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Chatsworth, The Attic Sale, Auction at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, 5-7 October 2010
Located in valatie, NY
Chatsworth. The Attic Sale. Auction at Chatsworth, Derbyshire. 5-7 October 2010. Sotheby & Co. London, 2010. First edition softcover. Catalogue for The Attic Sale at Chatsworth held by Sotheby's Auctioneers in Derbyshire. Features fine paintings, furniture, architectural elements, lighting, ceramics and other items. Color and black and white illustrations. 1418 lots. The house and garden were first constructed by Sir William Cavendish and Bess of Hardwick...
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Eating with the Chefs, Family Meals from the World's Most Creative Restaurants
Located in New York, NY
Eating with the Chefs documents the daily meal shared by chefs and front-of-house staff at eighteen top restaurants including Noma, Le Chateaubriand and The French Laundry.
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European 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Design for Children Play, Ride, Learn, Eat, Create, Sit, Sleep
Located in New York, NY
A comprehensive, genre-defining survey of children's product and furniture design from Bauhaus to today
Design for Children, a must-have book for all style-conscious and design-sav...
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European 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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American Louvre A History of the Renwick Gallery Building 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
American Louvre: A History of the Renwick Gallery Building by Charles J Robertson. D Giles Ltd. London 2015. 1st Ed softcover. Designed by James Renwick Jr. in 1858, the building tha...
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English 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Sotheby's The Wardington Library, Important Atlases and Geographies, Part 1 A-K
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's: The Wardington Library, Important Atlases and Geographies. Part One: A-K., London, 18 October 2005. 1st Ed hardcover catalog with 244 lots photographed in color and fully ...
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Christies 2004 Chirk Castle Wales 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Christies 2004 Chirk Castle Wales. 1st Ed auction catalog. 656 lots on 296pp. color photos and fully described, with results. The construction of Chirk Castle began around 1295 durin...
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Welsh 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Exhibition, Casanovia; Seduction of Europe, by Frederick Ilchman, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Casanovia; Seduction of Europe, by Frederick Ilchman. MFA Publications, Museum of fine Arts, Boston, 2017. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. From the salon to the boudoir: the world...
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American 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Synthesis: Lost & Found in America: the Art of Vesna Kittelson Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Synthesis: Lost and Found in America: The Art of Vesna Kittelson
by Vesna Kittelson. Afton Historical Society Press Published 2020. Stated 1st Ed with dust jacket. "Vesna Kittelson grew up in the ancient Roman city of Split in Croatia. After finishing her law degree in Split she moved to Cambridge, England, and later to the US. She studied art at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities where she obtained a bachelor's degree in Studio Arts and a master's degree in Design. She continues to live, work and exhibit her paintings in the Twin Cities, England and Croatia. Her primary themes in painting can be grouped into four or five categories: early work consisting of large cutout paper abstractions, followed by a body of figurative work entitled I, after that she combined figurative and abstract thinking in Lost And Found In America (contemplation on the strangeness of being an immigrant), and most recently she has developed a body of self-portraits and portraits. Vesna taught painting in the Fine Arts Department and in the Graduate Program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. She was the recipient of the Bush Fellowship for painting, and several Minnesota State Arts Grants and she was granted an open studio day sponsored by the Walker Art Center. She is a member of the co-op Traffic Zone Center for the Visual Arts and in the past was a member of the feminist co-op WARM. The series of portraits, Young Americans, is an open-ended project of painting young people between 20 and 30 years of age. These paintings are fragments, just a face, painted in oil on paper, cut to be placed directly on a wall. Conceptually, the cutout form derives from my childhood experience of growing up in the ancient Roman city of Split, Croatia, where I was literally surrounded by fragments of...
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American 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art/ Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, 2018. First edition softcover. This handbook consists of a...
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American 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Christie's Prouve's Prototype Maison Tropicale, Collection of Eric Touchaleaume
Located in valatie, NY
Jean Prouve's Prototype Maison Tropicale and Works By Jean Prouve, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, and Pierre Jeanneret from the Collection of Eric Touchaleaume, January 1, 2007, b...
