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[DESIGN - ARTS DECORATIFS]. - Rare catalogue sur l’œuvre de Gio Ponti. - PREMIO LA « RINASCENTE COMPASSO D’ORO » 1956.
Gio Ponti. Il designo industriale. Con una nota di Mario Labo.
Editore la Rinascente Milano, 1958. - Finito di stampare il 27-9-1958. - Edition originale en italien et en anglais. - Format : 20,4 x 21 cm. - 72 pages. - Nombreuses illustrations HT en noir (24 pages de photos légendées + 1 portrait du designer). - Reliure cartonnée noir mat, lettrage blanc et logo orange, titre orange sur le dos. - Très bon état général : dos légèrement insolé, coin inférieur légèrement enfoncé.
Référence libraire : 169
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[Design / Art]. Caplan, Ralph
Notes on Connection
Zeeland Michigan: Herman Miller Inc. 1978. Very Good. 11-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches. Unpaginated but 28pp printed recto only. Side-stapled with ruled white wrappers and leaves. B&w illustrations. Light soiling/rubbing to wrappers; slight bump to upper corner. A collection of 44 notes on the theory of connection in design presented as if typed on ruled paper and with printed ink marginalia in green beside some notes. Caplan was a design consultant author and teacher who in addition to his work for Herman Miller was a longtime director of the International Design Conference in Aspen. The theme of the conference in 1978 was "Making Connections" and included what would be Charles Eames' last public presentation. Herman Miller, Inc. unknown
Référence libraire : 2268
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[Design automobile] FORNASETTI (Piero)
Bolide Design. Musée des arts décoratifs.
Printed in Italy. 1969. Impression en sérigraphie. Dim: 99 x 70 cm. Peu courante.
Référence libraire : 1474
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[Design automobile] FORNASETTI (Piero)
Bolide Design. Musée des arts décoratifs.
Printed in Italy. 1969. Impression en sérigraphie. Dim: 99 x 70 cm. Peu courante.
Référence libraire : 1474
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[Design Binding] [Gallagher, Brenda] Nin, Anais | illustrated by John Boyce
Aphrodisiac: Erotic Drawings by John Boyce for Selected Passages from the Works of Anais Nin
New York: Crown Publishers 1976. Full Leather. Fine binding. Octavo. 160 pp. illus. First edition first printing thus. Full bound in burgundy morocco with blind-tooling sanding and dyed and acrylic-toned goat onlays. Top edge gilt with sgraffito designed. Hand-woven silk endbands. Housed in clamshell box. <br /> <br /> In this binding Brenda Gallagher has drawn from Boyce's erotic illustrations to render a beautifully blind-tooled drawing spanning both covers. Stamped onlays and sanded details bring the binding into perfect union with the text. Gallagher has subtly titled the cover by embedding both the author's name and title within the blind tooling. A remarkably designed and excellently executed binding capturing the spirit of Nin's prose and quite directly the character of Boyce's drawings. Gallagher is a design bookbinder and a graduate of the American Academy of Bookbinding. Crown Publishers unknown
Référence libraire : 9380
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[Design Binding] [Glaister, Donald] McMurray, Mark (ed)
Calyban's Wood Type Whimsy. Volume 1: Numerology of Wood Type
New York: Caliban Press 2020. Full Leather. Fine binding. Tall octavo. 3 blanks 44 2 prospectus 3 blanks ll. Limited edition number 5 of 100 copies signed by McMurray. Originally issued by McMurray in a spiral binding with heavy printed wrappers; the printer notes that this was "printed on various scrap papers found at Caliban Press over time. Canada China England France Germany India Japan Mexico Nepal and Spain are all represented—including Papeterie St-Armand." It includes fold-outs a volvelle and slide-outs. This copy is finely bound by Donald Glaister in full goat skin with onlays of laminated mylar and sanded and painted aluminum on the front and back boards. There are also recessed areas on both boards with acrylic painted lines at some perimeter edges. Polished top-edge with silk endbands; painted cork endpapers. The leaves original covers and prospectus have been mounted on guards with a portion of the perforations from the spiral binding still visible with intention a way in which Glaister is engaging with McMurray's style and playfulness that present throughout this specimen book. Even the clamshell box holding the book has a compartment containing the original red spiral a toy begging to be played with. <br /> <br /> McMurray describes this type specimen of numerals as a way to document a collection of more than 4 dozen cases and around 75 fonts. It became evident that a complete catalogue was far too expansive for a single volume so this the first volume was just numerals. Far from a straightforward specimen book McMurray's playfulness and humor engage the viewer throughout. And engaged Glaister in his design. He writes in his artist’s statement: "Mark McMurray has compiled a wonderfully designed collection of families of numbers from his collection. The is almost without words only numbers . . . The design for the binding is as simple and as complicated as the binary system. A '1' and a '0' on each cover is all there is. However these numbers are presented differently subtly richly and with great care as to their design and positions. These forms and qualities are a mirror of the text within." A wonderful book beautifully bound by one of the premier designer bookbinders in the country. Caliban Press unknown
Référence libraire : 9402
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[Design Binding] [Glaister, Donald] [Rogers, Bruce] Tory, Geofroy | translated by George B Ives
Champ Fleury by Geofroy Tory
