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Eiko by Eiko (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This lavish book is an exposition of the innovative Japanese graphic artist and costume designer who was known for her work on stage, screen, advertising and print media. Most famous...
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20th Century Books
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UAM Union des Artistes Modernes Petits Meubles de Grands Noms (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a very scarce and beautiful catalogue of an exhibition which took place in October and November 1994 at Galerie de Vos. The UAM (The French Union of Modern Artists) was a movement made up of French Decorative Artists which flourished in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. The members were some of the great names of the 20th century's designers and decorators and included - Rose Adler, Pierre Chareau, Eileen Gray, Rene Herbst, Francis Jourdain, Le Corbusier & Jenneret, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Gustave...
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20th Century Books
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Carlos Nadal Works on Paper and an English Perspective (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Nadal was born in Paris in 1917 and moved to Barcelona in 1921, where he lived off and on for the rest of his life. His career spanned some seventy years and was shaped in his early ...
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20th Century Books
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Bryan Adams - Exposed (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a beautiful book of portrait photographs which have been taken by musician and pop star Bryan Adams. 302 pages of wonderful images in both colour and black & white, his subjects are a diverse grouping but throughout one has to be impressed by his dedication to this branch of the visual arts, many icons from the world of music, art and fashion are featured but he also has taken pictures of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and also some unknowns. With forewords by Sir Elton John and The Honourable Daphne Guinness...
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20th Century Books
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Colouring Bronzing and Patination of Metals (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
by Richard Hughes & Michael Rowe
In this book the authors have assembled and tested the recipes included. It is a most comprehensive work of reference on the subject and essential re...
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20th Century Books
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125 Years of Louis Vuitton (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Two books in soft covers housed in a brown cloth covered slip case with cream lettering. One volume illustrates Louis Vuitton products through the years, the second illustrates the "...
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20th Century Books
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The Machine by K. G. Pontus Hulten (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
In original pressed, painted and hinged aluminium covers with an image of MOMA and a yellow New York taxi cab at the front. This is the exhibition catalogue for an important exhibiti...
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20th Century Books
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Teckningar Till Enklare Mobeltyper by Carl Malmsten 2 Volumes (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Technical Drawings for Swedish Furniture
A set of two pamphlets dated 1926 which show drawings for Empire and Baroque furniture. The text is in Swedish and there are 53 plates in tot...
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Antique Early 19th Century Books
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Paper
Les Pavillons: French Pavilions of the Eighteenth Century (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
by Cyril Connolly and Jerome Zerbe
A first edition copy from 1962 of this fascinating book which is beautifully illustrated with photographs taken by Jerome Zerbe and also with an i...
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Antique 18th Century Books
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Panneaux Decoratifs et Tentures Murales from 18th and Early 19th Century (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a complete folio with 34 loose plates in colour and black and white showing elegant 18th century decorative wall panels, wall hangings and arabesques. An excellent design res...
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Antique 18th Century Books
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Dent Hardware Co. Trade Catalogue (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a trade catalogue dating from 1911 show casing the wares produced by Dent Hardware of Fullerton PA. The main line of business at that time was ...
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Early 20th Century Books
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Guide Des Cadeaux Edite Par Lancel (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A trade catalogue of luxury gifts and products made by the up-market/luxury leather dealer, Dating from the mid-late 1920s showing more than 700 items which are priced and pictured in different sections - Maroquinerie, Orfeverie, Joaillerie, Horologie, Articles de Fumeurs, Objets D'Art and Fantasies. With everything from Handbags and Wallets to silver knives and forks...
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Vintage 1920s Books
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Ensembles Mobiliers, 6 Volumes ‘13 to 18’ (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a six folio volume run of the Ensembles Mobiliers series published by Editions Charles Moreau in the 1950s, each volume is complete and the ...
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Vintage 1950s Books
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Dunbar Office Furniture (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Produced in 1959 this catalogue in sort covers introduced what was then "Dunbar's new executive office collection" which had been designed ...