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American Art Deco 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Designs for Gilt Bronze Objects from the French Restoration 1814-1830, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Designs for Gilt Bronze Objects from the French Restoration 1814-1830: Clocks, Candelabras, Chandeliers, Sconces and Inkwells, by Charles Plante. Publis...
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The Red Flame
Located in New York, NY
Author Karen Elson, Foreword by Edward Enninful and Tim Walker, Contributions by Grace Coddington
One of fashion's most iconic redheads pens a moving comin...
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North American 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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The Fendi Set: From Bloomsbury to Borghese
Located in New York, NY
An enchanting exploration of the creative inspiration of the Bloomsbury Set on Kim Jones’s artistic direction of the fashion house Fendi.
In September 2020, Kim Jones was named head of Fendi’s couture...
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David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France: Drawings from the Louvre Louis-Antoi
Located in valatie, NY
David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France: Drawings from the Louvre, by Louis-Antoine Prat, Jennifer Tonkovich, Esther Bell, Alison Hokanson, and Kori Lisa Yee Litt. Publisher Morga...
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American 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Chinese Red Cross Foundation, Sotheby's, an Important Private Collection
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's, An Important Private Collection of Reunification Art - A Charity Auction to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Hong Kong's Reunification with China - to benefit The Chinese...
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American 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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"I, Me, Mine" Book and Slipcover Publisher's Edition Signed by Roylances'
Located in San Diego, CA
I ME MINE (PUBLISHER'S COPIES)
The Boxed Set, 2017
Cherished by fans and collectors, I ME MINE is the closest we will come to George Harrison's autobiography. This edition has been ...
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English 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Coming Home: Modern Rustic: Creative Living in Dutch Interiors
Located in New York, NY
Coming Home: Modern Rustic: creative living in Dutch Interiors
Author Barbara de Vries, Introduction by Lidewij Edelkoort
A celebration of the innovative, artisanal, and sustainable living exemplified by contemporary Dutch interiors.
With a carefully curated collection of interiors, including historic canal houses, restored farms, and green homes, belonging to interior designers, product designers, architects, and artists, this book showcases creative and resourceful living. These properties have been created or renovated and brought into the twenty-first century with typical Dutch style and sensibility—environmentally friendly, imaginative uses of space filled with color and charm and never to be taken too seriously.
Each home in the book reflects the personality and spirit of the people who inhabit it. From furniture designer Valentin Loellman’s handcrafted interiors in a traditional worker’s cottage on the Maas river to fiber artist Claudy Jongstra’s farmhouse in Friesland where indigo dye plants grow in the biodynamic garden, Coming Home illustrates fun ideas and easy ways to incorporate individual style into your surroundings. Whether it’s the traditional “lowlands” aesthetic of combining old and new, faded and inviting, into a casual chic or a quirky reinvention of a space that reveals a touch of eccentricity, this book illustrates why the Netherlands is truly loved by so many and can be an inspiration to us all.
About the author
Barbara de Vries was born in Amsterdam. She has spent most of her career as a designer in the fashion business and in 1991, she created the CK collections at Calvin Klein and subsequently had her own collections in the U.S. and Japan. In 2009, Barbara and her husband, author Alastair Gordon...
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The Prints of Roger Shimomura, a Catalogue Raisonnè, 1968-2005
Located in Bradenton, FL
The Prints of Roger Shimomura, a Catalogue Raisonnè, 1968-2005 by Emily Stamey. Paperback book published by The University of Washington Press in 2007....
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Chinese 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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This is Still Not a Book
By Phaidon
Located in New York, NY
“Playful illustrations challenge young readers to think outside the box … Delightful, witty, and imaginative.” —Kirkus, STARRED Review
A playfully deceptive, joyously interactive follow-up to award-winning author and illustrator Jean Jullien...
