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IL 1: Mitteilungen des Instituts für leichte Flächenstragwerke (IL). Information for Light Weight Structures (IL). Director: Frei Otto
Stuttgart: Karl Krämer. 1969. Profusely illustrated with diagrams and photos dealing with the complexities of nets. 56 pp. Decorated white paper covers 21.1 x 28 cm (oversquare). Parallel German and English. Near fine. OCLC locates 10 records, none in the US. **Free domestic or international shipping with direct order. More
Alfieri, Bruno, and Santini, Carlo, eds.
Pagina: rivista internazionale della grafica contemporanea. Numbers 1-7, complete
Milano: Bruno Alfieri, 1962-1964. A fabulous (and apparently almost unknown) magazine of graphic design from the publisher of Metro. Profusely illustrated (part color) with inserts, various papers, gatefolds. Decorated covers. 40.5 x 24 cm. Parallel Italian, French & English. OCLC locates this title only at the Bibliothèque Nationale and the..... More
Fischer, Ernst
Svenska möbler i bild: möbelformerna från 1830-1930 [mobler]. Med 306 bilder
Stockholm: Natur och Kultur, 1950. 306 illustrations on 148 plates + xlv pp. 31.6 x 23.6 cm. Half-calf & marbled boards. Leather worn at extremities. Fine photographs of Swedish furniture up to the beginning of the modern era. More
Fischer, Hervé. Esso Standard
Hygiène de l'art. In Petroleprogrès: revue trimestrielle. Printemps 1972. No. 91
Fischer's imaginative cover for this corporate publication is a multiple consisting of a sealed vinyl sandwich with internal spaces in the shapes of fingers and semi-circles. The resulting, partly continuous void contains pink sand that shifts into different shapes when the periodical is tilted or shaken. Supplementary material is laid..... More
Genzling, Claude. Abram, Joseph
Claude Genzling: corps, matière, géometrie; le dessin de la performance
Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Metz, 1996. Photographs, diagrams, tables. 175 pp. Blue dustjacket over plain card covers. 30 x 22 cm. A detailed view of the cycling designs and studies of Genzling, architect, mathematics professor, and artist. Repair from inside at the top edge of the dustjacket spine; otherwise, fine..... More
Hampton, Dave. Oceanside Museum of Art
Spitting in the wind: art from the end of the line, by Richard Allen Morris, John Baldessari, Bob Matheny, and Russell Baldwin
Oceanside, California: Oceanside Museum of Art, 2014. 75 illustrations (mostly color). 63 pp. Decorated paper covers. 21.7 x 28 cm. Dave Hampton's text chronicles the development of avant-garde art in San Diego (and, yes, there was such a thing), through the work of four then-young artists. "Spitting In The Wind"..... More
Jupp, Ernst; Sandberg, [Willem]; Schweicher, Curt; Wagenfeld, Willem, eds.
Form: internationale revue. 1:1957 [first issue]
Köln-Ehrenfeld: Verlag an den Westdeutschen Verlag, 1957. The firat issue of the legendary, short-lived, mid-century periodical on industrial design, architecture, fine art, theater, film, and dance. Designed by Willem Sandberg, the equally legendary typographer and director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 50 pp..... More
Kauffer, McKnight; Steinberg, Saul; Schiller, Albert
Design and paper. Numbers 23, 29, 30, 36, 37
New York: Marquardt and Company, early 1950s. 5 issues, early 1950s. Profusely illustrated. [16] pp. each. Decorated paper covers. 19.8 x 12 cm. No. 23: "Edward L. Bernays and the American mind," by P. K. Thomajan. No. 29: "Posters by McKnight Kauffer." No. 30: "Saul Steinberg, visual historian." No. 36..... More
Kucukerman, Onder. Guner, Semsi
Anadolu Mirasinda Türk Evleri [Turkish houses in Anatolian heritage]
Istanbul : T.C. Kültür Bakanligi, Yayimlar Dairesi Basakanligi, 1995. Profusely illustrated in color, with some black-and-white plans and elevations. 249 + [2] pp. Brown cloth with dustjacket. 30 x 22.5 cm. ISBN 975-17-1562-8. Text entirely in Turkish. At least two hundred plates show in rich detail the graceful and harmonious..... More
Maciunas, George (19311978). Fluxus
[Proof sheet of Maciunas designs for Fluxus labels.] Poster
New York: Fluxus, [probably 1969]. Poster. Proof sheet of 23 to 25 Fluxus labels, flat, unfolded & uncut. White paper printed in black on one side. 44.5 x 57.1 / 17.5 x 22.5 in. Some designs identified here with Fluxus Codex page references: Brecht, Games & puzzles, pp. 197ff (1964);..... More
Sischy, Ingrid. Anderson, Laurie. Warhol, Andy, Miyake, Issy
Artforum. Volume XX (20), number 6, February 1982. Special issue with record by Laurie Anderson
New York: Artforum, 1982. Flexidisc by Laurie Anderson, "Let X = X," with cut-and-fold cover bound in. Profusely illustrated (part color). 106 pp. 26.7 x 26.5. cm. The centerfold by Andy Warhol is "Forged image," a three-panel painting of a dollar sign in varying color combinations, plus a photo of..... More
Shoe circa 1960 [poster]
[Romans, France?]: Charles Jourdan Shoe Museum, 1984. Poster in black on off-white wove paper. 40.1 x 55.9 cm / 16 x 22 in. During his early years as a fashion illustrator, Andy Warhol did many highly stylized drawings of shoes. This poster advertising the Shoe Museum of the famous designer..... More
Westermann, Georg (1810-1879). SALE PRICE through December 31, 2022
Westermann's Holzschnitt-Illustrations-Katalog, 2557 Nummern enthaltend. Zum Gebrauch für Buchhändler und Buchdrucker
Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von George Westermann, 1865. 2557 numbered illustrations on 336 pp. + prelims & subject indexes on first 16 pp. About 33.5 x 25.5 cm. Original paper covers badly worn; spine perished; volume shaken and partly disbound. A green half-sheet mounted on the half-title outlines the forms..... More