[LEFéVRE-UTILE / ART NOUVEAU ALBUM / ]

Album des célébrités contemporaine publié par Lefèvre-Utile Nantes [Title on front cover]. Nantes about 1905.

. Oblong 4to. (36.5 x 27 cm) Lvs. (11) With 48 inserted embossed chromolithograph autograph cards of famous actors, composers, authors, etc. placed in Art Nouveau decorated frames. One sheet with content. Last two leaves titled "Biscuites Levèvre-Utile" missing eight cards. Bound in publisher's decorated boards, printed in silver and gold.An exclusive promotional album produced to celebrate Levèvre-Utile winning the grand prize for making biscuits at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Lefèvre Utiel (LU) is a renowned French manufacturer of biscuits and chocolate based in Nantes (now part of Mondelez International). The lavishly decorated cards were included in packages of cookies and were intended as a collector's item. Each card has a colourful artistic scene associated with a contemporary celebrity, and includes a photographic portrait of the same. The artwork was created by leading French artists and photographers of the day.

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Book number: 121350

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, French, france, advertisement, cookies, biscuits, promotional, album, art nouveau, jugend,

[COSTUMES FOR "WALZER AUS WIEN" / THEATERKUNST HERMANN J. KAUFMANN].

[A collection of 26 water colour drawings depicting costumes for the pasticcio "Walzer aud Wien"]. About 1930-6.

. Comprises 26 plates (26 x 22 cm) with 31 costume drawings painted in water colours with notes and numbers in pencil. The notes refer to the operetta characters and possibly Swedish artists who were famous at that time. A label "Theaterkunst Hermann J. Kaufmann" pasted on the reverse of the plates. Housed in a specially-made box.The pasticcio "Walzer aus Wien" arranged by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and with music by Johann Strauss (father and son) was first performed at the Vienna Stadttheater in 1930. The following year it was restaged in London as "Waltzes from Vienna" and a French version entitled "Valses de Vienne" was produced in Paris. The successful operetta was based on the rivalry between Strauss the elder and Strauss the younger. We have not been able to find any Swedish performance but this set of drawings listing Swedish artists indicates that such a plan existed, even if it was never implemented. We don't know who made the drawings but the Kaufmann labels suggest that they used to belong to them. Theaterkunst Hermann Kaufmann, founded in Berlin 1907, became the world's biggest costume house for theatre, opera, and later also film productions. In the 1930s the company expanded internationally but in 1936 Hermann Kaufmann had to sell it due to political pressure.

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Book number: 120704

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, costumes, opera, operette, musical, austrian, vienna, swedish, sweden, artists, fashion, clothes, pastiche

[VICTORIAN PLAYBILL - CONCERT, BIRMINGHAM].

DAY'S. On Monday, November 22nd, 1880, and Every Evening. Birmingham 1880.

. Single leaf advertising playbill. Size: 75.5 x 24.8 cm. Printed in red, yellow and black on card board. A well-preserved playbill announcing a performance at the Concert Hall in Smallbrook street in Birmingham: "The great Witty Watty Walton will make his first appearance in Birmingham with his new and unique entertainment, The Excursion Train", etc.

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Book number: 120500

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, england, uk, concert, performance, playbill, advertising,

[LAMM, CARL ROBERT]:

Illustrated catalogue of the Very Notable Collection of Carl Robert Lamm, Näsby Castle (near Stockholm), Sweden. New York, 1923.

. Large 8vo. pp. (xvi), 412, (1). With many illustrations. Original printed wrappers bound in somewhat later half morocco on marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, u.e.g., lightly rubbed. Bookplate (Axel Rydén J:or). Impressive catalogue of Carl Robert Lamm's art collection (997 items) sold at the American Art Galleries in New York through his representative Ruth Teschner. With neat annotations in pencil of buyers and hammer prices throughout. Carl Robert Lamm (1856-1938), a Swedish engineer, industrialist and collector of art. His collection comprises paintings, oriental rugs, tapestry, armour, furniture, bronzes, and more. Among others Frederick Martin, a well-known art expert, assisted Lamm in his collecting. Carl Robert Lamm is the father of Carl Johan, the renowned expert on Islamic glass.

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Book number: 121131

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, art, konst, auction, collection,

[SWEDISH RYA CARPET DESIGNS].

