Arti decorative e design

Arts & Crafts in Britain and America

ANSCOMBE, ISABELLE; CHARLOTTE GERE · 1983 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. 1983, First United States Edition. (ISBN: 0442208081). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 9 1/2" x 7". 232 pages; 334 illustrations, including 60 color. A thorough survey of the designers and manufacturers of the furniture, stained glass, p...

Russian Avant-Garde Books, 1917-34

COMPTON, SUSAN · 1993 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press. 1993, First MIT Press Edition. (ISBN: 0262032015). Cloth, 4to. 175 pages; 16 color plates, 86 b&w illustrations. A survey of artistic and literary output; sequel to the author's earlier book, The World Backwards:Russian Futurist Books. ...

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

ANONYMOUS · 1987 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Glasgow, Richard Drew Publishing. 1987. (ISBN: 0862671914). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Slim 8vo. 96 pages; a wealth of illustrations, color and b&w, including many photographs. The Mackintosh House; the Glasgow School of Art; the Hill House; the Tea Rooms; Queen's Cross Ch...

Federal Furniture

DUNBAR, MICHAEL · 1986 · Ultramarine Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Newton, Connecticut, The Taunton Press. 1986, First Printing. (ISBN: 0918804485). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 184 pages. Numerous illustrations, all b&w, detailed photographs of construction methods with full captions and measured drawings of 20 pieces of Federal-perio...

Henry Van de Velde, Zum 100. Geburtstag

DELEVOY, ROBERT L. (INTRODUCTION ESSAY) · 1963 · Ultramarine Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.62 | ¥8,784)

Stuttgart, Württ. Kunstverein. 1963, First Edition. Printed Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, Not paginated. Several page essay; chronological biography; bibliography. 233 catalogued works followed by more than 30 b&w illustrations. Clean throughout; tight bindin...

Wien Um 1900

MANDL, HANS (VORWORT); FRANZ GLUCK; FRITZ NOVOTNY (EINFUHRUNG) · 1964 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Kulturamt der Stadt Wien. 1964. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue, 132 pages, including 870 catalogued works followed by 94 illustrations. List of artists; Bibliography. Vienna, 1900. The Secession : paintings, watercolors, graphic arts, decorative arts....

Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Architect and Artist

MACLEOD, ROBERT · 1983 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

New York, E.P. Dutton. 1983, First United States Edition. (ISBN: 0525932968). Cloth, 10 1/2" x 7 1/2". 160 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w. Mackintosh's wide talents in design of architecture, interiors, furniture; his artistic skils on paper, Clean and bright thr...

The Brandywine Tradition

PITZ, HENRY C. · 1968 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, Weathervane Books. 1968, First Edition. (ISBN: 0517164310). Cloth, 4to. 252 pages; 16 color, 32 b&w illustrations. Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Stanley Arthurs, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Felix Octavius Darley, Harvey Dunn, Andrew Wyeth, Violet Oakley, Wa...

Un Royaume de Dieu Avec Douze Gravures Imprimées En Couleurs D' Apres Les Aquarelles de Manuel Orazi

THARAUD, JÉRÔME ET JEAN · 1933 · Ultramarine Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

Paris, Byblis-Librarie Plon. 1933. Printed Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. pp. (6), 208, (6). The 12 color gravures after Orazi watercolors are present and secure in the binding, each with a protective tissue overleaf. All signatures tight. Printed on vélin Aussedat; No. 1894 of 242...

L' an Prochain a Jérusalem! Avec Douze Gravures Imprimées En Couleurs D'Apres Les Aquarelles de Manuel Orazi

THARAUD, JÉRÔME ET JEAN · 1933 · Ultramarine Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

Paris, Byblis/Librairie Plon. 1933. Printed Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. pp. (8), 202, (6). The 12 color gravures after Orazi watercolors present and secure in the binding, each with a protective tissue overleaf; all signatures tight. Printed on vélin Aussedat. No. 984 of 2420 nu...

