Vienna, Austria: Metroverlag, 2013. First English Edition. Hardcover. Adolf Loos was an eloquent voice against the squandering of fine materials, ornamentation and unnecessary embellishments. The rational underpinnings of his later assertion that ornament is crime first appear in these polemical thrusts at the stylized work of the Viennese secessionists. Few..... More
Milan: Skira Editore SpA, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. The first book ever published to survey waste as a building material. Focusing on the projects, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the language and forms of a new architectural language and offers scientific and non-biased overviews to..... More
San Francisco, California: Perfect Strangers, 2018. Softcover. Delve into our first issue to read about Korean dramas in Panama. Or English literature in Tehran. Or how an Argentinian-Thai couple work together to create locally-inspired desserts in Shanghai. Or how about a Turkish entrepreneur’s global vision for streaming movies? Or the..... More
Koln: Taschen, 2004. First Edition (presumed). Outsized Softcover. A DVD is included. manga /mon-gah/ noun A type of Japanese comic book published in anthologized series, vastly popular in Japan among adults and widely influential on advertising, visual arts, and particularly the Anime film genre. The influence of..... More
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1991. Shin Kimura (photos). First Edition, 3rd printing. Hardcover (Outsized). More
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1969. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2016. Victor Aures (illustrations). First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. For dreamers of escaping to a cozy cabin in the great outdoors, Your Cabin in the Woods is a classic work that not only makes this a reality, but also imparts a deeper appreciation..... More
Milan, Italy: Electa, 1999. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The world-famous Italian car designer studio celebrates its 80th anniversary. A new edition of this popular book produced in close collaboration with Pininfarina and its leading designers. From the thirties, Pininfarina has been an enormous influence on Italian car design. The..... More
New York: Dover Publications, 1964. William F. Winter (photographs). Unabridged republication of 1937 edition. Outsized softcover. A definitive work on the distinctive American Shaker furniture style, photographed in rooms of actual Shaker dwellings and workshops in New Lebanon, New York, and Hancock, Massachusetts. Shown in 48 superb photographic plates are..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1964. Joseph Bourke Del Valle (book design). First Edition (presumed). Softcover. More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990. First Edition. Softcover (oblong). Includes over 500 drawings filed with the United States Patent Office in the years 1930-1945. More
Barcelona: Actar, 2006. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Architecture's materiality is therefore a composite one, made up of visible forces (structural, functional, physical) as..... More
London: Laurence King Publishing, 2007. Softcover. Badges, buttons and pins have been around for over a century. Today they're everywhere: on lapels and bags all over the world and in the sketchbooks and on the screens of some of the hottest graphic designers, artists and illustrators. A badge can be..... More
London: Laurence King Publishing, 2007. Softcover. Badges, buttons and pins have been around for over a century. Today they're everywhere: on lapels and bags all over the world and in the sketchbooks and on the screens of some of the hottest graphic designers, artists and illustrators. A badge can be..... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 2020. Reprint. Trade Paperback. This book focuses on the visual and material culture of St Petersburg and Moscow at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The twilight of Imperial Russia witnessed a sudden renaissance that left a profound imprint on the visual, literary and..... More
Singapore: The Design Society, 2012. Design by H55. First edition (stated). Softcover. Initiated by H55’s Creative Director, Hanson Ho, and produced in collaboration with researcher-writer Justin Zhuang, INDEPENDENCE is the first book documenting the history of graphic design in Singapore since the 1960s. The cover features a black flag..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2003. First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Published in association with Women and War, a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London. More
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1982. Ryo Hata (photos), Kinji Kuwata (line drawings). First Edition (stated). Hardcover (Outsized). More
Barcelona: Hoaki Books, 2019. First English Edition. Softcover. How do images hold and convey meaning? How do we understand them? What are they trying to say? How do they persuade and influence us? The author writes a complete account analyzing the meaning and construction of..... More
New York: Clarkson/Potter/ Publishers, 2010. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Whether you inhabit a studio or a sprawling house with one challenging space, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, co-founder of the most popular interior design website, Apartment Therapy, will help you transform tiny into totally fabulous. According to Maxwell, size constraints can..... More
Zurich: Lars Muller Publishers, 2019. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of super normal design: alongside examples of anonymous design, there are design classics like by Jacobsen, Rams, Bill or Noguchi. With products by Newson, Grcic, the Azumis, and the..... More
Munich: Prestel, 2015. Revised and Expanded Second Edition. Outsize Hardcover. Extra shipping fee for heavy item. Now available in an expanded edition, this landmark collection presents all of the record covers designed by Andy Warhol between 1949 and 1987, charting the Pop icon’s lifelong engagement with music and casting a...... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 2019. Updated Edition. Hardcover. In this illustrated biography, we learn the origins of designer Eileen Gray and the details of her groundbreaking career. Gray began as a creator of opulent lacquer furniture and transformed into a pioneer of modernist design. Staying firmly independent, she developed a...... More
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