21st Century and Contemporary Books

SUMO-sized Collector’s Edition limited to 918 copies (No. 81–998), each signed by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, with a bookstand designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect and ...

Wolfgang Laib by Ulf Kuster. Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2006. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Wolfgang Laib's extraordinarily concentrated i...

The Legend of Dick Turpin part 1 and 2, Thursday 9 March 2006 (Christie's). Maurice 'Dick' Turpin (1928-2005) was one of the great characters of the Englis...

Christie's London collection de Madame X. Furniture, works of art, pictures couture, 3/4/04. This auction catalog consists of 119 pages with 500 lots all illu...

Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s1980s. 1st Ed Exhibition hardcover. Published by Hirmer Publishers, 2020. Taking Shape traces the emergence and development of abs...

Santiago Calatrava: Complete Works 1979-2009 by Philip Jodidio. Publisher Taschen, 2009. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket, in English, French and German. Santiago Calatrava is one o...

Two Ming Porcelain Masterpieces from an Important Collection, Sotheby's Hong Kong, October 8, 2019. The sale features two outstanding masterpieces of 15th century blue and white porcelain assembled by a connoisseur with an eye for the finest examples of Chinese porcelain: a Chenghua palace bowl painted with scrolling daylilies and a Xuande reverse-decorated ‘pomegranate’ dish. Sir Q.W. Lee was a banker and philanthropist well-known for his passion for collecting outstanding Chinese works of art...

Illustration Now! 3 by Ed Julius Wiedemann. Softcover book published by Taschen in 2009. Printed in Germany, illustrated, 448 pages.

Sotheby's: Treasures Aristocratic Heirlooms, London July 2010. Softcover catalogue with results. Twenty-one works of art in this sale would constitute a treasure Trove to any collect...

Outside In The Gardens and Houses of Tichenor & Thorp By: M. Brian Tichenor and Raun Thorp with Judith Nasatir Foreword by Pilar Viladas Photographs by Roger Davies Deeply fluent in the Mediterranean and American vernaculars and the modern forms of the California Tradition, Tichenor & Thorp design exceptional properties that integrate large-scale residences and luxurious gardens and landscapes into a singular, unified vision: house and landscape imagined as one complete expression for a given site and particular client. The duo traverses the spectrum of periods and styles to craft beautifully realized, finely choreographed, highly appropriate living environments that resonate with individuality and precedent. Featured projects include a Spanish-inflected courtyard house and garden in Las Palmas that spectacularly frames the palm trees and the mountains; a Bel Air estate and grounds tinged with English and French influences; a Newport Beach hilltop hideaway that evokes a Portuguese quinta; a Provençal bastide and surrounding gardens transplanted to the côte sud that is Rancho Santa Fe; a Pasadena retreat inflected with John Soane–inspired details; a renovated Harwell Hamilton Harris house in Holmby Hills with a cruciform plan and corresponding gardens of individual character; two luxe contemporary Manhattan apartments; and a modern mountain getaway at the foot of the Tetons in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Illustrated with specially commissioned photographs by Roger Davies and Brian Tichenor’s own masterly watercolors, drawings, and plans, and with a foreword by Pilar Viladas, architecture and design editor at Town & Country, Outside In shares “Hollywood’s best-kept secret” with the world. Raun Thorp, a native Californian, worked with Peter and Allison Smithson in London and several noted Los Angeles–area firms, including Frank Gehry and Moore Ruble Yudell before co-founding Tichenor & Thorp. In addition to her multifaceted design work on the firm’s architecture projects and her spearheading of its interiors division, Thorp oversees the firm’s business development and operations. A Fellow of the Garden Conservancy, Thorp is also a member of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Los Angeles Conservancy, as well as Las Doñas at UCLA. She served for many years on the South Carthay Historic Preservation Board, and is currently on the board of Big Sunday, a national non-profit. Her extensive educational background includes a bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr College and a master’s degree in architecture from UCLA. Before co-founding Tichenor & Thorp, M. Brian Tichenor, also a California native, worked as a project designer and manager for Moore Ruble Yudell and subsequently, in collaboration with landscape designer Nancy Goslee Power, completed more than a hundred gardens. Currently on the faculty of USC’s Graduate School of Architecture, he is actively involved with the Los Angeles Conservancy, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, the Huntington Library and Gardens, the Living Desert Museum, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Cultural Landscape Foundation. Also a fine artist, he has shown his abstract canvases at Sears Peyton Gallery. His architectural renderings have been widely published and exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York and Max Protech Gallery, among other venues. He holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from UC Santa Barbara and a master’s degree in architecture from UCLA. Judith Nasatir, executive editor of New York Spaces magazine, is the author or co-author of Carrier and Company...

