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Couture The Great Designers Book by Caroline Rennolds Millbank c 1985
Located in University City, MO
Couture The great designers hardcover book by Caoline Rennolds Millbank c 1985
The 415 page
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1980s American Used Designer Books
1975 Amphigorey Fifteen Books by Edward Gorey
Located in Seguin, TX
Amphigorey: Fifteen Books by Edward Gorey Published by Berkley Windhover, New York, 1975. Edward
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1970s American Modern Used Designer Books
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Set of Five David Hicks Design Books
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
highly regarded English designer and decorator. Life Magazine 1972 made reference to David Hicks books as
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Mid-20th Century Used Designer Books
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Yves Saint Laurent Style Paperback 2008 Pink book by Foundation Pierre Berge
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in North Hollywood, CA
the 1960s by the designer and Pierre Bergé, the Yves Saint Laurent haute couture house has redefined
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21st Century and Contemporary French Used Designer Books
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2007 American Fashion Hardcover Coffee Table Book Assouline
By Assouline Publishing
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Fashion Designers of America, Charlie Scheips
Editor:Council of Fashion Designers of America
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21st Century and Contemporary American Used Designer Books
Rock and Royalty Gianni Versace Hardcover Table Book 1st Ed. Large Format
By Gianni Versace
Located in North Hollywood, CA
10 w x 1.25 D. inches.Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace was an Italian fashion designer, socialite and
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Used Designer Books
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Vera Wang On Weddings by Vera Wang Large Hardcover Book
By Vera Wang
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Callaway Editions, Ltd.; the world′s most successful bridal gown designer shares her thoughts and vision on
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21st Century and Contemporary American Used Designer Books
Chanel: The Couturiere at Work Book 1996 1st US Ed. by Amy De la Haye
By Chanel
Located in North Hollywood, CA
account of one of the most admired and influential fashion designers of all time. The focus is on Chanel
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20th Century French Used Designer Books
3 Volumes of the Robert Aloi, Esempi Furniture Series (Books)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Scandinavia, Italy and the rest of Europe and America and features designers such as Carlo de Carli, Gio Ponti
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Mid-20th Century Used Designer Books
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Selection of Coffee Table Books - Furniture Design Interior Design Fashion Art
By Jean Dunand, (after) Jean Michel Frank
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Coffee Table Books, priced at $150 each. If one of the books is sold, it will have
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Early 2000s American Mid-Century Modern Used Designer Books
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David Hicks Set of First Edition Garden and Flower Arranging Books
By David Hicks
Located in New York, NY
A set of three first edition books by David Hicks, the legendary designer. This set of out-of-print
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1970s English Used Designer Books
Interior Decor Design & Source Books, Windows, Curtains, Furnishings, Paint, S/4
By Various Makers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A group of four Interior Design source books, all hardcover with jackets.
77 Habits of Highly
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Late 20th Century American International Style Used Designer Books
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Danish Furniture Design in the 20th Century by Arne Karlsen (Books)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
main designers covered are Kaare Klint in volume 1 and in volume 2 the period after the Second World
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Mid-20th Century Used Designer Books
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American Approach to Antique Carpets the Y & B Bolour Collection Los Angeles USA
Located in North Hollywood, CA
three hardcover designer books. As the author for American Approach Antique Carpets The Y & B Bolour
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Late 20th Century American Islamic Used Designer Books
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2 Books Decorating Shops, Hotels, Restaurants, Bars, & Other Retail Spaces, 1st
Located in valatie, NY
stimulate the designer and inspire the merchandiser. " 200 color photos and 47 b&w photos. Places for People
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1980s American Used Designer Books
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100 Designers' Favorite Rooms Projects of the World's Finest Designers 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
100 Designers' Favorite Rooms: Selected Projects of the World's Finest Designers and Architects by
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1990s American Used Designer Books
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Gerrit Rietveld, designer and architect
By Gerrit Rietveld
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Gerrit Rietveld (1888 - 1964) was a Dutch designer and architect.
