Plastic Books

A rare vintage Robert Mapplethorpe coffee table book, Parco Vision Contemporary, softcover, 1987. Featuring text in Japanese and English and both color and black and white plates, in...

“The deeper the white man went into Africa, the faster the life flowed out of it, off the plains and out of the bush…vanishing in acres of trophies and hides and carcasses” proclaime...

Two catalogs presenting Ward Bennett’s product designs for Brickel Associates, published circa 1977. Bennett (1917-2003) was an influential and acclaimed artist, sculptor, interior d...

A unique book first edition print set on a circular format retains its original case.

Manufacturer’s ring binder catalog showcasing the 1992 product line for Brueton Furniture, a New York City-based company that produces upscale furniture and accessories for the residential, contract, and hospitality markets. Founded in 1926, Brueton was an early convert to the use of highly crafted stainless steel, still an area of specialty. Along with designs by Stanley Jay Friedman and J. Wade Beam—familiar names in the vintage modern design market—the 1992 catalog includes work by Sergio Orozco, Mark Mascheroni, Mark Goldberg, John Duffy, Mitchell Pickard, Charles Gibilterra, Bert England, Victor Dziekiewicz, Glenn Polinsky, Joseph Gerstman, Bruenu, Richard Thompson, Robert Sonneman, Ed Born, and Ira Grayroff. Stylistically skewed to post-modern, the catalog also features clean-lined international style pieces plus reissues of several classic modern designs by Hans and Wassily Luckhardt...

Pop Life. Pictures of Andy Warhol by Steve Schapiro. In 1965, Steve Schapiro started documenting Andy Warhol for Life magazine: Warhol was cementing a reputation as an important Pop artist who drew his inspiration from popular culture and commercial objects. With his sunglasses, blond wig, and bland public utterances, Warhol was enigmatic, charismatic, intensely ambitious, and aware that to become a star, you needed the presence of people to document your ascent. Schapiro, also ambitious and hardworking, who in his own words “kept quiet and smiled a lot,” was an ideal witness to Warhol’s relentless rise from cult New York artist to 20th-century icon. Ironically, Life never published the story, so many of these images are seen here for the first time, scanned from negatives found deep in Schapiro’s archive. Between 1965 and 1966, Warhol was at his creative peak. In this period, Warhol turned his life into art and conceived the “Andy Warhol persona”—arguably his greatest masterpiece. Schapiro busily photographed Warhol...

Since time immemorial, monarchs, nobility and the aristocracy have yearned to spend their leisure time on the water. From Cleopatra’s fabled luxury barge to Her Majesty’s Royal Yacht Britannia, from elegant Jazz Age vessels such as Nahlin, once chartered by King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, to the swinging ’60s Hollywood royalty invited aboard Aristotle Onassis’ Christina O, the yachting scene has always attracted celebrities, high society and the top 0.1%. But with over three thousand sizable yachts currently in the global fleet, not to mention those legendary vessels that are sadly no longer in existence, how do we distinguish the crème de la crème of this exclusive breed? Yachts: The Impossible...

Friso Kramer miniature chair toy sculpture Manufactured in the Netherlands by Ahrend de Cyrkel. Scaled miniature plastic Friso Kramer Revolt chair. Comes in pieces to be assemble...

1970’s Magazine holder by renowned American designer Charles Hollis Jone. Constructed of clear lucite and polish brass. We also have a chrome one in a different listing. It’s in ...

Three legends. Monroe by Mailer and Stern. We have paired Mailer’s original text (his 1973 biography Marilyn) with Bert Stern’s extraordinary photographs, widely considered the m...

A rare Visionaire edition number 28. Entitled “the Bible” from a Palm Springs Estate that had a large Visionaire collection. Bible is #186 in a worldwide edi...

First edition hardcover, published by Albin Michel, Paris, 2010 in an acrylic slipcase. ‘Yves Saint Laurent Laid Bare’ A collection of Jeanloup Sieff’s incredibly intimate and unpr...

First edition of The Luminous Years: Portraits at midcentury by Karl Bissinger. Hardcover with plastic dust-jacket. It's a collection of Bissinger's ric...

A rare Visionaire number 36 entitled Power. From a collector’s Palm Springs estate. Edition numbered 078 of 5.000 numbered copies.

The David Bailey SUMO. Over 300 of the greatest portraits of our time, printed big and bold. In 1965, portrait and fashion photographer David Bailey released his groundbreaking...