New York: Printed by William Edwin Rudge for the Grolier Club 1927. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Quarto. 6 xxiii 1 208 2 pp. illus. Limited edition one of 390 copies. This copy bound by Don Glaister in full crimson goatskin with typographic design referencing Rogers's type design throughout the volume—a stylized A on the front cover and Z on the rear tooled in blind and gold transitioning to painted lines. Glaister employs slightly raised and recessed areas beneath the leather with occasional light sanding all to offer subtle dimensionality a suggestive nod to the raise aspects of type. Crimson cork endpapers gold and crimson silk headbands accent the original gold top-edge. Signed in blind on the rear pastedown with date and gold dot "Donald Glaister 2025." Fine in clamshell.<br /> <br /> This edition designed by Bruce Rogers is the first English translation of Tory's landmark work begun in 1523 and published 1529. Tory's influence on 16th century typography was immeasurable—moving French printing away from gothic types towards the roman faces a movement that would define modern typography. D. B. Updike calls Tory's Champ Fleury "one of the important books in the history of letter design" I p. 188. A beautiful edition that took decades for Rogers to bring from a proposal to the Grolier Club to a printed edition. And of all he designed it was among Rogers's favorite #24 in BR Thirty. Tory's groundbreaking and forward-looking work had long been a classic text by the time Rogers designed this edition 400 years later. Now 100 years further on Glaister adds his voice to this typographic tradition and in his distinct style takes these now-classic letterforms and nudges them into modernity. Haas 413. Grolier 361. Updike Daniel Berkeley. Printing Types. 3rd ed. 1966. Printed by William Edwin Rudge for the Grolier Club unknown
Référence libraire : 9186
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[Design Binding] [Botelho, Camille] Guillevic; lithographs by Julius Baltazar; English translation by Joshua Watsky
Encore le Temps Time Again
New Haven: Editions Wequetequock Cove 2006. Full Leather. Fine binding. Small folio 8.5" x 7". 32 pp. illus. Limited edition number 23 of 50 copies. Signed by Baltazar and Watsky. This copy sewn on meeting guards with silk endbands. Bound in dyed calf and finished with recessed stone veneer over sheep skiver dyed calf inlays and onlays as well as onlays in lizard. Subtly titled in blind across one of the onlays at the spine. Paper doublures with dyed calf hinges. <br /> <br /> Botehlo writes of this book being "filled with etchings of heavy lined and voluptuous shapes with textures and shade all done in black. The poetry evoked for me the verdancy of rogue plants that spring up between the cracks of concrete. It spoke of the appeal of being a snake allusions to original sin. I wanted the green onlays that have been dyed and embossed to be pillowed the stone inviting touch. I intended to create something that invites a sensory exploration." And here she has succeeded with astonishing grace creating a design that draws and keeps the attention. Wonderfully conceived and executed with exceptional skill. Botelho is among a select group of extraordinary design binders who are graduates from the American Academy of Bookbinding Fine Binding program. Editions Wequetequock Cove unknown
Référence libraire : 9594
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[Design Binding] Waterfield, Margaret (illus) | contributions by C W Earle, E V B, Rose Kingsley, and Vicary Gibbs
Garden Colour
London: J. M. Dent & Co 1905. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Quarto. xvi 196 pp. frontis plates. First edition. In later antiqued calf decorated in an Arts and Crafts style the cover divided into compartments with stylized gilt leaves alternating with onlay and gilt chrysanthemums. A restrained but quite lovely design signed at the top turn-in of the front cover "BENELINOR / 1935" and again on the bottom of the rear turn-in "E. K. B." Turn-ins decorated with a single fillet and corner embellishment. Top edge is rough gilt. 50 watercolor sketches all present as called for. Binding is lightly rubbed but quite solid; front cover gilt is somewhat dulled in comparison to the spine and rear cover. Thread of the top headband is worn with the core exposed. Foxing to the leaves facing the verso of each plate. Previous owner debossed stamp on the first blank. A very attractive binding on a lovely book. J. M. Dent & Co unknown
Référence libraire : 8124
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[Design Binding] [Lallier, Monique] Queneau, Raymond | drypoints by Christiane Alanore
Le Cheval Troyen
Paris: Chez Georges Visat 1948. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. Octavo. 52 6 pp. frontis illus. Limited edition number 195 of 225 copies. This copy bound by Monique Lallier in full calf with extensive leather onlay shapes referencing the style of Alanore's illustrations. Textblock is sewn on meeting guards with the original wrappers incorporated in the binding. Silk embroidered endbands and leather doublures and flyleaves. Stamp-signed and dated 2014 by Lallier in gold on the rear pastedown. Light offsetting from the etchings and occasional light foxing but generally an internally clean copy nearly fine in a fine binding housed in clamshell that is slightly bumped at the extremities. <br /> <br /> An engaging and quirky narrative text in French wonderfully illustrated with 20 drypoint etchings by Alanore some full page but most incorporated around the printing. This binding from Lallier's personal collection is featured in her 2018 retrospective exhibition put on by Guildford College with catalogue published by Oak Knoll Press. In it she remarks how Alanore's etchings all have prominent lips which informed her design of the cover in a leather that looks like horse p. 100. A striking book inside and out bound by one of the most important design binders of the last 50 years. Chez Georges Visat unknown
Référence libraire : 9757
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[Design Binding] [Brandes, Robin] Poe, Edgar Allan | illustrations by Natalie Frank
Poe's Phantasia: A Selection of Poems and Stories . . . with a Companion Volume The Raven
