Domestic Architecture of H.T. Lindeberg, Ltd 1st Edition

The Old World House: Its Furniture and Decoration, In two volumes, by Herbert Cescinsky. Published by The Macmillan Company, London, 1924. A pair of 1st ed hardcovers with gilded top edge. Herbert Cescinsky was an architect and writer active in the early 20th c. He was particularly interested in the development of English furniture and wrote profusely on the subject. This work is an interesting look at the furniture and decorations found in the interior designs in older houses in England. The author discusses oak chairs and tables, marqueterie furniture...

Architecture and Interior Design: A Basic History Through the Seventeenth Century by Victoria Kloss Ball. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1980. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Interior des...

Colonial Furniture: The Superb Collection of the Late Howard Reifsnyder, including signed pieces by Philadelphia cabinetmakers, formerly contained i...

The Architecture of Robert & James Adam (1758-1794); Two Volumes, by Arthur T. Bolton. Published by Country Life, London, 1922. 1st Ed hardcovers no dust ja...

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...

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...

Modern Danish Furniture is the third volume of a series of books on modern Danish applied art. This volume, like the earlier ones, is edited by the Danish architect Esbjorn Hiort, M.A.A., who has written the introduction. While Danish silver and Danish ceramics have long been well known and in great demand in foreign countries - especially among collectors - it has only been during the past ten years or so that Danish furniture has gained an international reputation. In his introduction, the author describes the modern development in this field, explains the reasons for the high artistic and technical standard of Danish furniture, and points out the characteristic details of the work of the leading Danish furniture designers. In the picture section there are numerous illustrations of unique pieces of the cabinet-maker's art as well as of fine examples of Danish commercial furniture...

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...