This booklet gives an
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Late 20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Used Designer Books
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Pair of Taschens Berlin and Paris Books From the Estate of Christian Audigier
By Angelika Taschen
Located in Waxahachie, TX
From the estate of Christian Audigier
21 May 1958 – 9 July 2015
He was a French fashion designer
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Early 2000s German Post-Modern Used Designer Books
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Pair of Taschens Great Escapes Hotel Books From the Estate of Christian Audigier
By Angelika Taschen
Located in Waxahachie, TX
From the estate of Christian Audigier
21 May 1958 – 9 July 2015
He was a French fashion designer
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Early 2000s German Post-Modern Used Designer Books
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Set of 2 Taschen Great Escape Books From the Estate of Christian Audigier
Located in Waxahachie, TX
21 May 1958 – 9 July 2015
He was a French fashion designer known for the Ed Hardy and Von Dutch
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Early 2000s German Post-Modern Used Designer Books
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Eileen Gray: Designer and Architect (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
the furniture and interiors of this now highly regarded and much sought after designer. She was at her
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20th Century Used Designer Books
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Pierre Chareau: Designer and Architect, Taylor, 1998
Located in Outremont, QC
Pierre Chareau: Designer and Architect by Brian Brace Taylor, 1998
Paperback
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9 x 12
160 pages
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1990s Used Designer Books
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Cabinet Makers and Furniture Designers by Hugh Honour
By Hugh Honour
Located in valatie, NY
Cabinet Makers and Furniture Designers by Hugh Honour. Feltham: The Hamlyn Publishing Group
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20th Century English Used Designer Books
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Fornasetti Designer of Dreams by P. Mauries (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
career he established an enduring reputation as a designer with a style that was all his own - a style
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20th Century Used Designer Books
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Line Vautrin Sculptor, Jeweller, Magician Book 1992
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
1992 hardbound publication about the amazing artist and designer, Line Vautrin, entitled 'Line
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1990s American Used Designer Books
Maharaja's Jewels Table Book by Katherine Prior, Assouline
By Assouline Publishing
Located in North Hollywood, CA
designers in the 20th century when many of the Maharaja's travelled to Europe with trunks filled with
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20th Century Used Designer Books
Sottsass Coffee Table Book Featuring Memphis Design, Phaidon, 2014
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Atlanta, GA
Phaidon Publishing's 2014 book about iconic Italian designer, Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) as
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2010s Chinese Used Designer Books
David Webb The Quintessential American Jeweler Hardcover Book by Ruth Peltason
By David Webb, Assouline Publishing
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Webb: The Quintessential American Jeweler is the first monograph on this important designer who
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21st Century and Contemporary American Used Designer Books
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Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams by Patrick Mauries (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A beautiful hardback book and dustjacket, published in 1991 to coincide with an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert museum in London, 288 pages with over 600 lavish illustrati...
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20th Century Used Designer Books
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Gio Ponti Coffee Table Book, 1990
By Gio Ponti
Located in Atlanta, GA
. Ponti is widely considered one of the most important Italian designers of the 20th century and this
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1990s Italian Used Designer Books
Haute Couture & Luxury Leather Goods by Besch Cannes Auction Catalog France 2015
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in North Hollywood, CA
, luxury leather goods, designer bags, jewels and shoes, signed furs, fashion accessories: all these
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21st Century and Contemporary French Used Designer Books
The Art of Cartier 1988 Geneva Auction Hardcover Book
By Cartier
Located in North Hollywood, CA
designers and artist-jewelers over the course of more than 100 years.
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20th Century Swiss Used Designer Books
Ralph Lauren Hardcover Large Volume First Edition Book by Rizzoli c 2007
By Ralph Lauren
Located in University City, MO
the designer through never-
been images of him in private life with his family
Lauren displays and
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Early 2000s Italian Used Designer Books
Gio Ponti The Complete Work 1923 - 1978 1st Edition Hard Cover Book
By Gio Ponti
Located in University City, MO
designers of the 20th century
From the Richard - Ginori chinaware and the founding of Domus magazine
in the
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1990s Italian Used Designer Books
Architecture of William McCall, Jr., Designer in the Classical Tradition
Located in valatie, NY
The Architecture of Wm. Frank McCall, Jr., FAIA: A Complete Designer in the Classical Tradition
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1980s American Used Designer Books
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Designer China - the Fine Art of Ceramic Painting Made Simple
Located in Bradenton, FL
Designer China - the Fine Art of Ceramic Painting Made Simple by Lesley Harle with Susan Conder
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1990s Hong Kong Used Designer Books
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Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams - Mauries, 1991 Bullfinch Press - 1st Edition
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Rochester, NY
Fornasetti - Designer Of Dreams - Mauries, Patrick w/ an essay by Ettore Sottsass - 1991 A
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1990s Used Designer Books
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Designers' Houses Hardcover book First Edition By Dominic Bradbury 2001
By Vendome
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Designers' Houses Hardcover book First Edition By Dominic Bradbury, Mark Luscombe-Whyte
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Late 20th Century French Art Deco Used Designer Books
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Influential Interiors Shaping 20th-Century Style Through Key Interior Designers
Located in valatie, NY
Influential Interiors: Shaping 20th-century style through key interior designers by Suzanne Trocomé
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1990s American Used Designer Books
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Pierre Chareau, Designer and Architect by Brian Brace Taylor (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A large paperback book which was published in 1992. The book focuses in depth on probably his most famous design "La Maison de Verre" (the Glass House), along with other houses, furn...
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20th Century Used Designer Books
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Interior Visions Great American Designers by Chris Casson Madden Hardcover 1988
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Interior Visions: Great American Designers and the Showcase House is a beautif and inspiring book
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Late 20th Century American Hollywood Regency Used Designer Books
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Complete Designers Lights 1950-1990: 30 Years of Collecting (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
400 pages with hard covers (no dust jacket, as published) - illustrated in colour throught. Clemence and Didier Krzentowski, the founders and directors of the leading contemporary de...
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20th Century Used Designer Books
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Arne Jacobsen Arkitekt & Designer by Poul Erik Tojner & Kjeld Vindum (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book follows Arne Jacobsen from the early years. It starts with a dream about the house in the future and about new ways of living and working. It ends nearly two generations la...