San Francisco: Arion Press 2022. Full Leather. Fine binding. Large quartos. 171 1; 27 pp. illus. Limited edition number 52 of 250 "Fine Press" copies 50 Deluxe copies were also issued. Both volumes finely bound by American design binder Robin Brandes. Phantasia in black straight-grained goatskin with crimson doublures and gray suede flyleaves; onlays of distressed mirror mylar composed with image transfers and exotic leathers. The Raven is inversely bound in crimson straight-grained goatskin with black doublures and gray suede flyleaves. Striking raven wing spans from fore-edge of the front board around the spine to midway on the rear board—"feathers" composed of textured fabric with a suede finish and distressed mirror mylar. Fine copies each in crimson cloth clamshell. Prospectus laid in. <br /> <br /> A remarkable production from the Arion Press presenting some of Poe's most recognizable tales and poems here illustrated by American artist Natalie Frank—color as well as black and white; both full page and in-text illustrations printed in offset lithography and overprinted by letterpress. Brandes's restrained bindings are perfectly suited to these books rendering visually the same experience one feels when reading Poe and navigating the uncertain terrain he creates—clear enough that one recognizes the landscape but subtly disquieting. The binder writes in her artist's statement: "In his short lifetime Edgar Allan Poe became the pre-eminent chronicler of the unquiet mind. A mixture of unusual materials and striking color palette were used to emanate an enigmatic yet dramatic presentation. The haunting cover portrait I created for Poe's Phantasia is a mosaic suggesting shapes of 2 ravens. Image transfers of Poe's eyes on distressed mirror mylar and onlays of exotic leathers evoke Poe's unquiet disturbed mind filled with illusions and wishing for the return of lost love. For the covers of The Raven I designed the raven wing feathers to be a bold presentation for one of the most translated poems in history." <br /> <br /> Brandes has been binding for nearly a decade and already has a notable resume having been exhibited at Arion Press The American Bookbinders Museum The Book Club of California Guild of Book Workers San Francisco Center for the Book and more. Brandes's binding of 2020 Vision was the First Place Winner of the Rocky Mountain Guild of Book Workers 2023 Traveling Exhibition. Arion Press unknown
Référence libraire : 9284
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[Design Binding] [Starr-Baum, Katy] Kershisnik, Brian (woodcuts)
The Book of Ruth
Provo UT: Tryst Press 2011. Full Leather. Fine binding. Quarto. 32 pp. illus. Limited edition one of 160 copies this copy out of series. Bound by Katy Starr-Baum in tan goatskin; textblock is sewn on meeting guards with hand-embroidered silk endbands; binding with Hebrew lettering made up of hand-tooled gold dots which extend to the top edges of boards and headcaps; edge-to-edge hand-painted doublures and free endpapers. Housed in clamshell box. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> A lovely book by Robert Buchert at his Tryst Press printed on purpose-made paper by the printer with a barley ear watermark and in Buchert's Psalter type. The colophon reports that this is the first book employing Buchert's typeface. Many in-text woodcuts some full page embellish the book. Here beautifully bound in a meaningful way by Starr-Baum who having over the course of a few years learned of her Jewish roots and converted to Judaism like Ruth that first convert before her. The Hebrew rendered in gold on the binding reads in the King James version: "And Ruth said Intreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest I will go; and where thou lodgest I will lodge: they people shall be my people and they God my God; Where thou diest will I die and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me and more also if ought be death part thee and me." Starr-Baum has been binding books for more than 20 years and is among the most recent recipients of the Fine Binding Diploma of the elite American Academy of Bookbinding. Tryst Press unknown
Référence libraire : 10426
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[Design Binding] [Fox, Gabrielle] Allen, James Lane, with commentary by Wendell Berry
The Cumberlands: Excerpts from Articles on the Region
Monterey KY: Larkspur Press 2006. Full Leather. Fine binding. Octavo. 4 36 4 pp. Limited edition number 9 of 75 copies on Somerset Book paper there was also an edition of 500 regular copies. Signed by Wendell Berry at the colophon; additionally noted by Fox the year it was bound. In full goatskin binding with a series of leather onlays tooled in gold and blind all creating a fantastic pictorial binding. Accompanying the binding is a fine paper portfolio with publisher's prospectuses samples and associated material; additionally some templates related to Fox's binding. All housed a custom clamshell by Fox. <br /> <br /> The text offers a lens into the 19th century view of how a native of region assesses the value of the natural wonders. Berry's commentary at the end of Allen's text brings the troubling viewpoint into a modern context: "The chapter is built upon a division of mind which in our time has become terrifying but which Allen believed to be no more than a simple equation. On the one hand in a sentimentally romantic fashion he was sensitive to the natural life of the area which was then still intact. And on the other hand he seems eager for the destruction of this virgin bounty that so inspired him. I say 'the destruction' and not 'the use' for his language is patently that of an exploiter intent upon 'conquering' nature." A sobering volume that will most surely always remain relevant. Larkspur Press unknown
Référence libraire : 9573
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[Design Binding] [Starr-Baum, Katy] Shakespeare, William | illustrations by Mary Grabhorn
The First Part of Henry the Fourth
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1961. Folio. 4 46 2 blank pp. illus. Limited edition one of 180 copies. This copy bound by Katy Starr-Baum in full black calf with inlays of sanded aluminum and pained paper as well as onlays of buffalo watersnake and stone veneer all arranged in a coronal design from front board to rear; graphite top edge with sprinkled palladium; handsewn silk endbands; hand-painted endpapers echo the cover design. Housed in clamshell box. <br /> <br /> A beautiful and fitting binding on one of the Grabhorn Shakespeare series with colored woodblock illustrations by Mary Grabhorn. A bold design using material that speaks to the time—stone and metal. The hand-painted endpapers evoke the night sky and have an iridescence that is dynamic when one opens the cover the light catching the paint shifts as the board moves. While boldly monochromatic what color there is in the binding the leather onlays and the painted paper picks up the pastels of Grabhorn's illustrations. The coronal design speaks to the backdrop of this play Henry IV holding onto power amidst treachery and Prince Hal's coming into the crown. But as Starr-Baum notes the design has a more potent deeper meaning: "the circular shape … represents familial cycles: the traits and behaviors that are passed down from one generation to the next and the transformation of Prince Hal into King Henry." A powerful binding by one of the most recent recipients of the Fine Binding Diploma of the elite American Academy of Bookbinding. Grabhorn Press unknown
