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Zanuso, Marco
Poli Cromi
This is an about very good softcover copy. Very clean inside and out, except for a phone number on the front endpaper. Otherwise clean throughout. Text in Italian. Essay by Zanuso. This catalog was produced to document two dozen or so limited production pieces designed by Marco Zanuso. All decorated in polychromy. Technical details for each piece, materials, number in edition, etc. Illustrated throughout in color. 8" high X 6" wide. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Heiremans, Marc
Murano Glas 1945- 1970
This is a near fine softcover copy with virtually no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in English, French and Dutch. A good survey of the best of Italian glass design between 1945 and 1970. Chronology. Bibliography. 12 color plates with several examples on most plates + 238 black & white photographs of individual pieces. A number of signature facsimiles. A beautiful copy of a scarce catalog. 8" high X 9" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Aste Boetto
Selected
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Aste Boetto in Genoa Italy on October 26, 2009. The sale consisted of modern Italian design objects and furniture from the 1950's to the 1970's. 88 lots in the sale. Almost all the great Italian designers represented. Lots of lighting fixtures. No prices realized sheets just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide, 78 pages.
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Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso
Taccuini, 1915-1921
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. Completely clean and free of marks inside and out. Text in Italian. Illustrated in black & white. 8" high X 6" wide, 635 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Malavolti, Mario
La Produzione Delle Fotocamere Italiane
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Spine is not creased. Text in Italian. 800 black & white illustrations, mostly photographs of old Italian cameras and equipment. 12" high X 8" wide, 300 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Ruhmer, Eberhard
Marco Zoppo
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear. Very clean inside and out, but partially erased signature on front endpaper, and date on title-page. Text in Italian. Monograph on the work of the Italian painter Marco Zoppo (1453- 1478) who lived and worked in Venice. Illustrated in color 8 plates + 163 black & white plates. 12" high X 8" wide, 110 text pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Saporiti Italia
Saporiti Italia: Sedie
This is a very good hardcover copy without dust jacket, as issued, with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is Volume 4, in the Saporiti Italia series on their furniture production. This volume is on chairs. Illustrated in color. Text in Italian, English, French and German. Many of Saporiti Italia's chais from these years have Missoni fabric coverings. 11" high X 10" wide, 50 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Jentsch, Ralph
The Artist and the Book in Twentieth-Century Italy
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Spine not creased, binding firm. Introduction by Jentsch. Essays by Vincenzo Filacavai and Luciano Caruso. Bibliography. 549 illustrated books catalogued in this survey. Illustrated in color and black & white. 12" high X 8" wide, 341 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Govoni, Corrado
Poesie Scelte
This is an about very good hardcover copy in a private binding, three-quarters vellum, and thin brown textured leather boards, with the title in black on a mustard colored paper laid down on the spine (probably taken from the original softcover edition). Small chip repair to the edge of the brown leather, near the vellum spine (see photos). This is the second edition or the "Nuova Edizione Riveduta ed Accresciuta, Diecimo Migliaio". Text in Italian. Two black & white photographs of the poet, one as frontispiece. Scattered foxing to the soft paper. Corrado Govoni (1884- 1965) was a Futurist poet in his early years. Errata sheet present. Red silk page-mark present. 8" high X 6" wide, 373 pages. A handsome copy. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Quintero, Francesco
Giuliano da Maiano "Grandissimo Domestico"
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear. One short previous owner name on the half title-page, otherwise completely clean imside and out. Text in Italian. Monograph on the Italian Renaissance architect Giuliano da Maiano (1432- 1490) who worked in Florence both as a sculptor and stone carver and later as an architect. Illustrated in black & white with hundreds of photographs, drawings, elevations, details, etc. Bibliography. Large heavy book foreign postage will be extra. 10" high X 7" wide, 613 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Busignani, Alberto & Daniela Marcucci
Gli anni di Piagentina. Natura e forma nell'arte dei Macchiaioli.