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Mid-20th Century Books
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Antoine Philippon and Jacqueline Lecoq (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition in May 2011 held at Demish Danant Gallery, New York. Philippon and Lecoq joined forces in 1955 after having worked in Marcel ...
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20th Century Books
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Tapis D'Emilio Terry: Projects (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This delightful little book contains 25 plates showing Emilio Tery's geometric carpet designs held in the Musee des Arts Decoratif. Terry was one of the leading and most sought after interior designers and decorators of the mid part of the 20th century, he had a list of very wealthy clients who were the fashionable leaders of the Cafe Society of the time - such as Charles de Beistegui...
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Mid-20th Century Books
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Frida Kahlo: The Painter and Her Work by Helga Prignitz-Poda (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Frida Kahlo is now regarded as one of the foremost artists of the 20th century. Her reputation grew late in her life and more so, posthumously. During her life she was more famous fo...
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20th Century Books
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Sandoz: Sculpteur Figuriste et Animalier, 1881-1971 by Felix Marcilhac (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a very scarce hardback copy of the book on the sculpture and work of Edouard Marcel Sandoz, which includes the catalogue raisonne of his work in the rear section, having over...
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20th Century Books
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Hicks into the 1980's (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a scarce commercial brochure produced by the David Hicks organisation as a marketing tool. By 1980 David Hicks and his business had a large international presence and client ...
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Vintage 1980s Books
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Poul Kjaerholm by Christoffer Harlang (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This lovely book was written by leading furniture experts and architects who deal with different facets of Poul Kjaerholm's life and work. The largest section is devoted to photograp...
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20th Century Books
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Andy Warhol Collection Sotheby's (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Andy Warhol was one of the great creative geniuses of the second half of the 20th century and was one of the leading figures in the "Pop Art" movement. Here we have the five volume boxed set of Sotheby sale catalogues from April 23rd to May 3rd 1988 which was used for the disposal of his vast collection which ranged from important pieces of Ruhlmann furniture to Mickey Mouse and Mini Mouse...
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20th Century Books
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The Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
The Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm is one of the most remarkable "chinoiseries" anywhere in the North of Europe-not because of its size and the splendour of its collections, but b...
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Antique 18th Century Books
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Arne Jacobsen by Tobias Faber (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Arne Jacobsen is today probably best remembered for his chair and furniture designs but he was primarily an architect and that had been his training. This book deals mainly with the ...
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20th Century Books
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The Lunning Prize (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book was published in 1986 as a record of the winners and importance of this prize which was awarded to two eminent Scandinavian Designers every year between 1951 and 1970. Frederik Lunning...
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20th Century Books
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Alvar Aalto: Points of Contact (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Alvar Aalto Museum in 1994. With essays by Aalto himself, Kirmo Mikkola, Juhani Pallasmaa, Kristian Gullichen and Kaarina Mikonran...
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20th Century Books
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Visionaire 25 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is the 25th anniversary edition of Visionaire, which is a collection of greatest hits and brand new work - hence the size being the same as a twe...
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20th Century Books
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Givenchy: 40 Years of Creation (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book was published in 1991 to coincide with an exhibition which marked Hubert de Givenchy's 40 years in fashion. It is dividing into three sections; it presents a portrait of Gi...
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20th Century Books
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"Green Frog Service" - Book about an Imperial Russian Dinner Service
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is number 111 from the limited edition of 1,000 copies. The first 25 are special leather bound copies, a further 25 were for collaborators on the publication, the next 350 were reserved for subscribers and 650 were for general sale. Therefore we know that this was one of the subscribers copies. With green cloth covers in a green slipcase with an embossed frog motif to the front. 424 pages with over 350 large detailed illustrations, 60 color plates and more than 1000 reference illustrations. This magnificent dinner and dessert service was the crowning achievement of the great English potter Josiah Wedgwood who made it between 1773-1774 as a commission from the Empress Catherine...
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Antique Late 18th Century Books
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Gio Ponti: The Complete Work 1923-1978 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book is the first complete survey and profile of one of the 20th centuries most accomplished architects and designers. He was incredibly prolific and did not just stick with arc...
