Peter Adam, Eileen Gray, Architect or Designer "A Biography" Book

Patrick Hamilton -The Slaves of Solitude Published by Constable, London 1947. First edition. Hamilton, cult author of Hangover Square and denizen of seedy pre-war literary Lond...

Published by Chatto & Windus UK 1st 1954. English dynastic novelist drops some mescaline, takes a 5000 mile car trip around the national parks of North West America, and then sits...

Published by Rizzoli first edition, 1992 Women of Design profiles thirty two women who have dominated the world of interior design, included are photographs of some of their finest ...

Published by Éditions Charles Moreau, 1998 Text by François Baudot, preface by Karl Lagerfeld. The distinctive designs of Gilbert Poillerat may be regarded as part of the Art D...

Published by Les Editions de L’Amateur 1997 preface by Karl Lagerfeld French text. Beautiful images of the Villa Kerylos in the South of France ...

First edition, published by Rizzoli, 1984 ‘Research, Experiences, Result, Failures and Successes of New Design’ Founded in 1981 by designer Ettore Sottsass, the Italy-based Mem...

This is a beautifully photographed and illustrated book which studies the full range and designs of the furniture and interiors of this now highly regarded and much sought after desi...

Eileen Gray is nowadays looked upon as one of the most celebrated and influential designers of the 20th century. Her Bibendum chair and E.1027 table are...

by Sandra Dachs, Patricia De Muga & Laura Garcia Hintzo Focuses on Eileen Gray, a breakaway designer in a world dominated by male-centric style schools Besides an introductory essay, each title in the By Architects series is compiled by key modern architects through sketches, drawings, photos of the original productions, and ambient shootings A design-orientated book for a design-orientated series, Eileen Gray boasts an innovative layout and a special binding Neglected for most of her career, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is now regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early twentieth century and the most influential woman in those fields. Her work inspired both modernism and Art Deco. Eileen Gray was to stand alone throughout her career, first as a lacquer artist, then a furniture designer, and finally as an architect. At a time when other leading designers were almost all male and mostly members of one movement or another - whether a loose grouping like De Stijl in the Netherlands, or a formal one such as the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne - Gray remained staunchly independent. Her design style was as distinctive as her way of working. Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on the geometric forms and industrially produced materials used by the International Style designers, such as Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Mies van der Rohe, who shared much of her ideology. Her voluptuous leather and tubular steel Bibendum Chair and clinically chic E-1027 glass and tubular steel table...

Furniture, Architecture, Applied Art. Finn Juhl (1912-1989) was first and foremost famous for his furniture. In the 1940s, he broke with the established furniture tradition and desi...

Peter Pennoyer Architects Apartments, Townhouses, Country Houses By: Anne Walker and Robert Stern Peter Pennoyer Architects practices a refined archite...

A large paperback book which was published in 1992. The book focuses in depth on probably his most famous design "La Maison de Verre" (the Glass House)...