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,

MEDGYES, LçSZLî:

Aranyfüst. Budapest, Râth M—r, 1913.

. Pp. 88, (4) including two blank leaves. With twenty full-page drawings by Medgyes. The illustrated title page and five tail-pieces are also illustrated by him. Publisher's decorated paper boards, vellum spine. First edition, limited to 250 copies. This is number 69 of 200 printed on hand made paper. Comprises twenty short stories by Medgyes together with beautiful Art Nouveau illustrations.Lâszl— Medgyes, born in 1892, was a Hungarian avant-garde artist who moved to Paris in 1920. There he provided scenic design for opera and theatre productions. He established a school "École Medgyes pour la Technique du Thêatre" together with the famous Hungarian architect Ernö Goldfinger. In 1925 he exhibited in New York and later worked as an interior designer throughout Europe and the US. Provenance: Rezs› Szij (1915-2006) renowned Hungarian art historian, the chief librarian of the Hungarian National Library and the founder of the Hungarian Association of Bibliophiles.

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Book number: 120499

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau, hungary, hungarian, ungern, europe, european, art nouveau, illustrated, design, jugend,

MOKUBEI, AOKI (ROBEI) / SUKEJIRO, KIMURA (Ed.):

Robei koji fu (Blue and White China Ware). Kyoto, Unsodo Taisho 10, 1921.

. Leporello folded album with delicate blue and white illustrations of Chinese wares, woodblock-printed. Pp. (2), 82. Size: 26.4 x 18.1 cm. Comprising a title in Japanese and 41 double pages of illustrations. Occasionally some minor staining but overall a very good copy. Original brown cloth, title label on upper cover, some light wear at corners. Housed in the original folding case, faded along spine. Aoki Mokubei (1767-1833) was a famous potter and painter of Kyoto. He, along with Okuda Eisen and Nin'ami Dohachi, is credited with reviving Kyoto pottery traditions. He also excelled in painting and Han studies. His pottery work is varied, including porcelain, celadon and Akae ware. He produced a lot of modern green-tea utensils, referred today as "Mokubei style" tea sets. As a result of his commitment to Chinese ceramics, he created a world of his own in making copies of Chinese ware. His representative work "Bokutansai Sansui-zu" and other works have been classified as Important Cultural Properties of Japan. Mokubei used numerous other names but Robei was the one he used most. 'Ro' means deaf and 'bei' is from Mokubei. He became deaf from the noise and heat of working near his kiln. Scarce.

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Book number: 121147

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, kina, japanese, japan, japon, porcelain, pottery, design, ming, ceramic, asia, asian, asie, art, design,

MOUSSINAC, LÉON:

[AVANT-GARDE THEATRE]. Tendances nouvelles du théatre choix de décors, costumes, détails de mise en scène utilisés dans les représentations les plus originales de ces quinze dernières années. Précédé de remarques sur les récentes recherches de l'art du théatre. Paris, Les éditions Albert Lévy, 1931.

. Folio (38 x 28 cm). Pp. 35. With 124 heliotype plates printed on one side only, most with multiple images. 37 fully or partly coloured with pochoir technique in the studio of J. Saude. Recased in modern half calf on marbled paper boards, lightly rubbed. Housed in matching folder. Bound with original printed wrappers.First edition, limited to 615 copies, this is no. 151. A spectacular work devoted to the avant-garde theatre in Europe, Russia and United States. Illustrated with numerous pictures of costumes, set designs, staging details etc. used in the most ground-breaking performances of the previous years. Includes photographic illustrations and brightly coloured pochoir images. Designers include Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Alexander Rodchenko, Alexandra Exter, Enrico Prampolini, Norman Bel Geddes, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and directors Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator, Max Reinhardt, and many more. A wonderful copy of a substantial work. Cf Colas, 2145 bis.

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Book number: 120617

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, theatre, illustrated, avant-garde, teater, costumes, pochoir, france, french, stage, setting, design,

NAGANARI, KODAMA :

Shinsen Kodai moy› kagami (Newly selected ancient patterns). Volume one (of two). Tokyo, Kin'eido (Okura Magobei) Meinjio 17 (1884).

