20th Century Books

Published by The Museum of Modern Art 1990 The first comprehensive overview of the work of Garry Winogrand, contains an eloquent and important essay on the life and work of the phot...

Published by Harper Collins 1st edition 1999 When I think of my beloved friend, the five words I think of are these: elegant, fashionable, generous, supportive, decent. I thank you, Halston. -- Liza Minnelli No American designer since Claire McCardell has had such an impact on redefining fashion as Halston. His designs have experienced a tremendous revival and are as popular today as they were when he was alive. This is the first extensive look at Halston and his contributions to the fashion world, starting with his days as a milliner; through the explosion of his clothing lines and licensing deals, to the sale of his name and trademark and his theatrical designs for Liza Minnelli and the Martha Graham Dance Company. This comprehensive survey of Halston's work is based on exclusive interviews with the people who knew and worked with Halston throughout his turbulent career. They include such celebrity Halston fans as Liza Minnelli, Katherine Graham, and Angelica Huston as well as industry insiders such as Marc Bohan, Stan Herman...

Published by MOMA 1st ed. 1992 Reproducing more than 400 artworks this hefty catalogue of the exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art documents the largest and most ambitious ...

The Waking Dream, Photography's First Century Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993 This book begins the riveting story of photography's first century, a story that conc...

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. A retrospective monogreaph on German photographer Herbert List who was a member of Magnum and whose ...

First Edition, published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1989. With a predictably brilliant preface by the writer Tom Wolfe, this large format book contains 150 pictures by 35 of the...

Published by Architectural Press 1967- English and French text side-by-side. Well-illustrated survey of the best in 1950s and 1960s French architecture. ...

First edition, published by Edipop, 1988. Text in French. A beautiful publication covering the fine works of French glass designers Lalique. The book takes us through the history of...

This is a miniature vintage language library. An English, leather book stand with five dictionaries, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1950. Adorable and compact, a treat for ...

Edouard Benedictus (1878-1930) was a painter, writer, composer and chemist who started his career in the Art Nouveau period. He wrote an influential article in L'Art décoratif in 191...

First edition, published by Dewi Lewis Publishing, Manchester, 1995. When William Klein's images of New York first appeared in 1956 they ushered ...

Vasarely I – Published by Éditions du Griffon Neutchâtel, 1974. Vasarely II – Published by Éditions du Griffon Neutchâtel, 1973. Vasarely III – First edition, published by Éditions...

Petits Appartements By Michele Lenoir Editions Du Jour, Paris, circa 1960. Hardback in color illustrated dust Jacket. First edition. Text in French. Illustrated with over 100 black & white photographs of interiors, furniture and objects. Designers include Bahut Troeds, Schneider, Mobilier International, M. Flachet, Cesam, Meubles Oscar...

Picasso and the Age of Iron By doré Ashton, Carmen Gimenez & Francisco Calvo Serraller Published by the Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1993. A pivotal chapter in the annals of mode...

Maxime Old Architecte-Decorateur. Published by Norma Editions, Paris, 2000. Maxime Old was one of the leading furniture makers and designers in France from the mid-1930s-the 1980s. He was born into a long line of cabinet makers and as a young man he joined the famed workshop of Jacques Emile...

A hardback folio with 42 black and white plates showing beautiful examples of Art Deco designs for metal ware, the vast majority are by two of the masters o...

A now out of print book which is the catalogue raisonne of the great deco silversmith Jean Puiforcat. 339 pages with bilingual text in French and English and illustrated throughout w...

Leporello of 17 yellow-coloured thick paper leaves lined in red, with 8 full-page gouaches on one side and 8 half-page gouaches on the other side, the latter side with many small dra...

Penguin Books founded in 1935 and known for their iconic design of two solid bands of colour sandwiching a band of white. The most common was orange for ...

Published by The Pace Gallery, New York, 1975 A set of six slides taken from Jean Dubuffet's series entitled, 'paysages castillans sites tricolors,' these come in a fold-out bookl...

First edition, very scarce hardback, published by The Devin-Adair Co., 1957 35 American painters, sculptors and architects discuss their work and one another with Selden Rodman, d...

First edition, published by Cornerhouse, 1990. This book, exquisitely designed by award winning art director Yolando Cuomo, and winner of the Infinity award for ‘Best Publication’...

A small hardboard folio in original covers, measuring 9.5" x 6.5". Title page plus six pages of text and two page list of plates, which is still uncut. There are 24 plates in black a...