JOUMARD, G.P. (Ed.).:

Les Idées Nouvelles De La Mode et Des Arts. Direction Artistique. No. 3.1924.

. 4to. Pp. (iv). With two text illustrations and sixteen full page hand-coloured pochoir plates (with mutiple images) on Chinese paper tipped-in on thick paper. As issued loose in original wrappers with pochoir illustration on upper cover, silk ties. Some wear at outer edge but overall a very good copy with stunning and beautiful fashion plates. The exclusive Art Déco journal "Les Idées Nouvelles de la Mode" was published by Joumard between 1922 and 1932 illustrating the height of French fashion at the time. Rare to find a complete annual series.

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Book number: 120284

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, fashion, art deco, design, clothes, mode, france, french, XPU

KANDINSKY, WASSILY:

Kandinsky. Om konstnären (About the Artist). Stockholm, Gummesons Konsthandel, 1916.

. 12mo. Pp. 29. Original wrappers with an original colour lithograph on the front cover created by Kandinsky for the exhibition at the Gummeson Gallery in Stockholm in February 1916. This essay by Kandinsky was published in connection with the exhibition and he dedicated it to Gabriele Münter who had a separate exhibition at Gummesons in March the same year.

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Book number: 120256

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, design, art, artist, exhibition, essay, sweden, exhibition, russian,

KANÍ, SHUHÍ:

Chiyo irogami (Old paper designs). Kyoto, Unsodo, Showa 11 (1936).

. Folio. Pp. 32. Accordion bound album with 48 chiyogami designs, woodblock printed in lovely colours. Size: 35.6 x 24.7 cm. Original decorated silk covered boards, somewhat rubbed, title label lost. Old collection label pasted to front cover. With some staining and marks but not affecting the illustrations. A charming collection of old designs for origami papers published by the famous printing company Uns›d› in Kyoto. Scarce.

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Book number: 121148

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, paper, design, origami, art, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

KAWAGUCHI, SHOGO (Ed.):

[SHEET MUSIC - ART NOUVEAU / ART DECO]. [A collection of thirty tremolo harmonica scores within striking decorated covers]. Tokyo, Taisho 13 (1924 - Showa 12 (1937).

. Large 8vo. (19 x 26.5 cm). Comprises thirty different issues, mainly from the Taisho period in 1920s. Single folded paper sheets with musical notes. Striking decorated front covers in different colours, printed in Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. Twenty included in a series titled "Harmonica Music", the remaining have different titles. Some wear and some minor staining but overall a good set. Sh›go Kawaguchi, known in Japan as the "Father of the Harmonica", devised a special tuning, different from the one used in Europe and the US, which is more suited to playing Japanese folk tunes. Harmonicas using this tuning became popular throughout East Asia.

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Book number: 120916

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, music, scores, musical, art nouveau, art deco

KIMURA, KOUYO (Ed.):

[TEA / JAPAN] Baisa› chaki-zu (Baisa› tea wares) (Osaka), Izumiya Suezaburo, Taisho 13 (1924).

. Small 8vo. (12.6 x 20.7 cm) Lvs. (20). Leporello-folded. With many coloured woodblock illustrations, text in Japanese. Occasionally light staining. Original yellow cloth binding, title label on upper cover. Old ownership stamp on last page of colophon. Housed in the original folder. A reprint of a very rare work presenting thirty-three tea utensils owned by the renowned Buddhist monk Baisao (1675-1763). His poetry and calligraphy are considered important in the Zen history of Japan. Baisao's method of preparing tea was referred to as "sencha" (simmered tea) which is different from matcha where the tea leaves are ground into a fine powder which was more popular at the time. The worship of Baisao helped to popularise the sencha tea and led to the creation of Senchad›. The first edition was published in 1823 by Kouyo Kimura, the son of Kenkad› Kimura, celebrated artist and art connoisseur who studied the tea ceremony under Baisa›.

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Book number: 121442

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, tea, senha, utensils, art, illustrated,

KLEEN, TYRA (Ilustrator) / SCHREINER, OLIVE:

Drömmar (Dreams). Auktoriserad öfversättning från tredje engelska upplagan. Stockholm, C & E Gernandts Förlag, 1897.

. Large 4to (30.3 x 25.5 cm). Pp. 73. With many illustrations by Tyra Kleen. Original half green cloth on paper covered boards, upper cover illustrated, Head of spine with small repair (nicely done), some light stain and discolouration to back cover. First Swedish edition, translated from English by Ingeborg Kleen (Tyra's sister). Scarce. Tyra Kleen, a Swedish author and women's rights activist who spent several years abroad. She acquired a unique artistic and continental symbolist style. She was only 22 years old when she made the illustrations for Olive Schreiner's book Dreams. The book contains eleven short stories based on the author's dreams and life on a farm in South Africa. While studying in Paris, she had her first solo exhibition in 1896. She was truly a symbolist of her time and saw herself as a European artist and a vagabond rather than a Swedish artist.

