Arti decorative e design

The Fan Book

Percival, MacIver · 1920 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1920. Hardbound. Green cloth with navy lettering and fan illustrations; 344 pp. with 31 plates. Discusses various types of fans, fan painters, printer, and designers, fans in literature and history, and more topics; with a glossary and index. Good+...

Pradtische Kostumkunde in 600 Bildern Und Schnitten. Erster Und Zweiter Halbbands

von Sichart, Emma · 1926 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Munchen, F. Bruckmann, 1926. Hardbound. Orange cloth with gold and black lettering and decoration; volumes numbered consecutively with a total of 546 pp. 16 color plates and 571 bw figures (some a/b). Text in German; Volume 1 covers from ancient times to the middle 1600s; Volu...

Les Elegances de la Toilette: Robes - Chapeaux - Coiffures de Style Louis XVI - Directoire - Empire - Restauration (1780 - 1825)

Grand-Carteret, John · 1911 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Paris, Albin Michel, Editeur, 1911. Hardbound. Black library buckram with gold lettering over original text; xlviii + 194 single-sided illustration pages and 4 pp. index; 243 gravure illustrations. Text in French; lovely illustrations, many in color, of the fashions of the tim...

Comment Discerner Les Styles Du Viiie Au Xixe Siecle: Histoire - Philosophie - Document; Etudes Sur Les Formes Et Les Variations Propres a Determiner Les Caracteres Du Style le Costume Et la Mode: La Mode - Les Symboles - la Tradition

Roger-Miles, L. · 1902 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Paris, Edouard Rouveyre, Editeur, 1902. Hardbound. Grey library buckram with gold lettering over original text; 152 pp. text followed by 104 single-sided bw plates with descriptive overlay pages carrying same page numbers as plates. Text in French; beautiful examples of dress/...

Mirror of Fashion: A History of European Costume 1789 - 1929

Braun-Ronsdorf, Margarete · 1964 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. Hardbound. Plum cloth with positive/negative swan illustration and white lettering; 270 pp. with 28 color plates and 415 bw illustrations. Divided into 7 chapters with notes on the illustrations, a bibliography, and sources of the illu...

Le Meuble Louis XVI

Watson, Francis J.B. · 1963 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

Paris, Editions D'Etudes et de Documents, 1963. Hardbound. Claret cloth with gold lettering; white color-illustrated dj with black lettering; 164 pp. with 242 bw plates. Signed by the author on title page and with an inscription by him to Everett Fahy, Met curator, on previous...

Decorative Art from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dauterman, Carl Christian with James Parker and Edith Appleton Standen · 1964 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

London, Phaidon Press, 1964. Hardbound. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine; blue dj with bw illustration; 303 pp. with 237 color and bw images. Includes sections on The Tapestry Room at Croome Court, French and German 18th-century Furniture, Furniture with Porcelain Plaqu...

La Francaise Du Siecle: Modes - Moeurs - Usages

Uzanne, Octave · 1886 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Paris, A. Quantin, 1886. Hardbound. Blue library buckram with white lettering over original color-illustrated wraps (possibly hand-colored); 273 pp. with 10 full-page color engravings and numerous additional smaller color illustrations covered in tissue; several small bw figur...

Le Siege En France Du Moyen Age a Nos Jours: 343 Photographies de Pierre Devinoy

Hartmann, Paul (editor) · 1948 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Paris, Paul Hartmann, 1948. Softcover. Off-white wraps; 389 pp.; 343 bw photos, many full page. Text in French; A look at French chairs from the Middle Ages to the 1940s; Extensive text and wonderful photographs. Fair (Front cover detached; Waterstaining to top of front cover ...

Crossing Boundariess

1999 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Waterloo, Ontario, Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, 1999. Hardbound. Original teal wraps coverd in teal library buckram; 56 pp. with color images throughout. The catalogue of The Enamalist Society International Juried Student Exhibition '99. Very tight and clean but with pocket ...

The Collection of Designs in Glass by Twenty-Seven Contemporary Artists

Gates, John M. · 1940 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Steuben Glass Inc, 1940. Softcover. Grey matte wraps with navy lettering; approx. 75 pp. with illustrations by each artist. Includes works by Thomas Benton, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali, Raoul Dufy, Aristide Maillol, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, and others. Good; ...

Young Americans 1969: A National Competition Sponsored by the American Craftsmen's Council to Be Shown at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts

Larsen, Jack Lenor · 1969 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, NY, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, 1969. Softcover. Red stapled wraps with small hexagonal cutout on front; 24 pp.; 20 bw figures. "Young American 1969 represents the vitality and wide range of activity in the crafts among people between twenty and thirty years old, ...

Wood Turning in North America Since 1930

Adamson, Glenn et al. · 2001 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wood Turning Center, 2001. Paperback. Dark glossy glued wraps with orange printing; 192 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color and bw figures. Accompanied a traveling exhibition organized by the Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia and the Yale Univer...

Greenwich Time and the Longitude

Howse, Derek · 1997 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

London, England, Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, 1997. Hardcover. Red cloth over boards; color illustrated dj; 199 pp; profusely illustrated with bw and color figures. This is a revised and updated version of the discovery of Longitude and the history of Greenwich Time; info...

Album Historique (4 Volumes Complete)

Parmentier, A. · 1907 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Paris, Armand Colin & Cie, 1907. Hardbound. Two volumes (1+2) in original publishers printed cloth. Two volumes (3+4) in light red library buckram. Volume 1 covers Le Moyen Age and is 247 pp. Volume 2 is La Fin Du Moyen Age, and is 268 pp. Volume 3 is Le XVI et le XVII Siecle ...

1896 Illustrated Catalogue of Jewelry & European Fashions, Marshall Field & Co

Schroeder, Joseph J., Jr. · 1970 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Northfield, Illinois, Gun Digest Publishing Company, 1970. Softcover. White pictorial wraps; 340 pp. plus 38 unpaginated pp.; Profusely illustrated with hundreds of bw illustrations. Unpaginated section in back of book is titled "Coming Styles Designed By The Great Costumers o...

Design for a Living World

Lupton, Ellen and Abbott Miller (editors) · 2009 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, NY, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2009. Softcover. White pictorial wraps; 199 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color photos. Accompanied the 2009/10 exhibition "Design For A Living World: Design Inspired by the Natural Conservancy's C...

Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages (2 Vols. )

Shaw, Henry F.S.A. · 1843 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$875.00 (€793.88 | £662.31 | ¥139,726)

London, William Pickering, 1843. First edition. Hardbound. Green library buckram with new endpapers and standard gilt lettering on spines. Vol. 1: [16 pp. text, 2 pp. List of Engravings), followed by unpaginated text with 38 full-page engravings with tissue guards. Vol. 2: TP,...

Field of Vision: Contemporary Jewelry and Hollowware

Simon, Marjorie · 2007 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Bloomington, Indiana, SoFA Gallery / Indiana University, 2007. Softcover. 51 pp.; 17 color plates, 1 color figures. Accompanied an exhibition at the SoFA Gallery at Indiana University; Features works by Robert Baines, Helen Britton, Arline Fisch, Bruce Metcalf, Jacqueline Ryan...

Arts of the Anglo-American Community in the Seventeenth-Century

Quimby, Ian M.G. (editor) · 1975 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Richmond, VA, University Press of Virginia, 1975. Softcover. Bw pictorial wraps. 299 pp. x, 104 bw plates. This is the report of the 1974 Winterthur conference, devoted to the decorative arts of the 17th-century. Includes a four-page introduction, and several chapters by vario...