Designer Arts (24 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. marking on cover some shelf wear spine good binding good.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Bruno Pfäffli (Atelier Frutiger et Pfäffli), Arcueil, France (Designer); 'The Corn Sifters' (Cover) (illustrator). 288 pp. Tightly bound copy with moderate use. Clean text. Few page edges warped due to water stains.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Nice booklet with light wear. There is a sticker on the front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 58 pages. 9.84x0.47x7.87 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xiii, 161, [1] pages : illustrations (some colour), map ; 28 cm. Summary:The magnificent art that is the heritage of Nigeria was, for the first time, presented to the world beyond Nigeria at the "Treasures of Ancient Nigeria - Legacy of Two Thousand Years" exhibit at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor from April 27 - June 29, 1980. This book is a record of that exhibit and what it represented. One hundred extraordinary works of art in bronze, terracotta, and ivory - works spanning more than two thousand years, from the fifth century B.C., and representing seven cultures (Nok, Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, Owo, Benin, Tsoede, and Esie) - were selected for exhibition in the United States and are shown here in 137 photographs and plates, 53 in full color. The introduction is by Dr. Ekpo Eyo, Director of Nigeria's Department of Antiquities and head of Nigeria's National Museums, and the interpretive text is by Frank Willett, who taught art and archaeology at Oxford and Northwestern Universities and was formerly an archaeologist for Nigeria's Department of Antiquities and Curator of the Museum of Ife Antiquities.

Softcover. George Tscherny, designer (illustrator). 24, [136] p.: 300+ illus. in text, poster (65 self-portraits), folded into 9 sections, laid in at end; 24 cm. Good, lt. edgeworn, in orig. figured tan on brown wrapper.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 126 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Magritte, René (1898-1967). Magritte, René (1898-1967) ; Exhibitions. Painters Belgium ; Biography. Surrealism. Surrealism Belgium ; Biography. Painters. Belgium. Genres; Bibliography. Biographies. Cloth case bindings - U.S.A. - 1969. Dust jackets - U.S.A. - 1969. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogues - U.S.A. - 1969. Exhibition catalogues. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 126 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Magritte, René (1898-1967). Magritte, René (1898-1967) ; Exhibitions. Painters Belgium ; Biography. Surrealism. Surrealism Belgium ; Biography. Painters. Belgium. Genres; Bibliography. Biographies. Cloth case bindings - U.S.A. - 1969. Dust jackets - U.S.A. - 1969. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogues - U.S.A. - 1969. Exhibition catalogues. Illustrated. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 304 pages. 7.25x5.00x1.02 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, 51pp, half-tone illustrations, in publisher's laid-paper off-white wrappers printed in terracotta (moderate soiling, toning, minor wear, else very good). Laid-in: order form and Business Reply Envelope.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. On one side of a slightly-irregular 11 x 3.5 cm slip of wove paper, cut from the end of a letter. A good example of Crane's stylized and distinctive signature. Reads: 'Believe me, / Very truly yours, / Walter Crane'. The top part of a cropped 'P S' is present at bottom left. See Image.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. Scenic designer and member of the United Scenic Artists. He has designed for a variety of theatres in the United States and Europe. Mr. Beudert was awarded two Fulbright fellowships to France as a scenic designer. He is the Design Division Head of the Schoo.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 303 printed pages of text illustrated in colour with many reproductions of Voysey's beautiful designs. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused new book. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9781851496402 ARCHITECTURE.

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with strip of sunning at foot. Docketed with stamp of the Royal Society of Arts. Having 'had time to consider the question of a lecture on Heraldry' he has decided to decline Menzies's invitation, as he 'simply cannot spare the time such a lecture would require for its preparation'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. LIMITED EDITION numbered 838 of 1000 copies. Folio, approx 12 1/4 inchest tall,90pp, color and black and white illustrations of works/objects, in publisher?s red cloth lettered in gilt (a small manufacturing imperfect of a spot of glue in gutter at front cover, minor wear, mild marginal toning within, very good or better). Pictorial dust jacket reproducing the decoratively stamped gilt calf cover of the original edition (spot of curling along lower edge at rear panel, minor addtional wear, very good or better).