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20th Century Books
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Mobili Tipo by Roberto Aloi (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A hardback book published in 1956 with many examples of midcentury furniture designed and produced by some of the most famous designers of that period. Included are the likes of - Gi...
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20th Century Books
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Hermes, La Beaute En Voyage (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This beautifully presented book illustrates the collection of luxurious travel objects made by the world-famous brand Hermes. In the latter years of the 19th century Emile Hermes tra...
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20th Century Books
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Luminaire Moderne by Guillaume Janneau (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a beautiful portfolio with 48 loose plates showing designs (probably dating from the mid-late 1920s) for Art Deco lighting by such as - Edgar Brandt, Schenk and Sons, Jean Pe...
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20th Century Books
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Knoll Design (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A hardback book and dust jacket, the book is in very good condition, the dust jacket is slightly sunned but is complete with no tears or chips. This is the 1981 1st edition. 305 page...
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20th Century Books
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Ruhlmann Vintage Photograph Album (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A unique photograph album in original grey card wrappers with the Ruhlmann name embossed on the front and the name of the client Monsieur Molinie also...
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Early 20th Century Books
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Marcial Berro: Meubles et Objets (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a soft covered exhibition catalogue which was produced in 1992 by Galerie Pierre Passebon and Galerie du Passage of an exhibition of 33 pieces designed and created by Argentinian designer Marcial Berro...
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20th Century Books
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Domestic Architecture by H.T. Lindeberg (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A very good copy of the first edition which was published in 1940 in a limited number of only 1,000 copies. Hardback folio, quarter red leather and cloth with embossed gilt titles, 3...
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20th Century Books
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Serge Mouille: A French Classic by Pierre Emile Pralus (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A beautifully photographed and illustrated book on the design career of Serge Mouille (1922-1988), he was the most important French designer of light fittings of the 1950s. His reput...
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20th Century Books
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Parfumerien & Toiletteseifen Mouson & Co. Frankfurt (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Catalogue of Perfumes, Toiletries and Cosmetics
A rare sale catalogue of luxury goods including perfumes, toiletries and soaps from the early years of the twentieth century produced ...
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Early 20th Century Books
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New Furniture 11 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Published in 1973, this book offers in five chapters a review of new chairs, settees and beds, tables, office furniture, cabinets and shelves as well as nursery furniture...
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20th Century Books
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Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a large hardback book of just over 550 pages featuring over 150 full-scale colour reproductions as well as 2,000 additional black and white illustrations of the work of the B...
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Antique 19th Century Books
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Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Works (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Before starting his career as an architect, Scarpa worked for more that ten years as artistic director at the Venini glass works where he gained an exceptional knowledge of raw mater...
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20th Century Books
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Mobel & Wohnraum: Furniture & Rooms (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A hard back book published in 1946, about household furniture, its construction and room sets designed around it. As Europe was struggling to get back to some sort of normality the f...
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Mid-20th Century Books
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Alvar Aalto Furniture (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Alvar Aalto was a Finnish Architect and Furniture designer whose career spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s, this book shows the progress of his designs from the 1920s Classic designs with modern twists through to what was to be referred to as "Scandinavian Modern" in the latter years of his career. He was best know for his use of moulded plywood and tubular metal in his designs and for creating stackable seating...
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20th Century Books
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Correct Woodwork for the Colonial Home (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A very useful and interesting pamphlet dating from 1930 which was produced by the Morgan Woodwork Organization to show the designs for Colonial style of Woodwork and how it should be...
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Early 20th Century Books
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"Meubles Modernes en Metal" Folio Presented by Pierre Pinsard
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A small hardboard folio in original covers, measuring 9.5" x 6.5". Title page plus six pages of text and two page list of plates, which is still uncut. There are 24 plates in black a...
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20th Century Books
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Au Bucheron: La Chambre à Coucher (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A soft covered trade catalogue of bedroom furniture and sets. Stylistically it looks to be dated from the late 1920s or 1930s; it would not have been before 1923 as that was the date...