Référence libraire : 10424
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[Design Binding] [Botelho, Camille] Parmenides | Bringhurst, Robert (trans); wood engravings by Richard Wagener
The Fragments of Parmenides & an English Translation by Robert Bringhurst
Berkeley CA: Editions Koch 2003. Full Leather. Fine binding. Folio. 44 pp. frontis plates. Limited edition one of 120 copies this copy out of series; there are also 26 lettered deluxe copies with a suite of 10 engravings. All are signed by Bringhurst Wagener and Peter Koch at the colophon. Bound by Camille Botelho in black box calf with inlays and onlays of dyed calf vinyl snakeskin painted paper mylar laminates and a porcupine quill; hand embroidered endbands; vinyl snakeskin doublures. A fine copy in clamshell box. <br /> <br /> True to form Peter Koch has produced a marvelous edition of what remains of Parmenides's poem "On Nature." The fragments of the poem are rendered in this opposite page bilingual edition with the Greek on the left and Bringhurst's English translation on the right. The poetry is brilliantly accompanied by Wagner's striking engravings a frontispiece and 4 additional wood engravings in red and orange. <br /> <br /> Given it survives only in fragments there is some debate as to the "meaning" of the symbolism of Parmenides's poem making it a work ripe for interpretation. But at base his view of reality is one of stasis unchangeable. And while that enduring Greek logic marks the work Wagener introduces remarkably abstract and kinetic illustrations printed in an urgent deep red and orange—projecting anything but stasis. It is the discord between the logical understanding or reality and the emotional understanding of it that spoke to Botelho and informed her design of this incredible binding. She writes: "In the design I thought of Parmenides looking out past shadowy arches from within a dark room to find total chaos beyond. The curve of the Mylar inlay and the curve of the porcupine quill mimic a column marking a threshold beyond which is uncontrolled noise and movement and mess. I wanted the disparity between the smoothness of the box calf and the chaos of the inlays and yellow foiling to be a comment on how frightening examining one's reality can be." Magnificently achieved Botelho has created an exceptional binding that bridges Parmenides and Wagener giving voice to the paradox she sees in this metaphysical conversation on the nature of reality. Editions Koch unknown
Référence libraire : 10427
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[Design Binding] [Gallagher, Brenda] Brown, George Mackay | woodcuts by Michael Onken
The Girl from the Sea
Old Stile Press 2009. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. Folio. 56 pp. illus. Limited edition number 193 of 195 copies signed by Onken at the colophon. A skilled and imaginative design binder and a graduate of the American Academy of Bookbinding fine binding program Brenda Gallagher has engaged with this modern telling of a story that comes from a long tradition of Celtic and Norse selkie stories. Full bound in green goat with onlays in fish leather that capture the movement of the waves in green blue and gray. Gallagher's binding wonderfully complements the tale both thematically and artistically as her bold stylized cover shares a harmony with Onken's woodcuts. But even subtler details bring this text and binding together like her skillfully woven silk endbands and the painted top-edge a lovely sea-green with the suggestion of vegetation as though looking down on the top-edge of the book is to look down into the sea. Housed in clamshell box. <br /> <br /> A finely printed and illustrated selkie story written by Brown in 1984 and first published here by the Old Stile Press. The cuts by Onken are beautifully done and are indispensable in conveying this story of a selkie who has been separated from her seal skin by a fisherman trapping her in her human form. Perhaps the most striking of Onken's cuts is only found on the publisher-issued binding as a pictorial pastedown on the front board. Gallagher whose engagement with this text is not limited to the binding relays the tale of disappointment when purchasing this book unbound and necessarily without this woodcut—perhaps the woodcut that resonated with her the most. Since the printer had no extra copies of the illustration Gallagher was driven to locate and contact Onken who had neither print nor the block from which the illustration was printed. Instead he offered to lend her a good drawing of the image. From this image Gallagher cut her own linoleum block and printed the illustration remarkably true to the original. That print serves as the front fly leaf in her binding—a one of one lino print. An exceptional designed binding by an American binder coming into her own. Old Stile Press unknown
Référence libraire : 9379
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[DESIGN BOOK] Kamisaka SEKKA [Yoshitaka]
SHIKISHI
1901. DESIGN BOOK Kamisaka SEKKA Yoshitaka. SHIKISHI. Kyoto: Tanaka jihei Meiji 34 1901. 2 folios each 31.2 x 21.5 cm. Volume one has 2 color prints and 30 bw sumi prints volume two has 30 bw sumi prints. An interesting design book of subtlety. The covers are quite worn and stained and there is some internal wear and spotting as well. But overall a good early printing. Cord-bound fukuro-toji Japanese style with the title printed on the covers. Complete. unknown
Référence libraire : 84030
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[DESIGN BOOK] Yoshida Gyokujo^, compiler
TANSAI GAFU
1934. DESIGN BOOK Yoshida Gyokujo compiler. TANSAI GAFU. Kyoto Happpodo Showa 9 1934. 2 vols. complete. Tall folios 36.7 x 25.4 cm orihon folded album in woodcut printed paper over board covers with printed paper title labels. There are 25 total full page color woodblock prints. Interesting style mixing flat solid colors with small naturalistic elements in a single print. Good impressions and colors. Complete in clasped chitsu case with printed silk label. Case is worn books about good. The set eventually ran to 4 volumes these are the first two produced. unknown
Référence libraire : 89182
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[DESIGN ITALIEN]
Forme nuove in Italia - Formes nouvelles en Italie - New Forms in Italy - Neue Formen in Italien
Rome Carlo Bestetti, 1962. In-folio, 173 pp., cartonnage éditeur illustré (jauni).
