Macalister, Paul (12 results)

kart. 6. Aufl. 99 S. ; 20 cm folienkaschiertes exBibliotheksexemplar mit den üblichen Stempeln/Signaturen, Kanten etwas berieben / bestossen, Knickchen an Einband, papierbedingte Seitenbräunung /// Standort Wimregal SKYLII-5189 ISBN 9783129222287 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 128.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Fair. Musty, solid, clean, no dj.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First edition. Covers shelfworn.

Condition: New. pp. 240 1st Edition.

First edition (hardback). 8vo, vii, 176pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Binding lightly rubbed, endpapers browned; overall, the book is in good to very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Boards very well worn. Front board coming adrift from spine. Small water stain to bottom left of first few pages otherwise the text and photos are very clean. Macalister was one of the first designers to venture into television. He later served as a consultant and appeared frequently on the NBC Home Show. He developed and mass produced a "Plan-a-Room" kit with scale furniture and room layouts that could be used to plan and organize home spaces for consumers. Size: 145mm x 220mm. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Bookplate for N R Jaffray (Journalist, went to Yale where he may known Macalister) 5 by 4 inches. Circa 1930. A macabre image, showing a devil like figure hovering over a strange frightened looking man reading a book with the words 'nescio quid certe est' (from Catullus - means 'I don't know what it is for sure') with 2 oriental deities and 100s of skulls in the background. Stuck to a board a little tanned else very good. Paul Ritter MacAlister was born in Camden, New Jersey 1901. He was a noted designer, collector, writer, illustrator, lecturer and architect. MacAlister studied at both the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art. He furthered his studies at Yale UniversityÕs School of Architecture, from which he holds the first degree ever awarded in Interior Design and Architecture. He also spent two years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Fontainebleau, France, studying with Bourdelle and Carlu. Upon graduation MacAlister established his own design firm in New York and executed the interiors for several yachts and offices during his first year in business. This was followed by many years of successful work in interior decoration and architecture for such outstanding personalities as Clarence Mackay, Thomas Eastman, Roy Howard, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and George Vanderbilt among others. In his studio in Rockefeller Center, MacAlister conceived and directed a display of furnishings for decorators' use known as the Permanent Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Crafts, which occupied an entire floor in the main office building at Rockefeller Centre from 1933-35. Paul Macalister served in the U.S. Navy during WW II in its Department of Training Devices, along with designer Henry Glass, under the head of its design program, Cleveland designer Viktor Schreckengost. MacAlister produced one of the first TV shows on home design in Chicago in the mid-1950s. He later served as a consultant and appeared frequently on the NBC Home Show. He developed and mass-produced "Plan-a-Room" kits with scale furniture and room layouts that could be used to plan and organize home spaces for consumers. The kits were also used by 1500 schools and colleges as a visual planning device. MacAlister was president of the Industrial Designers Institute (IDI) in 1953. He founded, and for many years chaired, IDI's pioneer national design awards program, which began in 1951 and continued until 1965. He was awarded IDI Fellowship, which was honored by IDSA when it was formed in 1965 by IDI and other organizations. He lived in Lake Bluff, IL. In 1974 he designed a cardboard kit to recreate an astrolabe, an astronomical instrument with a history going back to ancient times. The kit was published as part of a book by Roderick S. Webster titled ÒThe Astrolabe. Some notes on its history, construction and useÓ. Also in his list of accomplishments is the entire interior decoration of the expensive home of George Vanderbilt, noted big game hunter, at Long Island, N. Y. He was a member of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Industrial Designers Society of America, of which he was the president in 1950-51; Royal Society of Arts, London; Early American Industrial Association; and the Midwest Tool Collectors Association. He exhibited at the Beaux Arts in 1924 and 1925, the Art Institute of Chicago in 1950, and The Industrial Designers Institution in 1956 (silver medal), among others. Long a leader in his field, MacAlister was responsible for the first successful contemporary designs for automobile hardware, the earliest use of the set-back base in furniture design and the storage head-board, as well as many design for textiles, wallpapers and plastics. An exponent of contemporary design, his work has greatly influenced the trend of American furniture design during the past twenty years.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good/No Dj. Photographs (illustrator). Stated 1st. 8vo Clean, tight with light spine rubs. Gilt lettering on red cover boards. Authoritative work in home furnishings store displays. Scarce title.

