Christie's
IMPORTANT 20TH CENTURY DESIGN. May 26. 2005
London: Christie's, 2005

Quarto. 153 pp; 196 lots, illustrated with color photographs. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy with no wear. Includes property from the estate of Gordon House, including a collection of Liberty & Co. silver, pewter, and relevant drawings, the majority designed by Archibald Knox, and others. Many pieces of furniture, lighting, and textiles by designers including E.W. Godwin, Josef Hoffmann, Otto Wagner, Fontana Arte, Gio Ponti, Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, Tapio Wirkkala, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Pierre Chareau, Jacques Adnet, Serge Mouille, Charles & Ray Eames, Marc Newson, Ron Arad, and many others.
Inventory number #013967

Williams, Priscilla de F. & Donald Harris Dwyer
Art Deco and Its Origins
Huntington, NY: Heckscher Museum, 1974

Quarto. 20 pp; b/w illustrations. Illustrated paper wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers show minor surface wear. Press release laid in. Exhibition catalogue containing 168 items of furniture, textiles, metalwork, ceramics, glass, bookbindings, jewelry, sculpture, drawings, prints and drawings, and architecture on loan from six American museums, and numerous dealers & private collectors.
Inventory number #013927

Arrizoli-Clementel, Pierre et al
Toiles de Nantes des XVIIIe et XIXe siecles : 9 decembre 1977-29 janvier 1978, Musee de l'impression sur Etoffes de Mulhouse
Mulhouse: Musee de l'Impression sur Etoffes, 1977

First edition. Octavo. 159 pp; two color & profuse b/w illustrations; bibliography. Text in French. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; slight toning to edges of back cover. Exhibition catalogue featuring 129 examples of 18th & 19th century printed textiles of Nantes.
Inventory number #013921

Montgomery, Florence M. [Signed]
Printed Textiles : English and American Cottons and Linens 1700-1850
NY: Viking Press, 1970

First edition. Quarto. 379 pp; 30 color & 428 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, remains of removed label on front flyleaf, tiny rubbed spot on front pastedown, one corner gently bumped, barely affecting pp; clipped jacket has small chip at top of spine. Signed by Montgomery on the title page. This important reference features more than 400 examples of printed textiles from the Winterthur Museum collection.
Inventory number #013920

Sirat, Jacques & Francoise Siriex
Tapis Francais du XXe Siecle : de l'art Nouveau aux Creations Contemporaines
Paris: Editions De l'Amateur, 1993

First edition. Quarto. 237 pp; color illustrations throughout; bibliography. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/Near Fine, small loss at top edge of pp 121-132 else a near fine copy; jacket has no visible wear. A well-illustrated chronological survey of 20th century of French carpets, including Art Nouveau, Art Deco, as well as paquebots.
Inventory number #013919

Thorne, Edward & Hanry W. Frohne
Decorative Draperies & Upholstery
Grand Rapids, MI: Dean-Hicks Company, 1929

Quarto. xv, 277 pp; illustrated with 74 full-page color plates. Original tan cloth, no dust jacket. VG, a clean copy, unmarked except for old inked price (1.75) on front flyleaf; covers moderately soiled.
Inventory number #013916

Boydell, Christine
The Architect of Floors: Modernism, Art and Marion Dorn Designs
London: Schoeser, 1996

Square octavo. 144 pp; 62 color & 66 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Paperback. A fine, unused copy with no internal markings; covers with no wear. Marion Dorn (1896-1964) worked in several areas of design over a forty-year career, mostly in Britain but also in her native U.S. Best known as a textile designer, Dorn was responsible for the rug in Syrie Maugham's famous 'White Room". From about 1922 to 1962 she designed batiks, block- and screen-printed fabrics, woven fabrics, London Underground upholstery cloths, wallpapers, graphics, illustrations, furniture and complete interiors. This catalogue was produced to coincide with "The Architect of Floors" exhibition held at the RIBA Heinz Gallery, London, 1996-1997. Scarce.
Inventory number #013899

Russian Folk Clothing = Russkii narodynyi kostyum: from the collection of the State Ethnographical Museum of the People of the USSR
Leningrad: Khudoznik RSFSR, 1984

Quarto. 220 pp; 190 color & b/w illustrations; numerous illus in the text. Introduction & index in English, Russian text. Red cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Lacks slipcase. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers have one tiny black spot on back cover, else minor soil, spine lettering rubbed, light stain at head of spine. Well-illustrated survey of marvelous examples of Soviet peasant or folk clothing collected by the State Ethnographical Museum of the Peoples of the USSR.
Inventory number #013841

Broholm, H.C. & Margrethe Hald
BRONZE AGE FASHION
Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1948

Twelvemo (7.5" x 5.5"). 74 pp; 49 b/w illustrations. Illustrated paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers lightly soiled, minor wear to spine ends. A short survey of several gravefinds in Denmark which produced early Bronze age costumes and textiles. At the time the costumes were the oldest known in the world.
Inventory number #013696

