Arti decorative e design

Arminda Lopes - Miseráveis - a Estética Da Dor - Bronzes

NEJAR, CARLOS; CÍRIO SIMON; PAULO AMARAL; LEOPOLD NOSEK · 2007 · Ultramarine Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

Brazil, MARGS - Museum of Art do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malagoli. Pictorial Paper Boards, Square 4to. (2007). Not paginated. Essays discuss her work; the nature of this series of her works, destitution or misery; her work in context of our time. Numerous color photo illustratio...

Patrick Mimran: Recent Works and Old Obsessions

STRINATI, CLAUDIO; ALESSANDRA DE BIGONTINA; PAUL ARDENNE; [ET AL] · 2007 · Ultramarine Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Rome, Museo Nazionale Palazzo Venezia. 2007, First Edition. Printed Paper Boards, 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 172 pages; filled with color images, including 2- and 4-panel foldouts; many full-page images. "Patrick Mimram (Paris, 1956) est un artiste complet." Indeed: composer, ...

Voyage En Egypte: David Roberts

RACHET, GUY; JEAN-CLAUDE SIMOEN · 1995 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Bibliotheque de L'Image. 1995. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Oblong 4to. 94 pages; 48 color reproductions, many full-page, of prints created by Roberts follwing his travels in Egypt; captions for each image on the opposing page. French text. Fine.

Early American Designs: Ceramics

CHRISTENSEN, ERWIN O. · 1952 · Ultramarine Books

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

New York, Pitman Publishing Corporation. 1952. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Slim 4to. Unpaginated but 48 pages. Pages are filled with renderings of the various pots carrying the decorations. Objects are shown full-size. Otherwise, the actual size is noted. Some have attribut...

Early American Designs: Toleware

CHRISTENSEN, ERWIN O. · 1952 · Ultramarine Books

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

New York, Pitman Publishing Corporation. 1952. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Small 4to. Unpaginated but 40 pages. Pages are filled with renderings of objects, such as coffee pots, tea pots, trays, boxes, etc. Many objects have attributions; colors are listed for each. The ren...

Alvar Aalto: Furniture and Glass

JOHNSON, J. STEWART (CURATOR OF DESIGN) · 1984 · Ultramarine Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art. 1984. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Square 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 24 pages; more than 30 b&w illustrations. Clean; corners lightly rolled; some soiling to the front cover. Good.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze - the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

THOMPSON, JAMES · 1989 · Ultramarine Books

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1989. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Art periodical, 52 pages; 46 illustrations, color and b&w. MMA Bulletin Winter 1989/90. Clean and tight. Very Good.

The Thracians / the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

CASSON, LIONEL · 1977 · Ultramarine Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1977. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Art periodical, 80 pages; well illustrated. MMA Bulletin Summer 1977. Prelude to the exhibition Thracian Treasures from Bulgaria. Clean and tight, top outside corners bent. Very Good.

The Engraved Work of Eric Gill (with) the Companion Picture Book, the Engraved Work of Eric Gill

PHYSICK, J.F. · 1963 · Ultramarine Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1963, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo. 266 pages; 993 entries in the Catalogue. The work, the result of the gift to the Victoria and Albert Museum by Mrs. Gill of the artist's own proof copies. Listed here in chronological order. The companio...

Eric Gill : His Social and Artistic Roots

CATICH, EDWARD M. [THE PRAIRIE PRESS] · 1964 · Ultramarine Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Iowa City, The Prairie Press. 1964, First Edition. quarter-cloth w/ paper boards, Slim 4to. not paginated. The author was an admired calligrapher and a letterer who delivered an address to the Society of Typographic Arts at the Newberry Library, Chicago at the opening of a com...

The American Chair 1630-1890

IVERSON, MARION DAY · 1957 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Hastings House Publishers. 1957, First Edition. Paper covered boards, 4to. Ill.: Ernest Donnelly. 241 pages; 176 b&w illustrations; bibliography; index. An account of the changing style of the American chair and furniture generally. The book is clean and tight, nearl...