Condition: New. Scenic designer and member of the United Scenic Artists. He has designed for a variety of theatres in the United States and Europe. Mr. Beudert was awarded two Fulbright fellowships to France as a scenic designer. He is the Design Division Head of the Schoo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. (John) Moyr Smith (illustrator). First Edition. A scarce first impression of the true first edition - a set of twelve numbered original etchings (plus frontispiece and title-page) by Moyr Smith designed to be used on a set of tiles, each sized: 9cm x 8 cm. ***INSCRIBED and dated by the author / illustrator Moyr Smith to the front free endpaper in sepia fountain pen ink: 'To Mrs Percy Taylor with Moyr Smith's kind regards 1897.' (Possibly to a prospective customer) **A book of fourteen etchings by Moyr Smith, including frontispiece and title-page with original tissue-guard between. All fourteen etchings present. Each of the etchings are square, inset, and the appropriate size for tile designs: 9 x 8 cm. The etchings are the illustrations by Moyr Smith designed to be used for a set of twelve illustrated tiles (excluding title-page and frontispiece). Possibly Mrs Percy Taylor was a prospective customer for this set of humorous British Courtship tiles, that may not have been produced. ***Very good in buff buckram covered boards with gilt titles to spine and front board. Corners slightly bumped. Boards browned. Spine darkened. Very small green surface mark to front board. Very sporadic light foxing to rear pastedown. Interior pages and etchings clean. ***Twelve numbered original etchings plus frontispiece and title-page. Contents: Frontispiece: Idealization; Title-page: Maiden Meditation; Plate I. Admiration, Early British Period; II. Trepidation, Roman; III. Conversation, Anglo-Saxon; IV. Declaration, Norman; V. Osculation, Plantagenet; VI. Tergiversation, Tudor; VII. Retaliation, Elizabethan; VIII. Recrimination, Carolian; IX. Botheration, Queen Anne; X. Reconciliation, Georgian; XI. Annexation, Regency; XII. Unification, Victorian. Printed dedication states: 'To the most accomplished of Flirts, these Sketches are dedicated by an admiring Student of her pretty little ways.' ***16 pages. 236 mm x 158 mm. ***John Moyr Smith (Mar 1839 - Dec 1912) was born in Glasgow. He was a British artist and designer, known particularly for his work on ceramic tiles. John Moyr Smith was a major but little-researched figure in the design reform movement whose work ranged from ironwork, furniture, pottery, wallpaper and lace curtains to carpets. The large number of designs he made for Messrs Minton included drawing on the metal plates for the following series of tiles: Shakespeare, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Waverley, Thomson's Seasons, Old Testament, New Testament, Fairy Tales, The Trades, The Months, Anacreon, English History, Music and Sciences. He designed and illustrated tiles, in the Arts & Crafts tradition, for Minton in the 1870s. Minton's was a major company in Staffordshire pottery, and was Europe's foremost ceramic factory during Victorian times. His series of tiles are known for their intricate scenes, often telling stories e. g. from Shakespeare's plays, the Bible, the Morte D'Arthur, the Arabian Nights and Aesop's Fables, and include a Nursery Rhymes series e. g. 'Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall'; Shakespeare Series: such as Twelfth Night; and the Idylls of the King Series. John Moyr Smith's tiles are now becoming very much collected, with individual rare tiles fetching high prices. ***This particular book of etchings, showing 'British Courtship' through the ages could have been intended to be used for a series of tiles to decorate the surround of a Victorian fireplaced. ***Only one copy of the first edition of 'British Courtship' by Moyr Smith' is recorded on COPAC, being held at The British Library. This first edition is particularly scarce, being dated and inscribed by Moyr Smith. These etchings may have been intended for but never used for tiles. ***Of interest to antiquarians and tile ceramist historians and collectors, and anyone who wants to acquire an original set of etchings to be used for designs on a original set of tiles for a unique fireplace in their home. Ultra scarce.***. Inscribed by Author(s).