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Book number: 121174

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau,

KLEEN, TYRA:

En Psykesaga. Stockholm 1902.

. 4to. Pp. (vi), 9-101. With thirty illustrations by Kleen, of which fifteen are full page including the title page. Original green cloth, printed in black on upper cover, some minor staining on covers. With inscription by the author. Old ownership stamp on free endpaper. First edition.An illustrated poetic tale filled with mythological and symbolist references. The story is a reformulation of the myth of Cupid and the Psyche, but with a new independent medium. The tale was originally written in the 2nd century AD and concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche (soul) and Cupid (desire) and their ultimate union in a sacred marriage. Since then, the story has been retold in drama, poetry, and opera and is widely depicted in painting, sculpture, etc. Rare.

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Book number: 121173

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau, poem, poetry, literature, symbolism, sweden, swedish, illustrated, saga, mythology,

KLEEN, TYRA:

Tempeldanser och musikinstrument på Bali. Stockholm 1951.

. Folio. Pp. 24. With 53 mounted plates, of which 21 colourful plates of dancers. Publisher's calf decorated in gilt, gilt dentelles, spine lightly faded. First edition, limited to 200 copies, of which this is no. 15. Tyra Kleen travelled to Java and Bali in 1919 where she studied the ritual court dances. This work is devoted to temple dancers in Bali. It describes the different kinds of dances (Legong, Tjalong Arong and Djoged), their history, costumes and music. The text is accompanied by plates depicting clothes, head garments, dance movements, and musicians. The illustrations show her unique artistic oeuvre with the ability to interweave dance, literature, activism and adventure. For her scientific ethnographic work on Bali Tyra was awarded the Johan August Wahlberg silver medal in 1938. A beautiful copy with dynamic, colourful art deco style images of dancers.

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Book number: 121191

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, indonesia, bali, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, dance, music, dances, temple dancers, costumes, music, art,

KOSUGI, SUGIMURA & YOKOI, TOKIFUYU:

Dai Nihon Bijutsu Zufu (Illustrations of Japanese Decorative Arts). Eight volumes. Tokyo, Yoshikawa Hanshichi, Meiji 34 (1901).

. Four plate volumes: Large 8vo (18,5 x 25 cm). With 64 double-page colour woodcut illustrations. As issued with leaves folded in the oriental fashion in original decorative wrappers with title labels on upper covers. Covers lightly stained. Housed in a modern cloth folder. AND: Four text volumes: Lvs (18); (20), (10), (29) + illustrations. As issued in original decorated paper wrappers with title labels, somewhat stained. A complete set of a collection of traditional motifs and patterns of decorative art found on furniture, instruments, fans, ceramics, armour, kimonos etc. Content:I. Treasures from the Soshoin, Nara prefecture. Includes patterns on textiles, instruments etc.II. Treasures from famous temples. III. Designs of various decorative objects such as paper for calligraphy, fans, goods of Buddhism, utensils, etc.IV. Designs of decorative pieces such as armour, teacups, sliding doors, kimonos, etc.A very attractive set with images in fine impression and colours, unusual to find complete.

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Book number: 100645

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, art, design, motifs, travel, exploration, illustration, textile, textil

KUNDÍ, SAWADA (Ed.) / SAWADA, SIICHIRO (Artist):

Ch sen ko t jiki-sh Collection of antique Korean ceramics. Kyoto, Uns›do, Taisho 13 (1924).

. Oblong album with 32 leaves folded in the Japanese fashion. With thirty double-page illustrations of Korean ceramics and/or porcelain. Beautiful woodcuts printed in various gentle colours with captions in Japanese. Some discolouration. Original decorated paper wrappers, lightly rubbed with some minor chipping along edges. Old ex-owner's sticker (partly erased) on front cover. Black ink inscription on the spine. The album contains beautiful designs of old Korean pottery wares such as urns, jars, bowls, plates and tiles. Most of them are from the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392 AD) but some are from the Three Kingdoms period (57BC - 668 AD) and the later Silla period (668-935 AD). Korea, along with China, was the earliest country to produce high-fired stoneware. During the Three Kingdoms wares were produced in a tunnel-shaped wood-fired climbing kiln with a temperature more than 1000 degrees C. The chamber enabled an oxygen control. The characteristic soft gray colour of the stoneware of the Three Kingdoms period is the result of the reduction of oxygen in the chamber. The pottery became hard and non-porous. The finest works of ceramics in Korea, Cheongia (celadon) wares, were produced in the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392). This work based on field studies of Korean ceramics was published at a time when interest of folk art was increasing in Japan. Mingei, developed in 1920s, was a movement with the aim of preserving folk art in Japan. The movement was initiated by Yanagi S›etsu, a Japanese philosopher and aesthete who travelled to Korea in 1916 and there discovered common wares made by local Korean artisans. He established a Korean Folk Craft Museum in Seoul. 

