Architecture, Interior Design, Construction from JWMah

NY: Harry N Abrams, 2001. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in unclipped Near Fine dust jacket with tiny chip to head of spine. Glossy yellow hardcover, 176pp, index, 154 illustrations, 103 in full colour. Wright (d 1976) was an American industrial designer. His best-selling ceramic dinnerware was credited with encouraging the general public to enjoy creative modern design at… Read more about this item

England: Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 1989. (UK) 2nd printing of the Second edition (1989) No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Cloth hardcover, lllus endpapers, 504pp, over 1300 B&W photos augmented with colour plates. Payne is a specialist in European furniture; he had worked with Sotheby's. A heavy book (5.5 JM 0501. 2nd. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to -… Read more about this item

Rutland VT / Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1982. (USA) 11th printing 1982. Owner's incription to the end paper, no other markings, Very Good + in price-clipped Very Good ony dust jacket with faint indentations to the front panel where used as a pad under writing paper. Green cloth, 270pp, index, 270 B&W photos. This book explains the basic rules… Read more about this item

NY / London: Verso Books, 2000. (USA) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, but two tiny spots to the front endpaper, thus Near Fine in Fine dust jackdt Hardcover, 239pp, B&W photos. From the jacket : A practising architect and urban planner, as well as an important architectural critic, Chase explores a myriad of locales and examines their architectural features—from the… Read more about this item

NY: Rizzoli, 1984. (USA) 1st American edition, Owner's initials to end paper, no other markings, Fine in Nwar Fine dust jacket with 1/2" tear to top edge of front panel near the spine; Dj is in mylar sleeve. Cloth hardcover, 322pp, index, 525 illus and photos, mostly in B&W. Mignot teaches at the Sorbonne; the book follows a sequence of… Read more about this item

Koln: Taschen, 2002. (GEr0 presumed 1st edition. No markings, Fine, no dust jacket as published. Hardcover, 320pp, colour photos throughout show the beautiful homes and apartment interiors of Parisians such as Isabelle Adjani, Azzedine Alaia, Gilles Dewavrin, Loulou de la Falaise, Bruno e Moult, and others.(3.5 JM HOJ 200/4. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ -… Read more about this item

Osaka Japan: Torataro Hayashi, 1909. (JPN) Meiji 42 (1909) The covers are soiled and have spots with some rubbing to edges and cover corner tips; the back cover hinges is stratig to detach, pages generally clean with some spots here and there, Fair used copy; no dust jacket. 10.75 x 7.75", grey cloth cover with blind embossed design, 384pp.… Read more about this item

NY: Melcher Media, 2004. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Hardcover, 128pp, index, colour photos of objects, line drawings. Michael Graves Designs: The Art of the Everyday Object is the inside account of Michael Graves' one-man design revolution. In creating more than one thousand objects for the home over the last three decades, the acclaimed… Read more about this item

West Vancouver: Sandor Press, 2005. (CAD) presumed 1st edition. No markings, soft crease to lower corner of the front cover, bout Very Good. Wraps, 201pp, map, B&W photos and drawings. Kiss immigrated from Hungary to Canada studying architecture at the University of British Columbia. In 1965 he was one of five architects to be awarded a part of the… Read more about this item

Canada: BlueImprint, 2010. (CAD) 1st printing. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Hardcover, 286pp, colour and B&W photos and plans. Phullips Farevaag Smallenberg is a leading Canadian landscape architecture, urban design and planning firm based in Vancouver BC. Founded by landscape architcts Chris Phillips and Greg Smallenberg, and urban planner Marta Farevaag, PFS's interdisciplinary approach results in… Read more about this item

Rotterdam: Nai Publishers, 2004. (NETH) Presumed 1st edition, No markings, Near Fine. Illus flexible covers with yapped edges, ribbon marker, 512pp, colour and B&W illus and photos. The text is in English.From the cover: Happy: Cities and Public Happiness in Post-War Europe is the result of a fascinating search for expressions and representations of happiness in the… Read more about this item

Stockholm: Arvinius Forlag, 2004. (SWE) Presumed 1st eidtion. No markings, Fine including the CD in the packet at the back cover, includes a announcement card laind into the book publisizing two lectures by the architect at the Henry Art Gallery and st the Univeristy of Washington in 2004. Stiff wraps with flaps, no page numbers, [88]pp, colour reprodcutions from the… Read more about this item

Koln: Taschen, 2005. (ger) Presumed 2nd edition (the book first appeared in 1996) No markings, Fine in Fine dust ajcket in mylar sleeve. Hardcover, 300pp, bibliography, lavishly illustrated with colour photos throughout showing a range of provencal interiors from Caravans to farmhouses to mansions. This edition was published to celebrated Tacshen's 25 year anniversary as a publisher of fine… Read more about this item

Koln: Taschen, 2001. (GER) First publication, No markings but large gift label adhered to the front endpaper, just a tny touch of rubbing to the corners of the base of spine to the black covers, Very Good, no dust jacket as published. Black flexible covers, 800pp, colour and B&W photos and illus. This book explores the spaces, people, techniques,… Read more about this item

NY: Harry N Abrams, 1998. USA) Presumed 1st eidtion No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 220pp, lovely colour photos augmented with small B&W illu and photos. Marella Agnelli was an Italian noblewoman, art collector, socialite, style icon,and wife of Fiat S.p.A. chairman Gianni Agnelli. She died in 2019. The family estate is located in Villar Perosa, some… Read more about this item

Rutland VT: Tuttle Publishing, 2003. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, Fine. Wraps with flaps, 178pp, colour and B&W photos. The Yin Yu Tang House in China is part of the Peabody Essex Museum located in Salam MA. This is a saga of the Huang Family and their lives at the Yin Yu Tang, that raisies i=this book from a routine… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2006. (CAD) 1st printing. INSCRIBED by Henriquez to the half-title: "Bob, with best regards/ Richard", no othe rmarkings, small scuff markt o edge of endpaper, otherwsie Fine, in about Fine dust jacket with a a fait scuff mark to the spine edge of the front pnael. Cloth, x, 277pp, well illustrated with colour photos… Read more about this item

NY: Rizzoli, 2004. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 235pp, 15 pages of monochrome photographic plates. Intro by Albert Hadley. Compiled from her articles in newspapers and magazines and first published in 1914, The House in Good Taste is a seminal book on interior design with ideas that have lasted a century because they influenced… Read more about this item

Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 2009. (USA) 5th printing of the first edition No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket with tiny rubbed mark to upper flap fold corner of cover. Hardcover, 210pp, full-page colour and B&W photos of abandoned and derelict mental hospitals. Architect and photographer Christopher Payne spent six years documenting the decay of state mental hospitals… Read more about this item

NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. (USA) 1st printing No markings, Fine in Fine wrap around band. Hardcover, 384pp, index, mostly B&W illus throughout. by Patrick Vale. In The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to Hidden World of Everyday Design, host Roman Mars and coauthor Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work,… Read more about this item