

Marine, China Trade and Sporting Art Auction

Halfpenny, Pat · 2009 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Northeast Auctions by Ronald Bourgeault, LLC, 2009. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps; 256 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. From the sale held August 15-16, 2009; 1,052 lots listed, including early American and Canadian works, such as decoy...

Foster-Lemmens Collection

2010 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Northeast Auctions by Ronald Bourgeault, LLC, 2010. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps; 103 pp.; 600+ color figures. Accompanied the sale held August 8, 2010; 637 lots listed, with annotations, including early American furniture, glass, needlework, and...

Important Auction of Miniature Decorative Arts from the Old Salem Toy Museum, Including Property from the Personal Collection of Thomas A. Gray

Gray, Thomas A. · 2010 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Northeast Auctions by Ronald Bourgeault, LLC, 2010. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps; 126 pp.; 300+ color figures. From the sale held Octover 30, 2010, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; 330 lots listed, with annotations, 145 of which are from the collect...

Truth, Beauty and Design Victorian, Edwardian and Later Decorative Art

Wainwright, Clive (Introduction); Adrian J. Tillbrook (Foreword) · 1986 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, England, Fischer Fine Art Limited, 1986. Softcover. Black color-illustrated wraps with french folds, 92 pp. profusely illustrated in color/bw. Issued in conjunction with a 1986 exhibition. Austrian architect and designer Josef Hoffmann once wrote: "We should start agai...

Bohmisches Glas Der Gegenwart: Ausstellung, Hamburg Museum Fur Kunst Und Gewerbe, 28. 9 - 4. 11. 1973

Adlerova, Alena; Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg · 1973 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 1973. Softcover. Black and white illustrated wraps, 143 pp. profuse bw illustrations. Text in German. Features Bohemian contemporary glass by 50 artists. Contains lengthy introductory text and a catalogue of 190 works, not all of ...

Timeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks

Hohmann, Frank L; Kirtland H Crump; Donald L Fennimore; Morrison H Heckscher; Martha H Willoughby; David F Wood; et al. · 2009 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

New York, New York, Hohmann Holdings LLC, 2009. Hardcover. Gold cloth boards, navy dust jacket with color illustration. 376 pp. over 500 full color illustrations. This beautifully illustrated volume demonstrates why clocks were so important to colonial Americans. It catalogues...

Less Is More: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Children's Quilts from the Collection of Linda and Irwin Berman

Carlisle, Lillian Baker · 1979 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1979. Softcover. White stapled wraps with bw illustration.15 pp. 29 bw illustrations, including on covers. Issued in conjunction with a 1979 exhibition of children's quilts. The annotated catalogue presents 42 pieces, and more than...

An Important Collection of Antique American Furniture

Frankfurther, Dr. Alfred M.; John Wanamaker · 1930 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$80.00 (€72.58 | £60.55 | ¥12,775)

New York, John Wanamaker, 1930. Softcover. Grey paper wraps, stapled, 61 pp. bw illustrations throughout. From the title page: "Probably the most important yet assembled, including the finest work attributed to such foremost American cabinet-makers as John Goddard, John Seymou...

Federal Furniture and Decorative Arts at Boscobel

Tracy, Berry B.; Mary Black · 1981 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Boscobel Restoration Inc. / Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1981. Softcover. Black wraps with orange-tone and color photographic illustrations, 165 pp. foldout map, 215 illustrations, including 166 color plates. From the cover flap: Boscobel is a delightful example of New York...

Guld- Och Silversmeder I Sverige, 1520-1850

Upmark, Gustaf · 1925 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$160.00 (€145.17 | £121.11 | ¥25,550)

Stockholm, Sweden, Gunnar Tisells Tekniska, 1925. Hardcover. Black buckram with gold spine lettering, [VII] 951 pp. 94 bw plates and very many images of gold and silversmiths' marks in black and white. Text in Swedish. Note about silver in Stockholm taped onto front free endpa...

Platine, or Et Argent. Dictionnaire Des Poincons Officiels Francais Et Etrangers, Anciens Et Modernes, de Leur Creation (XIV Siecle) a Nos Jours. Tome II - Volume II

Beuque, Emile · 1928 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Paris, France, Imprimerie C. Courtois, 1928. Hardcover. Marbled paper on boards, quarter binding with brown leather, [VII] 310 pp. small black and white illustrations throughout. Text in French. Dictionary of French and foreign hallmarks, or official marks, of those who worked...

Wallpapers: An International History and Illustrated Survey from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Oman, Charles; Jean Hamilton; E. A. Entwisle · 1982 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1982. Hardcover. Red cloth boards, color wallpaper-illustrated dust jacket, 486 pp. over 902 illustrations, with 77 color plates. From the dj: A pictorially and highly informative survey of wallpapers and their history from the early 16th century to ...

Close Cover Before Striking: The Golden Age of Matchbook Art

Steele, H. Thomas; Jim Heimann; Rod Dyer · 1987 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, Abbeville Press, 1987. Hardcover. Black glossy boards with color illus. 96 pp. profuse color illustration. The perfect resource for matchbook cover collectors. From the intro: According to matchbook collectors, or "phillumenists" (lovers of light), theirs is the seco...