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. Illustrated throughout in color. Essays by Giovanni Spadolini, Giuliano Matteucci, Raffaele Monti, Erich Steingraber and Carlo Sisi. This catalog was prepared to accompamy the exhibition at the Uffizi in the fall of 1991. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide, 229 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Aloi, Roberto
Esempi di Arredamento Moderno di Tutto Il Mondo. 2 Tavoli, Tavolini, Carrelli
This is a very good softcover copy in a very good blue dustwrapper with light edge wear. Very clean inside, just one tiny tan stain (the size of a finger print) to the edge of the front blank endpaper. Otherwise completely clean. This is another volume in Roberto Aloi's famed and prized 'Esempi' series. This volume is Volume 2: Tavoli, Tavolini, Carrelli, (on tables, small tables and serving carts). 250 works are illustrated here in black & white, with information on the designer, producer, materials, etc. Text in Italian. Entries in Italian, French, English and German. Short essay by Italian architect Carlo di Carli. Back in the day these were indispensable references for collectors and dealers. All the volumes covered modern design not only in Italy, but all over Europe, England, America. 11" high X 8" wide. First published in 1956 this copy was reprinted a year later in 1957. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Aloi, Roberto
Esempi di Arredamento Moderno di Tutto Il Mondo. 2 Bis.Tavoli, Tavolini, Carrelli. Seconda Serie
This is a very good softcover copy in the original gray stiff card covers, printed in blue. No dustwrapper. Completely clean. This is another volume in Roberto Aloi's famed and prized 'Esempi' series. This volume is Volume 2 Bis: Tavoli, Tavolini, Carrelli, Seconda Serie (on tables, small tables and serving carts). 254 works are illustrated here in black & white, with information on the designer, producer, materials, etc. Text in Italian. Entries in Italian, French, English and German. Short essay by Italian architect Carlo di Carli. Back in the day these were indispensable references for collectors and dealers. All the volumes covered modern design not only in Italy, but all over Europe, England, America. 11" high X 8" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Canova, Giordana
Paris Bordon
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light cover wear. The jacket is complete. not sunned or faded, just a few scratches on the rear cover. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. Paris Bordon or Bordone, (1500- 1571) was one of the leading painters in Italy during the Renaissance. Preface by Rodolfo Pallucchini. Bibliography. 151 black & white plates. 10" high X 7" wide, 148 text pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Carboni, Milco
Ettore Sottsass Jr. '60- '70
This is a very good hardcover copy with almost no wear, without dust jacket as issued. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at FRAC Centre, in Orleans, France from May through July 2006. Interview with Ettore Sottsass by Carboni. This monograph and exhibition explores the early work of Sottsass in the 1960's and 1970's before Memphis. Illustrated profusely in color and black & white. Bibliography. 12" high X 10" wide, 195 pages. Black silk pagemark present. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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González-Palacios, Alvar
Fasto Romano dipinti, sculture, arredi dai Palazzi di Roma
This is a very good softcover catalog with some wear. Front cover creased. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Palazzo Sacchetti in Rome in the summer of 1991. Curated by Alvar González-Palacios, with essays by him and Carlo Petrangeli, Federico Forquet, Giulio Briganti, and Eduard A. Safarik. 227 works catalogued and illustrated in the exhibition. About 80 color plates. The exhibition explored the interior decoration of palaces of the Italian nobility from the 16th through the 18th century. 12" high X 10" wide, 236 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Cavadini, Luigi
El Espiritu Futurista en la Publicidad Italiana
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. Text in SPANISH. Subtitled 'Seleccion del Massimo & Sonia Cirulli Archive, New York'. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition in Valencia, Spain at MuVIM from May through October 2010. Essays by Luigi Cavadini, Stephen Gundle, Roberta Cremoncini and Gabriele Dadati. Illustrated with 90 full page color plates. Biographical sketches of the artists. Bibliography. 11" high X 9" wide, 127 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Grazia Gobbi
Il ventaglio pubblicitario, 1890-1940
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. Text in Italian. Illustrated in color thoughout with 179 color plates of paper fans with advertising imagery on them, from the 19th century to the late 20th century. Bibliography. 11" high X 9" wide, 127 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Guadagnini, Walter
Storie dell'occhio/ 1. Fotografi ed eventi artistici in Italia dal' 60' all '80
This is a very good softcover copy with only light wear. Completely clean. The spine is not creased, binding firm. Text in Italian. This is a survey of the works of eight Italian photographers active in Italy from the 1960's through the 1980's. Includes work by Ugo Mulas, Claudio Abate, Mimmo Capone, Giorgio Colombo, Mimmo Jodice, Uliano Lucas, Paolo Mussat Sartor, and Paolo Pellion di Persano. Illustrated throughout in black & white, some color. 10" high X 8" wide, 218 b/w plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Campana, P. Michele
Il Tappeto Orientale
This is a very good hardcover copy with a clear mylar wrapper with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. The tan cloth covers a bit sunned across the top of the front board and the spine. Red title letters still bright. Text in Italian. Illustrated in black & white with drawings of motifs in the text + 95 black & white plates + 56 tipped-in color plates. The black & white plates show carpets, tapestries and paintings with carpets in them. The color plates are almost all carpets from private collections in Italy, mostly from Milan, some from Lugano, Varese, London, Paris and churches in Transylvania. 13" high X 10" wide, 219 text pages + plates. A beautiful production printed by Arti Grafiche Fratelli Magnani in Milan for Edizioni Libri Artistici in September 1962. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Monetti, Domenico et al.
