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Making America Modern: Interior Design in the 1930s Marilyn F. Friedman
A valuable resource for design professionals, historians, and enthusiasts, Making America Modern chronicles the evolution of modern interior design in the United States throughout the 1930s. With 200 images and detailed descriptions, design historian Marilyn F. Friedman presents more than one hundred interiors by fifty designers, including Donald Deskey, Paul T. Frankl, Percival Goodman, Frederick Kiesler, William Lescaze, William Muschenheim, Tommi Parzinger, Gilbert Rohde, Eugene Schoen, and Kem Weber; set designers Cedric Gibbons and Joseph Urban; and industrial designers Raymond Loewy, Walter Dorwin Teague, and Russel Wright. The book also highlights the work of women modernists who are practically unknown today, including Virginia Conner, Freda Diamond, Eleanor Le Maire, and Madame Majeska.
Hardcover, 240 pages, 205 photos, including 34 in color 8.5 x 10.5 inches
Retail price $50.00
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Kansas City Houses 1885-1938 Michael C. Kathrens
Kansas City Houses 1885-1938 reveals the architectural treasures built during the city's boom years. This is the first book to survey the rich architectural heritage of this major Midwestern hub, which straddles the state line between Kansas and Missouri. Architectural historian Michael C. Kathrens spotlights the work of highly accomplished architects, many based in Kansas City who have long been overshadowed by their high-profile East Coast counterparts. He places the significant but little-known architectural legacy of Kansas City in a historical context and traces the development of the city's exclusive residential neighborhoods starting in 1857, which helped transform the once rough-and-tumble town into a fashionable city with tree-lined blocks populated by handsome houses and private clubs.
Hardcover, 400 pages, 485 photos, including 192 in color and 75 floor plans, 9.25 x 12.25 inches
Retail price $95.00
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Ardrossan: The Last Great Estate on the Philadelphia Main Line David Nelson Wren
A richly detailed history of the baronial splendor of the Philadelphia Main Line estate Ardrossan and of the Montgomery family who built it. Real-life American counterparts of the Granthams of Downton Abbey, the Montgomerys are best known as the family on which Philip Barry based his 1939 play, The Philadelphia Story, featuring Katharine Hepburn, who also starred in the later Hollywood film of the same name.
This beautifully illustrated book features never-before-published architectural drawings from Trumbauer's office, as well as family snapshots and images by celebrated photographers Cecil Beaton and Toni Frissell commissioned by Vogue, Country Life, and Town & Country.
Hardcover, cloth with dust jacket, 368 pages, over 450 photographs, mostly in color, two 8-page gatefolds, endnotes, bibliography, index, 8.75 x 11.5 inches
Retail price $95.00
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Imagining Ichabod:
My Journey into 18th-Century America through History, Food, and a Georgian House Paula Bennett
Photographs by Sandy Agrafiotis
A historically significant and fascinating book recreating life in 18th-century New England. It is a memoir about the purchase and furnishing of a historic Georgian house-the General Ichabod Goodwin House-and also about the process of researching the house's original owners.
Includes 25 adapted historic recipes and color photographs of the house's interiors, archaeological findings, and historic documents.
Hardcover, 268 pages, 68 color photographs, sources, bibliography, endnotes, index, 7 ¼ x 9 ¾ inches
Retail price $29.95
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Pattern Book of Upholstery David Michael Wood, Illustrations by Anara Mambetova-Finkelstein,
edited by William S. Hooper, with contributions by upholsterer Jody Xuereb
Includes over 200 specially commissioned hand-drawn illustrations of classic upholstery models, including sofas, leather club chairs, dining chairs, chaise lounges. Appendices on fabric selection and standard measurements, a glossary, and index.
Cloth spine with paper covered boards, 272 pages, 8 x 10 ¾ inches
Retail price $95.00
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Ralph Rucci: Autobiography of a Fashion Designer Ralph Rucci, photographs by Baldomero Fernandez, book design by Matthew Egan
This photographic autobiography includes over 250 pages of color photography, narratives behind twenty objects Rucci has collected in his lifetime, brief descriptions of Chado's couturier techniques and staff portraits.
Full cloth cover with slipcase, 256 pages, 11 ¼ x 11 ½ inches
Retail price $125.00
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Katz's: Autobiography of a Delicatessen Photographs by Baldomero Fernandez, text by Jake Dell, edited by Beth Daugherty
This first-ever book about Katz's Delicatessen indelibly captures the unique spirit and appeal of the Lower East Side classic. Timed to coincide with Katz's 125th anniversary, this special edition brings a bit of Katz's right into your own home.
384 pages. 645 color photographs. Paperback with French flaps. 6.5 x 9 inches. Published in association with Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
Retail price $39.95
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FORTHCOMING
Pattern Book of Historic American Doors ca. 1600-1860 Peter Joel Harrison
Contributions by Matt Postal and Rhett Butler
Edited by Peter Pennoyer, Anne Walker, and
Ethel Rompilla
This vast collection of early American door styles from 1600 to circa 1860, is taken from the personal library and collections of Peter Joel Harrison. After thirty-two years of research and travel, Harrison has documented hundreds of doors from throughout America, more than eighty-four from historic properties, including Dutch, English, French and Spanish Colonial, Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival, all handsomely portrayed.
Over 250 hand-drawn illustrations of entry doors and door surrounds, including hinges, latches, knockers, corner blocks, and transoms, all rendered in a traditional 19th-century style and many paired with the source photograph reproduced in full color.
Hardcover with black cloth spine, 272 pages, over 250 hand-drawn illustrations with more than 200 color photos, 8 x 10 ¾ inches
Retail price $65.00
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PATTERN BOOK OF LIGHTING
Thomas P. Fuchs
Book in progress
This much-needed volume records a comprehensive selection of classic models of lighting, from traditional to contemporary.
Soon to be the essential sourcebook for interior designers and architects, this book will also be an inspiration for
lighting designers.
Author Thomas Fuchs is a well-regarded lighting designer who works most often with artisans in Murano to execute his designs.
Drawn to the Murano artisans whose long manufacturing history goes all the way back to the 1600s, the designer likes to use glass because
"the medium offers the design additional layers... texture, color, luminosity." Fuchs adds "glass is magic... one day it is sand, pigment
and ash... and the next day it is an object."
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