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Alberto Pinto: Orientalism by Alberto Pinto (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Alberto Pinto was one of the most celebrated interior designers at work in the late 20th century and the early years of the 21st century. In this book he looks to the wonders of the ...
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20th Century Books
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Sergio Rodrigues (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book provides a unique insight into the Brazilian designer Sergio Rodrigues world by reflecting on his lifetime achievements, from design to architecture, his design concepts, h...
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Late 20th Century Books
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1950/1980 Repertory by Giuliana Gramigna (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
There are numerous books available today on the history of Italian design, but unlike other research areas where the material is gathered together systematically in chronological ord...
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20th Century Books
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Makers of Contemporary Architecture (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
5 Volume set
Philip Johnson by John M. Jacobus. JR. Hardback. 128 pages.
Kenzo Tange by Robin Boyd. Hardback. 125 pages.
R. Buckminster Fuller by John McHale. Hardback 128 pages.
Lou...
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20th Century Books
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Daniel Brush (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Contributions by David Revere McFadden, Brett Littman, Paul Keegan, and Saskia Hamilton.
The work of Daniel Brush (born 1947) does not fit neatly into the categories commonly used to...
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20th Century Books
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Interiors for Today edited by Franco Magnani (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book is full of visual inspiration and practical ideas for overcoming the limitations of space and for escaping from the pressures imposed by an encroaching society.
Interiors f...
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20th Century Books
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Jazz: Henri Matisse (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Limited Edition. A painter's book The first complete work designed in gouache and cut-out paper by Matisse, JAZZ is the most accomplished painter's book. The set of colour plates, b...
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20th Century Books
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Jean-Michel Frank: Interieurs (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
("Aux Source du XXeme siecle" 2)
Softcover catalogue of an exhibition held at the esteemed Galerie Jacques De Vos in Paris in 1990 featuring works by Frank, Adolphe Chanaux, Diego an...
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20th Century Books
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Pierre Chareau (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A fine pocket-sized catalogue of furniture designed by this master of metalwork, published with a showing at the Galerie De Vos, in Paris, during October and November, 1993. 5 in the...
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20th Century Books
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Wegner Just One Good Chair by Christian Holmsted Olesen (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book is an introduction to the life and work of Hans Wegner. It was published as part of the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of his birth in 2014 and accompanied an...
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20th Century Books
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Eileen Gray: Architect/Designer by Peter Adam (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was one of the most innovative architect/designers of the 20th century. Her pioneering tables, mirrors, lamps, and lacquer screens have become modern classics...
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20th Century Books
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Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was Edited by Martin Eidelberg (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book offers a unique perspective on the decorative arts of the mid-twentieth century. The first serious book on a period just beginning to be researched by scholars and little k...
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20th Century Books
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New Furniture 4 1956/1958 Edited by Gerd Hatje Text by Wolfgang Clasen (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is the Fourth Volume of New Furniture, the International Annual devoted to the field of furniture design. Like its predecessors, this selection should be considered a report, ra...
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20th Century Books
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Living the Modern Way: Form and Colour in Interior Decoration (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Edited by Giulio Peluzzi & Rivista Dell'Arredamento
With today's many new designs in furniture, the development of new fabrics and the imaginative use of construction materials, ther...
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20th Century Books
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Miro Artigas: Ceramics. Catalogue Raisonne 1941-1981 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
If you think of one of the greatest artists of modernism, Joan Miró, you immediately have some of the characteristic motifs of his painting or graphics present in your mind's eye. L...
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20th Century Books
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Harmonies Interieurs de Ruhlmann (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A sumptuous celebration of Art Deco interior decoration, in an overview of the interiors designed by the greatest and most influential of French Art Deco interior decorators and furn...
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20th Century Books
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Succession De M. Henri Samuel (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Christie's Monaco, Sunday 15th December 1996.
Henri Samuel (1904 1996) was one of the foremost French interior designers of the twentieth century, hailed by Architectural Digest as a "supreme master of progressive historicism". He was a leading interpreter of le gout Rothschild after the Second World War and helped restore Chateau de Ferrières...
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20th Century Books
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Dresses form the Collection of Diana, Princess of Wales (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A charity sale conducted by Christie's on a non profit basis Wednesday 25th June 1997.
This is a large-format catalogue for the 1997 Christie's charity auction of dresses belonging to Diana, Princess of Wales. The eighty lots included dresses by Catherine Walker, Victor Edelstein, Gina Fratini for Hartnell, Christina Stambolian...
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1990s Books
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Line Vautrin: Sculptor, Jeweller, Magician (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
by Line Vautrin & Patrick Mauries
Line Vautrin is one of those archetypally French personalities - others are Cocteau, Piaf and Christian Berard - whose talents are compounded of dre...
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20th Century Books
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Jean Prouve & Serge Mouiller Two Master Metal Workers (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a soft covered book in good condition which was edited for exhibitions in 1985 which took place in Paris and New York featuring the complimentary works and designs of these t...