Luigi Comencini. Architetto dei Sentimenti
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean. Text in Italian. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition, 'Retrospettiva Luigi Comencini' sponsored by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, from June 24 to July 2, 2007. Illustrated in black & white with film stills from Luigi Comencini's many Italian films from the late 1940's to the late 1980's. Interview with Comencini + several coversations with Comencini and his family. Filmography. 11" high X 9" wide, 190 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Seymour, Charles & George Dudley
Jacopo Della Quercia, Sculptor
This is a very good or better hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket. The jacket is price-clipped, the spine a bit sunned. Completely clean inside and out. No marks anywhere. Illustrated in black & white with 116 photographic plates. Standard reference on Jacopo Della Quercia. 11" high X 8" wide, 146 text pages + plates. Bibliography. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Maurizio Calvesi, Ester Coen
Boccioni L'Opera Completa
This is a very good hardcover copy without dust jacket, as issued, with a very good hardshell slipcase, with just light wear. Spine of book is a bit sunned, The gray boards are a shade darker than the spine. Silver titles still bright. Completely clean inside and out, save for one circular embossed blindstamp, the size of a quarter, on the lower corner of the front endpaper. This book was in the private collection of a well known gallerist in New York. Text in Italian. This is the catalogue raisonne for Umberto Boccioni. Illustrated mostly in black & white, some color plates. Over 1000 illustrations. 11" high X 10" wide, 555 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Carroll, Eugene A
The Print Images of Rosso Fiorentino
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. Essay by scholar Eugene Carroll on the great 16th century Italian artist Rosso Fiorentino and his print production. Illustrated in black & white with 49 plates. 9" high X 6" wide, 61 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Vetro, Gaspare Nello
Teatro Reinach 1871-1944. Gli spettacoli musicali. Opere, concerti, operette.
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. Comprehensive history of the celebrated Italian theater: Teatro Reinach from its' beginning in 1871 to the last days of operation during World War II, when it was destroyed during a bombing raid. Illustrated in monochrome (sepia) with 32 pages of photographs of actors, actresses and opera singers associated with the theater, also notices, etc. Chronology of all the theatrical and musical productions of Teatro Reinach. 9" high X 7" wide, 653 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Gori-Montanelli, Lorenzo
L'Architettura Rurale in Toscana
This is a very good hardcover copy of the first edition of the author's survey of old rural Tuscan architecture. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. Illustrated throughout in black & white. The first section of illustrations are drawn from 15th and 16th century Italian painting. Then the photographic survey begins with the oldest surviving examples of farm and rural residential buildings. Map. Bibliography. 12" high X 10" wide, 130 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Thomas, Thierry & Patrizia Zanotti
Hugo Pratt. Periplo immaginario. Acquarelli: 1965-1995.