First thus edition in publisher's original colour illustrated stiff card wrap covers [soft back]. 4to. 11½'' x 8¼''. Contains 184 printed pages of text with monochrome and colour illustrations and archive photographs throughout. In very near Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'To Pat and Charlie - Charles Spencer 12th March 1989.' Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0906969646 ART [French].

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original lemon cloth covers, scarlet title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Author's second book. Contains [xvi] 196 printed pages of text with 55 portraits in colour. Very Good condition book in scarce Very Good condition dust wrapper with minor nicks to the edges, not price clipped 5s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 10 other titles by this author. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH HISTORY.

Octavo / Quarto / Folio. Hardcover Folder with loosely inserted material like letters and photographs, envelopes, signed and inscribed books and rare pamphlets with designs etc. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Fantstic Archive and lots of unpublished material of one of the more eminent Cabinet, Furniture and Chair - Designers which resulted from inspiration by William Morris' Kelmscott - School. Percy A. Wells Chairs are still in regular demand today and sell for stunning prices (3000 £ etc.). Please see here a detailed description of the Archive, which we display with permission of the composer of the Bibliography, Dr.Christian White from Christian White Rare Books and which we have embellished only by listing everything in more detail: Percy A. Wells [with] May Morris; Ambrose Heal etc. The Batsford-published author and arts and crafts designer Percy Wells's retained collection of drawings, a notebook, letters, photographs, and articles. Wells (1867-1956), a cabinet maker and disciple of William Morris, lectured, taught and wrote extensively during the later phase of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain. His typescript autobiography is included in the archive which follows him through an apprenticeship in London's City Road with early practice as a cabinet maker before working alongside William Lethaby at the Central School and subsequently leading the cabinet department at the Shoreditch Technical Institution in London. His two most significant works, both published by Batsford, were "Modern Cabinet Work" (1909) which brought him to a wider audience and "Furniture for Small Houses" (1924) but as revealed by this archive, his work went much wider. Included in the archive is the following material: I. PHOTOGRAPHS A fantastic collection of gelatin photographs of furniture, many used as illustrations in Wells' books and labelled as such to verso. Contained within an envelope labelled in a later hand: 'Furniture designed by Percy Wells. (Including Shoreditch).' Small sheaf of personal photographs including images of Wells in old age gardening in Dulwich. Two photographs of a house exterior project in New Barnet, with Wells' handwritten explanations overleaf of 'treatment of Wall with trellis and boxes' and additional larger furniture photographs. 60 (sixty) silver gelatine photographs of Furniture designed by Percy A. Wells, many with his signature or monogram and titled verso 1 (one) silver gelatine print of a Livingroom setting with Furniture by Percy A. Wells (Photograph by Monger and Marchant) 1 (one) silver gelatine print of a Bedroom setting with Furniture by Percy A. Wells (Photograph by Monger and Marchant) 2 (two vintage Albumen print photographs showing a courtyard - design by Percy A. Wells: a. Concrete Yard with border of flowers and Trellis of Flowers and Shelter designed by Percy A. Wells (Annotated and signed verso) b. Yard - with Treatment of Wall with trellis and Boxes and Outdoor Shelter designed by Percy A. Wells (Annotated and signed verso) 4 (four) wonderful silver gelatine portrait photographs of Percy A. Wells 3 (three) negatives of vintage photographs showing cupboards and one chair designed by Percy A. Wells 1 (one) fantastic Group Photo of British Furniture Makers, signed by most of those depicted, showing C.C.Beetles and others II. PERCY WELLS' TYPESCRIPT AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Containing 22-page (A4) Typescript Autobiography titled 'Fifty Years in the Furniture Trade' by Percy Wells, 1934 (according to a handwritten note by Wells, it was published on three instalments inside the publication: "The Cabinet Maker" (in the year 1934). The short autobiography describes Wells' poor background, his apprenticeship in the City Road as a cabinet maker; mentored by Stephen Webb and W. R. Lethaby and then teaching-work at Central School and Shoreditch Technical Institute. The Typescript - Autobiography is included in a Folder (Numbered "9") which also includes: a. Typescript Autobiography b. Page from "The Cabinet Maker", June 11th, 1933 in which it is announced that Percy Wells has retired from his position as head of the department of cabinet-making at L.C.C. Shoreditch Technical Institute. A photograph shows a Chair and writing - desk, made and presented to Percy Wells by night students of the Institute (Photo by Bloomsbury Trade School). "The Writing Desk is veneered with Walnut.the whole of the front pigeon-holes in fine Cuba Mahogany.Students responsible under their instructors for various features [of the desk]: Abbott, Beetles, Nash and Starling conytributed the carcase and veneered work; Elder the interior fitment; Hilliard and Wheeler the carving, Marritt the chair frame and Miller the Upholstery.". c. Account in local paper (Shoreditch) of Percy Wells' retirement in December 1932 d. Personal Note with photograph of Wells, mentioning his authorship for Pamphlets for the National Association of Boys Clubs. III. PERCY WELLS' SKETCHBOOK c1900-1920: Small quarto, c. 200 pages, bound in quarter-roan over textured black boards; back strip largely missing; binding remains intact. Inscribed in ink to first blank 'Percy A Wells' with pencil addition '31 Hindmans Rd East Dulwich SE'. Starting with the endpapers Wells has used almost every page for drawings, some vignette sized, many full page. There are for example variations on William Morris titled in handwriting: 'Border Designs - Corners from W. Morris's Books, a series of heraldic shield-fillings, credited to William Morris and a full page attempt at what seems to be a graphic tribute to Morris with the names of 'Dante Rossetti', 'Madox Brown', 'Burne Jones' contained within a column in the right margin and the slogan 'ARTS - CRAFTS - POETRY - BEAUTY - BROTHERHOOD' at the foot of the page. Much of the sketchbook is dedicated to drawings for furniture and other design such as tiles, architectural details, often connected to Wells' emergent book projects, thus 'Fences and Gates. Screens Chapt ?' There are s.

