Arti decorative e design

Etching & Etchers

HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT (EDITED BY) · 1912 · Ultramarine Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Boston, Little, Brown, and Company. 1912. Green Cloth, thick 8vo. 459 pages; 12 plates of etchings by various artists, including the author. Each etching has a glassine overleaf with red text, which explains the etching process in some detail. A second glassine protects the et...

The Hall of American Artists

PARIS, W. FRANCKLYN · 1944 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, New York University. 1944, First Edition. Purple cloth, 9" x 6". 170 pages + 5 pages sketches of the Hall in progress. Volume III of The Hall.. Series. Includes La Frage, Sargent, Gaudens, Bartlett, MacMonnies, Beaux, Cassatt, Griffin, Wiley. Clean throughout; tight ...

English Painting with 202 Illustrations

WILENSKI, R.H. · 1933 · Ultramarine Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

Boston, Hale, Cushman and Flint. 1933. Black cloth, 8vo. 303 pages; The illustrations listed in Contents; all b&w. From Early Gothic (11th-century) to Blake (19th-century). Clean throughout, page edges toned as typical of age; binding tight; head of spine pulled. Very Good/No ...

Classic French Wrought Iron

LECOQ, RAYMOND; RICHARD J. WATTENMAKER (FOREWORD); GREGORY P. BRUHN (TRANSLATED BY) · 2005 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, W. W. Norton & Company. 2005, First English Edition. (ISBN: 039373157x). Blue paper covered boards, 11.75" x 9". 128 pages; densely illustrated in b&w. All manner of leafwork, grillework, hinges, handrails, balconies, ballustrades, locks, keys, bolts and more. Includ...

The Architecture of the Classical Interior

SEMES, STEVEN W. · 2004 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

New York, W.W. Norton & Company. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 0393730751). yellow paper covered boards, 11" x 8.5". 192 pages; beautifully illustrated with full-page color plates and b&w text drawings. Covers doors and windows, ceilings, wall treatments, including paneling, mol...

The House with Sixteen Handmade Doors

PETROSKI, HENRY · 2014 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, W. W. Norton & Company. 2014, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780393242041). Paper boards, 8v. Ill.: Catherine Petroski (photographs). 297 pages; b&w photo-illustrations. The history of a handbuilt house on Arrowsic Island, Maine; the story authored by an engineer of more tha...

Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham & the River

LUARCA-SHOAF, NENETTE; CLAIRE BARRY; NANCY HEUGH; [ET AL] · 2014 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Fort Worth / St. Louis, Amon Carter Museum of Art and Saint Louis Art Museum. 2014, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780300206708). Gray cloth with gilt titles, 11" x 10.5". Exhibition Catalogue, 200 pages; 60 color plates; numerous text illustrations. Traders and boatmen on the Missour...

Arts of the City Victorious, Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt

BLOOM, JONATHAN M. · 2007 · Ultramarine Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

New Haven, Yale Un iversity Press with The Institute of Ismaili Studies. 2007, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780300135428). Black cloth, 11" x 9". 236 pages; 165 illustrations. " .. a monographic and comprehensive treatment of all the arts of a single key dynasty." Fatimid Art. Inclu...

The Minbar of Saladin, Reconstructing a Jewel of Islamic Art

SINGER, LYNETTE (EDITED BY) · 2008 · Ultramarine Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

New York, Thames & Hudson Thames and Hudson. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780500238431). Black embossed cloth, 11" x 9.5". 206 pages; numerous color illustrations. The destruction by arson of the Minbar in 1969; the collaboration to reconstruct the work, which embodied the mos...

Beyond the Border, Huguenot Goldsmiths in Northern Europe and North America

MURDOCH, TESSA · 2008 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Brighton, Sussex Academic Press. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781845192624). Black cloth, 12" x 8". 173 pages; illustrated throughout b&w and color. Based upon the exhibition at the V&A in 2007. The study explores the pan-European and the trans-Atlantic exchange in material cu...

Eric Fischl, Ten Breaths

GÖRNER, VELT, ( ERIC FISCHL ) · 2007 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Hannover, Kestnergesellschaft. 2007, First Edition. (ISBN: 9783866781160). Decorated paper boards, 12" x 9". 144 pages; illustrations throughout. Fischl's deeply textured , sometimes painterly cast bronze sculptures are profoundly affecting. So affecting that one had been with...

The Wider Sea, a Life of John Ruskin

HUNT, JOHN DIXON · 1982 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

New York, The Viking Press. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 0670765783). quarter-cloth / paper boards, 8vo. 512 pages; b&w illustrations. A full biography of Ruskin, including life, work, works, friends, acquaintances, travel, ilness, etc. Clean throughout; tight binding. Very Goo...

Revolution in Print, the Press in France 1775-1800

DARNTON, ROBERT AND DANIEL ROCHE (EDITORS) · 1989 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Berkeley, University of California Press. 1989. (ISBN: 0520064313). Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 10" x 7". 351 pages; color and b&w illustrations. In collaboration with the New York Public Library this was an exhibition to mark the bicentennial of the French Revolution and ...

John Storrs Drawings: Figures, Monuments and Abstract Forms

CARBERRY, VALERIE · 2001 · Ultramarine Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

Chicago, Robert Henry Adams Fine Art. 2001. Printed Wrapper (softcover), 7" x 7". Gallery exhibition catalogue, John Storrs (1885-1956) modernist American artist. 29 plates; catalogue entries at the back. Clean throughout; binding tight. Fine.

Visões Do Rio Na Coleção Geyer

ANONYMOUS (GEYER) · 2000 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Rio de Janeiro, Museo Imperial. 2000. Stiff Card Pictorial Wrappers, 4.75" x 6.5". 18 color cards reproducing as many Geyer's paintings - postcards - bound in color card wrappers. Souvenir of the exhibition which displayed 173 of Geyer's works which focused on the river. Easil...

Le Livre Des Saisons

BAZIN, GERMAIN · 1946 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Geneve, Albert Skira. 1946. Stiff Card Pictorial Wrappers, 15" x 11". 16 laid-in color plates depicting seasonal human activity through XIV-century and XV-century French paintings and miniatures. Several pages of text intevenes with the plates. Unbound; leaves loose in a portf...

The Decorative Arts of Sweden

PLATH, IONA · 1948 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1948, First Edition. Blue cloth, 12" x 9". 246 pages; numerous illustrations, b&w and color. Chapters: Textiles, Ceramics, Metal, Glass, Wood, Wall Paintings. Comprehensive, for example, Textiles includes wall hangings, double weave , coverle...

Songs of the Tewa. Preceded by an Essay on American Indian Poetry

SPINDEN, HERBERT JOSEPH (TRANSLATED BY) · 1933 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, The Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts. 1933, First Edition. quarter cloth / paper boards, 10 1/2 " x 7 1/2". 125 pages. The essay followed by 50 songs put down in English. The appendix offers explanatory notes on each of the songs often including the native words base...

Jennifer Bartlett

GOLDWATER, MARGE; ROBERTA SMITH; CALVIN TOMKINS · 1985 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Minneapolis / New York, Walker Art Center / Abbeville Press. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0896595277). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 168 pages; numerous illustrations, most in color, including one gatefold. Travelling exhibition organized by the Walk...

Glory in Glass: Stained Glass in the United States. : Origins, Variety, and Preservation

RAGUIN, VIRGINIA CHIEFFO · 1998 · Ultramarine Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

New York, The Gallery at the American Bible Society. 1998. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 11" x 6.5". 243 pages; numerous illustrations, All manner of information: structure, conservation, style, creativity, experiences, who, where, how. Extensive bibliographies and checklist...