Explore the magic of Paola Paronetto's unique and enchanting paper-clay ceramics through the pages of this beautifully presented coffee table book. Discover how Paola's sculptures ar...

Christie's: Bernard Blondeel and Armand Deroyan Important Tapestries and Carpets London 4/2/03 Sale #6752. The catalog consists of 152 pages with 73 lots illustrated in color and des...

Sotheby's Hong Kong Important Private Collection Chinese Ceramics October 8, 2019. 1st Ed hardcover. Includes rare examples of Ming and Qing porcelain and several exceptional jades. Sir Q.W. Lee was a banker and philanthropist well-known for his passion for collecting outstanding Chinese works of art...

Author Victoria Hagan and David Colman Breathtaking new interiors from this iconic designer, called “the reigning queen of restrained elegance” In h...

Author Umberto Pasti and Ngoc Minh Ngo, Foreword by Madison COX A photographic tour of an exceptional villa in Tangier with a special focus of its museum-worthy collections of Morrocan artworks...

Essential Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Published in 2000 by Parragon of Bath, England. Printed and bound in Indonesia. Illustrated, 256 pages.

AUTHOR: Jefferson Hayman - MacLean Gander. TITLE: The New City by Jefferson Hayman, Poems by MacLean Gander. PUBLISHER: 21st Editions, 2009. DESCRIPTION: SIGNED DELUXE VELLUM EDI...

The groundbreaking sculptor's most comprehensive monograph to date Jean-Michel Othoniel is an artist who creates sculptures that explore themes of fragility, transformation, and ephe...

The Surgeon and the Photographer by Geoffrey Farmer. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015. First Edition hardcover, no dust jacket as issued. Publish...

An invitation into the endlessly inspiring and unique celebrations of the iconic tastemaker and hostess, this elegant entertaining book reveals how to bring beauty, style, and joy in...

Vibrant vegetarian home-cooking recipes, capturing the essence of the Middle East, from the award-winning author of the best-selling The Lebanese Kitchen This glorious celebration of a bold vegetarian cuisine features 140 easy-to-make, bright, uplifting plant-based recipes, including classics such as falafels, hummus, and tabbouleh, as well as unique dishes reflective of region, religion, and culture across the Levant. The food is fresh and delicious, whether it’s garlic-laced mezze dishes, pittas stuffed with pickles, tahini, and grilled vegetables, or sweet and spicy desserts. Covering a vast area straddling Africa, Asia, and the gateway to Europe, the book embraces the culinary traditions of all corners of the Cradle of Civilization. Hage, one of the world’s authorities on Middle Eastern...

The Well-Lived Life: One Hundred Years Of House & Garden by Dominique Browning. Published by Assouline Publishing, 2003. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket signed and inscribed by the author to Herbert Kasper. Herbert Kasper was an American fashion designer known as "Kasper." He studied English and advertising at New York University and fashion at The Parsons School of Design in New York from 1951–53 and l'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in 1953. He left NYU to serve in the US Army in Europe. After World War II he enrolled at Parsons, where he became a protégé of milliner Fred Frederics. After graduating, he returned to Paris for two years developing his skills in design while working for Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, and Marcel Rochas. When he returned to the US, he worked for Frederics at Mr. John. He was an avid art collector with a famous collection, and in 2011, the Morgan Library and Museum devoted an exhibition, called “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs,” to the designer. Few magazines can lay claim to a century of history or to having published work by some extraordinary and distinguished photographers and writers as House & Garden. Now, straight from the pages of this well-loved periodical, The Well-Lived Life presents a lavish chronicle of a country and a culture coming into its own, documenting America's continuing education in matters of house, home and garden over the course of the 20th century. Selecting high points from the magazine, this book surveys the growing confidence and imagination reflected in American interiors and entertaining over the last century -the dinners, picnics and parties of a country dedicated to welcoming others- and the changing definition of home. It also illuminates the joys -sedentary or sporting- Americans have always found in the out-of-doors. The Well-Lived Life surveys the landscape of our lawns and gardens...

Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique by Anthony J Cascardi. Princeton University Press, Jan 10, 2023, 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. An innovative study of Goya's unpreceden...

The Making of an American Army: The World War II Artwork of Frederick Counsel (A G.I. View of Army Life) was an exhibit at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center from 2019-2020. 1st Ed softcover. Frederick Counsel’s art book features many watercolor drawings of army life from his service days. He painted scenes of mess halls...

A comprehensive survey of the work of a master of modernist design today. Alberto Campo Baeza, one of contemporary architecture’s most distinguished voices, is renowned for a body o...

A KAWS (Brian Donnelly) rare hand-signed first edition/ first printing hardcover fine art book "New Fiction" published by The Monacelli Press, 2023 and based on Kaws' blockbuster 202...

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art by Leah Dickerman and Anna Indych-Lopez. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011. 1st Ed hardcover with no dust jacket as published. From the personal library of Herbert Kasper. Herbert Kasper was an American fashion designer known as "Kasper." He studied English and advertising at New York University and fashion at The Parsons School of Design in New York from 1951–53 and l'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in 1953. He left NYU to serve in the US Army in Europe. After WW II he enrolled at Parsons, where he became a protégé of milliner Fred Frederics. After graduating, he returned to Paris for two years developing his skills in design while working for Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, and Marcel Rochas. When he returned to the US, he worked for Frederics at Mr. John. He was an avid art collector with a famous art collection, and in 2011, the Morgan Library and Museum devoted an exhibition, called “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs,” to the designer. In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art's second monographic exhibition, which set new attendance records in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to New York six weeks before the show's opening and gave him on-site studio space. There he produced five “portable murals” --large blocks of frescoed plaster...

Alexey Brodovitch by Gabriel Bauret, 1st Ed Exhibition Copy. Published by Assouline, 2001. Hardcover with no dust jacket as issued. Often considered the father of 20th century art di...

Sotheby's: The Foster-Gwin Collection. October 24, 2008. 255 pp. 1st Ed Soft Cover auction catalog. Very Good. Mostly color plates throughout. With a heavy concentration on Italian a...

Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, by Sarah Lees. Published by Clark Art Institute, 2013 2 Volume 1st Ed with dust jackets and sl...

Making a House a Home: Designing Your Interiors from the Floor Up Author Susanna Salk Susanna Salk’s latest book is a passionate primer on how to transform an empty space, whether it’s an apartment or a house, into a home. Full of beautiful interiors and pro tips from star designers, Making a House a Home is an inspiring and practical guide to designing your space from the floor up. In her newest book, beloved Rizzoli author Susanna Salk gives you all the tools you need to design every aspect of your home. Whether you’ve recently moved into a new place or want to revamp and refresh your current home, Salk outlines how to conceive and create a cohesive design for your space. Beginning with the basic elemental aspects of any interior—such as floors, doors, walls, and windows—and proceeding to fundamental décor decisions, like setting the design tone and making sure your rooms are livable and functional, this book walks you through the process, sharing approaches and techniques for designing every interior element. With beautiful photographs from top designers—such as Miles Redd, Bunny Williams, and Madeline Stuart...

Joseph Marioni : Blue Paintings, Painting Color, by Howard Yezerski, Joseph Marioni, and Carl Belz. Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, 2002. First Edi...