Référence libraire : 18901
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[Design – Higher Education – New York City] Unknown Designer
Poster Invitation to a Cooper Union Alumni Event Signed by Alum Lou Dorfsman
New York City 1968. 20 x 28 inches. Folded with some tears at folds slightly wrinkled; inscribed “Sam – / You must come! / Send money / Lou Dorfsmanâ€. Very good plus. An invitation to the “Recooperation Baths†which seems to be an annual get-together for Cooper Union alumni. Cooper Union was founded in 1859 by business magnate Peter Cooper to offer a tuition-free education in practical areas such as architectural drawing shorthand and the like. No longer free Cooper Union now consists of three schools: art architecture and engineering. Graphic designer Lou Dorfsman 1918–2008 who inscribed this poster with a message for “Sam†graduated from Cooper Union in 1939. He would serve on its board of directors and as this poster states on its Alumni Committee. More famously Dorfsman was the art director and later creative director at CBS where he designed not just programming advertisements but also sets and the CBS headquarters’ interior. The poster promises alumni “an evening of gayety jollity merriment entertainment swimming dancing drinking dining†at the Woolworth Building in Tribeca – probably at its private basement swimming pool. unknown
Référence libraire : List2843
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[DESIGN, ART] - SCHEID-SIEVERDSEN -
INTERIEUR-LE MONDE DE GUNTHER LAMBERT / THE WORLD OF GUNTHER LAMBERT.
Monchengladbach, Gunther Lambert , 1991 ; in-4, 211 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Très bon état en francais/anglais - 2e edition.
Référence libraire : 201609128
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[Design/Affiche] AURIAC (Jacques) (1922-2003)
SAD 65.44e salon de la Société des artistes décorateurs en 1965.
Impression en lithographie. Chabrillac Imprimeurs Toulouse- Paris. Dimensions : 152 x 117 cm . Pliure d'origine.
Référence libraire : 1982
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[Design/Affiche] AURIAC (Jacques) (1922-2003)
SAD 65.44e salon de la Société des artistes décorateurs en 1965.
Impression en lithographie. Chabrillac Imprimeurs Toulouse- Paris. Dimensions : 152 x 117 cm . Pliure d'origine.
Référence libraire : 1982
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[DESIGN]
Hand-painted embroidery design depicting a parrot a snail and a lizard
France nineteenth century. Large fragment of an original embroidery design likely for a shawl or tablecloth executed in red watercolor. The stylized parrot snail and lizard are meticulously plotted out by hand stitch by stitch against a background of oak leaves and acorns. This design is plotted on "papier quadrillé" manufactured by the Paris publisher Chavant & Dessaigne. Fleury Chavant was an industrial designer who issued a number of influential pattern books in the 1830s and 1840s. In addition to finished patterns his company offered a range of these printed grid papers with gauges corresponding to every kind of needlework enabling those at home to produce their own designs. A striking survival. Original watercolor executed on two sheets of printed "papier quadrillé" joined together entire piece measuring 15 x 32 inches. Publisher information printed at base of sheets: "8 en 10: à Paris chez CHAVANT & DESSAIGNE Rue Cléry No 19 / No. 23." Several pale pink areas where paint spread; trace of glue along seam; later pencil notes to verso. unknown
Référence libraire : 1002995
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[DESIGN]
SAIKOKYU MIRAAKOOTO-KAMI TOPPAN-ZURI OODAMATCHI MIHON_CHO
DESIGN. SAIKOKYU MIRAAKOOTO-KAMI TOPPAN-ZURI OODAMATCHI MIHONCHO NP ND Japan 1960s. 16.3 X 24.5 cm. Leatheroid covers 23 pages of 5.5 x 8 cm designs for matchbox covers done in a "mirrorcoat" process of relief printing. One sample clipped for color matching. The back covers is loosening. Overall a good copy of this very scarce and ephemeral catalogue. unknown
Référence libraire : 86884
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[DESIGN]
Sheet of six Épinal prints domestic and religious subjects
France: no publisher no date early twentieth century. Striking hand-colored sheet of six "images d'Épinal." Inexpensive broadsides like these were hugely popular in France in the nineteenth century: naïve woodcuts brightly colored featuring images of Catholic saints Napoleonic battles and storybook characters. By the turn of the twentieth century lithography had emerged as the primary printing process and the range of subjects had greatly expanded but there was still a market for images printed in the old style a graphic tradition that influenced modernists from Henri Rousseau to Alfred Jarry. This group of six separate images printed from blocks on a sheet of Ingres d'Arches paper may be a publisher's proof. The domestic and religious subjects include a young woman reaching for a flower the devotional image of Christ in the winepress and an angel watching over the city gates. A fine example. Single sheet of six woodblock prints printed recto only and colored en pochoir measuring 14.75 x 19 inches. no publisher unknown
Référence libraire : 1002576
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[DESIGN]
Sheet of six Épinal prints military and religious subjects
France: no publisher no date early twentieth century. Striking hand-colored sheet of six "images d'Épinal." Inexpensive broadsides like these were hugely popular in France in the nineteenth century: naïve woodcuts brightly colored featuring images of Catholic saints Napoleonic battles and storybook characters. By the turn of the twentieth century lithography had emerged as the primary printing process and the range of subjects had greatly expanded but there was still a market for images printed in the old style a graphic tradition that influenced modernists from Henri Rousseau to Alfred Jarry. This group of six separate images printed from blocks on a sheet of Ingres d'Arches paper may be a publisher's proof. The military and religious subjects include uniformed soldiers on horseback the Madonna and child and Saint Hubert's encounter with Christ in the form of a stag. A bright fine example. Single sheet of six woodblock prints printed recto only and colored en pochoir measuring 14.75 x 19 inches. no publisher unknown
Référence libraire : 1002574
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[DESIGN] - STARCK (Philippe), SUDJIC (Deyan) -
The international design yearbook 1987/88.