Venice Jewish Community
Jewish Art Treasures in Venice / Tesori d'Arte Ebraica a Venezia
NY: International Funds for Monuments, 1973

Octavo. 94 pp; [24] b/w & color plates. Text in English & Italian. Illustrated paperback. VG+, a clean, unmarked copy, top edge of pages a bit yellowed; covers fresh & bright, light edgewear to bottom edge.
Inventory number #013671

Decorative Arts Program of the American Federation of Arts.
Threads of History: the romance of fibers, natural and man-made, and the art of their use in decorative Textiles
NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1965

Square quarto. 53 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; light wear to spine ends & corners.
Inventory number #013494

Percival, MacIver
THE CHINTZ BOOK
London: William Heinemann, 1923

Quarto. xvi, 103 pp + 4 tipped-in color plates with tissue guards & 32 b/w plates; appendix; glossary. Two-tone cloth with paper labels on cover and spine in dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, tight, unmarked copy, incl. covers & paper labels, page edges lightly foxed; jacket with 2 large edge chips & repaired jagged tear on front cover, approx 1-in. loss to spine ends. The book features many examples of English, French and Indian chintz.
Inventory number #013483

Hillier, Bevis
ART DECO: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts July 8 - September 5, 1971
Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1971

First edition. Square octavo. 224 pp; 16 color plates, over 300 illustrations in b/w; bibliography. Paperback, patterned endpapers. A fine, unmarked copy, covers bright & glossy, light crease in center of spine. Comprehensive exhibition of the Art Deco period -- includes furniture, silver, ceramics, glass, paintings/drawings, books/bindings, posters, costumes, textiles, jewelry, architecture/interior design, plastics. Published by Minneapolis Institute of Arts, not E.P. Dutton.
Inventory number #013464

Levi-Strauss, Monique, Frederique Delbecq & Madeleine Delpierre
La Mode du Chale Cachemire en France
Paris: Musee de La Mode et Du Costume, 1982

First edition. Octavo. 79 pp; 28 color & b/w illustrations; catalogue; bibliography. Text in French. Paperback.Near FIne, a clean, unmarked copy, tight binding, minor edgewear.
Inventory number #013422

Tracy, Berry B. & William H. Gerdts
CLASSICAL AMERICA 1815-1845: An Exhibition at The Newark Museum
Newark, NJ: Newark Museum, 1963

First edition. Quarto. 212 pp; 295 objects described, many with b/w photographs; bibliography. Cloth in very good+ condition. A crisp, unmarked copy; ;white covers arte clean & bright, spine a biy darkened. Major exhibition catalogue of American decorative and fine arts of this period, with many high-quality examples. Includes furniture, silver, ceramics, glass, wallpaper & textiles, lamps, stoves & clocks, as well as the fine arts.
Inventory number #013418

Montgomery, Pauline
Indiana Coverlet Weavers and Their Coverlets
Indianapolis: Hoosier Heritage Press, 1974

First edition. Quarto. vii, 138 pp; 16 color plates & numerous b/w photographs; index. Blue cloth with gilt lettered cover & spine with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket lightly rubbed and edgeworn. This is one of the first serious studies of jacquard coverlets; it is unique in its emphasis on the individual weavers,
Inventory number #013409

Yefimova, Louisa & Rina Belogorskaya
RUSSIAN KERCHIEFS AND SHAWLS
Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1985

Octavo. 166 pp; 100 color plates & b/w illustrations; list of trademarks of the Russian factories. Laminated color-illustrated cover. Near Fine, a clean unmarked copy; Textile Museum label on front flyleaf. This book presents all types of Russian kerchiefs and shawls of the 18th to 20th century. Included are a number of paintings and portraits by Russian & Soviet artists as well as Palekh wooden ware to provide a better idea of the development of this industry.
Inventory number #013352

Battersby, Martin
THE DECORATIVE TWENTIES
NY: Walker and Company, 1969

First edition. Quarto. 213 pp; 210 illustrations, some in color; notes on illustrations; list of source books; index. Green cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket shows minimal surface wear, slight toning at top edge. An illustrated survey of the interiors & furnishings, fashion & textiles, decorative & applied arts in France, England and America during the 1920s.
Inventory number #013330

Irwin, John & P.R. Schwartz
Studies in Indo-European Textile History
Ahmedabad: Calico Museum of Textile, 1966

Quarto. 124 pp; 11 color plates. Paperback with printed glassine cover. VG
Inventory number #013187

Leon, M. Paul et al
Exposition internationale des arts decoratifs et industriels modernes : Paris 1925 : rapport general. 6, classes 13 et 14. Tissu et Papier
Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1928

Quarto. 102 pp; 96 plates including a few color; bibliography; index of designers & companies; list of plates. Text in French. Original printed wraps in original glassine, printed on velin d'arches with gold & black Art Deco designed endpapers. Near Fine, text pages uncut, light stain in margin of a few early pp, else a crisp; unmarked copy; glassine has closed tear on front cover, minor wear to spine ends.
Inventory number #013108