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20th Century Used Designer Books
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American Car Design Now: Inside the Studios of America's Top Car Designers
By Rizoli International Publications
Located in North Hollywood, CA
American Car Design Now: Inside the Studios of America's Top Car Designers
by C. Edson Armi.
This
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20th Century American American Classical Used Designer Books
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh as a Designer of Chairs by Filippo Alison (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
If a few more years had been allowed to pass, a rich heritage of art treasures that bear testimony to the impassioned , inexhaustible genius of C.R. Mackintosh would have been irreme...
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20th Century Used Designer Books
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Anatomy for Interior Designers and How to Talk to a Client by Francis Schroeder
Located in valatie, NY
. Signed by the interior designer and artist "Elsie Orfus."
NPT Books, a division of N.P. Trent Antiques
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1950s North American Used Designer Books
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Bill Blass: an American Designer by H O'hagan, K Rowold & M Vollbracht (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition of Blass's career at the Indiana University Art Museum, this lavish presentation presents more than 250 of his most important ...
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Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention & Innovation in 19th-Century America
Located in valatie, NY
Hunzinger (1835- 1898), one of the most innovative and influential 19th century American furniture designers
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1990s American Used Designer Books
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Visionaire Magazine NO. 6: THE SEA (SUMMER 1992)
By Visionaire
Located in Vancouver, BC
SEA was inspired by ancient Oriental watercolor books, Egyptian manuscripts, and children’s books, and
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1990s American Used Designer Books
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Georgian Architectural Designs and Details The Classic 1757 StyleBook
Located in valatie, NY
Dover Publications, New York, 2005. Among the 18th century's most influential architectural designers
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21st Century and Contemporary American Used Designer Books
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British Textile Design, V&A, London, 1980, Gakken, Tokyo, 3 Volumes
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very rare set of three folio size books on the textile collection at the
Victoria and Albert
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Late 20th Century English Used Designer Books
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Die Fouquet, 1860-1960: Schmuck-Kunstler in Paris, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
jewelry designer best known for his Art Nouveau creations in Paris, he joined his father in the family
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1980s German Used Designer Books
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Charlotte Moss Decorates: The Art of Creating Elegant and Inspired Rooms
Located in valatie, NY
. Hardcover with dust jacket published by Rizzoli International Publications. The interior designer's singular
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21st Century and Contemporary Used Designer Books
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Sotheby's: Property from the Collection of Josephine & Walter Buhl Ford II, 1st
Located in valatie, NY
only granddaughter of Henry Ford. Walter was an interior and industrial designer. He died in 1991. They
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21st Century and Contemporary Used Designer Books
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Christie's Christopher Howe, The First Twenty Years, Wednesday 24 March 2004
By Christie's
Located in valatie, NY
no longer exist. Highlights include a fabulous George III canopy bed owned by theatre designer Oliver
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21st Century and Contemporary English Used Designer Books
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Ettore Sottsass: Minimum Design by Patrizia Ranzo (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Ettore Sottsass was an Italian architect and designer. His work included furniture, jewellery
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20th Century Used Designer Books
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Franco Albini by Marco Albini (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
.) of Franco Albini, Italian architect and designer (1905-1977).
Galerie du Passage (Paris), Galerie
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20th Century Used Designer Books
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Gio Ponti, Una Collezione Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 2005, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Italian designers of the 20th c. 79 lots covering furniture, ceramics as well as architectural sketches
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Used Designer Books
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Bill Blass Collection: New York, October 21-23, 2003 Sotheby's
Located in valatie, NY
catalog. Large 474-page catalog for the auction of renowned designer Bill Blass's collection of: furniture
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21st Century and Contemporary American Used Designer Books
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Tom Dixon: Minimum Design by Davide Fabio Colaci and Angela Rui (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
successful 'Minimum Architects' series, the 'Minimum Designers' series includes books about the major figures
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21st Century and Contemporary Used Designer Books
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Used Designer Books For Sale on 1stDibs
An assortment of used designer books is available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of paper, metal and other, all used designer books available were constructed with great care. Used designer books have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 19th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. Used designer books bearing Mid-Century Modern or Modern hallmarks are very popular at 1stDibs. Used designer books have been a part of the life’s work for many furniture makers, but those produced by Chris Casson Madden, Hans Höger and David Hicks are consistently popular.
How Much are Used Designer Books?
Prices for used designer books can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, used designer books begin at $45 and can go as high as $3,950, while the average can fetch as much as $375.
Questions About Used Designer Books
- How were book presses used?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022A book press was used to bind books with pressure. When a book is placed in the center of the press, the platen is lowered to firmly press the book to hold its shape. Today, book presses are a popular home decor choice for collectors and avid book readers alike. Shop a selection of vintage book presses on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertNovember 21, 2023Yes, many designer bags use real leather. Leather is one of the most commonly used materials in luxury handbag design due to its durability, attractive appearance and supple texture. Many fashion houses also produce bags out of other materials like cotton canvas, silk and satin. On 1stDibs, explore a variety of leather bags from some of the world's top boutiques.