, Thames and Hudson, 1987 ; in-4, 239 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Avec jaquette.
Référence libraire : 200612190
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[Design] [Film] Saul Bass (designer); Otto Preminger (director)
Collection of ten pressbooks designed by Saul Bass
N.p.: N.p. 1965. A dazzling collection of ten original pressbooks designed by Saul Bass documenting the majority of the famed title and ad designer's work with director Otto Preminger in the 1950s 60s and 70s. <br /> <br /> Several of the pressbooks defy the conventions of pressbook design with custom shapes to represent items in keeping with the films for which they were made: "Advise and Consent" resembles a briefcase "In Harm's Way" is designed as a dossier with a string tie "The Cardinal" as a parcel and "Bunny Lake is Missing" as a newspaper. Other key titles in the collection include "Anatomy of a Murder" "Bonjour Tristesse" "Exodus" and "The Man with the Golden Arm."<br /> <br /> For most of the pressbooks in this collection we have never seen another example. A fascinating example of the advertising work done by the premiere title and ad designer of the twentieth century. <br /> <br /> Various sizes ranging from Very Good to Near Fine condition. <br /> <br /> Complete details available on request. N.p. unknown
Référence libraire : 122002
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[Design] [Fantasy Literature] Karl Hans Strobl, Alfons von Czibulka (editors); Leo Perutz, Alexander Moritz Frey, HG Wells, Char
Der Orchideengarten: Phantastiche Blatter The Orchid-Garden: Fantastic Pages Magazine 39 early issues
Munich: Dreilander Verlag 1920. Collection of 38 issues of the landmark Weimar-era periodical highlighting fantasy horror and early science fiction stories. Text in German. <br /> <br /> One of the world's first fantasy periodicals alongside the Swedish "Hugin" "Der Orchideengarten" featured a mix of new German stories alongside translations of foreign literature largely French including works by Victor Hugo Guy de Maupassant Voltaire Charles Dickens Edgar Allan Poe Joseph Capek H.G. Wells and many others. The magazine also made forays into the proto-science fiction genre as seen in Vol. 2 No. 4 entitled "Phantastik der Technik." <br /> <br /> A true product of the Weimar era's cultural blossoming the magazine also features stunning illustrations both with its two- and three-color cover art and its woodcut reproductions throughout: sinister yet elegant visions of anthropomorphic flowers religious idols Grim Reapers and gory deaths. "Der Orchideengarten" featured the work of Gustave Dore Otto Linnekogel Karl Ritter Alfred Kubim Carl Rabus Otto Nuckel and many more. <br /> <br /> This archive contains the following largely sequential issues: Vol.1 Nos.1-18 16 and 17 published as a combined issue; Vol.2 Nos.1-6 8 10-16 18-24. <br /> <br /> 9 x 12 inches saddle stapled. Very Good to Near Fine condition. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. Dreilander Verlag unknown
Référence libraire : 140553
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[Design] [Mid-century modern] [Soziale Wohnkultur]
Two original furniture and home decoration booklets produced for municipal housing in Vienna circa late 1950s
Vienna: Verein für Soziale Wohnkultur 1958. Two vintage furniture and home decor booklets produced by Austrian furniture maker Soziale Wohnkultur for subsidized housing in Vienna circa 1958. One booklet illustrated throughout with black-and-white and color photographs the other illustrated with black-and-white photographs only. Text in German. <br /> <br /> In 1952 in the midst of rebuilding the city after WWII the government of Vienna formed a furniture initiative called Soziale Wohnkultur or "Social Living Culture" a project spearheaded by architect Franz Schuster. The project introduced a line of furniture for low-income municipal housing residents that was designed to be attractive and high quality but also inexpensive and practical for small apartments. A number of prominent Austrian designers were commissioned to work on the project and the resulting designs ranged from kitchen bedroom and living furniture to wall shelving and lamps all emblazoned with the "SW" logo. The furniture and fittings produced by the SW are considered to have had a significant influence on mid-century Austrian design and extant furniture from the period is still highly in demand today. <br /> <br /> Booklets 5.75 x 7 inches. One booklet with perfect binding the other saddle stapled. Both booklets with brief curling else about Near Fine. Verein für Soziale Wohnkultur unknown
Référence libraire : 155556
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[Design] Amy Sylvester Katoh, Shin Kimura
Japan Country Living First Edition
Boston Rutland VT Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. As New.<br /> <br /> Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.<br /> <br /> Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. Tuttle Publishing unknown
Référence libraire : 165869 ISBN : 0804818584 9780804818582
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[DESIGN] Azuma Do^jin
Koutashirabe AZUMA KOROMO
1937. DESIGN Azuma Dojin. Koutashirabe AZUMA KOROMO. Unsodo Kyoto & Tokyo Showa 12 1937. A large folding album 34.0 x 24.8 cm 10 pages 15 designs of superbly printed color woodblock images by the "Companions from the East" The margins and facing pages have browning and foxing. This the "spring" volume appears to be one of two volumes published. The covers are detached. Sold with all faults. unknown
Référence libraire : 89215
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[Design] Bruno Foucart, Jean-louis Gaillemin
Les Décorateurs Des Années 40 First Edition