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear, just a little wear to cover right edge. Binding firm. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian, English and French. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition in Siena at the Complessa Museale Palazzo Squarcialupi from March 24 to August 28, 2005. Illustrated in color with over 500 images. This volume is the first part of a catalogue raisonne for this artist. Hugo Pratt (1927- 1995) was one of Italy's best known and loved comic artists. He was the creator of Corto Maltese in 1967, a series of adventure comics with an adventurous sailor as the hero. Hugo Pratt's comics have been praised as some of the most artistic and literary graphic novels ever written. Bibliography. 12" high X 11" wide, 455 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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de Osma, Guillermo
Fortuny. Mariano Fortuny: His Life and Work
This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket with only light wear. Completely clean inside and out. This monograph covers not only the well known fabrics and textiles that Fortuny produced, but also his stage set designs, lighting designs and fine art work as well. Fortuny early on in his career strove to become an artist, making paintings, drawings and engravings. Select bibliography. Illustrated in black & white with some color. 12" high X 9" wide, 216 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Tinti, Mario
Il Mobilio Fiorentino
This is a very good hardcover copy in the dark blue cloth covers with gilt titles and stool design on the front cover. Very clean inside and out but small light stains to lower margins of a few pages not affecting the plates. No date but usually said to be ca. 1930. Text in Italian. 320 black & white plates. Scarce standard reference for Italian furniture from Florence. 13" high X 10" wide, 78 text pages + plates. Very scarce in this condition, it feels hardly used. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Ward, Roger
Baccio Bandinelli, 1493-1560: Drawings from British Collections
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. This was the Second Sotheby Fitzwilliam Exhibition held at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, from May 3 to July 3, 1988. All drawings selected and catalogued by Roger Ward. Illustrated in black & white with 85 plates. Bibliography. 9" high X 7" wide, 180 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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De Fuccia, Laura
Venezia e Parigi, 1600-1700 : La pittura veneziana e la Francia: fortuna e dialoghi
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. Text in Italian with a summary in French. 99 black & white illustrations. 9" high X 6" wide, 449 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Ravaldini, Gaetano
Spettacoli nei teatri ed altri luoghi di Ravenna 1555-1977
This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket. Completely clean inside and out. Slight bump to lower corner of rear board. Text in Italian. Illustrated in black & white with reproductions of old photographs and prints. Preface by Gianpiero Tintori, the Director of the Museo de La Scala. Gaetano Ravaldini presents here the history of the theatrical performances in one Italian city: Ravenna, for over 400 years. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 398 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Montanelli, Lorenzo Gori
La Tradizione Architettonica Toscana
This is a near fine hardcover copy with a very good original soft mylar dust wrapper. All gilt titles still bright. The top of the spine is bumped, this can be seen in the photograph, but it doesn't affect the inside of the book, just the outside top of the spine. The dust wrapper has a shallow chip at the top of the spine which extends around both front and back covers a few inches. The book is very clean inside and out. The spine is not sunned. Text in Italian. Illustrated in black & white with 202 plates with old photographs, drawings, prints and architectural plans + a section of smaller b/w photos titled 'Alcuni aspetti di case rurale Toscana'. Most of the photographs are by Alinari. This book covers the minor architecture of Tuscany from the XIth century through the XVIIIth century.12" high X 9" wide, 350 pages. A beautiful copy of this classic. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Baroni, Daniele
Lampada. L'oggeto. Forma e Funzione
This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket with just light wear. Very clean inside and out, just two marks to the otherwise blank white endpapers: a circular blindstamp from a private collector, the size of a quarter, on both front and rear endpapers, at the corners. Text in Italian. This is a good survey of the highlights of European lighting design from art nouveau and art deco to the functionalism of the Bauhaus and Ulm schools, Wiener Werkstatte, and Italian designs through the 1970's and the beginnings of Memphis. Illustrated mostly in black & white with several color plates. Bibliography. 9" high X 10" wide, 168 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Antonio Grulli
Sissi
This is a fine softcover copy with nowear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Text in English and Italian. Monograph on the work of Italian artist Sissi (Daniela Olivieri 1977- ) Illustrated in color and black & white. 10" high X 6" wide, 127 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Fiocco, Giuseppe