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Chinese 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Crafting History Textiles, Metals & Ceramics at the University of Georgia, 1st
Located in valatie, NY
Crafting History: Textiles, Metals and Ceramics at the University of Georgia, February 1, 2018 by Ashley Callahan, Annelies Mondi and Mary Hallam Pearse. Georgia Museum of Art 2018. 1st Ed softcover. For more than a century, the University of Georgia has provided students with opportunities to study textiles, metals and ceramics. This book which accompanied the exhibition of the same name, on view at the museum February 1 April 29, 2018 tells the story of a small department that began in home economics under the direction of women interested in practical applications of art and design, and now exists in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences as the Lamar Dodd School of Art, named for its long-time director. It features work by more than 30 faculty members who contributed to craft education at UGA including: Earl...
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American 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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The Judith Neisser Collection: Minimal & Postminimal Innovation by James Rondeau
Located in valatie, NY
The Judith Neisser Collection: Minimal and Postminimal Innovation by James Rondeau and Anne Rorimer. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Publisher Yale University Press, 2011. One of Chicago's premier art patrons and an architecture and interior design critic, Judith Neisser has amassed a remarkable collection of international contemporary art. More than 100 works are presented in this captivating, inside look at the Neisser family collection, highlighting paintings, sculpture, and works on paper from the 1960s to the present. Special emphasis is given to Minimalism and Conceptualism, most notably objects by Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman, Donald Judd, Brice Marden, and Blinky Palermo. Other artists practicing in distinct traditions, such as Eva Hesse, Cy Twombly, and Rudolf Stingel...
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Sotheby's; Scholarly Works of Art, The Mary & George Bloch Collection, First Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's; Scholarly Works of Art from the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong, October 2005. First edition Hardcover, 202 pp., 149 lots,...
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Sotheby's: La Photographie II/III Collection Marie-Therese Et Andree Jammes
Located in valatie, NY
La Photographie Parts II & III. Collection Marie-Therese et Andree Jammes: Sotheby's Paris 22 Mars 2002. Important auction of important 19th c photographs. They were not the 1st collectors of photography but they were the 1st to bring a much needed discipline and scholarly framework. A pair of great photographic reference books...
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French 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Sotheby's: Important English Furniture including the Horlick Collection
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's: Important English Furniture including the Horlick Collection, London 5th June 2007. First edition softcover with 256 on 303 pp. ...
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Paul Klee The Bauhaus Years by Sabine Rewald 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
Paul Klee: the Bauhaus Years by Sabine Rewald. Published by Dickinson Roundell, New York, 2013. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket Exhibition Catalog for exhibition 3 May – 14 June, 2...
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American 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945 by James Stourton
Located in valatie, NY
Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945 by James Stourton. Publisher; Scala Books, London, 2008. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. "Great Collectors of Our Time" is the first major survey of contemporary collecting and collectors since Douglas Cooper's "Great Private Collections," published in 1963. It examines many of the greatest collectors of our time in Europe, North America and the Far East, and follows their tastes - whether in the Old Masters or the avant garde - from the 20th century into the 21st. In 1945, Paris was still the cultural capital of the world, but its culture was being increasingly challenged by America. American collecting was soon to pull up its European anchor and move across the Atlantic, in growing acceptance of America's own art, the decline in the domination of three European schools of art - Italian Renaissance, English 18th century and French 19th...
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English 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Honar, the Afkhami Collection of Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art Book
Located in New York, NY
"A wealth of vital pieces reflecting a vibrant country that is producing some of the world's most insightful, impacting and aesthetically considered pieces of work... The text is an unprecedented source of enrichment for readers - for those who have read widely on the topic or those looking to find out more about a country which has often been overshadowed by media-fuelled scrutiny."—AestheticaMagazine
"Once largely hidden from Western view, the contemporary art scene is Iran is now flourishing as a powerful social and cultural force... Honar: The Afkhami Collection is a new book from Phaidon celebrating the best in modern and postmodern Iranian art. Showcasing a wide range of styles from new media to sculpture and calligraphy, it's a fascinating insight into a new generation of creative talents from the Middle East."—HungerTV.
The first and only book on one of the finest private collections of contemporary Iranian art...