Designs for Gilt Bronze Objects from the French Restoration 1814-1830: Clocks, Candelabras, Chandeliers, Sconces and Inkwells, by Charles Plante. Publis...

Author Bryan O'Sullivan and Samuel Cochran, Foreword by Annabelle Selldorf New York and London–based interior designer Bryan O’Sullivan creates spaces that mix modern and historical influences, resulting in luxuriously chic interiors that are both glamourous and welcoming. This book, the designer’s first, showcases the groundbreaking work of a remarkable and rising talent. Old-school Hollywood glamour with a contemporary touch is the hallmark of interior designer Bryan O’Sullivan’s repertoire, on full display in his commissions for the Red Room at the Connaught Hotel...

Picasso: Black and White by Carmen Gimenez. Published by Guggenheim/Delmonico/Prestel, 2012. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. For a exhibition at the Guggenheim 10/05/12-1/23/13. B...

Sotheby's: Paul de Grande restoration project 5/9/04 sale #0937. Sotheby's offered selected furniture and works of art from the Château and Gallery of P...

Sotheby's London; The Price Collection. London: Sotheby's, 2000. Soft cover. 260 pp. An auction catalogue of the property of the late Sir Henry Price that wa...

Mallett catalog from 1997. Softcover catalog photographed in color with all the objects fully described. Typical Mallett catalog of important furniture, porcelain etc. Always a great...

Magnificent Clocks for the Chinese Imperial Court from the Nezu Museum Christie's, Hong Kong, May 2008. 159pp. 1st Ed softcover. 14 lots profusely illustrated in color. One of the m...

From the Third Coast comes this inspirational interiors book by award-winning interior designers Sandra Lucas and Sarah Eilers, who show us how to design inviting homes with a classical backbone that are stylish and versatile for today's living. Native Houstonians Lucas and Eilers's aesthetic marries the entrepreneurial, can-do spirit of the West with Southern grace. The distinctive influences of their hometown--from the architecture of John Staub to the textures and color palettes of the surrounding Texas ranches and expansive landscapes to the impact of futuristic NASA--infuse their design choices. Whether traditional, contemporary, or transitional in style, the rooms they create are timeless. The duo's seasoned insight into the principles and elements of interior design forms the book's heart. Touching on such topics as scale and proportion, color and light, and pattern and texture, they explore their pragmatic, imaginative approach to creating expressive living spaces in a diverse range of projects from coast to coast. They then tour us through several homes, including a comfortable family ski compound in Utah with repurposed rough-hewn wooden beams and custom forged-steel fireplace surrounds...

Haute Epoque-Important Early Furniture, Works of Art & Tapestries Including Property From a Cabinet De Curiosité, Sotheby's London-31 October 2007. 417 lo...

Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912 by Charles Palermo, Harry Cooper and Christine Poggi for Exhibition catalog for Kimbell Art Museum an...

The ultimate book of concrete architecture, featuring 300 buildings of every type and style from the past 100 years A singularly impressive volume featuring 300 examples of the most...

The iconic jewelry brand’s cofounders and chief designers reveal their personal story and creative journey together through words and images Celebrating more than half a century of ...

Late Rembrandt by Jonathan Bikker. Published by Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 2014. 1st English Ed with dust jacket. The city of Amsterdam celebrates its most famous artist with 40 paintings, 20 drawings and 30 prints. Late Rembrandt presents a comprehensive overview of the artist's work between approximately 1652 and his death in 1669. In collaboration with the National Gallery of London, the artworks in the exhibition are on loan from leading international museums and private collections, many of which have been brought together for the first time. Against the backdrop of tragic personal losses and ongoing financial difficulties, Rembrandt began experimenting with printing and painting techniques in the later years of his life, producing some of the most distinctive, innovative and daring works of his career. His global reputation was eventually shaped by the late masterworks such as Self-Portrait with Two Circles (Kenwood House, London), the Family Portrait (Herzog Anton Ulrich-museum, Braunschweig), Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister...

