Search Results: Authors starting with A from modern-ISM

Bunji Murontani, 1983. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. A crisp, clean Fine copy. 163 pp., profusely illustrated. Laid in is a pristine issue of CA Modern, Summer 2007 featuring an Eichler kitchen desiged by A. Quincy Jones.

Paris: CGP, 1988. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Fine/Very Good. A crisp, clean Fine copy in a Very Good mylar-protected dust jacket. 190 pp., profusely illustrated, Pompidou exhibition catalogue with text in French.

PRC Publishing, 2002. First Edition . Glossy Pictorial Hardcover. Very Good. A clean Very Good copy. 96 pp., illustrations, index.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, clean Fine copy in a Near Fine mylar-protected, price-clipped dust jacket with a slight trace of spine fade. A great biography of one of the icons of twentieth century design with a very thorough bibliography. xx + 353 pp., foreword by Ettore Sottsass, profusely illustrated, biographical chronology, chronology of work, awards and honors, writings by Nelson, writings about Nelson and his firms, notes, and index.

Tokyo: Process Architecture Publishing Co., 1979. First Edition . Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Very Good. Large 4to. 162 pp., beautifully illustrated, chronological list or works, awards, bibliography. A retrospective of Franzen's works at mid-career. Text in Japanese and English. Back cover crease.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. First Paperback Edition . Wraps. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, clean, As New unread copy. 353 pages, foreword by Ettore Sottsass, and appendixes by Judith Nasatir (biographical chronology, chronology of work, awards and honors, writings by Nelson, writings about Nelson and his firms, chapter notes, and index. Lavishly illustrated in both full-color and black-and-white. A great biography of one of the icons of twentieth century design with a very thorough bibliography.

Noriega Editores, 1998. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards, Slipcase. As New/As New. Crisp, clean Like New copies in Like New dust jackets, two As New volumes in a Very Good slipcase. Text in English and Spanish. Volume A contains a warm inscribed reminiscence from close architectural photograher friend Julius Shulman: "To Abraham, my dear friend - A tribute to his tremendous impact on universal architecture!" Julius Shulman, 31 October, 2007. Books designed by Vignelli Associates. No international, due to weight. Please inquire for US shipping cost.

University of Illinois Press, 2008. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good +. A crisp Very Good copy. 205 pp., illustrations, notes and index. This is the first published edition of the diary of Abraham Plotkin, an American labor leader of immigrant Jewish origin who lived in Berlin between November 1932 and May 1933. A firsthand account of the Weimar Republic's final months and the early rise of Nazi power in Germany, Plotkin's diary focuses on the German working class, the labor movement, and the plight of German Jews. Small remainder dot.

Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 394 pp. Text in Spanish. Edge wear on top of DJ spine, 1/2" closed tear, a few shelf wear marks on back. Book is tight and clean. Personal inscription paper clipped to ffep, appears as if never read.

La Jolla, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 1981. First Edition . Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Large 4to. Near Fine. A nice, tight, clean copy. 144 pp., 29 color & 58 b&w plates covering 75 works, bibliography, and list of exhibitions. (crease on front cover)

New York: ACTAR-D, 2007. Wraps. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 162 pp. This publication focuses on Sanaa's housing projects, both finished works and unrealized projects. Gift condition. Int'l shipping will be extra due to weight.

Tokyo: Kajima Institute Publishing Co., 1979. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. A crisp, clean Near Fine copy.

Van Nostrand Reinhold Co, 1987. First Edition . Hardcover. Ine/Fine. A crisp Fine copy (bookplate on ffep) in a Fine mylar-protected dust jacket. 233 pp., illustrations, bibliography and index.

New York: Conde Nast. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Large 4to. A very important issue. 114 pp., richly illustrated special issue on USA Design with much on Charles Eames, George Nelson, Edward Wormley, Morris Sanders, Harold M. Schwartz, Marion Dorn, Van Keppel-Green, Angelo Testa, Greta Magnusson Grossman, and others. Also an article on the Makowsky Residence by Edward Durrell Stone and more. Some light soiling and some chipping to the spine and a split at the spine crown.

New York: Conde Nast, 1947. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Large 4to. A Very Good copy with some tape-mending to spine. 165 pp., richly illustrated with articles by or on Raymond Loewy (including Julius Shulman cover photo of Loewy House in Palm Springs), Joseph Hudnut, Eva Zeisel, Serge Chermayeff and others.

The Monacelli Press, 2008. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. An AsNew copy in an As New dust jacket. 238 pp., endnotes and index. A burst of creative energy in the fields of architecture, design, and fashion characterized the years between the two World Wars. Shaping new styles of buildings and furnishings, redefining contemporary dress, and giving visual form to avant-garde performing arts, architects and designers forged a still-influential modern aesthetic. The era's most creative figures rarely worked in isolation, preferring instead to participate in international dialogues that crossed national boundaries and linked capital cities in collaborative artistic enterprise. No two cities engaged in a more fertile conversation than Paris and New York. The interchange between them was never simple, however, comprising in equal measure admiration and envy, respect and rivalry, as artists and designers in each city interpreted and incorporated principles of Art Deco, Cubism, the… Read More

Ore Cultura Srl (Acc), 2013. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. A crisp, clean Fine copy. 119 pp., profusely illustrated. The works, projects and ideas of one of the great pioneers of modern architecture.

Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute, 2004. First Paperback Edition . Photographic Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. A crisp, clean Very Good copy. 339 pp., endnotes, exhibiton checklist. Exhibiton traveled from the Dayton Art Institute to the Portland Art Museum, Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, and finally to the George Eastman House in Rochester.

Frankfurt: Verlag Der Frankfurter, 1953. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Very Good copy of this special issue dedicated to the work of Bruce Goff.

Barcelona, Spain: Gustavo Gili Editorial S.A., 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A crisp Fine copy. Inscribed on the title page by the late Jerrold Lomax, employed in the Ellwood office from 1953-1962 and responsible for many of the designs in this book. 321 pp., 600 illustrations including 89 floor plans redrawn by the author and color photography by Grant Mudford, b&w photography by Craig Ellwood, Julius Shulman, Morley Baer, Jason Hailey, Donald J. Higgins, James Tyler, George Szanic, and others, chapter endnotes, biographical data and list of works.