Erté's Costumes & Sets for Der Rosenkavalier in Full Color / Erte's Costumes and Sets for Der Rosenkavalier

COX, JOHN (INTRODUCTION) · 1980 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Dover Publications. 1980. (ISBN: 0-486-23998-5). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Slim folio. 41 pages. The 1980 Glyndebourne Festval Production. Covers lightly bumped at the corners; pages are clean and flat; illustrations bright and unmarked. Very Good.

Observations on the Forgotten Art of Building a Good Fireplace. The Story of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, an American Genius, & His Principles of Fireplace Design Which Have Remained Unchanged for 174 Years

ORTON, VREST · 2000 · Ultramarine Books

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,076)

Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Alan C. Hood & Company. 2000. (ISBN: 0-911469-17-6). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 64 pages; b&w illustrations. It's all in the title and we can say it works. Very Good.

John Storrs

FRACKMAN, NOEL · 1986 · Ultramarine Books

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art. 1986. (ISBN: 0-87427-051-0). Paper covered boards, 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 143 pages; 145 illustrations; chronology; exhibiton list; bibliography. The early twentieth-century artist and sculptor of abstract, geometric and architectu...

Early American Rooms: A Consideration of the Changes in Style between the Arrival of the Mayflower and the CIVIL War in the Regions Originally Settled by the Enaglish and the Dutch

KETTELL, RUSSELL HAWES (EDITOR); FREDERICK LEWIS ALLEN; ELLIOT W. BISBEE; JOSEPH EVERETT CHANDLER; [ET AL.] · 1967 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Dover Publications. 1967. (ISBN: 486-21633-0). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 200 pages; 72 illustrations, including 13 in color. An unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1936 by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press. A tour of twelve rooms that...

Nouvelle-Irlande: Arts Du Pacifique Sud

GUNN, MICHAEL & PHILIPPE PELTIER (SOUS LA DIRECTION DE) · 2007 · Ultramarine Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Paris, Musée du quai Branly. 2007, First Edition. (ISBN: 978-2-915133493). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 304 pages; more than 20 essays with illustrations; 131 color plates. French text. Fine.

Russian Jewellery: Mid-19th Century - 20th Century

KARPUN, ALEXEI · 1994 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Moscow, Beresta. 1994. (ISBN: 5-7460-0002-7). Cloth, 4to. 196 pages; 148 full-page illustrations, color photographs, most shot against a black background. Part of a series of albums on Russian decorative metalwork. Bibliography; List of Contemporary Russian Jewellers; List of ...

Oriente E Ocidente Nos Interiores Em Portugal

CARITA, HELDER; HOMEN CARDOSO (FOTOGRAFIA) · 0 · Ultramarine Books

$110.00 (€99.80 | £83.25 | ¥17,568)

Livraria Civilização Editora. First Edition. Cloth, Large 4to. 288 pages; more than 200 illustrations, most are color photographs. Copy no. 6591 signed on the verso opposte the title page by Carita and Cardoso. Portuguese text; illustration captions in Portuguese and English. ...

Russian Gold and Silverwork: 17th-19th Century

SOLODKOFF, ALEXANDER VON · 1981 · Ultramarine Books

$80.00 (€72.58 | £60.54 | ¥12,776)

New York, Rizzoli. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-8478-0398-8). Cloth, Square 4to. 238 pages; 245 illustrations, 70 in color. All manner of decorative arts, tableware, jewelry, other personal items. Encyclopedic, an excellent reference for collectors or students of the goldsmit...

Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé

SOLODKOFF, ALEXANDER VON; ROY D.R. BETTELEY, PAUL SCHAFFER; A. KENNETH SNOWMAN; [ET AL.] (WITH ESSAYS BY) · 1988 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, Harry N. Abrams / Abradale Press. 1988. (ISBN: 0810980894). Cloth, 4to. 192 pages; more than 350 illustrations, including 80 color plates. Most illustrated works are from the Forbes Magazine Collection. More than just eggs. Fine/Very Good.