Claude Frégnac Furniture

Casa California: Spanish-Style Houses Santa Barbara Hardcover Book. Signed by Russ Bonto for one of the home owner featured in the book. Rizzoli 1st edition 1996, 1st Printing. Missing dustcover Casa California: Spanish-Style Houses from Santa Barbara to San Clemente. Mc Millian, Elizabeth. The Spanish-style architecture of Southern California's seaside estates, canyon villas, and courtyard bungalows is central to its romantic image, one that has traditionally evoked a Mediterranean paradise. The details of this in exhaustively rich style, ornate wrought iron and wood balconies, colorful tiles, graceful arches, and palm-dotted gardens, reflect the region's Spanish, Mexican, and southwestern history and culture as well as its popular outdoor lifestyle. This book showcases Southern California's most historically significant and beautifully preserved Spanish-revival houses of this century. Twenty-one private homes built between 1922 and 1991 are featured in stunning color photography that captures exterior and interior architectural details, Spanish and Mexican antique furnishings and Folk Art, and lush landscaping and tiled...

Published by Musée de la Mode et du Costume, Palais Galliera, 1st edition, Paris, 1986. Softcover with French text. Paul Poiret and Nicole Groult bought...

"Je Suis Le Cahier" The Sketchbooks of Picasso hardcover book 1st Edition 1986 The Sketchbooks of Picasso "Je Suis Le Cahier". Pablo Picasso, "Picasso considered all of his works to be entries in his diary; he excluded nothing. The sketchbooks are generic chapters inextricable from his oeuvre. In Picasso's paintings the spontaneity of gesture is deceptive since the manner is which he leaves his tracks visible superficially suggests minimal preparation. Although most of Picasso's solutions appear to be immediately worked out on the canvas, this was far from the fact. Many paintings sprang fully formed as the fulfillment of preconscious models, but very often others were the product of the process of trial solution and discovery through drawing. There are eight sketchbooks for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, five for the saltimbanques, four for the Luncheon on the Grass series, and two for The rape of the Sabines. In sketchbook No. 171, Picasso inscribed...

Published by Gagosian Gallery, 1st edition, New York & London, 2006. Hardback with English text. “In a punning reference to a Pollock masterwork, the image makes its point with rhyt...

Studio St. Petersburg by Deborah Turbeville 1997 by Bulfinch Press 1st Ed. In her previous books on Versailles and Newport, photographer Deborah Turbeville has succeeded in brilliant...

Published by Max Strom 1st edition 2015 Hardback English text In 1977, at the height of the disco craze, a club opened at 254 West 54th Street in New York City. Studio 54 was - and,...

AUTHOR: VARENNES, Jacques. TITLE: Les Hommes. PUBLISHER: Paris: Chez Jacques Collombat, 1712. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION WITH THE GILT ARMS OF LOUIS XIV's DAUGHTER. 1 vol., 6-5/8...

Published by the V&A to accompany the centenary exhibition on William Morris Important reference book as this is the first comprehensive study to be published on William Morris

Les Déjeuners - Picasso, 1st French edition, 1962
Published by Éditions Circle D’art Paris, 1962 
 A beautiful copy of Picasso’s seminal book Les Déjeuners complete with fine cloth s...

Published by Guillaud Editions, 1st edition, Paris, 1987. Hardback with French text. This monograph presents the full range of Matisse’s oeuvre, from his early oil paintings, to et...

Published by Weidenfield and Nicholson London 1st Edition 1983 Photographs and commentary by Snowdon (Antony Armstrong-Jones); introduction by John Mortimer. 34 colour photographs a...

AUTHOR: BACON, Francis. TITLE: The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh. Written by the Right Honourable, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. PUBLISHER: London:...