Mies Van Der Rohe A Critical Biography by Franz Schulze

Art Nouveau Architecture by Frank Russell. Arch Cape Press, NY, 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket. With 68 color and 500 black and white illustrations. Architects of the fin de siècle (end of the century) organized by country, each chapter written by a well-known authority in the field. The introduction, by Roger-Henri Guerrand; Great Britain: arts and crafts and art nouveau, by Tim Benton; Spain: moderismo in Catalonia, by Tim Benton; Belgium: red steel and blue aesthetic, by Maurice Culot; France: Viollet-le-Duc to Tony Garnier: the passion of rationalism, by Francois Loyer; Holland: building towards an ideal: progressive architecture in Holland, by Richard Padovan; Switzerland: the temperate presence of art nouveau, by Jacques Gubler; Germany: Judgendstil: the early morning of the modern movement, by Ian Latham; Italy: liberty architecture in Italy, by Ezio Godoli; Czechoslovakia: the secession in Eastern Europe, by Anna Masarykova; Austria: to the limits of a language: Wagner, Olbrich, Hoffmann, by Ezio Godoli; USA: Louis Sullivan, Greene and Greene...

Exteriors by Inger McCabe Elliott. Published by Clarkson Potter, 1993. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Interior decoration is only one way of expressing a personal sense of...

Colonial Williamsburg by Phillip Kopper. Harry N. Abrams/The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, New York, NY, 1986. Philip Kopper follows the history of the magnificent restoration of...

American Churches by Roger G Kennedy. Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1982. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 296 pp. 235 illustrations from 188 color photographs. Beautifully produc...

Rome For Ourselves by Aubrey Menen. Published by Mcgraw-Hill, New York, New York, 1960. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 244 pp. Illustrated with 151 plates, 41 in color. A persona...

Between Fences: by Gregory K. Dreicer (Editor). Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. Stated 1st Ed paperback. Fences have played an essential role in the American building tradition ...

An essential tool in the creation and finishing of furniture, this 19th-century English ornamental lathe is an object of beauty in and of itself. The extraordinary machine...

Turn of the 20th century, oak and handcrafted brass, lumber caliper by William Greenlief used to measure the amount of timber from a tree features a sli...

Frank Lloyd Wright by Bruce-brooks-pfeiffer. Hardcover book. Published by Barnes Noble Books (1994). A building by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is at once unmistakably individual...

The beautiful design on this wall barometer by Taylor in patinated brass and glass can be hung on the wall or table top.

A very cool desktop barometer / weather station by Airguide Instrument Company, circa 1950s. The device is packaged in a walnut case with brass feet and accents. It has gauges and ...

Turn of the 20th century, oak and handcrafted brass hardware, lumber caliper by E.S. Lane, Upton ME used to measure the amount of timber from a tree fea...