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One-volume survey of "Austrian Applied Arts", primarily Secession, with an introduction by Josef Hoffmann. Published in 1930 by Heinz & Co. Organized by t...

First edition of the second volume (of three) of the renowned graphic design publication Die Quelle (the Source), deemed, along with the journal Die Flache, as among the finest examples of Secession-style graphic design. Published by M. Gerlach & Co of Vienna and Leipzig; not dated but circa 1902-1905. Buchschmuck und Flachenmuster translates to Book Decoration and Surface Design. It presents the work of Max Benirschke (1880-1961), an Austrian architect, illustrator, and designer who studied at the Kunstgewerbescule in Vienna under Josef Hoffmann and was subsequently hired by Peter Behrens in 1903 to teach at his newly founded School of Applied Arts in Dusseldorf. In 1900, Benirschke was enlisted by the famed Viennese publisher Martin Gerlach to produce a folio for Die Quelle; the result shows Benirschke “at the height of his Jugenstil period with a series of curvilinear plant motifs and patterns.” According to Austrian gallerist Michael Steinbach, the present volume is “one of the most important design portfolios...

Portfolio of Art Deco and early modernist Paris shops and boutiques, showing both interiors and exteriors, edited by Roger Poulain and published by Vincent Freal et Cie (Paris) in 1929. 72 (of 72) loose plates plus checklist enclosed in graphically striking printed paper-covered boards with ribbon ties. Includes projects by Eugene Printz, Claude Levy...

First edition, complete in 12 volumes, of the Encyclopedie des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernest au XXeme Siecle, published by Imprimerie Nationale, Office Central D'Editions ...

This soft covered book is the 1990 reprint of the 1931 first edition, having 90 pages with 132 illustrations in black and white, text is in german. It is an important monograph on the Bauhaus furniture...

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...

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 ...

A hard covered folio with 54 loose plates which show the wonderful sketches, ideas and designs of Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann for the furniture that he designed and produced from the earl...