L'arte di Andrea Mantegna
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear. Two closed tears on the spine. Very clean inside and out, but a number of pencil marks now erased. Text in Italian. Limited edition of 2000 numbered copies. This is copy no. 90. Revised and enlarged edition. 174 black & white plates + 8 color plates. 11" high X 9" wide, 129 text pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Luciano D'Alessandro & Achille Bonita Oliva
Luciano d'Alessandro. Fotografie 1952-2002
This is a fine hardcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. Text in Italian and French. This monograph was prepared to accompany the exhibition in Rome at the Accademia di Francia and the Atelier del Bosco, Villa Medici from November 7 to December 19, 2006. Essays by Achille Bonita Oliva, Richard Peduzzi, Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, and Luciano D'Alessandro. Illustrated throughout in black & white with Luciano D'Alessandro's photographs. Chronology. Bibliography. 9" high X 10" wide, 215 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Ciardi, Roberto P.& Antonio Natali
Pontormo e Rosso: Atti del convegno di Empoli e Volterra progetto Appiani di Piombino
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Binding firm. Text mostly in ITALIAN. Several essays in French, English. This monograph was prepared to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the births of Pontormo and Rosso. Illustrated in black & white with 251 plates + many more illustrations in the text. 11" high X 8" wide, 293 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Borsook, Eva Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi
Tecnica e Stile : Esempi Di Pittura Murale Del Rinascimento Italiano
This is a very good or better two volume hardcover set in very good dust jackets, with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in ITALIAN. This study sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa i Tatti. This set is volume 9 in Harvard's series. Edited by Eva Borsook and Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi. Essays by a dozen scholars. Volume 1) Text volume, 139 pages + 37 black & white images in the text. Volume 2) Plate volume, 194 black & white and color plates. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide. Large heavy books, foreign shipping will be extra. This set will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Venturi Fulvio
IRIS 1898-1998 Il Centenario
This is an almost very good softcover copy. Completely clean inside and out. Top right and lower right rear corners bumped. The spine is not creased, binding firm. Text in ITALIAN. Published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Iris, the Italian opera house in Livorno, Italy. Essays by Sergio Licursi, Cesare Orselli, Marzio Pieri, Alfio Dini, Raffaele Monti, Alessandro Rizzacasa, Alberto Paloscia and Fulvio Venturi. Illustrated throughout in black & white with photographs of famous Italian opera performers, opera houses, broadsides, posters, etc. Chronology. 12" high X 8" wide, 228 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Aulenti, Gae and Franco Laera et al.
1950/2000 Theater of Italian Creativity
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This project was designed by Gae Aulenti with artistic director Franco Laera. Catalog essays by Laera, Paola Antonelli, Vanni Pasca, Victor Margolin, Rolando Giovannini, Marcantonio Ragone, Gabriele de Vecchi, Massimo Mosiello, Aldo Tempesti, and Marina Carrea. Illustrated mainly in color with many photographs of objects. Also color reproductions of Gae Aulenti's exhibition drawings. List of exhibits. This exhibition surveys Italian design from Carlo Scarpa in the 1930's to Marco Ferreri works of 2003. 11" high X 8" wide, 111 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Franzoi, Umberto
I vetri di Archimede Seguso.
This is a near fine softcover copy with virtually no wear. Completely clean inside and out. The spine is not creased, the binding firm. Text in Italian. Over 180 works by the Italian art glass master, Archimede Seguso are surveyed here. All illustrated in color. Bibliography. Exhibition history. 11" high X 9" wide, 166 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Haspeslagh, Didier
Jewels of the Italian Modern Masters
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at Didier Limited in London in 2015. The exhibition presented the jewelry of about 35 goldsmiths. Illustrated throughout in color. Bibliography. 10" high X 8" wide, 80 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Fornari, Salvatore
La Roma del Ghetto
This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket with just light edge wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. Illustrated in black & white with archival photographs of the old Jewish ghetto in Rome, also a number of color plates. Maps. 12" high X 10" wide, 203 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Levy Saul
Tazzine italiane da Collezione
This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket with just light wear and one short closed tear to the top edge of the front panel. Completely clean inside and out, but pale offset from paper bookmark to top margins of two facing pages. Text in ITALIAN. Illustrated in color with 128 color plates + 62 black & white plates. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 59 text pages + plates. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Williams, Edgerton R.
