Trevian Books
New York: Press of the AIA, Inc., 1926. Brunner was an American architect educated at MIT and active at the turn of the century in New York. His career began with George Post but in1898 he independently won the competition for the Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, and soon.....
Allentown, 1965. Large brochure commemorating the opening of the county’s new court house designed by local Allentown firm Wolfe & Hahn. With photographs of interiors, offices, plaza, etc. First edition. 28 cm; 20 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in embossed wrappers.
Denver: B of A, 2013. A Guidebook to the 2013 edition of the Biennial art and architecture program, with an agenda that calls for "fundamentally new visions of urban life...with four temporary architectural projects" being constructed in the downtown core. First edition. 18 cm; 79 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A......
New York: Privately Published, 1929. Biographical tribute to Eidlitz, son of legendary 19th century New York builder Marc Eidlitz, and head of the Eidlitz firm until 1928. First edition. 24.5 cm; 55 pp.; illustrated from two photographs; gilt to all edges; light wear to spine ends; else a very good.....
New York: The Architectural League of New York, 1922. A combination yearbook of the ALNY, with lists of members, and a catalogue of the annual exhibition of members' work. Featuring examples of work in domestic and landscape architecture, sculpture, ecclesiastical architecture, decorative painting, and public and commercial buildings and monuments.....
Noir, 2015. A short film made in 2015 to celebrate the new building and facilities at the Chateau Margaux vineyard by Norman Foster, as well as the original chateau by Bordeaux architect Louis Combe in 1815. This book shows storyboards and stills from the 5-minute film which is available on.....
New York: City Planning Commission, 1965. A study of New York's renewal strategy for the mid-sixties. The first chapters deal with the city's housing and renewal priorities, followed by chapters dealing with housing programs that involve redevelopment and restoration. Report developed to be presented to the incoming Lindsay administration, which.....
Warsaw: Arkady, 1986. A collection of reproductions of Nowicki’s sketches and designs, and photographs of his built projects. Nowicki was a Russian-born and Warsaw-trained architect who eventually settled in the US and was associated with the planning of Chandigarh, various projects in North Carolina, and the Brandeis campus. Since his.....
New York: Black, Starr and Frost, 1912. Part company history, part monograph on the company’s new building at Fifth Ave. & 48th Street designed by Carrere & Hastings. Showing interiors, show rooms, workshops and setting rooms. With bookplate of Witherbee Black, third-generation owner. First edition. 22 cm; 27 pp.; illustrated.....
Milan: San Rocco, 2015. The Summer 2015 issue of this periodical is devoted to the 15th-century Italian architect Donato Bramante. First edition. 23 cm; 143 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in wrappers.
New York: Public Art Fund, 1994. A catalog for the 1994 exhibition of artists’ proposals for a multi-site, multi-year program exploring the integration of art and urban environment through the garden. An early effort by Public Art Fund with the involvement of ten artists to survey and promote city gardens.....
Copenhagen: Cobe, n.d. [c. 2019]. Large promotional booklet describing Paper Island, a previously non-residential man-made working island in the Copenhagen harbor, now open for residential development to be complete by 2023. With a history of the industrial island, a description of the residences designed by Dan Stubbergaard and Cobe, and.....
Key West: Scarma Bay, 1992. Odd little promotional booklet for the Key West hotel, describing the original building as designed by Carrere & Hastings, Henry Flagler’s house architects, in 1920. With a bizarre focus on the weather, Flagler, too much Key West info, and details of the endless expansion and.....
Buffalo: Buffalo Landmark Society, 1993. Catalog for the exhibition, "Buffalo's City Hall: The Politics of Architecture and Design". as well as a guide to the building, designed in 1929 by John G. Wade. First edition. 25.5 cm; 40 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.....
New Orleans: Louisiana Landmark Society, 1978. Catalog for the 1978 exhibition showing photographs of plantation houses including Woodlawn, Greenwood, and Belle Grove, outbuildings, churches, as well as row houses and stores in New Orleans. An outstanding selection of images taken by Koch, a local architect, most dating from the 1930s.....
Cincinnati: Dickman & Ortman, n.d. [c. 1918]. Pattern book for mostly smaller houses and bungalows designed and built by the Cincinnati firm of Dickman & Ortman, architects and builders. Each example with plans, description, and either a perspective drawing or a photograph. 25.5 cm; 95 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans.....
Boston: Emerson & Norris, 1920. A collection of ten real photographs of stone garden ornaments manufactured by the company, in a small portfolio and with a letter to the customer. Each photo with hand-written description and price to verso. Photographs 10 x 8 cm in 16.5 cm portfolio. Small crease.....
New York: Columbia Univ., 1963. The verbatim record of a symposium held at the School of Architecture from March to May of 1961, featuring Corbusier and Gropius, in person, and Mies by a taped interview. The papers presented in the four sections represent a re-examination of the beginnings of contemporary.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Flagg's efforts to promote his new building technique based on stone walls, a modular system of design, and standardized parts and methods. Enormous number of illustrations based on small houses for Flagg's Flegg Ridge Estate at Dongan Hills, Staten Island. Scarce. First edition. Folio;.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. A documentation of Flagg's efforts to promote his new house building technique based on stone walls, a modular system of design, and standardized parts and methods. With an enormous number of illustrations based on small houses in a variety of styles for Flagg's Flegg.....
Boston: Albert Foster, n.d. [c.1897]. Promotional brochure for the development at Fairbanks Park, Dedham. "Homes for Nothing! That is, nothing more than you now pay for rent. Desirable people can buy our artistic modern homes with large lawns...for $20 to $50 per month." This, beneath photographs of 2- and 3-storied.....
Framingham: Framingham Nurseries, 1918. Trade catalog for this Mass. nursery, showing various botanical products in situ and offering advice and hints for planning and planting. First edition. 28 cm; 61 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A very good copy or better in original pictorial wrappers.
New York: The Pencil Points Press, 1926. An illustrated study of the lesser houses of the French court at Versailles. The diversity of the gardens shown here reflects the ideals of classical French formalism adapted to the newer Romantic English style of landscape gardening. Includes many photographs of the house.....
Carrara: GDG Marble and Granite, 2000. Catalog for the international company based in Carrera, showing 400 color photographs of granite and marble samples. With some photos of quarry work.31 cm; 67 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in laminated boards.
Fort Worth: Geren, n.d. [c. 1978]. Trade catalog for the Texas firm showing recent work in building schools, universities, commercial work, banks, etc. Some fine examples of brutalist work for the American Airlines Stewardess College [sic] at the Ft. Worth airport, the Mutual Savings and Loan building in Ft. Worth.....
