Fine English & French Furniture & Objects Form Private Residence of H F Du Pont

Christie's: Fine English Furniture Including the Private Collection of Miss Julia Lowenthal, London 3/10/05. Softcover, 198 pages, 327 lots, full color illustrations. With results. ...

Sotheby's, highly important French furniture from a Private collection, NY November 19, 1993, sale #6498. Sotheby's New York, 1993. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 80 lots ...

Christie's: Fine English Furniture, including Works of Art from Hartley Place, 20 September 2001, Christie's. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. 495 lots, including properties of: the late Col. Norman Colville, M.C., the executors of the late Sir Emmanuel Kaye, C.B.E., the Lord St. Oswald, Sir Philip Powell...

The Collection of Louis Guerineau Myers. Catalogue of the auction/exhibition held at American Art Association, April 2-9, 1932, featuring "Duncan Phyfe: Characteristic examples in his most beautiful designs, of both Sheraton and Empire styles, including several pieces which were believed by Mr. Myers to be unique; Sheraton and Hepplewhite, including notable Philadelphia and Baltimore examples; rare pewter...

Antique print titled 'Grabmal des Häuptlings Tongamana' and 'Wohnung der Englischen Missionairs in Hifo'. Old print with two views, the upper image depicts the tomb of Tongamana. The lower image depicts a residence of an English missionary in Hihifo. This print originates from 'Entdeckungs, Reise der Franzosischen Corvette Astrolabe Unternomen auf Befehl Konig Karls...

The Dictionary of English Furniture from the Middle Ages to the late Georgian Period, by Percy Macquoid & Ralph Edwards. This is the first edition from 1927 and can be regarded as th...

Torricellian mercury barometer in mahogany wood, complete with rare spiral alcohol thermometer resting on elegant brass frame of leaves and flowers from lost-wax casting with tempera...

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...