Marvin Architects Challenge: 172 Projects. 6 Category Winners. 1 Unforgettable Year in Architecture.
MARVIN, CHRISTINE The results of the window manufacturer's annual competition to showcase the finest examples of residential and commercial architecture featuring the company's windows and doors. First edition. 20 cm; 208 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A very good copy in black cloth.- $35
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Moderne Manor: Tomorrow’s Home Today
EVANS, MELVERN Promotional pamphlet for the Real Estate Board's model house which doesn't "embodies every modern convenience and appointment designed for home use." Furnished by local merchants to make sure nothing in it is actually "moderne". 26 cm; 12 pp.; illustrated from from photographs and drawing. Wear to wrapprs; good only.- $35
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Olivetti: A Study of the Corporate Management of Design
KICHERER, SIBYLLE An analysis of the design management activity within Olivetti, examining attitudes and systems rather than products. First American edition. 28.5 cm; 163 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Slight bump to top corenrs; else a very good copy in gilt-stamped green cloth, lacking the dust jacket.- $40
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World Cities and Urban Form: Fragmentd, Polycentric, Sustainable?
JENKS, MIKE et al. "This book brings together theory and practice in the current debate about polycentric development at the urban regional and city scale." First wrappers edition. 24.5 cm; 373 pp.; illustrated from photoraphs, maps, and plans.creasing to top corner; else a very good copy in wrappers.- $35
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Houses of the Hamptons: The Architecture of Leisure 1880-1930
LAWRANCE, GARY & ANNE SURCHIN A survey of 30 summer country houses built on Long Island from 1880-1930. Featuring work by major contemporary American country house architects. First edition. 30.5 cm; 355 pp.; illustrated from photoraphs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy, with ribbon marker, in a fine dust jacket.- $125
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Questions of Space: Lectures on Architecture
TSCHUMI, BERNARD Text 5 in the AA's Lecture series. A collection of Tschumi's essays from 1975 - 1983. First edition. 21 cm; 107 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in silver-stamped black leatherette, ;published without a dust jacket.- $200
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Tra Fiume e Citta: Paessaggi, Progetti e Principi
BALMORI, DIANA Work by the American landscape architect Diana Balmori concerning the relationship between cities and rivers. Published in Italy, text in Italian, no known English edition. Inscribed by Balmori. First edition. 21.5 cm; 204 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.- $65
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The Hiawassee Valley Projects: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations
BLEE, C. E. Number 5, Volume 1 in the series of published technical reports for TVA projects. Volume 2 of this report, when finished, will contain similar information on the other four projects constructed in the Hiawassee River Basin---Apalachia.Ocoee No. 3, Nottely, Chatuge. First edition. 23 cm; 367 pp.; illustrated. Owner's name; else a very good copy in gilt-stamped brown buckram.- $150
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The Pickwick Landing Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations
PARKER, T. B. Volume 3 in the series of published technical reports for TVA projects. First edition. 23 cm; 431 pp.; illustrated. Owner's name; else a very good copy in gilt-stamped brown buckram.- $150
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The Wheeler Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations
PARKER, T. B. Volume 2 in the series of published technical reports for TVA projects. First edition. 23 cm; 362 pp.; illustrated. Owner's name; else a very good copy in gilt-stamped brown buckram.- $150
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The Chicamauga Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations
PARKER, T. B. Volume 6 in the series of published technical reports for TVA projects. First edition. 23 cm; 451 pp.; illustrated. Owner's name; else a very good copy in gilt-stamped brown buckram.- $150
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Larchmont Yacht Club: Constitution, By-Laws, Racing Rules, Etc.
POSTLEY, CLARANCE A. (Commodor) 1900 edition of the handbook for members of the New York club, listing among other things, members, enrolled yachts, table of time allowance, the Colt Cup, New Rules of the Road, Rules for the Anchorage of boats in New York Harbor (with folding map of harbor tipped-in), signals, etc. Color plates show the signals of members' vessels, Commodores' signals, Regatta signals, map of Courses tipped-in. 14 cm; 271 pp.; 2 folding maps; 36 color plates hors texte. Owner's inscription; title in ink to spine; else a good copy or better in pictorial brown cloth.- $195
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Studio Seilern Architects: 2006–2022
SIELERN, CHRISTINE et al. Trade catalog for the London-based architecture firms, showing work from 2006 in residences, hotels, commercial work and public commissions. First edition. 21 cm; 271 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in boards, published without a dust jacket.- $50
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Mr. C Residences: Coconut Grove, FL
CIPRIANI, IGNZIO & MAGGIO Promotional book for the residential tower designed by Arquitectonica and owned and run by Cipriani, scheduled to open in 2023. A giddy portrayal of the luxury life in Miami available to potential buyers. 34 cm; 127 pp; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A very good copy or better in wrappers.- $85
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Salterini Catalog No. 49
SALTERINI Catalog for Salterini, a maker of stylish contemporary wrought iron furniture. Featuring designs for metal outdoor furniture and coordinated fabrics. Featuring design groupings from the "Montego" and "Espalier" to the daring "Radar Sta-Out" collection.Fabric samples to rear wrapper. 23 cm; 33 pp; illustrated from photographs. A very good copy in wrappers.- $65
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Photovoltaics and Architecture
THOMAS, RANDALL (ed.) A primer on basic PV concepts, practice, and field examples for the UK and Northern Europe and, by extension, to the rest of the world. First edition. 29.5 cm; 155 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy or better in wrappers.- $45
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A Monograph on the Recent Work of Lewis Bowman Architect
BOWMAN, LEWIS First edition. Folio (25 x 33 cm); unpaged [145 printed recto only], [35] ads; illustrated from photographs. A few tears to spine; chipping to edges of wrappers; else a good copy or better in original silver-stamnped black textured wrappers. Trade catalog for the Westchester County architect specializing in private houses in almost every style imaginable. Except modern. Includes work in Wymossing, PA, Westchester County, and more specifically, Bronxville, where Bowman designed 53 houses, 52 of which are extant.- $400
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The China Trade: Export Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Other Objects
CROSSMAN, CARL L. First edition. 4to; pp. xii, 275; color frontispiece and more than 200 illustrations, including forty in color; bibliography. A very good copy in gilt-stamped blue cloth in a very good dust jacket with one small closed tear to rear panel. A survey of the decorative objects (except porcelain) brought to the U.S. during the years of the China trade and the story of the properous families who imported them.- $16
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2G Williams Tsien Works
WILLIAMS, TOD & BILLIE TSIEN Issue of Spanish architectural publication 2G featuring 10 works by Williams Tsien. With an interview of the architects by Peter Zumthor, and Williams's "Nexus". Text in English and Spanish. First edition. 30 cm; 143 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Owner's stamp; else a very good copy in wrappers.- $75
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Billionaire: 924 Bel Air Road Bel Air California.
Real estate sale prospectus for a house at 924 Bel Air Road, Los Angeles, Perhaps once owned by Shirley Temple, but she never lived in this house. At the time of publication in 2017, called "Billionaire" and offered for sale at $250 Million and later relist at $188--Kicking myself for missing that. Billionaires are a little too common now for anyone to get excited about them, and naturally your house is going to cost millions and millions, otherwise why bother? Lavish color photos of the nightmarish glossy interiors--helipads, bowling alleys, pools--are accompanied by minimal text quoting Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Walt Disney. First edition. 25.5 cm; umpaged (approx. 60; illustrated from photographs. Scratches to stainless steel cover; contents fine; a very good copy, published without a dust jacket.