Colors 90: Football a Survival Guide
Colors, 2014. Issue 90 Football. 112 pp.; illustrated. With unopened Sticker Pack and Yellow Card booklet. Wear to spine; else a good copy in wrappers.
New Arrivals
Surface: Issue 135 Peter Zumthor
New York: Surface Media, 2017. Issue 135 , February 2017: The Builders Issue, with Peter Zumthor on the the cover. With article on Zumthor, the Waldorf, Chicago's Riverwalk, etc. A fine copy in wrappers.
Gen Paul: Le Biographie...suivant Les Donnees Nouvelles
Paris: Editions Andre Roussard, 2006. A biography of the French artist Gen Paul, active from 1920-1964. First edition. 29.5 cm; 299 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Text in French. A fine copy in pictorial laminated boards, published without a dust jacket.
Muina: Soul Philosophy Creations Nerua Guggenheim Bilbao
Montagud Editores, 2013. A collection of recipes and essays on ingredients by the chef at Nerua, a celebrated restaurant at the Guggenheim Bilbao. Text in English and Spanish. First edition. 21 cm; 189 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Very good in pictorial laminated boards, published without a dust jacket.
dot zero 3: Spring 1967
New York: Dot Zero Inc., (1967). First edition. 4to; 48 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Avery good copy in original pictorial wrappers. The third issue of this trade magazine devoted to design, published in America but with a very European bent.
Jean-Michel Frank: The Strange and Subtle Luxury of the Parisian Haut-Monde in the Art Deco Period
New York: Rizzoli, 2008. Monograph on the work of Frank, an influential French designer and decorator active in the 1930s and 1940s. First American edition. 30.5 cm; 399 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
The Architectural Digest Volume XII Number 4
Los Angeles: Brasfield Publishing Corp., N.d. Issue dating from approx. 1955. Showing work by Paul Williams, Paul Lazslo, others. First edition, Volume XII Number 4 Folio; 14 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Some handling and wear, creasing to covers; else a good copy in original pictorial wrappers.
Proust Ecrivain de la Musique: l'Allagresse du Compositeur
Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. First edition. 23 cm; 647 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in wrappers.
Alberghi Motel Ristoranti Hotels Motels Restaurants
Milano: Hoepli, 1961. A survey of designs for contemporary hotels, motels, and restaurants by well- and less-known international architects.Text in English and Italian. First edition. 27 cm; 407 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Book from professional library with firm stamp to endpaper; else a very good copy in.....
Camini e Ambiente
Milano: Ulrico Hoepli Editore, 1963. A survey of the work of well- and lesser-known international architects designing fireplaces and living room environments. Showing indoor and outdoor environments, fireplace tools, etc. Text in Italian. First edition. 27 cm; 315 pp.; illustrated from photograph, plans, and drawings. Copy from professional library, with.....
Nueva arquitectura argentina: Pluralidad y coincidencia (Coleccion SomoSur)
Bogotá: Escala Ltda., 1990. A survey of recent (1990) Argentinian architecture. Text in English and Spanish. First edition. 22.5 cm; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Light edgewear to laminated covers; else a very good copy, published without a dust jacket.
Jean-Pierre Buffi: Projets et realisations (Monographie d'architecture)
Paris: Le Moniteur, 1994, 1994. Monograph on the work of French architect Jean-Pierre Buffi. Text in French with English translations laid-in. First edition. 28 cm; 165 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy or better in wrappers.
Sugimoto: Architecture
Chicago, D.A.P./Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003, 2003. Catalog for the 2003 MCA exhibition of Sugimoto's photographs of modernist architectural landmarks, in a very soft focus. Essays by Bonami, Marco De Michelis, and John Yau. First edition. 30.5 cm; 166 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket...
The House Beautiful Treasury of Contemporary American Homes
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., (1958). A survey mid-century American residential architecture from the pages of House Beautiful, featuring work by FLW, Joseph Esherick, others, with photographs by Ezra Stoller, others. First edition. Folio; 144 pp.; illustrated from color photographs and plans. A very good copy in a chipped and.....
Eleanor Raymond, Architect
Phil.: Art Alliance, (1981). A monograph on the architect, active from 1919 to 1973. First edition. 4to; 152 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
The Architecture of Mott B. Schmidt
New York: Rizzoli, (1991), 1991. The only monograph on Schmidt, the renowned society architect who worked almost exclusively in the neo-Georgian style. Hewitt's text analyzes Schmidt's work in the context of American domestic architecture in the first half of the 20th century, offering at the same time a useful and.....
Architecture of the Old South: Kentucky & Tennessee
Savannah: The Beehive Press, (1993. A volume in the "Architecture of the Old South" series. First edition. Square 4to; 245 pp.; illustrated from photographs, drawings, and plans. A fine copy in original green cloth, in a fine dust jacket.
Building a Suburban Village: Bronxville, New York, 1898-1998
Bronxville: Bronxville Centennial Celebration, Inc., (1998). A detailed study of the development of suburban Bronxville, New York, tracing its growth from a dilapidated settlement in the Bronx River Valley having a few farms and orchards, to one of the city's most desirable suburbs. With an emphasis on architecture and on.....
An Arcadian Landscape: The California Gardens of A. E. Hanson, 1920-1932
Santa Monica, California, U.S.A. Hennessey & Ingalls, 1985. Fine copy in original pictorial wrappers.
The New City: Architecture and Urban Renewal
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1967). Catalog for an exhibition at MOMA of plans to save the city by destroying it. Includes contributions from Colin Rowe, Jaquelin Robertson, Eisenman, Graves, others. First edition. 4to; 48 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Some rippling to top of pages.....
Architecture Without Rules: The Houses of Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard
W. W. Norton & Company, (1997), 1996. A survey of twenty houses designed by Breuer and protegee Herbert Beckhard, from the early 1950s through the 1970s. 25 cm.; 171 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.
Five California Architects
Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1987. McCoy's early study of pioneer 20th-century architects in California: Maybeck, Gill, Schindler, and Greene & Greene. Reprint edition. 4to; 200 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.
The Classicist: No. 2
New York, New York, U.S.A. Inst of Classical Architecture, 1995-96, 1996. The second issue of this periodical devoted to classical architecture, published by the Institute for the Study of Classical Architecture. This issue with editions of Vitruvius, C. R. Cockerell, draughtsman Francis Bacon, Rome, etc. First edition. 4to; 99 pp.;.....
The Classicist No. 1
New York: Institute for the Study of Classical Architecture, 1994. Premiere issue of this publication of the Institute for Classical Architecture. With articles by J. H. Kunstler, C. W. Westfall, Mark Helprin, others; showing recent work by Stern, Shamamian, and John Blatteau. First edition. 28.5 cm; 83 pp.; illustrated from.....
Charles Platt: The Artist as Architect (Architectural History Foundation Book)
The MIT Press, 1985, 1985. First Edition. Cloth. Monograph on the architect and garden designer. First edition. 25 cm; 272 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A good copy in a lightly used dust jacket.