Decorative Arts from Trevian Books

Cambridge MIT 1982 Loos's essays on furniture, building materials, luxury vehicles, fashion, etc., dramatizing the excesses of Gesamtkunstwek, especially as it was being practiced by his Secessionist contemporaries. First edition. 25 cm; 146 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in a very good dustjacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1985 Monograph on the work of Ashbee, a major figure in the English Arts and Crafts movement and founder of the Guild of Handicraft. First edition. 26 cm; 499 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket..

Helsinki: Building Information Ltd., 2000 An iconoclastic look at the work and career of the great Finnish architect and modernist Alvar Aalto. First editiion. 21 cm; 144 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A very good copy or better in wrappers..

London: Architectural Association, 1981 Catalog for the 1981 exhibition at the A. A. in London, showing architectural drawings, sketches, and perspectives, as well as studios, furniture, and interior decoration. First edition. 17.5 cm; 49 pp.; illustrated from drawings and plans. A fine copy in pictorial wrappers..

Boston: Otis Co. N.d. (c. 1930) Trade catalog for the Otis Co., manufacturer of woven cloth awnings for commercial and residential uses. Benefits of colors on woven cloth vs. painted cloth, etc. are explained. Alas, the poor awning, an outmoded method of house decoration and temperature control, replaced by air-conditioning, and by the unspeakable aluminum awning. 17.5 cm; 12 pp.;… Read more about this item

Turin: Pinacoteca Giovanni & Marella Agnelli, 2013 Catalog for an exhibition of the Seguin collection of work in furniture, design, and architecture by Jean Prouve (1901-1984). Showing items in situ and as exhibited; showing also "demountable", or portable, houses. Card signed by Patrick Seguin laid-in. Text in English and Italian. First edition. 29 cm; 279 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans,… Read more about this item

Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, (1986) Reprint edition. 4to; pp. xii, 460; illustrated from photographs. A very good copy in original gilt-stamped green cloth, in a very good dust jacket. Originally published in 1918. Not an overabundance of text, but rather an impressive collection of photographs of ornaments spurning the new, the manufactured, the vulgar. .

Milan: Gio' Frigerio, 1978 Trade catalog for the contemporary furniture designs of Milanese firm led by Frigererio. Showing work by Frigerio, Lida Delva, Gianmaria Beretta, Guilio Confalonieri, Albini, Helg, & Piva. 21 cm; 70 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in a folding slipcase..

Berlin: Monroe Books, 2023 Selections from a seminar examining the cultural economic, technological and spatial conditions as well as the temporary and recurring ways of living together in a family-run hotel in Venice. With a reference to Patricia Highsmith, but apparently overlooking the superbly bizarre "The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole" by Frederick Rolfe. First edition. 23 cm; 127… Read more about this item

Sao Paulo: Editora Decor, N.d. [c. 2007] Trade catalog for the architectural and design firm of Casas, with reference to the influences of Sao Paulo on his life and career. Showiing examples of architectural work in New York, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, and other cities, as well as his designs for furniture. First edition. 24.5 cm; unpaged [approx. 150]; illustrated from… Read more about this item

Milan: Corraini, 2018 Periodical devoted to design, etc. Diller & Scofidio, Carlo Mollino, etc. Fine in wrappers..

Hayot: 1996 Monograph on the legendary French ebonist. Text in French. First French edition. 29.5 cm; 247 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket..

Triangle N.d. A survey of plaster ceilings and wrought iron in works by Gaudi. Text in English, Catalan, and Spanish. First edition 2 volumes. 19 cm; pp. 95, 96; illustrated from photographs. Fine copies in a slightly damaged publisher's slipcase..

Ridgefield: Aldrich Museum, 2012 Published in association with the 2012 exhibition at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield CT, of works by Castle, specifically works in wood and gel-coated fiberglass made in the 1960s-70s. First edition. 30.5 cm; 239 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Garden City: Doubleday Page, 1912 Essentially a collection of trade catalogs treating all aspects of interior and exterior furnishing of the contemporary [1912] house. With essays and examples of the correct paint (with a page of paint samples), furniture, wallpapers, plumbing fixtures, doors, lighting, fireplaces and mantels, greenhouses, gates and fences, etc.; section of advertisements at rear. First edition. 31… Read more about this item

Paris: Association De Sauvegarde De l'Hotel Paiva, 1990 A brief monograph on the Hotel, built by Lachmann, aka "La Pavia", in 1856-65 in a lavish Renaissance style by architect Pierre Manguin. Now the Travellers Club of Paris clubhouse. 21 cm; 24 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A very good copy in wrappers..

New York: Friends of Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 1939 Promotional book celebrating the architecture, interior design, restaurants, guests, personalites, and the roles played in New York social life by the hotel, in its Park Avenue location since 1931. First edition, 1/5,000 copies. 4to; 177 pp.; illustrated, including many tipped-in plates from photographs. Dent to bottom of backstrip; else a very… Read more about this item

New York: Port Authority, 1985 Catalog for the remarkable collection of paintings, sculpture, installations, etc., owned and displayed by the Post Authority. Includes work by George Segal, Miro, Nevelson, Corbusier, others. First edition. 28 cm; 125 pp.; illustrated. Tear and rubbed spot to front wrapper; else a good copy or better in pictorial wrappers..

New York: Marquardt & Co., N.d. [c. 1958] Issue of trade publication by Marquardt paper company devoted to the work of Swiss-born designer Erik Nitsche. Showing examples of Nitsche's work in posters, advertising, record album covers, etc. First edition. 19.5 cm; 24 pp.; illustrated. Spotting to wrappers; contents bright and clean. A good copy in wrappers..

Amsterdam: CBRE,n.d. (c. 2010) Trade catalog for the Dutch office design firm CBRE, showing completed projects for major international and local companies. 31 cm; 158 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in boards, published without a dust jacket..