Paris: Norma Editions 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. As New in dust jacket.<br /> <br /> Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. Norma Editions unknown
Référence libraire : 166005 ISBN : 2909283437 9782909283432
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[DESIGN] Fujii Rindo^
SHOKUMON ZUKAN 1-4
1902. DESIGN Fujii Rindo. SHOKUMON ZUKAN 1-4. Kyoto Yamada Unsodo Meiji 35 1902. Four volumes complete each volume with printed title string-bound Japanese-style fukuro-toji. 24.2 x 16.4 cm. Illustrated throughout with lightly colored woodblock prints of traditional design motifs. The covers are worn some pages split but present. unknown
Référence libraire : 89197
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[DESIGN] FUJII Tatsukichi, designer
SÔSAKU SENSHOKU ZUANSHÛ
1933. DESIGN FUJII Tatsukichi 藤井é”å‰ designer. SÔSAKU SENSHOKU ZUANSHÛ　創作染色図案集. A Collection of Designs for Dyework Tokyo & Osaka: Bungado Showa 8 1933. Large portfolio 41 x 31 cm. decorative cloth covered clasped chitsu case with a printed decorative label all enclosed in the publisher's folding cardboard outer box. A 4 page fascicle of preliminaries and a table of contents. With the chitsu design the cover design 3 preliminary page designs and 61 designs on the 50 content fascicles. The designs are primarily in color woodcut printed on both paper and occasionally cloth. A beautiful production here in almost perfect condition. Fujii Tatsukichi 1881-1964 was one of the most important reformers of the traditional arts in Japan. His creativity touched nearly every area: lacquer pottery papermaking dyeing - his influence was enormous. This scarce and lovely portfolio of his original designs helps to illustrate why he was so important. This deluxe production cost 25 yen in 1933 - a princely sum during the depths of the Depression in Japan. Complete. unknown
Référence libraire : 90097
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[DESIGN] FIELL (Charlotte et Peter ) :
Modern Chairs.
Koln, Taschen 1993. In-4° broché, couverture souple illustrée en couleurs à rabats, 160 pages.
Référence libraire : LIQ-5320
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[DESIGN] Goto^ Ryu^ko^
HANA NO NISHIKI #3
1903. DESIGN Goto Ryuko. HANA NO NISHIKI #3. Kyoto: Unkindo Meiji 36 1903. A single woodblock-printed sheet approx. 36 X 50 cm. folded into printed covers 25.2 x 17.8 cm. Unkindo a short-lived but brilliant publisher later merged into the Unsodo concern. A bit browned and edgeworn it is number 3 from an unknown number of such single-sheet designs. Very unusual unknown in the literature. unknown
Référence libraire : 87489
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[DESIGN] HARUNA Shigeharu, editor
Kogei Oyo ZUAN ZASSHI 7 issues
1894. DESIGN HARUNA Shigeharu editor. Kogei Oyo ZUAN ZASSHI 7 issues. No.'s 20-26 Tokyo Meiji 26-27 1893-4. 24.5 x 16.6 cm. Stab-bound wrapper's in woodblock printed paper covers. Haruna Shigeharu 1847-1913 was a pottery painter born into the upper classes in Ishikawa prefecture here using his artistic and design skills to organize and edit this "PRACTICAL ARTS DESIGN MAGAZINE" full of black and white design ideas and articles on such topics as the Columbian Exposition etc. Very unusual periodical here in very good condition inside and out. A short but continuous run. unknown
Référence libraire : 88685
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[DESIGN] HAPPO^DO^, publisher/printer
KOKUGA OGI
1938. DESIGN HAPPODO publisher/printer. KOKUGA OGI. Kyoto Happodo N.D. other sources indicate a date of 1938 Very large oblong brocade porfolio 36.5 x 59.0 cm. Contains an undated Happodo colophon and 50 design prints 49 in color and one as a textual calligraphic introduction to the work A source indicates the designs were done by Yamaoka Chinpei. The prints are extraordinarily lavish with sprinkled metal flakes overprinting metallic inks etc. A wonderfultribute to the Neo-Rimpa and Deco sensibilities of the age. The case has been restored the prints are quite clean. unknown
Référence libraire : 89434
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[DESIGN] Hagino Issui, designer
ZUAN HYAKUDAI
1910. DESIGN Ogino Issui designer. ZUAN HYAKUDAI. 3 Vols. Kyoto Unsodo Meiji 43 1910 An orihon in 3 volumes 27 X 19 cm with woodblock printed covers all in a later fitted clasped cloth chitsu case. Unsodo outdid itself in this early design effort. Dozens of double page horizontal designs which become large prints the paper size being 37.5 x 27 cm as well as circular and fan-shaped and single page designs too. Most in the neo-Rimpa style which Unsodo artists pioneered at the beginning of the last century - bold and lovely. A bit of browning and fading the covers show some wear but overall very good condition a very nice impression of this important set. Complete. One of the very best of the Unsodo design books which is very good indeed. unknown
Référence libraire : 89195
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[DESIGN] ISOZAKI Ko^saburo
KINKAN'EN SHINISHO YOHON NEW SAMPLES OF COLORED MATTING - "KIN KAN
1904. DESIGN ISOZAKI Kosaburo. KINKAN'EN SHINISHO YOHON NEW SAMPLES OF COLORED MATTING - "KIN KAN EN." Okayama Meiji 37 1904. Cord bound Japanese style title printed on front cover. 34.2 X 22.6 CM. 34 full-page color woodcuts of flat-weave matting designs. The matting is still made today in Okayama from the igusa plant. Very simple and delicate designs. A sample book for the Isozaki line. unknown
Référence libraire : 83290
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[DESIGN] KOSUGI Sugimura & YOKOI Tokifuyu, designe
DAI NIHON BIJUTSU ZUFU 4 vols