Condition: Very Good +. New York / Cambridge, MA: New York Avant Garde Festival / Cambridge Arts Council, 1978. First Edition. Large pictorial poster (71x56cm); single sheet, double-sided. Poster creased from previous folds. Verso lightly toned along creased. Very Good or better. Photomontage poster accompanying this pseudo-annual avant garde festival founded by the cellist and performance artist Charlotte Moorman (19331991). The Festival, which ran fifteen times in eighteen years, featured the musical offerings of the Fluxus movement as well as kinetic and video art. Among the artists whose work was featured in 1978: Ay-o, Jud Yalkut, Jackson Mac Low, Jim McWilliams, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Eileen Miles, and many, many others. The festival's penultimate gathering and the only one to take place outside of New York. Organized in conjunction with the Cambridge River Festival, then in its second year.

The collection is in very good condition, with a few staple and pin holes. Gray's letters are signed 'Milner Gray' and occasionally 'Milner'. All but the first two, which are on Society of Industrial Artists letterheads, are on Design Research Unit letterheads. An early letter (5 April 1949), to Kenneth Luckhurst, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts, apologises for and explains a 'difficulty' which has arisen 'over the fees we estimated for completing the necessary working drawings and supervising construction of the permanent display screens for the Society's headquarters'. The rest of the correspondence makes clear Gray's role as an active member of the Society.

