Arts: Applied from The Owl at the Bridge

50 Projects include Pendants, Earrings, Rings, Beads, Other Jewelry, Accessories & Objects. 127 pages, color & b/w illustrations throughout incl. photos; color pictorial hard cover over ring binder so book lies flat; new from publisher. Stock#40296bis/h.

"A Publication of the American Antiquarian Society's Program in the History of the Book in American Culture." xxiv, 230 pages, 97 figures; 27.5 cm. Red cloth stamped in gold; no dust jacket; Near Fine. Stock#ofc0837.

Offprint reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, June 1953. 12 pages, plate; stapled; Good. Stock#ofc0499.

Paris, l'Aventurine, 2001. Soft Cover. Foreword by Jean-Paul Midant. 228 p., 112 plates (many color); 33 cm. Since its first publication in 1856, the Grammar of Ornament has been an inspiring source for decorative artists. This is a particularly nice facsimile. A monument to Victorian style in itself, it brings together vivid images of historical… Ler mais sobre este item

N.Y., Rizzoli, 1990.. Hard Cover. 439 p. illus. many in color. 33 cm. Originally published in Russian, this was translated from the French. ”The most comprehensive treatment of Soviet posters, paintings, murals, tableware, ceramics, textiles, and monuments from the first two decades after the revolution.” Stock #100,631. Vg/dj vg. Russia Art

N.Y., Grossman, 1963. Hard Cover. Oblong quarto. 79 pages. 'The text was arranged by Joseph Brumenthal and set in his Emerson type at The Spiral Press, New York'. Printed in Switzerland. Part autobiographical as the artist explains his love of the form of letters. His drawings, about half in color, are beautifully reproduced. The bright colors of the boards… Ler mais sobre este item

Cheshire, Ct, Graphics Press, 1991 c1983 . Hard Cover. 197 p., illus., 27.5 cm. 11th printing, 1991.'Theory and practice in the design of statistical graphics, charts, maps, and tables. Scientific, mass media, business, and medical graphics.' Stock# 36,626. Vg/ dj vg.

Moscow, Beresta, 1996. Series: Russian Decorative Metalwork. Hard Cover. 196 p., 119 color plates; 30.5 cm. Text in Russian & English. "From the Collection of the All-Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Art, Moscow." Contents include Basic Techniques of Enamel, List of [43] Contemporary Russian Enamelers [with thumbnail biographies], and a Bibliography. Grey cloth stamped in silver; color pictorial… Ler mais sobre este item

NY, Harcourt, Brace [1940]. Hard Cover. Insect Pollination series with sixteen color plates by Fritz Kredel. 58 p., 16 color plates; 22 cm. Stock# 32,082. Vg/ dj vg.

Mobile, Alabama, Museum of Art, 1998.. Soft Cover. Organized and Toured[!] by Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, October 9-November 29, 1998. 62 p., color photos; color pictorial paper covers, 28 cm.; fine. Includes brief biographical sketches for each of the 24 participating artists. stock#100843. Contemporary American art, design, decorative arts.

'Second printing, 1996'. Contents include an essay, "The Life of Forms", by Linda Norden. On Dale Chihuly's Glass Baskets (color photos with Chihuly comments); Murray Morgan, Baskets: Holders of Secrets; Basket Drawings; List of Plates (with dates & measurements); Selected Collections. Softcover. Square quarto; 148 pages, color photos; 29.5 cm. Color pictorial paper covers; minor wear; Very Good. stock#3098/h.

NY, Soufer Gallery / Pucker Gallery, Boston, 2006. Soft Cover. 20 p. imcl. covers; color photographs of 62 pieces; 28 cm. Gallery catalog of an exhibition from 19 Sept.-24 Oct. 2006. Stapled in color pictorial paper; minor exterior scuffing courtesy of the postal service; VG. stock#953.

Godine, Boston [1980]. Hard Cover. Texts from the Writing-Masters selected, introduced and translated by A. S. Osley with an account of John de Beauchesne by Berthold Wolpe. 291 p., index, illus. Dj has tiny scuff on front; fine. Stock#21362.

"Each of the 100 basic art-related terms in Design Language is examined with scholarship and wit... using vocabulary to explore style, form, and composition." Hardcover. 184 pages; 18.5 x 9.5 cm. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Stock#32654/h.

Art Institute of Chicago / Abbeville Press, NY [c1983]. 'First edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Oblong, 168 p., illus. incl. color; 22.5 cm. Essay by Bruce Hatton Boyer, "Creating the Thorne Rooms"; catalog entries compiled by Fannia Weingartner; photographs by Kathleen Culbert-Aguilar & Michael Abramson. "Painstakingly constructed to a scale of one inch to one foot, these intriguing models… Ler mais sobre este item

N.Y., Doubleday, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4 p.l., 293 p.; 23.5 cm. First edition, so stated; first issue, with publisher's errata slip laid in at p. 238. Hampton, himself an interior decorator, discusses and illustrates the work of 22 colleagues from Elsie de Wolfe, Elsie Cobb Wilson, Ruby Ross Wood and Rose Cumming, who helped establish the function,… Ler mais sobre este item