1901. DESIGN KOSUGI Sugimura & YOKOI Tokifuyu designers. DAI NIHON BIJUTSU ZUFU 4 vols. Tokyo Yoshikawa Hanshichi Meiji 34 1901. 4 plate volumes orihon folding albums illustrated with 154 pages of color woodcut. 25.1 x 18.5 cm Complete as such BUT not including the 4 text volumes. A lovely compendium of traditional design. Very good colors impression and condition. Volume 4 is split at one fold; its rear cover is detached and its front cover attached with a tissue repair. unknown
Référence libraire : 89194
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[DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA, artist
MOMOYOGUSA Volume One
1909. DESIGN Kamisaka SEKKA artist. MOMOYOGUSA. Kyoto: Unsodo Meiji 42 1909. Volume one of three. 30.1 X 22.5 cm. Most consider it the finest Japanese design book of all time this exquisite suite of double-page color-printed woodblocks is printed and overprinted using opaque and metallic inks to produce a sumptuous surface. This is an early impression. The condition is internally quite good with almost none of the gutter fading and metallic ink transfer common to this work. One of the better printings we have seen. Complete as issued with all 20 prints from volume one included. Has the original printed title label The mica patterning from the front cover is gone. unknown
Référence libraire : 91272
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[DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA, artist
MOMOYOGUSA
1909. DESIGN Kamisaka SEKKA artist. MOMOYOGUSA. Kyoto: Unsodo Meiji 42-43 1909-10. 3 volumes. 30.1 X 22.5 cm. Most consider it the finest Japanese design book of all time this exquisite suite of 60 double-page color-printed woodblocks is printed and overprinted using opaque and metallic inks to produce a sumptuous surface. This is an early impression with woodgrain showing in a few prints. The condition is internally superb with almost none of the gutter fading and metallic ink transfer common to this work. One of the finest printings we have seen. Volume one has been meticulously restored. Some paper fill-in and other work has been so successfully accomplished as to be unnoticeable. Some paper overlay is chipped away on the front covers of volumes one and three though they retain the original printed titles and the paper overlay on the back of one volume is restores/replaced. A complete copy of this cornerstone of any Japanese design collection. unknown
Référence libraire : 90870
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[DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA
NIHON JOSO 7vols
1906. DESIGN Kamisaka SEKKA. NIHON JOSO 7 vols. Kyoto Unsodo Meiji 39 1906. 26.3 x 18.7 cm. String-bound Japanese style fukuro-toji printed paper title labels. An interesting visual history of women's fashion in traditional Japan. The bw woodblock prints were supervised by the master himself Kamisaka Sekka. A good impression some cover soiling in very good condition overall. Complete. unknown
Référence libraire : 87918
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[DESIGN] Kano^ Shu^ho^, artist
Ukiyoe Monyo KOSODE HYAKUSEN
1936. DESIGN Kano Shuho artist. Ukiyoe Monyo KOSODE HYAKUSEN. Kyoto Happodo Showa 11 1936. 36.7 x 27.2 cm. Though this copy has no colophon or textual material it consists of 48 of the 50 woodblock printed sheets each with two designs so 96 of 100 designs. Each design is identified by the original ukiyo-e artist's name. The printings are fine the condition good overall. With the original title page all in a clasped chitsu case. Sold with all faults. unknown
Référence libraire : 89216
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[DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA
UTA-E
1934. DESIGN Kamisaka SEKKA. UTA-E Kyoto & Tokyo: Unsodo Showa 9 1934. 1 volume 31 x 22 cm cloth ribbon bound covers paper label. 25 color full page images after designs by Sekka. As Sekka's last work it crowns his remarkable career with a lovely evocation of Koetsu's Saga-bon. For more on this important work see Hillier's description on p.976 of the second volume of his ART OF THE JAPANESE BOOK. The condition is a bit better than average with relatively little of the offsetting from the prints to the poems that is usual in this book. Slight foxing and slight edgewear. The printing is very good the colors lovely. It is a good copy overall but the back cover has an ownership note in Japanese upon it. Without the original publishers clasped case but otherwise complete. Priced accordingly. One volume:. unknown
Référence libraire : 91244
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[DESIGN] MARIA GABO^
HOEN-CHO
1932. DESIGN Iida Shiko. HOEN-CHO. Kyoto: Maria Gabo Showa 7 1932 Oblong orihon folding album in the original publisher's chitsu clasped case. 28.3 x 39.0 cm. There are 23 ornately printed circular designs with metallic inks etc. Maria Gabo was not prolific but what they printed was always done with first rate craftsmanship. unknown
Référence libraire : 89405
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[DESIGN] Matsuoka Tokikata; Honma Hyakuri
Kojitsu Sosho SHOKUMON ZUE
1902. DESIGN Matsuoka Tokikata; Honma Hyakuri. Kojitsu Sosho SHOKUMON ZUE. 7 vols. originally privately published by Hyakuri apparently from 1815-25 as a completion of work begun by Tokikata in the late 18th very early 19th century. This is the reprint of this classic work done as part of the "Kojitsu Sosho" Classic Library series published by Yoshikawa Hanshichi et al in Meiji 34 35 19012 Very slightly smaller than the original volumes each about 18.2 x 24.9 cm string-bound Japanese-style fukuro toji with printed paper title labels - all bindings match. Hundreds of beautiful color textile designs reproduced in color woodcut. Nobleman Ladies Ceremonial dress Brocades Imperial costumes all are covered. Retains most of the appeal of the original edition. Slight external wear lovely inside. unknown
Référence libraire : 84576
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