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Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections, 1st Ed Exhibition Cat
Located in valatie, NY
The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections by by Colta Feller Ives, Colta Es and Charlotte Hale. Publisher Metropolitan Museum of Art New York,
2002. 1st Ed hardcover wi...
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American 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Melting Point, by Stephane Couturier, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Melting Point, French/English Edition by Stephane Couturier (Author, Photographer), 2008. 1st Ed softcover. An extensive monograph/exhibition catalog on ...
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Spanish 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Sotheby's London; the Price Collection, November 22, 2000
Located in valatie, NY
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...
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English 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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CHANEL Watch and Fine Jewelry hardcover lookbook 2017
By Chanel
Located in North Hollywood, CA
2017 CHANEL Watch and Fine Jewelry hardcover lookbook catalogue
Great used condition.
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Shaanxi History Museum Shaanxi History Museum, by Feng Gengwu, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Shaanxi History Museum Shaanxi History Museum, by Feng Gengwu. Published by Shaanxi Tourism Publishing House, 2005. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Shaanxi History Museum, which i...
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Chinese 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Where Art Meets Nature: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
Located in New York, NY
An up-to-date survey of the stunning sculpture collection at the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)
Situated on twelve lush, landscap...
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American 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Mallet at Bourdon House, London March 9, 2007, Sotheby's
By Sotheby's
Located in valatie, NY
Mallet at Bourdon House, London March 9, 2007, Sotheby's. 1095 lots photographed in color and described. The sale follows Mallett’s review of the company’s future in the light of the...
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English 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Mallett Catalog 1997, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
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...
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English 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Mallett Catalog 2010, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Mallett catalog from 2010. Softcover catalog in color with all the objects fully described. Typical Mallett catalog of great furniture, porcelain etc. Published after the closure of ...
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English 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Andy Warhol Cover Post-War & Contemporary Art Christie's New York Catalog Book
Located in New York, NY
An Andy Warhol cover Post-War and Contemporary Art Christie's New York 'Evening Sale' catalog book, 2010.
A beautifully done catalog book (soft-cove...
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American Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Finishing the Hat Collected Lyrics '1954-1981' Comments, by Stephen Sondheim
Located in valatie, NY
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim (March 22, 1930 -November 26, 2021). Published by Knopf, 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket. The winner of seven Tonys, an Academy Award, seven Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and more, Stephen Sondheim's career has spanned more than half a century; his lyrics have become synonymous with musical theater and popular culture. In Finishing the Hat--titled after perhaps his most autobiographical song, from Sunday in the Park with George, Sondheim has not only collected his lyrics for the first time, he is giving readers a rare personal look into his life as well as his remarkable productions. Along with the lyrics for all of his musicals from 1954 to 1981 including: West Side Story, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd, Sondheim treats us to never-before-published songs from each show, songs that were cut or discarded before seeing the light of day. He discusses his relationship with his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II, and his collaborations with extraordinary talents such as: Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Ethel Merman, Richard Rodgers...
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American 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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London Interiors, from the Archives of Country Life by John Cornforth, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
London Interiors, from the Archives of Country Life by John Cornforth by John Cornforth. London: Aurum Press Limited. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, 2000. 192 pp. A photographic archive of the past century by the magazine "Country Life" of houses as they were in the past. It covers artists in Holland Park studios...
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English 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Live Small/Live Modern The Best of Beams at Home
Located in New York, NY
Creative and forward-thinking design solutions for every room offer readers endless inspiration on how to tackle small spaces while achieving an effortless, Japanese-cool aesthetic.
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The Triumph of Marriage, Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance
Located in Bradenton, FL
The Triumph of Marriage - Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance. Published for the exhibition; The Triumph of Marriage - Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance at the Isabella Stewart Gardner...
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Palermo La Splendente by Aurlio Pes and Melo Minnella
By Melo Minnella, Aurelio Pes
Located in valatie, NY
Palermo La Splendente by Aurlio Pes and Melo Minnella. Palermo: Promo Libri, 2006. Second edition hardcover with dust jacket, Italian text. 231 pp. A beautifully photographed book on art...