Objects, glass and works of art, by Mallett & Son Antiques. Mallett & Sons Antiques, 2004. First edition softcover. 79pp. Illustrated with glass, objects and accessories all photogra...

Sotheby's The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Gersh, October 18, 2006. 1st Ed softcover with 92 pages and 66 lots illustrated in color and all described i...

The sixth volume of the acclaimed The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, covering his paintings and sculptures from mid-1977 to 1980 Volume 6, the final of four volumes dedicated to Wa...

Author Bobby McAlpine, with Susan Sully, Photographs by Simon Upton A celebration of the recent work of McALPINE, the award-winning architectural and in...

Written by Marianne Le Galliard and Éric Pujalet-Plaà, Foreword by Olivier Gabet and Glenda Bailey A fascinating look at one of the most groundbreaking publications in the world, ...

Published by Little Brown & Company, Bulfinch, 2001. Stated "First Edition." Unpaginated; 67 color and 68 duotone illustrations. Testino's third book by the acclaimed portrait and fa...

FOR PREORDER, TITLE SHIPS / PUBLISHES 10/18/22 The first book from Drake/Anderson illustrates the award-winning firm’s opulent modernist design with interiors that are as unique and expressive as they are inviting and livable. Principals Jamie Drake...

Contemporary Art Afternoon May 16, 2007 Sotheby's. Published by Sotheby's, NY, 2007. 1st Ed softcover auction catalogue. The Rockefeller name worked its magic at Sotheby’s sale of contemporary art, where a mysterious bearded collector in a skybox outbid five other contenders for Rothko’s “White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose).” The $72.8 million he paid, far above the painting’s $40 million estimate, set records for both the artist and for any contemporary work at auction. Sotheby’s declined to say who the buyer was or where he was from. But the seller was David Rockefeller, the retired banker and chairman emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art, who had decided to cash in on the market and invest the money in other philanthropic endeavors. Seasoned auction goers noticed that last night rubles appeared for the first time on the salesroom’s currency board, along with dollars, euros, pounds and Swiss...

The Secret Language of the Renaissance, decoding the hidden symbolism in Italian art, by Richard Stemp. Hardcover book with dustjacket. First edition, published in 2006 by Duncan Bai...

A Treasury of American Art by Gary R. Libby, selections from the Collection of the Museum of Arts and Sciences. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Stated first edition published in 2003...

The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960 by Professor Richard Longstreth. Published by Yale University Press, 2010, 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. After attaining cla...

New York Vertical, English Book by Horst Hamann, 2000. This book offers a new perspective on New York, the American metropolis. This award-winning pictorial tribute to the world's mo...

Moderne: Fashioning The French Interior by Sarah Schleuning. Stated 1st Ed published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, hardcover with dust jacket. Jacques-mile Ruhlmann, Pierre...

Windows on the Past: Four Centuries of New England Homes by Jane Nylander. Published by Bulfinch Press/ Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2000. Stated 1st Ed...

Finding Home: The Houses of Pursley Dixon, by Ken Pursley. Published by Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2021. Hardcover with dust jacket. Founded on the simple principle “Build beautiful things,” the architectural team of Pursley Dixon, like populist architects Bobby McAlpine and Jeff Dungan, is known for blending elements of tradition with a modern lifestyle. In Finding Home, they share 15 stunning houses in three distinct styles: rustic mountain escapes, dreamy retreats by the water, and elegant houses in town. Each house has its own thoughtful visual narrative, but all are connected on an innate and authentic level by their sense of proportion, attention to detail, and a marvelous affinity with nature, displayed in their soothing neutral palettes, oversize windows that bring the outdoors in, and natural materials such as rough-hewn stone and unfinished wood. Little touches of humanity await discovery, such as a sleeping nook perched right out into the highest branches of a tree. These eccentricities and secrets add to the distinctly Southern sense of warmth and refuge these homes provide, homes whose open interiors and majestic porches easily accommodate family and gatherings. Featuring their own interior design work as well as that of acclaimed decorators such as Suzanne Kasler, Phoebe Howard, and Circa Interiors...