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20th Century Books
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Serge Mouille Luminaires (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a scarce soft covered catalogue "Le Regard D'Alan" which features twenty-light fittings designed and produced by Serge Mouille during his short career in this particular fiel...
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Mid-20th Century Books
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Francis Jourdain Mobilier (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book is the third volume in the portfolio collection, inaugurated with the first two volumes devoted to the work of Pierre Chareau. Volume III is dedicated this time to the work...
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20th Century Books
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Decoration Moderne Dans L'Interieur (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
An oblong A4 sized portfolio with 48 absolutely amazing and exquisite pochoir plates. The plates are all present, all very clean and in Fine condition. Showing room set designs from ...
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20th Century Books
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Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a very good 1st edition (second issue) of this much sought after society journal which is still in a very good dust jacket though there are one or two short closed tears and ...
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20th Century Books
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Primavera 1912-1972 Atelier D'Art Du Printemps By Alain-Rene Hardy (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
For most of the 20th century Primavera were the "atalier", design shop and workshop for Printemps, the large Parisian department store. They were set up initially to design and creat...
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20th Century Books
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Jean Royere: Mobilier by Pierre Passebon (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Jean Royere was one of the great innovative designer/decorators of the 20th century and his clients included The Shah of Persia, King Farouk of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan. He w...
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20th Century Books
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Bill Willis (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a beautifully photographed book which features some of the few remaining examples of Bill Willis's work in his adopted homeland of Morocco. There was probably not another arc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Il Design Italiano Degli Anni '50 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Edited by Andrea Branzi & Michele De Lucchi
This book is a photographic record of an exhibition which was organised in 1977 to showcase "Italian Design in the Fifties", all manner o...
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20th Century Books
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More is More: Tony Duquette by Hutton Wilkinson (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
More Is More, the exquisite second volume about Tony Duquette, delves into the creative process and personal life of this great American designer renowned for his fantastical artwork...
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20th Century Books
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Vladimir Kagan: A Lifetime of Avant-Garde Design (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Preface by Tom Ford Foreword by Zaha Hadid
Pointed Leaf Press is pleased to announce that we will be publishing an updated edition of The Complete Kagan: Vladimir Kagan, A Lifetime ...
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20th Century Books
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The Great Lady Decorators by Adam Lewis (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
:The Women Who Defined Interior Design. 1870-1955
Mixing gorgeous interiors with sparkling social history, this is the first book on the visionary women whose work gave us the timel...
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20th Century Books
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The Stylemakers: Minimalism and Classic Modernism 1915-1945 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
by Mo Amelia Teitelbaum
In Paris in the 1920's a new style was born, rejecting the embellishments of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, it allied the linear proportions of late eighteenth-cen...
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20th Century Books
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Diego Giacometti by Daniel Marchesseau (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A beautifully photographed book which covers the work and career of one of the 20th centuries greatest metal ware artists and sculptors. 220 pages with 284 photographic illustrations...
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20th Century Books
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Fontana Arte: Una Storia Trasparente by Laura Falconi (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Hardback book with dust jacket in good condition. 239 pages with text in English and Italian, this book discusses the history of Fontana Arte the company which was famous for the cou...
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20th Century Italian Books
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Jean Royere Exhibition May-July 1999 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A scarce hard backed catalogue with dust jacket which was produced by the Galerie Jacques Lacoste for an exhibition held in May, June and July ...
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20th Century Books
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Buildings Plans and Designs by Frank LLoyd Wright (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Forward by William Wesley Peters
A monumental folio of 100 large drawings and plans of Buildings designed by the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, it comes with a booklet which gives a brief description of each and features works from the early years of his career (1893-1910). This is the American edition printed in a limited number of 2,600, it is a monograph that was originally published as the Wasmuth Portfolio...
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20th Century Books
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Il Mobile Italiano Degli Anni 40 e 50 by Irene de Guttry (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
By Irene de Guttry & Maria Paola Maino
From the fascinating "animal" creations by Carlo Mollino, to the refined and aerodynamic furniture by Carlo De Carli, Ico Parisi and Gio Ponti,...
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20th Century Books
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Elizabeth Garouste et Mattia Bonetti (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonnetti have been at the forefront of the decorative arts for a few years. After creating the Barbary style , they imposed a poetic and cultured look i...
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20th Century Books
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The Intimate World of Alexander Calder (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book reveals many aspects of the life and works of Alexander Calder - some of which have not been seen previously as they are in private collections around the world including t...
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20th Century Books
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Jacques Doucet-Yves Saint Laurent: Vivre Pour L'Art (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Both couturiers by trade, Jacques Doucet (1853-1929) and Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008) were also genius collectors. In search of a certain absolute, they both created "collection-sp...
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20th Century Books
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Jean Royere by Catherine & Stephane De Beyrie & Jacques Ouaiss (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a very good copy of a scarce book on the furniture which was designed and produced by one of the 20th centuries most innovative and sought-after designers. His client list du...