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Italian 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Verrocchio Sculptor & Painter of Renaissance Florence 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence by Andrew Butterfield, John Delaney and Charles Dempsey. Publisher Princeton University Press, 20...
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American Runway 75 Years of Fashion and the Front Row by Booth Moore, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
American Runway: 75 Years of Fashion and the Front Row by Booth Moore and Council of Fashion Designers of America. Published by Harry N. Abrams, 2018. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jack...
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Outliers & American Vanguard Art With Letter From Director of National Gallery
Located in valatie, NY
Outliers and American Vanguard Art by Lynne Cooke. Published by National Gallery of Art, University of Chicago Press, Washington, Chicago, 2018. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. With a personal letter from the Director of the National Gallery of Art, Earl A. Powell III, to Herbert Kasper the famous clothing designer and art collector. In 2011, the Morgan Library and Museum devoted an exhibition, called “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs,” to the designer. Some 250 works explore three distinct periods in American history when mainstream and outlier artists intersected, ushering in new paradigms based on inclusion, integration, and assimilation. The exhibition aligns work by such diverse artists as Charles Sheeler, Christina Ramberg, and Matt Mullican with both historic folk art and works by self-taught artists ranging from Horace Pippin to Janet Sobel...
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Diego Rivera, Murals for the Museum of Modern Art, by Leah Dickerman, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
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...
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Romance and Reason Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past by Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Samuel Thrope, and Raquel Ukeles. Princeton University Press, 2018. 1st Ed softcover with gilt edged pages. Within a century of the Arab Muslim conquest of vast territories in the Middle East and North Africa, Islam became the inheritor of the intellectual legacy of classical antiquity. In an epochal cultural transformation between the 8&10th centuries CE, most of what survived in classical Greek literature and thought was translated from Greek into Arabic. This translation movement, sponsored by the ruling Abbasid dynasty, swiftly blossomed into the creative expansion and reimagining of classical ideas that were now integral parts of the Islamic tradition. Romance and Reason, a lavishly illustrated catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, explores the breadth and depth of Islamic engagement with ancient Greek thought. Drawing on manuscripts and artifacts from the collections of the National Library of Israel and prominent American institutions, the catalogue's essays focus on the portrayal of Alexander the Great as ideal ruler, mystic, lover, and philosopher in Persian poetry...
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Hidcote the Garden and Lawrence Johnston, National Trust Book
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Title: HIDCOTE THE GARDEN AND LAWRENCE JOHNSTON. Published by The National Trust, 2007.
Hardcover with jacket.
Often described as “the most beautiful garden in England,” Hidcote is...
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English International Style 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Christie's Dec. 2010 Important 20th C Deco, Art Collection of Max Palevsky
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's December 2010 Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design Collection of Max Palevsky. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog 426 lots illustrated in color and fully described...
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American Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Lateral Thinking: Art Of The 1990s, by Toby Kamps, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Lateral Thinking: Art Of The 1990s by Toby Kamps. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 2002. Kamps is the curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. First edition softcover. Lateral Thinking assesses the artistic achievements of the 1990s, concentrating on works by 40 contemporary artists from North, South, and Central America, Cuba, Africa, China and Europe. These include: Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft...
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Parmigianino e Il Manierismo Europeo Schianchi, 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
Parmigianino e Il Manierismo Europeo Schianchi, by Lucia and Sylvia Ferino Pagden. Published by Silvana, Milano 2002. To commemorate the 5th centenary of the birth of the important Italian Mannerist...
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Italian 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Olivier Dwek In the Light of Modernity
Located in New York, NY
Text by Philip Jodidio
Architect Olivier Dwek celebrates the twentieth anniversary of his firm with a new book highlighting his signature style of modern European luxury.
A virtuoso of volumes and a master of light, Brussels-based architect Olivier Dwek shapes buildings and interiors that are inhabited by a timeless aura. Fluid lines and varied perspectives define monumental structures, enhancing details and contemporary art pieces in both private and public spaces, all imbued with serene elegance.
