Parfumerien & Toiletteseifen Mouson & Co. Frankfurt (Book)

This is a trade catalogue dating from 1911 show casing the wares produced by Dent Hardware of Fullerton PA. The main line of business at that time was ...

This book is a monograph on the work of this very individual and very stylized goldsmith/silversmith whose main body of work (so far), has spanned the last third of the 20th century and just into the 21st century. He uses precious metals, mainly silver and gold but he also uses vermeil, which is the gilding of sterling silver with gold by electrolysis, together with precious and semi precious stones, his favorites seem to be lapis lazuli, ivory and rock crystal. His creations are mainly jewellery, Precious objects (Objets de Vertu...

A Monograph on this most important Brazilian furniture designer and maker from the mid-20th century. He opened his factory in 1943 and one of his main clients was the architect Oscar Niemeyer, for whose designs a number of original pieces were commissioned. He was well-known for making use of indigenous...

Introduction by Major-General Sir Randle Feilden, K.C.V.O., C.B., C.B.E. (Senior Steward of the Jockey Club) A pictorial dictionary of racing colours; as much a work of graphic art as a reference book. Each page contains a grid of 30 line drawings of a jockey shirt and cap with the colours and names of the owners. The whole makes a stunning graphic design book. Here is the perfect book of reference for all those racing people interested not only in contemporary racing colours but also in their history. In these 364 pages of superb colour are depicted nearly 10,000 registered owners' racing colours, each one carefully drawn by hand and beautifully reproduced. As a work of art and as a reference book, The Benson and Hedges...

Apogee De La Geometrie Curviligne" Folio A rare publication of a catalogue for an exhibition of European mid-century design in October 1983 which was wide ranging in the exhibits on ...

A beautiful book produced by Franco Maria Ricci in a limited edition of only 6,000, this being number 1547. With black silk covers and a presentation clam shell box...

A vanishingly scarce to see signed first edition of this classic Christie mystery, signed by Christie to friend and confidante, Carlo Fisher. The first edition, first impression wit...

One of the world’s great architects, Frank O. Gehry has produced an astonishing body of work. With the artistry of a sculptor and the brilliant articulation of an engineer, Gehry creates constructions that defy categorization. Over three hundred projects and a thousand illustrations — includes, among others, the controversial American Center in Paris; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Nationale-Nedelanden Building (Fred and Ginger Building) in Prague; Vitra Headquarters in Weil am Rhein, Germany; California Aerospace Museum; Loyola Law School in Los Angeles; Chiat Day...

A spectacular, visually rich monograph on one of the most visionary architecture firms of the 21st century led by 2016 Pritzker Prize-winner Alejandro Aravena Elemental, based in San...

Featuring 125 seminal cookbooks from the last 100 years, Cookbook Book is a celebration of the world's most beautiful, influential and informative cookbooks. From the tried-and-tr...

An 18th century hand-colored map entitled "Tabula Marchionatus Brandenburgici et Ducatus Pomeraniae quae sunt Pars Septentrionalis Circuli Saxoniae Superioris" by Johann Baptist Homa...

A luxurious publication of the works of Raphaello Sanzio, one of the greatest painters of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael’s extraordinary productivity, despite a brief career that ended with his death at the age of 37, resulted in a large body of work that includes such masterpieces as The School of Athens...