The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life

TRAPP, KENNETH R. WITH ESSAYS BY LESLIE GREENE BOWMAN; BRUCE KAMERLING; CHERYL ROBERTSON; JOSEPH A. TAYLOR [ET.AL.] · 1993 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Oakland / New York, The Oakland Museum / Abbeville Press. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 1558593934). Cloth, 11" x 10". Exhibition Catalogue, 328 pages; 195 illustrations, color and b&w. While the Secession, Art Nouveau and the Wiener Werkstatte were going in Europe some of their...

Le Arti a Vienna, Dalla Secessione Alla Caduta Dell'Impero Asburgico

VARIOUS · 1984 · Ultramarine Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

Vienna / Milano, Edizione La Biennale / Mazzotta Editore. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 8820803135). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Thick 4to. 590 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w. The 1890s to 1920, a period of remarkable change of Austrian politics, war and art. Do...

Mackintosh's Masterwork: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art

BUCHANAN, WILLIAM; JAMES MACAULAY; ANDREW MACMILLAN; GEORGE RAWSON; PETER TROWLES · 1989 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

San Francisco, Chronicle Books. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0877016631). Cloth, 4to. 224 pages; 170 illustrations, color and b&w. ".. the first full-scale study devoted specifically to Mackintosh's masterwork, and it has been compiled by members of the School's (Glasgow School...

Outstanding American Illustrators Today

FUJII, SATORU (EDITOR) · 1984 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Tokyo, Graphic-sha Publishing Co. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0816187495). Cloth, Tall 4to. 344 pages; nearly 900 color illustrations representing 234 artists. Little text except for biographies of each illustrator, which appears in Japanese and English. Clean and bright throu...

The Fantastic Art of Vienna

COMINI, ALESSANDRA · 1978 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0394502639). Cloth, 4to. 31 pages followed by 59 full-page plates, 19 b&w, 40 color; 26 b&w text illustrations. " Vienna - the City of Dreams - brooding and tragic, but also richly sensuous and wildly romantic." The author...

Prague, Fin de Siècle

WITTLICH, PETR · 1992 · Ultramarine Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

Paris, Flammarion. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 2080135341). Cloth, 12" x 9". 278 pages; numerous unnumbered illustrations, color and b&w, including full-page (12"x9") color photos of architecture and decorative arts. Wittlich is a scholar of the progressions of Czech art, espe...

Ceská Secese

WITTLICH, PETR · 1982 · Ultramarine Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

Praha, Odeon. 1982, First Edition. Decorated cloth boards, 4to. 414 pages; 320 illustrations, color and b&w. The 1890s to 1910, the Czech Art Nouveau. Endnotes, bibliography, index. Entirely in Czech except for brief summaries - Russian, English, German - at the back. Clean an...

The Story of Marlborough, Told in Fifty-Two Pictures (Marlborough, a Humorous Picture Book)

D'ACHE, CARAN; HON. FRANCES WOLSELEY (DESCRIPTIVE TEXT) · 1890 · Ultramarine Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

London, H. Grevel & Co. First Edition. quarter-cloth-pictorial boards, 11" x 8.5". no date, c. 1890. Caran d'Ache, the pseudonym of Emmanuel Poiré, a satirist and illustrator, who some credit with creating the first comic book. Marlborough, 17th-century Duke and soldier, chris...

Old Master Drawings from the Albertina

ANONYMOUS · 1984 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Washiington, D.C. International Exhibitions Foundation. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0883970791). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 13" x 9.5". Exhibition Catalogue, 259 pages; 75 full-page plates. German School, Netherlandish School, Italian School. Following the plates the 'Cata...

Emil Torday and the Art of the Congo , 1900-1909

MACK, JOHN · 0 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Seattle, University of Washington Press. (ISBN: 029597074X). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 96 pages; 8 color plates, numerous b&w illustrations. Torday, Hungarian adventurer-turned-anthropoligist, compiled a collection of over 3,000 objects for the British Museum. Previo...