Decorative Arts from Ultramarine Books

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1997. 168 pages; 10 color, more than 180 b&w illustrations. Clean and tight throughout; tight binding.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to.

Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2008. 173 pages; illustrated throughout b&w and color. Based upon the exhibition at the V&A in 2007. The study explores the pan-European and the trans-Atlantic exchange in material culture for a culture that was under persecution but welcomed and accepted beyond the Franch borders. Clean throughout; tight binding.. First Edition. Black cloth. Fine/Fine.… Read more about this item

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. 128 pages; densely illustrated in b&w. All manner of leafwork, grillework, hinges, handrails, balconies, ballustrades, locks, keys, bolts and more. Includes forge techniques well illustrated with variously shaped hammers and swages. Originally published in 1999 in Paris. Clean and bright throughout; tight binding.. First English Edition. Blue paper covered boards. Fine/Fine. 11.75"… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. 246 pages; numerous illustrations, b&w and color. Chapters: Textiles, Ceramics, Metal, Glass, Wood, Wall Paintings. Comprehensive, for example, Textiles includes wall hangings, double weave , coverlets, embroidery, cushions, weaving of various kind, rugs. The spine soiled; boards and interior clean. Minor wear to the spine head and tail.. First Edition. Blue cloth. Very… Read more about this item

London: V&A / The Compton Press / Pitman House, 1980. 48 pages; 39 color plates. Jewelry of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries when in England it stood for social class. Clean throughout; tight binding. . First Edition. Glossy Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 4to.

London: Christie's South Kensington, 2004. 48 pages; 239 lots; numerous color illustrations. Clean throughout; tight binding.. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover). Fine. 10 1/2" x 8". Auction Catalogue.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980. 188 pages; numerous illustrations, including color photos, line drawings, floor plans, section views, etc. Homes, offices, sacred spaces, furniture. Clean throughout; tight binding. Dustjacket lightly wrinkled at head of the spine, not torn.. Brown cloth. Fine/Very Good. 4to.

New York: The Art Foundation Press, 1956. 206 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w. U.S. Painting, Recent Directions; A Berenson Anthology; M. Nadar; The Etruscans (Robert Graves); Gauguin: return to Symbolism (Herbert Read) ; Guide to Good Design (Lazette Van Houten). Much of what is illustrated in the Design piece is in high demand today. Clean thoughout; tight binding.. Pictorial… Read more about this item

The Smithsonian Institution: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1979. Furniture 1: 128 pages; 26 color plates, 99 b&w photographs. Furniture 2: 128 pages; 31 color plates, 98 b&w photographs. Both volumes part of the Smithsonian's Illustrated Library of Antiques. Clean throughout except for a small price notation on front half-titles. Tight bindings.. quarter-cloth / paper boards. Very Good/Very Good. 11" x 8 1/2".… Read more about this item

Easthampton, MA: Antique Collectors Club, 2007. 288 pages; 88 color plates showing multiple objects of that number. Roughly marking the centenary of the first U.S. exhibition of American silver at the MFA. The Winterthur Museum was pulled-in and the celebration of the Philadelphia silversmiths was underway. The catalog shows many works along with design drawings. Clean throughout; tight binding;… Read more about this item

New York: Galahad Books, 1969. 176 pages; numerous illustrations. Tools, materials, techniques of the silver trade in eighteemth-century America well described graphically and with photographs. Clean throughout; tight binding. Dustjacket corners clipped - not price-clipped.. First Edition. Green Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Dorothy Briggs. 10' x 7".

New Haven: Yale Un iversity Art Gallery, 2014. 191 pp. text volume; 194-263 pp. images volume. Two volumes in dos-à-dos binding, or back-to-back: fore edges and spines are adjacent and the volumes share a back board at the divide. An extensive collection of book art, which is not books with art within. Rather, individual books, the objects, that heve been… Read more about this item

Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts , 2016. 398 pages; numerous illustrations, most are color photos. Fruit of the 2013 conference, Four Centuries of Massachusetts Furniture and an update to the 1974 Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century. Nineteen essays with illustrations reflect on the furniture design, the making , the cabinetmakers and woodworkers. Clean throughout; tight binding; as new..… Read more about this item

New York: Friends of Terra Cotta Press, 1997. 42 pages. Ceramic architectural decoration of Parisian buildings between 1880 and 1930. Includes a walking tour of the buildings with a fold-out map and principal information in French. The body of the book in French, Engish and Japanese text. Clean throughout; pages fresh.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good.. 4to.

New York: Rosenberg & Stiebel, 1984. 69 pages; 23 b&w illustrations. Good scope to text and examples: Mounts and corner mounts on all manner of furniture and decorative arts. Clean throughout; tight binding; about fine condition. . Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue.

New York: Rosenberg & Stiebel, 1986. 84 pages; 31 b&w illustrations. Good scope to text and examples: wall brackets, tables, frames, chairsstools, candlesticks, daybeds, and more. Clean throughout; tight binding; about fine condition. . Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue.

Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1967. 211 pages; numerous color and b&w illustrations of 66 enameled items: bookcovers, plaques, quatrefoils, crosses, chalices, reliquaries, medallions, etc. Introduction (25pp.); Notes and Commentary on the Introduction (5pp.) Illustrations (164pp.). Each illustration is accompanied with extensive text. Glossary; Literature; Index of Enamels Showing Their Present Location; Comparable Works of Art; Index of Persons;… Read more about this item

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. 56 pages; well illustrated in gorgeous color and in b&w photographs. MMA Bulletin Summer 1989 reprinted 2006. Clean throughout, as new.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. Art periodical.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. 56 pages. Illustrated in color and in b&w. Met Bulletin Spring 1996. The Met "will put back on exhibition - after nearly thirty years - a masterpiece of fifteenth-century Italian intarsia, the studiolo, or private study, of Frederico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino. The study was formerly in his palace at Gubbio.… Read more about this item

The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2001. 182 pages; 150 illustrations, including 105 color. The fascinating story of 14th-century Basel; its cathedral; the gold, silver, bejewelled, enameled treasury of altar furnishings and liturgical hardware; earthquake; iconoclastic threat of the Reformation; then dispersal from a nineteenth-century auction. Now, some of the 75 examples in the catalogue… Read more about this item