Philadelphia Transfer Printed Pot & Lid, Roussels, Xavier Bazin Shaving Cream

An Areca Nut Toothpaste pot, Staffordshire, England, circa 1880. Transfer printed in black on a creamy white earthenware, Areca Nut toothpaste was a popular product formulated by ch...

A hanging Dolly Madison Ice Cream Lithographed Tin Flavor Board, circa late 1940s. Ice Cream and soda flavor boards were originally displayed in soda fountains and general stores ac...

From the Italian fashion house Gucci, and designed by Vittorio Accornero, a vintage silk scarf with an African jungle animal and big cat theme, circa 1970s. Boldly colored and beaut...

An equestrian theme vintage scarf from the London designer Norma Dori, circa late 20th Century. Showing the head of a black horse sporting a red bridle. ...

A provocative examination of the connections between contemporary expression in architecture and traditional materials and forms Architect, architectural historian, and preservationist Françoise Bollack presents eighteen projects that use traditional materials to build contemporary forms or use modern materials to build traditional forms, blurring the boundary between tradition and modernity in architecture. Bollack rejects the modernist taboo against imitation and precedent, tracing the history of adaptive and imitative design from the Renaissance to the Greek and Gothic revivals and to the nineteenth-century modular cast-iron facades that Philip Johnson considered “the basis for modern design.” The book examines projects in the US, Europe, and Japan, encompassing a broad range of building types: residential, hospitality, commercial and retail, and cultural spaces. All share an intriguing, even radical, approach to reinterpreting traditional forms and materials. Humble thatch moves beyond the farmhouse roof to clad the walls of a Danish environmental center; a photographic image of a Parisian facade becomes a scrim on the facade of a new building; the ghost of an ancient Italian basilica is outlined in wire mesh. Among the featured architects are Kengo Kuma, architect of the Tokyo 2021 Olympic stadium; MVRDV, a highly regarded Dutch firm; Lacaton & Vassal and Chartier/Corbasson in France; Skene Catling de la Peña in the UK; Morris Adjmi...

The Loom of Art by Germain Bazin. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1962. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. In ten chapters of text and plates, Bazin,...

Wonderfully nostalgic white ironstone shaving mug is faintly labeled "Shaving Mug" on the front. Shaving the old fashion way.

Vintage ERSKINE 200 Sterilized Barber Shop SHAVING BRUSH Nylon Bristles Rubber Stamped Sterile 200 4.5 tall x 1.38 diameter Preowned original vintage...