Ranging from Greek vacation homes to Parisian townhouses, this volume celebrates the refined approach that marks Dwek's style while taking the reader on a journey across Europe and the world. Vibrant photographs showcase Dwek's fascination with textures and new uses for materials developed in collaboration with artists and artisans. His skilled use of light, his innate sense of symmetry, and his effortless merging of architectural elements with design details are all apparent in this volume. With texts by architecture expert Philip Jodidio, this printed journey through Dwek's buildings and interiors is bound to seduce architecture connoisseurs and curious spirits alike.
About The Author
Belgian-born architect Olivier Dwek founded he founded his namesake architecture firm in 2000, and has designed art galleries and cultural centers, renovated historical industrial spaces, and worked on projects for luxury brands. He is regularly featured in international publications such as Interior Design and AD Collector. Philip Jodidio is a specialist in modern architecture. As well as having held the post of editor in chief of the art magazine Connaissance des Arts for over twenty years, he is the author of over one hundred books on...
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"China and Glass in America, 1880-1980, " from Table Top to TV Tray First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
China and glass in America, 1880-1980: From Table Top to TV Tray by Charles L Venable. Harry N. Abrams., NY, 2000. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. A beautifully illustrated...
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American 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Howard Walwyn Fine Antique Clocks Catalogue
By Howard Walwyn
Located in valatie, NY
Howard Walwyn Fine Antique Clocks Catalogue. London: Howard Walwyn, 2013. First edition soft cover. 56 pp. A catalogue published for the opening of Howard Walwyn's Kensington Church Street premises. The opening exhibition happened to coincide with the 300 anniversary of the death of Thomas Tompion...
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English 21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Earth to Sky: Among Africa's Elephants, a Species in Crisis by Michael Nichols
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Earth to Sky: Among Africa's Elephants, A Species in Crisis by Michael Nichols. Published by Aperture Foundation, Incorporated, 2013. 1st Ed hardcover, no dust jacket as issued. Elephants are among the earth's most sentient beings. They remember, they experience grief and joy, fear and love. Indeed, as our knowledge of these extraordinary creatures increases, the more they transcend all preconceptions of animal behavior. Michael "Nick" Nichols, longtime photographer for National Geographic as well as the magazine's editor-at-large for photography, has been working with African elephants for more than twenty years. In Earth to Sky he tells their story through poignant images that bring us directly into their habitat the lush forests and open savannas, or stark landscapes ravaged by human intervention-to observe the animals' daily engagements and activities. Nichols's photographs are accompanied here by the words of such celebrated figures in the field of conservation as Lain Douglas-Hamilton, J. Michael Fay, Peter Matthiessen, Cynthia Moss, David Quammen, and many others. In addition, Nichols engages us in his photographic journey with personal and informative introductions to each of the book's four chapters-exploring life in the wild, the ivory trade, family interactions, and programs for orphaned elephants. The survival of elephants is under dire threat from humankind, most immediately from the market for ivory. More than twenty-five thousand elephants are slaughtered each year, and their ivory is sold at astronomically high prices to countries such as China, Japan, the Philippines, and Singapore. African elephant refuges are under siege; many park rangers...
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Shawn Henderson Interiors in Context
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The First Monograph of Highly Sought-after Interior Designer Shawn Henderson, Who is Renowned for His Serene And Sophisticated Interiors.
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Michelangelo Mind of the Master by Emily J Peters 1st Ed
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Michelangelo - Mind of the Master by Emily J. Peters. Published by The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. A new perspective on the brilliance of one of Western art's most celebrated visionaries through an esteemed collection of drawings The works of Michelangelo (1475-1564) remain an enduring source of awe and fascination more than 500 years after his death. Michelangelo:Mind of the Master offers a new context for understanding the drawings of one of art's greatest visionaries. Through a group of drawings...
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Selections from the Paintings and Calligraphy Donated to the Shanghai Museum fro
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Selections from the Paintings and Calligraphy Donated to the Shanghai Museum from the Ching Banlee Liangtuxuan Collection. Published by Shanghai Museum, Shangahai, China, 2002. 1st E...
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