The astrolabe, one of the oldest of scientific instruments (dating to the early medieval period), has a variety of uses -- most commonly the planispheric astrolabe, which allowed astronomers to calculate the position of the sun and prominent stars in relation to the horizon and the meridian, and the mariner's astrolabe, which allowed mariner's celestial navigation and evolved into the sextant. Offered here is an intriguing modern archive of astrolabe materials (1970s-80s vintage) from the noted Chicago industrial designer/writer/illustrator/architect Paul Ritter MacAlister (1901-90) -- a fascinating, exhaustive archive concerning a do-it-yourself astrolabe kit (glossy printed cardboard) that he and Adler Planetarium curator, trustee and chairman of the board Roderick S. Webster (1916-97) designed and marketed together, along with a couple other similar projects. Flolydia M. Etting (1915-94) was another Chicago-area designer involved in this project. It is approximately one banker's box full of materials, roughly 30 pounds: Original correspondence concerning every facet of the project -- design, marketing, advertising, you name it -- along with technical spec's, some original architectural drawings of their design, feedback and suggestions from astronomers and academics and civilian customers in the U.S. and abroad, advertisements for it and articles about it, detailed sales records for it, research and background materials they gathered, a couple of reference works (Adzema and Jones' "The Great Sundial Cutout Book" and a Christie's auction catalogue of antique scientific instruments), etc. The collection does not, by the way, include an actual copy of the astrolabe kit -- but does include just about every other thing related to this engrossing endeavor. Among the 23 thick manila file folders in which MacAlister maintained the hugely-varying paperwork and correspondence relating to this project, here are a few random selections that give a sense of the breadth of material: 1) "Lake Forest Academy 1970" is a hefty sheaf containing what might be MacAlister's first introduction to Webster, being his retained carbon copies of letters to Webster to obtain images used for MacAlister's article for the "Lake Forest Academy Antique Show" printed catalogue. Various corrected typescripts of that article ("Romance with the Stars") are also present, together with MacAlister's blueprint-like drawings of how this article might be laid out (including sketches) and two copies of the final, printed product. 2) "Macet Project Correspondence" is a thick sheaf related to a solid brass recreation MacAlister undertook in the 1970s of "A Recreation of a Rare French Surveying Instrument" Includes corrected typed draft letters describing this product in detail. Correspondence with "Islam Centennial Fourteen" organization regarding a high-end gold-plated version, other correspondences with other persons and institutions around the world interested in this product. This file also contains ancillary material relating to the manufacture and marketing of this product, including magazine advertisements, photographs provided by the Museum of Science and Industry president Dan MacMaster and much else. Another whole file titled "Advertising 1985" contains correspondence and printed matter regarding advertisements for this product. 3) "Astrolabe Agreements 1/18/14" contains versions of the original informal legal agreement between MacAlister, Webster, Etting and other investors showing their ownership levels and agreeing to produce the cardboard astrolabe. Here too are original pencilled drafts of the printed booklet they wanted to accompany the astrolabe (The Astrolabe: Some Notes on Its History Construction and Use") and mimeographed mock-up versions of this. 4) The "Chalmers Univ. of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden" file chronicles projects MacAlister undertook with this institution to make high-end recreations of a sundial and a quadrant as well as Macalister's highly-detailed and technical pencilled notes on these projects. 5) "Astrobabe [sic] Correspondence" covers a broad range: Letters from astrolabe purchasers (often academics), journalists and others commenting on its qualities, etc. Also present are printed leaflets concerning other MacAlister kits such as "Sundial: One of the Trilogy of 'Time' Instruments" and "Nocturnal: One of the Trilogy of 'Time' Instruments" and "The Astrasphere: A Globe of the Heavens Conceived in the Tradition of Early Astronomers." 6) The "Astrasphere" file concerns the "limited, numbered edition of 1500 Globes" that Paul MacAlister & Associates produced for the Meredith Corporation and list of purchasers (copy #1 going to Richard Nixon), corrected pencilled drafts and rough typescripts of descriptive copy, etc. 7) "'Lost Perspective' Essay" file contains MacAlister's original pencilled manuscript and corrected typescripts and mockups for a 1965 essay "Lost Perspective or The Search for the Missing Engravings" regarding this notable text on perspective and geometry. 8) Two hardbound record-keeping books provide detailed handwritten accounts (apparently by MacAlister) -- the first ("Astrolabe Sales Records" fastidiously records every sale (including tax, shipping, quantity, etc.) from 3 July 1974 through 27 February 1982, while the second ("Astrolabe Record May 1, 1975") records every bank deposit and check written between 2 May 1975 and 28 June 1982. Thick secondary folders cover such topics as "Ads, Reviews, Articles"; "Astrolabe Copyright 1974" concerning their attempt to copyright their astrolabe kit; "Astrolabe Research" with 8" X 10" black and white photographs and copies of background research materials; "Macet Astrolabe Enquiries" contains enquiries from around the world about this brass facsimile and copies of their replies; and numerous other relevant files too numerous to go into here. Other than notes and memoranda (often in pencil) to himself, MacAlister's correspondence to oth.