Potterton Books

A hardback book with dust jacket in very good condition. Maxime Old had a long and successful career starting in the 1930s when he worked with Ruhlmann and was designing until his de...

This is a copy of the first edition from 1980 which was produced in a limited edition of only 4,000 copies. Frank was an interior decorator and furniture designer who worked in the f...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the considerable work of a man who, between 1931 and 1972, carried out more than a thousand projects around the world - from the develo...

June 12th - September 6th 2013 The Exhibition at Kelly Gallery is a reprise celebration of the innovative skills and artistry of Jean Dunand and Jean Goulden. It comprise about 40 wo...

Jacques Emile Ruhlmann was one of the greatest and most prolific Art Deco cabinet makers and interior designers of the first half of the twentieth century. Ruhlmann was known for his...

by Pierre Kjellberg A beautifully photographed book, which provides an alphabetic A - Z of all the great Deco designers - Chareau, Dunand, Ruhlmann, Leleu and Sue et Mare to name but...

Monograph dedicated to Louis Süe and André Mare who, in 1919, founded the Compagnie des Arts Français. Their collaboration lasted until 1927. In appendix: 30 pages of directory of th...

Hardback book with cloth covers and dust jacket in very good condition. 279 pages lavishly illustrated with colour and black & white photographs and drawings. Groult had a prolif...

This monograph is about the life and works of Charlotte Perriand who was one of the most influential designers whose life (1903-1999) spanned of the 20th century. In the late 1920's ...

This is the Sotheby's catalogue from May 1984 which featured 247 lots including important French Furniture and Decorations; European Ceramics; Oriental Works of Art; Old Master and 1...

Sotheby sale Paris Thursday 30th September & Friday 1st October 2004. This is the sale catalogue produced by Sotheby's in 2004, for sale of the property of Madeleine Castaing, pr...

A two volume set which provides a well documented and detailed review of Danish furniture design in the 20th century, both having a broadly formulated, illustrated part that describe...

A scarce sale catalogue produced by Sotheby's in 1987 to dispose of the contents of Wilsford Manor - the home of The Honourable Stephen Tennant. Featuring 939 lots, all with description and price guides - many of which are photographed or illustrated in colour and black & white. He was known as a member of "The Bright Young People" in the 1920's and 1930's and was friends with Cecil Beaton, The Sitwells, The Mitford girls and Rex Whistler.

Essays by Pierre Berge, Peter Marino and Reed Krakoff A stated first edition of a very scarce book on the husband and wife sculptors Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne. Beautifully p...

This book is the first comprehensive monograph on the architect Carlo Mollino who is probably best remembered for his furniture designs and this book is divided into two parts, the f...

Hardback book with dust jacket, text is in French, 206 pages full of photographs, illustrations and drawings which showcase much of his amazing talent both as an interior designer an...

A very good set of five classic interior design books by David Hicks, the much sought after and highly regarded English designer and decorator. Life Magazine 1972 made reference to D...

This is a very good set of the sales catalogues produced by Christie's for the sale of the magnificent collection put together by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge, 23rd - 25th Feb...

Cecil Beaton brings all his skills to bear in this charming tribute to Japan, it's customs, people and landscape. His photographs are accompanied by calligraphic drawings and his usu...

Published in 2010, this is the much anticipated book on the life and career of Signe Sornay, with text in English and French. The book was published by Galerie Alain Marcelpoil who a...

This is a limited edition hard backed book with the original dust jacket, in very good condition. Line Vautrin was one of the most brilliant and innovative figures if Parisian and Fr...

Regency furniture is popularly defined as the furniture produced in the period 1790-1840 and this definition is followed here. These fifty years produced some of the most inventive a...

by Jean Francois Grunfeld, Marie-Laure Jousset A set of original texts, written by writers, historians, and philosophers, casts new lights on these objects full of charm and mystery:...

Hans Jørgensen Wegner (2 April 1914 – 26 January 2007) was a Danish furniture designer. His work, along with a concerted effort from several of his manufacturers, contributed to the ...

An introduction to Swedish design for those in other countries interested in the subject at any level, from simply curious to the professional or academic. Contemporary Sweden has a ...

One hundred lamps from the Cortopassi collection A collection of lamps designed by various designers such as Gino Sarfatti, E Sottsass Jr, Tobia Scarpa, Sergio Asti, Giorgio Reggior...

Christie's softcover auction catalogue for 17th January 2012. Featuring over 350 lots, the sale promises to provide bidding opportunities for collectors at every level, with estimate...

Auction Sunday 3rd December 2008. This sophisticated, full-colour exhibition catalogue documents, for the first time, a treasure-trove of 30 pieces of furniture designed by seminal S...

Gallerie Willy Huybrechts. Exhibition dated 15th November to 15 December 2005. Fifteen years after his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid, devoted mainly to ...

Fine Objects of Vertu, Faberge, American Paintings and Memorabilia from the Collection of Mr and Mrs Frank Sinatra. The New York Christie's Sinatra Hard Back Auction Catalogue. The ...

A stunning collection of twelve definitive Robert Kime projects, ranging from Bloomsbury to the Bahamas, from the Irish countryside to la France profonde. Magnificent, specially-comm...

We are offering a complete set of all 14 of Ian Fleming's James Bond Books which were published by "First Edition Library" in slipcases in the early 1980's. These are exact replicas ...

Set of 4 Sotheby's catalogues. Vol. I Masterworks New York 10th November 2014. 256 pages. Vol. II Jewels & Objects of Vertu 20th -21st November 2014. 256 pages. Vol. III Interior...

For over 50 years, British artist Phyllida Barlow (born 1944) has created astonishing sculptures and expansive installations. Using simple materials such as plywood, cardboard, fabri...

This opulently illustrated volume is the first to examine the tense relationship between Picasso’s wish to control the presentation of his public persona and the ambitions and ideas ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

: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...