A pupil's work comprising 73 designs for rugs and furniture fabrics. No date or place, but Sweden, ca 1941.

. A collection containing 73 beautiful designs, most of which are painted with water colours on paper, a few b/w printed, pasted on strong paper. The size of the designs varies but most are about 12-17 cm x 20-25 cm. The weaving designs are meant for carpets such as Rya, Rollakan (Röllakan) and Flossa. In addition, there are twenty designs for furniture fabrics including printed patterns of Damast (Damask) and Finnväv (double weave). Housed in a specially made decorated box (21.4 x 34.6 cm). Already in the fourteenth century Scandinavians had developed the art of Rya (or Ryijy). They were specially designed to help the Scandinavian people cope with their notoriously harsh winters. Ryas were made thick with shaggy long piles and mainly used as mantles or bedding rather than floor covering. By the 1880s traditional Scandinavian rugs, especially the thick-piled Ryas, were popular throughout northern Europe. Another type of flat-woven rug was also developed in Sweden, called Rollakan (Röllakan). It's a very distinct style of rug, which is thinner than the Ryas. Rya had been made with abstract, geometric designs for centuries and became hugely popular among modern designers by mid 20th century in Europe and North America. Sweden had several well-known rug designers during this period. Märtha Måås-Fjetterström, probably the most famous, was active between 1919 and 1941.We believe this set belonged to a student at a weaving school. She has copied patterns but also created her own designs, all made in a very delightful and artistic way. Two plates include "1941" in print which means we assume the designs were made around this time. In very good condition.

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Book number: 120735

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, carpet, design, designs, illustrations, röllakan, flossa, rya, fabric, weaving, weave, double weave, damask,

BOURNAZEL, DIANE DE / GUÉGANT, AMELIE (Bookbinder):

Le Chant des Possibles. Marliac (Limousin) France 2018.

. An exquisite artist's book, a magical work without words, completely handmade. The beautiful binding is by Amelie Guégant. Narrow folio. (13.8 x 33.2 cm) Lvs. (8). Seven double-page illustrations, fully illuminated by hand, using water colour, ink and collage. The images have a window cut in centre and are surrounded by a zigzag border. One leaf with small crease at lower corner. Original sprinkled paper boards, blue on gold coloured paper, handwritten title labels, housed in matching slipcase. Diane Bournazel (born 1956) is a French painter, printmaker and book illustrator represented in both private and public collections in France and elsewhere. Her works contain mystical stories or wordless poetry with themes that include nature, human relations, life and death. She uses drawing, painting, paper cutting and collage. This work features imaginary animals, people, flowers, etc all floating in a dreamlike setting. The book can be read from front or back and the reader is encouraged to create their own imaginative story. The colophon reads: "Ce livre est unique - je l'ai imaginé et réalisé durant l'été 2018, a Marliac, oú, les nuits, nous contemplons les étoiles. Armelle Guégant l'a relié, en douceur". Ref: "L'Univers enchanté de Diane de Bournazel". Art & Métiers du Livre, 316, 2016, pp. 24-31.As a book artist, Diane de Bournazel is among the very best in seeing the livre dÕartiste as a total artistic creation, embracing all the special qualities of the codex form. She creates distinct and mysterious narratives, spurring us on to turn the pages, with her trademark papercutting opening windows between them, encouraging us to look forwards, backwards and beneath the surface. Subtle collage effects and gauffered edges invite us to touch the pages and to reanimate the books each time we return to them.Her themes are those of life and death itself, of childhood, love, loss and longing. Recognising that everyone experiences these universals as part of their own unique story, De BournazelÕs visual meditations are always open to interpretation and reinterpretation. Every encounter, even with the same book, yields new insights as new details appear and new connections are noticed between the pages. This is a rich symbolic world, full of unexpected resonances and symmetries.

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Book number: 120917

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, france, french, frankrike, illustrated, art, artistic, artists books, hand-made, book,

FISCHER, RUTH:

[PORCELAIN PAINTING] Mönster för porslinsmålning (Pattern for porcelain painting). Stockholm, A. Bonnier, 1930.

. A folder with 24 coloured plates depicting many striking Art Deco patterns. Complete. Size: 30 x 22.5 cm. Housed in original paper wrappers printed in colours, some tears along edges. Small marginal crease to two plates but overall the collection is in lovely condition. Ruth Hildegard Fischer (1894-1972) was a Swedish textile artist who published several manuals for different handicrafts. Rare.

