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AN INTERNET SUPERSITE FOR 20TH CENTURY DESIGN

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featuring rare and out-of-print books on
design movements, designers, decorative arts,
home furnishings, textiles, interior design,
art, and architecture
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	High-Tech The Industrial Style and Sourcebook for the Home Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin; forward by Emilio Ambasz; essays Clarkson N. Potter Publishers, New York, 1978. cloth missing dust jacket, first printing, 286 pages with numerous color and black and white illustrations; "the source" regarding the high-tech movement in the 1970s. retromodern price, $35.
	Japan Design Dietz and Monninger, Taschen, Koln, 1992. (printed in Italy); 176 pages, chronicles the work of several important Japanese industrial designers in all media; sumptous photography and graphics, excellent condition. retromodern price, $28.
	Decorative Art and Modern Interiors, Environments for People Maria Schofield, Studio Vista, London, 1980. cloth with dust cover in wraps (tear to back of dust cover), 196 pages, numerous black and white illustrations and 140 color plates; volume 69 is the last in the critically-acclaimed "Studio Yearbook" series. retromodern price, $35.
	Ottagono quarterly review of architecture, interior design, furniture, and industrial design; volume 81; first vol available in English; June 1986. paper, 148 pages, including new product announcement and manufacturer's advertisements. retromodern price, $18..
	Interior Design Uchida, Mitsuhashi & Studio 80, Taco, Berlin, 1987. paper, 176 pages, extensive color plates throughout of cutting-edge Japanese design in the 1980s. retromodern price, $24.
	Swid Powell Objects by Architects Annette Tapert, Rizzoli, New York, 1990. cloth with dust cover, 144 pages, 200 illustrations of 50 are in color; comprehensive survey of the work created for Swid Powell by architects in the 1980s. retromodern price, $35.
	Tempest in a Teapot The Ceramic Art of Peter Shire forward by Sottsass; essays by Norman Klein, Rizzoli, New York, 1991. paper, 144 pages, excellent condition; generously illustrated in color with the designer's provocative work throughout the 1970s and 1980s. retromodern price, $24..
	Matteo Thun Designer mongraphs series edited by Alex Buck and Matthias Vogt, Ernst & Sohn, Germany, 1993. 144 pages; cloth with dust jacket, excellent condition; comprehensive overview of the designer's work; packed with photographs retromodern price, $35.

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