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The Arts and Crafts Movement
Robin Langley Sommer, Maria
Costantino, Patricia Morris, Dean Six, and David Rago, Chartwell Books,
1995.
cloth, dust jacket, 144 pages
featuring 150 color photos documenting the arts and crafts movement in
architecture, furniture, ceramics, glass, metalwork, textiles, and graphic
arts; excellent condition.
retromodern
price, $24.
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Fabrics and Wallpapers
Mary Schoeser, E.P. Dutton,
New York, 1986.
cloth with dust cover, 112 pages
with numerous color and black and white photos chronicling the evolution
of pattern in fabric and wall coverings within the 20th century; excellent
condition.
retromodern
price, $35.
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Nuevo Diseno Espanol
Juli Capella & Quim Larrea,
Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 1991
paper with laminated cover,
256 pages featuring hundreds of color and black and white photos of objects
designed in spain in the 1970s and 1980s; a comprehensive resource for
identifying a number of esoteric objects; some minor wear to laminated
cover (not objectionable)
retromodern
price, $55.
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Contemporary Porcelain
Peter Lane, A & C Black
Publishers, London, 1995.
cloth, dust cover, 224 pages
and numerous photos in color and black/white which look at recent developments
in porcelain, with particular attention paid to technical achievements,
working practices and aesthetic concerns of contemporary ceramicists, and
showcases some of the most innovative and dazzling works of the last two
decades; excellent condition.
retromodern
price, $28.
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Christopher Dresser
Widar Halen, Phaidon/Christies,
London, 1990.
cloth, dust cover, 208 pages
with 550 illustrations (135 in color) of examples of the work of a pioneer
modern designer of the 19th century whose stylized geometric patterns graced
furniture, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper and metalwork; excellent condition.
retromodern
price, $45.
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Italian Living Design
Three Decades of Interior
Decoration 1960 - 1990
Guiseppe Raimondi, Rizzoli,
New York, 1990.
cloth, dust jacket, 288 pages
featuring hundreds of color photos of incredible interiors by major designers
from the 1960s through 1980s; excellent condition.
retromodern
price, $25.
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Ettore Sottsass
A Critical Biography
Barbara Radice, Rizzoli, New
York, 1993.
cloth with dust jacket, 261
pages with 150 illustrations (100 in color); a visual summary of the career
and achievements of the Italian designer, photos, architectural drawings,
sketches, and collages explore his work in the fields of architecture,
industrial and furniture design, ceramics, jewelry, crafts, graphic design,
and photography; excellent condition.
retromodern
price, $30.
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Vico Magistretti: Designer
Vanni Pasca, Rizzoli, New York,
1991.
paper, 126 pages with 50 color
and 150 black/white reproductions; a survey of the furniture created by
the Italian designer from the 1950s to the early 1970s, his work illustrates
the meaning of the objects and at the same time suggest the technical means
and materials necessary for economical and appropriate mass production;
excellent condition.
retromodern
price, $12.
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Ten
by Warren Platner
New York,
McGraw Hill, 1975.
cloth,
dust cover in wraps, 193 pages featuring numerous illustrations of this
furniture and interior designer's work; great condition.
retromodern
price, $28.
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Gaetano Pecse
Architecture, Design, Art
France Vanlaethem, Rizzoli,
New York, 1989.
paper, 126 pages featuring a
comprehensive review of this prolific Italian designer's work; fully illustrated
in color and black and white; excellent condition.
retromodern
price, $25.
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