Hill Towns of Italy with Plain Towns of Italy
These are two very good hardcover volumes bound in full red morocco, one with five raised bands on the spine, the other with four raised bands, decorated in gilt. We offer both volumes together as they are both first editions, and both were bound in fine red leather bindings by the reknowned Holzer Bindery, Boston. The bindings have gilt circular devices on their front covers, and bookplates on their inside front covers identifying them as having been awarded as prizes by the Latin School, Boston, in the years 1913 and 1915. Both volumes were given to the same individual. Both bookplates signed in ink by the Rector of the school. Additionally all page edges are gilt. The spines and edges of the red leather bindings are darkened. Completely clean inside. The Hill Towns of Italy was published in October 1903. The Plain Towns of Italy was published in October 1911. Both are first editions. Both volumes are completely clean inside and are illustrated in black & white with Alinari photographs of Italian buildings and streets. Both volumes contain double-page color maps: the Hill Towns is of Central Italy; and the Plain Towns is of Upper Italy. Both volumes are stamped Holzer Binder, Boston, in gilt on the rear board inside lower edge. Both volumes with different red and gray marbled endpapers. 8" high X 6" wide, 398 & 603 pages. Two nice first editions in fine bindings by the Holzer Bindery. Heavy books, foreign shipping will be extra. This set will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Caovilla, René F.; Zorzi, Alvise
Oggetti d'arte chiamati scarpe
This is a fine hardcover copy with a fine hardshell slipcase decorated in gilt, with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Text in English and Italian. Preface by Alvise Zorzi. Illustrated in color with many photographs of contemporary shoe designs by Rene Fernando Caovilla (1938- ). Caovilla began collaborating with Christian Dior and Chanel in the 1980's. In 2000 he began working with Karl Lagerfeld to create unique bejewelled shoes and their customers included many well known actresses and models. 14" high X 10" wide, 55 text pages + plates. Numbered limited edition of unknown limitation, this copy is number 857. A beautiful book. Large very heavy book foreign postage will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Alessi
Catalogo Generale / General Catalogue 1999
This is a very good softcover copy with only light wear. Spine not creased, binding firm. Completely clean inside and out. Text in English and Italian. Catalog captions in Italian, French, German, Spanish and English. This is a history of the Alessi Company's distinguished list of designers. They have included Ettore Sottsass, Enzo Mari, Alessandro Mendini, Philippe Starck among many others. There is a section on 1950's and 60's design. Also sections on the principal Alessi designers. Illustrated profusely in color and black & white. 11.5" high X 78" wide, 253 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Frisa, Maria Luisa; Tonchi, Stefano
Walter Albini and His Times: All Power to the Imagination
This is a fine hardcover copy bound in silver illustrated boards, without dust jacket, as issued, with virtually no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text block just starting to yellow a little at edges. Text completely in ENGLISH. Illustrated in color and black & white with photographs and reproductions of drawings on almost every page. Walter Albini (1941- 1983) was born in 1941 in northern Italy,. Albini attended Istituto dArte, Disegno e Moda in Turin, as the only male student admitted to an all-girls school, and graduated with a degree in fashion design in 1960. He worked for Krizia in Paris along with Karl Lagerfeld in the 1960's. He knew Coco Chanel and was an exciting presence in the fashion world of the 1960's and 1970's. But he died young, an early victim of AIDS, and outside of Italy, was soon forgotten. This is the first comprehensive monograph on the designer and his work. Essays by a dozen mostly Italian writers helps to remind us of how good he was. Stated first edition. Bibliography. Appendix of all his collections chronologically. 10" high X 8" wide, 238 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Ravelli, Lanfranco.
Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio. I. Disegni di Polidoro. II. Copie da Polidoro.
This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. Very clean inside and out. Polidoro da Caravaggio (ca. 1499 to 1543) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, unrelated to the more famous painter, known simply as Caravaggio, from the same town in Italy. 74 color plates + 1017 black & white illustrations. Text in ITALIAN. Bibliography. 12" high X 10" wide, 498 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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