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Book number: 121151

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, design, pattern, porcelain, painting, swedish, art deco,

GARNIER, ÉDOUARD:

La Porcelaine Tendre de Sèvres. Avec une notice historique. Paris. Maison Quantin, (1889) - 1891.

. Royal folio. Pp. 31, table pp. 4, and fifty chromolithographic plates by Gillot reproducing 250 watercolour motifs based on the originals, heightened with gold. As issued, loose in original printed portfolio, new cloth spine, cotton ties (one new), extremities rubbed and with some stains. Old ownership signature on front paste down. First edition.An impressive work with 250 images of the finest examples of porcelain made at the royal factory of Sèvres, near Versailles. It was a continuation of Vincennes porcelain, founded in the Vincennes and Sèvres factories. Includes a table with marks and monograms of the Sèvres factory painters, decorators and gilders. Title and text leaves have tears at outer margin, a few with small loss of corner. Occasionally some staining to margins of the plates. Two plates have minor marginal tears, one with small loss at outer margin. A great copy with high quality original lithographic plates of marvellous pieces of porcelain.

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Book number: 121489

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, porcelain, art, design, illustrated, french, france, europe, european, decorative art, porslin,

GARRARD [JEWELLERY TRADE CATALOGUE]:

Rings. Garrard, Jewellers to the Crown (24, Ablemarle Street, London W1). Paris, Draeger, ca 1935.

. 4to. Pp. (12) and two blank leaves. Text in English. With five plates, of which three in colour and two in b/w monochrome. Original white paperboard wrappers, blind-pressed illustrating two fingers with rings and title printed in black on front cover, black silk cord. Label of Éditeur Draeger on front endpaper. A luxurious catalogue which recounts the history of the ring through centuries and countries together with relevant lavish pictures. Deals with rings of the ancient Egyptians, the Borgia poison rings, the famous ring given by Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Essex, the history of wedding rings and the Coronation ring. The House of Garrard is the oldest existing jeweller in the world. It was founded in 1735 by George Wicks who opened a store in central London. It was the beginning of a long relationship with the British royal family.

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Book number: 121236

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, jewellery, jeweller, england, british, english, trade, advertisement, design, rings,

GOLLERBACH, ERIKH F.:

La porcelaine de la manufacture d'état. Moscou 1922.

. Large 4to. Pp. 56 + eight leaves, each with tipped-in colour plate. Many b/w illustrations in the text. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, spine with five raised bands and title labels, lightly rubbed. Bookplate. Old inscription on front endpaper. Original printed wrappers withbound. First edition, limited to 750 copies.Interesting documentation of the Soviet State Porcelain Factory, previously the Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory (before 1917). Published under the direction of Jean Lazarevsky. Vignettes and the front wrapper is designed by Sergei Chekhonin and J. Roehrberg. The illustrations depict works of art by Natalja J. Danko, Sergey Tchehonine, Constantin Kousnetzoff, Alexandra Shchekotikhina, etc. Scarce. >>

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Book number: 121155

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, russia, russian, russe, porcelain, design,

GYÖRFFY, ISTVçN [HUNGARIAN FOLKLORE]:

Magyar népi h’mzések (Hungarian Folk Embroideries). I: A Cifraszür (The Ornamental Shepherd's Cloak) (all publ.). Budapest, J—szsef Kertész, 1930.

. Pp. 223. With 168 plates, of which 80 are b/w and 88 coloured plates pasted in, and two hundred illustrations in the text. The coloured plates have printed captions in Hungarian and German. Some browning to the paper. Some coloured plates (nos 29-36) are bound upside down. Half cloth on marbled paper boards which seems to be contemporary. Original printed front wrapper with pasted vignette bound in. First edition of this comprehensive monograph of the Hungarian szür, the traditional shepherd's mantle, decorated with the typical stylised floral ornamentation. Györffy worked for two decades on this work and collected more than one hundred coats during his travels. Now housed at the National Museum in Budapest. He studied extensively the historical material of the felt mantles, the technical tricks of the craft, and the method of sewing and ornamentation. Györrffy describes the different coat styles and types of flower decoration depending on the area, including Bihar county, Transylvania, the "Kunsâg", the "Hajdœsâg", Debrecen, Upper Hungary and Transdanubia. Rare and interesting work of traditional Hungarian folk embroidery with strikingly colourful illustrations.

