Shell, 500 Million Years of Inspired Design, by Hugh & Marguerite Stix

500 Years of Collecting in Antwerp, A Story of Passions. Rare copy. From the Personal Library of Herbert Kasper. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. The book was Published by: Davidsfonds, Leuven, 2013. Accompanied by a personal note to Herbert Kasper from Thomas Leysen. Leysen was the Chairman of KBC Group between 2011-2020 and wrote the foreword to this book. The KBC, is a banking and insurance group with activities mainly in Belgium, Central Europe and Ireland. 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...

Christie's: 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe including carpets from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, November 2009. Softcover auction catalogue with 474 lots all in color on 303 pages, ...

Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors from Bowdoin College, by Joachim Homann. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick ME 2017. 1st Ed hardc...

Christie's Auction Catalog, 500 Years Decorative Arts Europe, October 2010 1st Ed. Softcover auction catalog, 653 lots illustrated in color and described. NPT Books, a division of ...

X Years Of COLL & CORTÉS. Published by Coll & Cortes, 2014, Spain. 1st Ed exhibit catalog. "To our surprise, it dawned on us that Coll & Cortes was rapidly approaching its tenth birthday. In ten years, a small office staffed by Nicolas, myself, and his six dogs, became prominent premises in the heart of Madrid and London, fourteen employees and - despite all the pessimists saying that the market in Spanish old masters...

Manor Houses of England by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd and Christopher Simon Sykes. Published by Vendome Press, 2001. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 256 pp. with 300 color illus....

Original American film poster for the 1966 adventure fantasy film staring Raquel Welch. This film was directed by Don Chaffey. This poster is conservation linen backed and it would b...

A hardback book in cloth covers with dustjacket in very good condition. A unique collection of more than 700 pieces of British and European silver with each object being catalogued and specially photographed for this publication, making it a significant work of reference. Great names from Paul Storr and the royal goldsmiths Robert Garrard, Philip Rundell and Benjamin Pyne to leading Heugenots John Hugh le Sage, David Willaume...

Original British movie poster used to advertise a double bill film showing Raquel Welch's 1965 and 1966 fantasy adventure films, She and One Million Years...

500-600 year old sculpture of 'Hanuman', the Hindu monkey god, carved in sandstone. From temple in Burma, 15-16th century or even older. In very good condit...

40 Years of Danish Furniture Design is a four volume work of 1,350 pages and 1,800 pictures, each volume covering a decade. The author - G...

The chair, perhaps more than any other single object, epitomizes the styles of a given period. For that reason we have chosen to highlight chair design in our exhibition. The exhibit...