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Book number: 121249

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, korea, corean, korean, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, porcelain, woodblock, illustrated, art, ceramics, stoneware, mingei,

[LES BALLETS SUéDOIS]. LAGUT, IRéNE: 120380

Les Ballets Suèdois (maquettes de décors, costumes, interprétations) Collection Rolf de Maré. Paris, Galerie d'Art du Bucheron, 1931.

. Size: 16 x 28 cm. Pp. (6). As issued, central fold. Front cover has an illustration of the Eiffel Tower by Irène Lagut. Rare exhibition catalogue of de Maré's collection dedicated to the "Ballets suédois" at the Galerie d'Art du Bûcheron May 8-31 1931. 

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Book number: 121270

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, ballet, ballets, costumes, design, dance, theatre, france, french

LELONG, RENÉ / MARTIN, CHARLES / VINCENT, RENÉ (ILLS):

HIGH LIFE TAYLOR [FASHION CATALOGUE] / L'habit c'est l'homme. Paris, Draeger, 1913.

. 4to. Text in French. A richly illustrated publicity catalogue by the prominent fashion store High Life Taylor in Paris. Pp. (8) of which six with forty refined vignettes in red by Charles Martin and eight illustrated plates (seven coloured). Original decorated covers printed in red and black, some staining to the covers. Small loss to lower right corner of front cover. Stapled. Inside covers illustrated and with four textile samples. The text consists of quotes from famous writers about the importance of clothing. A charming Art Déco catalogue for women's and men's fashion produced by the celebrated Parisian designer printer Draeger.

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Book number: 121295

Catalogue: Art Deco

Keywords: Art Deco, fashion, art deco, design, clothing, france, french, illustrated, commerce, men fashion, women fashion

LIPPICH, ELEK KORONGHI:

Koronghi Lippich, Elek Költeményei. 1880-1902. Kriesch Aladâr és Nagy Sândor Rajzaival. [Budapest], Pallas, 1903.

. Small 4to. Size: 17.5 x 21 cm. Pp. 307, (1). With numerous illustrations and text printed within decorated borders in various colours. Publisher's pictorial burgundy cloth, upper cover and spine printed in gilt, lightly rubbed. Floral endpapers. Old ownership stamp. First edition of this early and scarce Hungarian Art Nouveau illustrated book of poems. Koronghi Lippich (1862-1924) was an early propagator of Art Nouveau as well as the Arts and Crafts movement in Hungary as the head of the Fine Arts Department at the Ministry of Education and Religion. The two illustrators of this work, Sândor Nagy and Aladâr (Körösf›i-) Kriesch, were the founders of the art colony at Gödöll›, the cradle of Hungarian Art Nouveau. Together with Lippich they shared the interest in the Transylvanian art, and used it to form the unique Hungarian style in modern art, of which this is a beautiful example.

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Book number: 120373

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, hungary, ungern, hungarian, art nouveau, art, illustrations, poem, literature,

MAIER, HERMANN:

Vorbilder zur Schildermalerei. Muster: Blätter, Moderner, Firmenschilder, Etiquetten und Kartuschen [Title on cover]. Ravensburg, Otto Maier, (1907).

. Oblong 4to. Size: 22 x 30 cm. With 24 plates, loose as issued in original clothbacked paper portfolio with green ornamental design and red and black lettering. Minor loss of paper of inner joint. A rare and attractive collection of designs for commercial signboards etc. The illustrations comprise six plates with ca 35 colour renderings of signboards, eight plates with ca 50 black or monocolour examples of company signs, five plates with ca 40 designs of various sign shapes, and five plates with lettering styles printed in reddish brown or black. Ravensburg is a well-known German game and toy company which was established in 1883. The Ravensburger triangle trademark is printed below the illustrations on each leaf.

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Book number: 120268

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, german, germany, design, signboards, art nouveau, jugend, company signs, decor, decoration, lettering styles, styles,

MAX-LEROY FOURRURES / DUPAS, JEAN (Artist) / COLETTE, SIDONE-GABRIELLE (Text):

Ç TOI È. Paris, Draeger, Fourrures Max, (ca 1927).

. 4to. Stylish advertisement brochure containing a long poem by Colette and seven stunning plates by Dupas, printed in shades of gray and black. Seven text leaves, of which each has been folded at bottom corner (as issued). Publisher's black paper chemise with floral design printed in silver and red. A small leaflet with image of Fourrures Max's premises loosely inserted inside back cover.An impressive Art Déco work by the renowned French painter and designer Jean Dupas (1882-1964). His big breakthrough came at the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1925. His masterpiece is the series of large glass murals he made in 1934 for the Grand Salon of the Normandie, the new French ocean liner. Dupas was also heavily influenced by contemporary sculpture, which we can see in this work with statue-like models. The mannequins are provocative female nudes draped in fur coats of the latest fashion. A magnificent publicity edition by Draeger Frères in excellent condition. Ref. Pages d'or de l'édition publicitaire, no.18.

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Book number: 121244

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, fashion, french, france, mode, design, art deco,