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20th Century Books
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Il Mobile Déco Italiano (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
276 pages in soft covers with a dust jacket. Text is in Italian and the pages are profusely illustrated with black and white photographs plus 30 colour photographs. The book traces some of the best known designers of Italian Art Deco furniture...
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20th Century Books
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Das Polstermobel by Von Adolf Schneck (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
An original first edition from 1933, a soft cover book which is in good condition, with the original dust jacket (though this is not in good condition). 89 pages with a total of 267 ...
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20th Century Books
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Isadora Duncan with Art Deco Sculptures by Chiparus, Preiss and Others (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A beautifully produced book which is on handmade paper and is a limited edition of only 3000 copies, this is numbered 2294. Hardback covers with black silk in a presentation clam shell box...
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20th Century Books
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Prize Designs for Modern Furniture (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Published in 1950 by The Museum of Modern Art - MOMA, this is a scarce soft covered book which features the designs of the winners and those who got special mention at The International Competition for Low Cost Furniture...
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20th Century Books
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Cheminees Et Coins De Feu (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Jean Royere was one of the leading French furniture designers of the middle years of the twentieth century, who put together and edited this collection of Chimney and fireplace desig...
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20th Century Books
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Contemporary Danish Furniture Design (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book as you may see from the main image; is termed "a short illustrated review" - which describes the work of some 120 Danish Furniture Designers and is accompanied buy 520 illu...
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20th Century Books
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Georg Jensen Silversmithy: 77 Artists, 75 Years (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This catalogue was published on the occasion of an exhibition organised and held at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. With 147 pieces illustrated, company ...
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20th Century Sterling Silver
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Happy Times by Brendan Gill and Jerome Zerbe (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A very good copy of this photographic social history which was compiled by Brendan Gill from the extraordinary private archive of approximately fifty thousand photographs taken by Jerome Zerbe,. For over forty years , Zerbe has crisscrossed the world in pursuit of festive occasions; here are five hundred of his best pictures - racy, impudent, amused - which amount to a novel composed by a camera and having for plot the playful housrs of the young, the rich, the beautiful, and the celebrated. For many years Zerbe was the official photographer for El Morocco which became for a period the most famous night club in the world where he photographed the rich and famous at play. During his career he also spent time as wartime photographer and captured pictures of the Japanese surrender...
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20th Century Books
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Andy Warhol (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Rare Swedish Exhibition Catalogue
This book was published on the occasion of the Andy Warhol exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1968, it was edited by Andy Warhol, Kasper K...
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20th Century Books
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Interieurs 50 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Apogee De La Geometrie Curviligne" Folio
A rare publication of a catalogue for an exhibition of European mid-century design in October 1983 which was wide ranging in the exhibits on ...
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20th Century Books
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Lucien Rollin Architect-Decorator 1906-1993 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A hardback book with its dust jacket which is in very good condition. 127 pages with many full page colour and black & white illustrations showing examples of his beautiful furniture...
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20th Century Books
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The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book is the first comprehensive study of Godwin's furniture designs. Taking the form of a catalogue raisonne, the book documents and reproduces all known examples of his secular...
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Antique 19th Century Books
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Goudji (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book is a monograph on the work of this very individual and very stylized goldsmith/silversmith whose main body of work (so far), has spanned the last third of the 20th century and just into the 21st century. He uses precious metals, mainly silver and gold but he also uses vermeil, which is the gilding of sterling silver with gold by electrolysis, together with precious and semi precious stones, his favorites seem to be lapis lazuli, ivory and rock crystal. His creations are mainly jewellery, Precious objects (Objets de Vertu...
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Late 20th Century Books
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Nouvelles Devantures et Agencements de Magasins (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Designs for Shop Windows
An hardcovered ribbon tied portfolio with 60 photogravure reproductions showing examples of New Shop fronts and Shop fittings in the Art Deco style by some ...
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Mid-20th Century Books
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