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20th Century Books
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Pierre-Emile Legrain 1889-1929 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
The Galerie Jacques De Vos hosted an exhibition featuring Pierre-Emile Legrain from the 12th September to 12th October 1996. Legrain, a bookbinder and designer, was known for his inn...
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20th Century Books
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Paolo Buffa Designer 30 opere dal 1939 al 1968 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A Master of Design
For almost half a century, the architect Paolo Buffa has occupied the furniture design scene with a well-recognizable style: a limpid art, skilful and exquisite in...
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20th Century Books
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Ingrid Donat by Anne Bony (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Preface by Peter Marino
The first comprehensive monograph on Ingrid Donat, one of the most sought after designers of the end of the 20th century, creating...
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20th Century Books
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European 20th Century Greek Revival by Karl Lagerfeld (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Karl Lagerfeld has a clear out. The selection of stylish pieces will be titled European 20th Century Greek Revival.
It has been curated by Pierre Passebon and will be on show at his Delorenzo...
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20th Century Books
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Egidio Costantini: Il Maestro Dei Maestri (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
From Picasso to Fontana, the glass sculptures of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. Thanks to the Italian master, glass has won its letters of nobility in twentieth-centu...
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20th Century Books
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Art Glass from Murano 1910-1970 by Marc Heiremans (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
In this beautifully illustrated volume the author Marc Heirmans has selected 290 "masterpieces" from the Archive at Murano, as well as from museum and private collections in Europe, ...
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20th Century Books
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Carlo Scarpa: Glass of an Architect by Marino Barovier (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
The celebrated Venetian architect Carlos Scarpa viewed glass as raw material for experimentation and research, and was challenged by this vastly suggestive age-old art. Now back in p...
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20th Century Books
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Venetian Art Glass: An American Collection 1840- 1970 by Marino Barovier (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Rare glass objects from the latter half of the nineteenth century illustrate the beginnings of the effort to revive art glass production in Murano. Magnificent examples of murrine re...
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20th Century Books
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At Auction Charles & Ray Eames (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
The catalogue was produced to market Wright's Eames design auction on April 8, 2010. The catalogue captures the spirit of playfulness for which the Eames are renowned. Integrating Ho...
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20th Century Books
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Mackintosh to Mollino: Fifty Years of Chair Design by Derek E. Ostergard (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
The chair, perhaps more than any other single object, epitomizes the styles of a given period. For that reason we have chosen to highlight chair design in our exhibition. The exhibit...
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20th Century Books
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Collection Karl Lagerfeld: Arts Decoratifs Du XXe Siecle Sotheby's (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Sotheby's sale catalogue of the sale of 20th century objets and furniture from the collection of Karl Largerfeld dated 15th May 2003. The catalogue will prove to be of great value as...
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20th Century Books
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Brazilian Furniture Design editor Otavio Nazareth (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
The First in a series of Brazilian furniture design, this book abstains from discourse. The pieces have been chosen for the consistency of the work done by their creators and because...
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20th Century Books
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Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book was published concurrently with a retrospective exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is a 1st edition copy which is in good condition and still has the origin...
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20th Century Books
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Rob. Mallet Stevens: Architecture, Furniture, Interior Design (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
by J F Pinchon
Rob Mallet-Stevens (1886-1945) was one of the more controversial architects of the modern movement and, along with Le Corbusier, the most influential figure in French ...
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20th Century Books
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Christie's The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Christie's hardback auction catalogue Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th October 1999 New York.
In October of 1999, Anna Strasberg sourced Christie’s, the renowned auction company, to ...
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20th Century Books
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Ensembles Mobiliers 18 Volume (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a brand new (apart from volume 1/2 which is in a mylar cover for protection there is a 1cm tear in the front top left hand corner) still in cellophane complete 18 volume set (published as 17 because 1 and 2 form the first volume). Originally published by Charles Moreau between 1937 and 1960 in portfolio form, these reprints from 2005 have been published as oblong quarto books, this is an important work which traces the trends and fashions of The Salon des Artistes Decorateurs which is basically the history of French furniture in the 20th century. Most of the legendary names are featured, including Ruhlmann, Jean Dunand, Maurice Dufrene, Jacques Adnet, Dupre´-Lafon, Jean Royere, Jules Leleu, Maxime Old, Eugene Printz, Andre Arbus and Florence Knoll. 792 full pages black and white plates...
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20th Century Books
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Franco Albini by Marco Albini (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Catalogue of the exhibition dedicated to the creations (armchairs, desks, shelves, lighting, etc.) of Franco Albini, Italian architect and designer (1905-1977).
Galerie du Passage (P...
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20th Century Books
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Furniture by Wedell Castle by Davira S. Taragin (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
The book reproduces the artist's most important works, including clocks and trompe l'oeil pieces, in full-colour plates, including many details and multiple views, also includes blac...
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20th Century Books
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Set of Five David Hicks Design Books (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A very good set of five classic interior design books by David Hicks, the much sought after and highly regarded English designer and decorator. L...
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Mid-20th Century Books
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