The fourteen items are laid down on three pages, on two leaves of grey paper, removed from an album, on the reverse of one leaf are two coloured coaching scenes by Randolph Caldecott, one featuring a highwayman. The overall condition is fair, with creasing and signs of age. The Autograph Letter Signed is from Crane to 'My dear Stanley Little'. 1p., landscape 8vo. With letterhead of Beaumont Lodge, Shepherd's Bush, featuring an illustration by Crane of a shepherd and sheep. 20 September 1892. He is sending a copy of his 'Claims of Decorative Art', and hopes that, 'as one who has thought & written much on art', he will 'accept it as a contribution from my side the question, or at least as "Friendship's Offering".' (As an imperialist, Little's politics were opposed to Crane's.) He asks him to 'look for us at No 13 Holland St. Kensington, when you are next in town'. In a postscript he states: 'The good wife is away in Essex with the two boys, but returns at the week's end.' On the same page are six items with decorations apparently by Crane: first, a label for 'The Pioneer', printed in sepia, with space for 'Number | Contents | Price', showing a knight climbing up dense foliage to a languid lady; second, a label or bookplate for the 'A E & C S | Handicraft | Design', with the name supported by two women in revolutionary caps, each flanked by a cherub; third, another example of the Beaumont Lodge letterhead ; fourth and fifth, two copies of a strange tiny design of an African hunter with spear before a setting sun, printed in negative on grey paper; sixth, a tiny monogram (perhaps 'L J S'?), made by a snake and printed in red. The next page carries a season ticket, with design by Crane of two workmen shaking hands, for the 1906 Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society at the Royal Academy, made out in manuscript to 'The West Sussex Gazette'. The third page carries six items: first, a printed handbill advertising 'The Leek Press Papers: No. I. | The Relation of Art to Education and Social Life by Walter Crane | Twenty-eight pages in wrapper.' With two vignettes, the first, of two country folk with ten geese; the second of a peacock. The reverse advertises a 'Catalogue of a Collection of Designs by Walter Crane A.R.W.S., with vignette of stork and lettering by Crane. Carries two close tears repaired with archival tape. Second, printed in red, an invitation card designed by Crane, to the Old House, 13 Holland St: 'Dame Walter Crane bids you welcome on New Year's Day [1912] in the evening at nine thirty'. Third, Crane's autograph signature, cut from the valediction to a letter: 'Every yours | Walter Crane'. Fourth, a handbill advertisement for 'The Fabian Society | Session, 1886-1887', with design by Crane of female forms representing Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. The 'Executive' are named as Annie Besant, Hubert Bland, Edward R. Pease, Frank Podmore, G. Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb and Charlotte M. Wilson'. Fifth, an invitation card, printed in brown, to the private view of the fifth Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, 3 October 1896, at the New Gallery, 121 Regent Street. Made out to J. Stanley Little of the African Review. Featuring the same design as above of the two workers shaking hands. Sixth, letterhead, printed in red, for 13 Holland Street, Kensington, W. Featuring a design of a crane by Crane. Heavily creased. SEE IMAGES.

First edition. The Center for Book Art's innovative 30th-anniversary publication. Number 3 of 75 copies SIGNED BY BRINGHURST (poet), HENRY (printer), KYLE (designer), and RICHARD MINSKY, The Center's founder and the project's coordinator. THIS COPY ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY BRINGHURST, "for Allen Mears,/ who may appreciate/ more than most not only/ the poetry but also/ Barbara's and Hedi's/ magnificent engineering." Four 4to volumes bound in heavy cardstock -- three with Bringhurst's polyphonic poetry meant to be read by 3 people at once; and the last with Bringhurst's afterword describing the evolution of both poem and project, the subscribers list (Mear's name is 3rd on the list), and the colophon leaf. HOUSED IN ORIGINAL BOX WHICH WAS AVAILABLE TO BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY. Box measures approximately 17.25 x 17.25 x 4" and holds the elaborately constructed fold-out lecterns -- one for each book. As Bringhurst characterized the overall structure, this is "a wonderfully complex piece of biblio-engineering made to behave as if it were simple." TOGETHER WITH the original prospectus, various pre-publication announcements, and extensive correspondence (in the form of printed emails and typed, signed letters) between collector Allen Mears, Bringhurst and The Center, INCLUDING A SIX-PAGE TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY BRINGHURST discussing the genesis of the project, his hopes for it, a 2004 performance of the poem, etc., with a copy of his 2-page design notes with drawings "submitted to Hedi Kyle and Richard Minsky a couple of years ago." Altogether fine.