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Book number: 121134

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, hungarian, hungary, ungern, embroidery, textile, design, folklore, handicraft, folk costume,

[CHILDREN BOOK / MODERN ART]. HEERUP, HENRY:

Legedage (Playdays). K¿benhavn 1969.

. Royal folio. Size: 62.5 x 57.4 cm. Album including preface (one page) and eight brightly coloured lithographs mounted in passe-partout. Signed and numbered by Heerup. Publisher's half cloth portfolio with colour decorated boards, original ties. First edition, number 75 of 100 copies on vélin d'Arches. (Another twenty-five copies were issued for collaborators). Printed by J. Chr. S¿rensen and published by Centre Graphique in Copenhagen.An outstanding work by the great Danish artist Heerup illustrating his childhood. Henry Heerup (1907-99) worked all through his life with painting, sculpture, etching and drawing. He was not concerned with the need for originality in art, preferring instead to reach a wide public rather than creating superior art for museums. Heerup was a member of the Cobra movement and participated in its exhibitions at Amsterdam in 1949 and at Liège in 1952. Heerup first became famous for his junk sculptures. He created eccentric and strange figures made out of old bedposts, broken toys and old trash which he found on his daily bicycle rides. It was as a painter and graphic artist that Heerup gained his popular breakthrough. He developed his own unique and imaginative style where the fundamental source of his narrative is ordinary life; everyday settings including love, family, children, sex, etc. This work is devoted to Heerups' own childhood, illustrating: The young Henry playing with a huge dog, riding a bike when he lost a gramophone, beaten by the schoolmaster, dressed up as a knight battling bedbugs, dancing to a street organ, sharing the Christmas porridge with a cat, climbing up onto the roof of a tram, a policeman chasing naughty boys, etc. Rare. Collectors often frame the lithographs and very few complete copies of this book have thus survived. Ref. Holstebro Kunstmuseum and Arken Museum of Modern Art ("Henry Heerup: Faith, Hope and Charity" 2003).

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Book number: 120903

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, children, juvenalia, art, modern, cobra, illustrated, danish, denmark, danmark, lithograph,

HERMANT, ABEL / BRUNELLESCHI, UMBERTO (Ill.):

Phili ou Par-delà le bien et le mal. Paris, édition de la Guirlande, 1921.

. 4to. Pp. 156. With twelve pochoir engraved plates by Brunelleschi, protected by tissue guards. Ninety-three colour vignettes in the text. As issued, loose in original printed wrappers. Housed in a specially made box. Limited edition of 275, of which 250 on vergé d'Arches, this is number 156. Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian-born artist who arrived in Paris in 1900. He soon became one of the leading illustrators and costume designer of that time. Hermant's novel "Phili, ou par-delà le bien et le mal" is about a prince Philippe-Egon and the beautiful young girl Sophie. The story unfolds in a flamboyant setting of luxury, dance and seduction. The novel is complemented by the exquisite images of Brunelleschi, which exemplify the emerging Art Deco style of the 1920s. Occasionally some offsetting from plates as normal and some leaves with light browning to outer edge. Two plates with small light crease at margin but it's a great fresh copy of Brunelleschi's chef-d'oeuvre. Ercoli G. Il Pochoir Art Déco' pp. 32.

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Book number: 121497

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, pochoir, art, novel, french, france, illustrated,

HOLME, CHARLES:

Peasant Art in Austria and Hungary. London, etc, "the Studio", 1911.

. Pp. (x), 54. With more than 800 illustrations, of which some coloured. Contemporary half calf, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, lightly rubbed, beautiful marbled end papers, bookplate. First edition of this comprehensive work. It's illustrated with pictures of houses, furnitures, pottery, metal work, embroidery, lace, jewellery, dresses etc from the different regions within the countries. For example from Tyrol, Salzburg, Bohemia, Styria, Silesia, Moravia, Galicia, Dalmatia and Bosnia in Austria and Transylvania, Croatia and Slavonia in Hungary.

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Book number: 100669

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, hungary, hungarian, austria, austrian, österrrike, ungern, europe, peasant, art, textiles,

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