. Size: 24.8 x 16.5 cm. Preliminary leaves and colophon in Japanese. With twenty-two leaves with multiple woodcut images depicting various designs and patterns for textiles, wallpaper, etc. Printed in lovely colours. As issued with double-folded leaves in original blind-stamped ivory wrappers, lightly soiled. With some wormholes at the very end of the book. Edited by Eisei Kodama.

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Book number: 100658

Catalogue: Textile

Keywords: Textile, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, design, illustrations, textiles, exploration, design

PALOTAY, GERTRUDE:

Les elements turcs-ottomans des broderies hongroises / Oszmân-Török elemek a Magyar himszésben. Budapest, Magyar Történeti Mœzeum, 1940.

. Folio. Pp. 145. Parallel text in French and Hungarian. With fifty full-page plates (of which four in colour) depicting 184 photographic samples of different embroidery patterns on fabrics, clothes, arms, carpets, etc. Publisher's printed wrappers. With dedication by the author. First edition, limited to 400 copies. A comprehensive study devoted to various Turkish-Ottoman textile patterns in comparison with traditional Hungarian embroidery. (Bibl. Humanitatis Historica. VI.)

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Book number: 120375

Catalogue: Textile

Keywords: Textile, textile, textiles, design, embroidery, hungary, ungern, hungarian, illustrated,

ROLF, GUEYE:

[Seven coloured Swedish costume drawings for theatre and musical]. 1940s and 1950s.

. The collection comprises seven different costume drawings on different kinds of paper. Sizes: varies between 21 x 33 cm and 30 x 43 cm. Four are watercolour and the others painted with crayon. Mounted in passe-partout. They are signed Gueye in pencil. Some are dated and others have information for which performance ("Can Can" and "Kiss me Kate" musicals).Gueye Rolf was a very skilled Swedish costume artist. She designed costumes for about 70 different performances of theatre, operetta and musical between 1923 and 1961. She was mainly active in Sweden but also worked in Oslo and Copenhagen. In the 1920s she spent a few years in Paris working at Moulin Rouge in Paris.

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Book number: 121137

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, costumes, theater, theatre, musical, design, fashion, sweden, swedish, european,

TEKKO & SALUBRA

: [Wallpaper sample catalogue]. Stockholm, Hasse W. Tullberg, 1924.

. A striking pamphlet (19 x 24 cm) promoting wallpapers from the sophisticated German company Tekko & Salubra. Swedish text. The catalogue comprises six pages of text (loosely inserted), ten colour wallpaper samples, of which five silk samples in metallic tone, eleven more illustrations, of which two colourful Art Déco interiors by A. Trueb. Original decorated covers, printed in silver and gold on black paper, spine nicely restored. Some browning, rusty staples, one sample with small loss, some annotations. Tekko & Salubra, founded in 1901 in Grenzach (Basden-Würtemberg), developed successfully over the years. Famous artists were asked to design collections, Le Corbusier being one of them.

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Book number: 120780

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, taper, wallpaper, design, sales, commercial, catalogue, sweden, swedish, art deco,

SAWADA, SÍZAN (SEIICHIRÍ) (Ed.):

Sekai mony sh ("Collection of world patterns") Kyoto, Yamada Naosabur› [Uns›d›], Taish› 4 (1915)

. Leporello-folded album with thirty colour woodblock-printed illustrations. Title and colophon in Japanese. Original decorated boards, rubbed, mainly along edges. The plates depict classical motifs such as hieroglyphs and cuneiform from Egypt, Assyria, Persia and Greece. Several of the illustrations recreate old motifs from murals and ceramics. The editor Sawada S›zan (or Seiichir›) was a famous Japanese potter and designer who developed works full of originality. He belonged to a well-known group of Kyoto potters (including Kiyomizu Rokubei) who distinguished themselves through very fashionable and high-quality work. Some browning and light staining, partly slight discolouration, a few tears to gutters, marginal staining to two plates (20 and 28). Binding slightly shaken. Rare.

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Book number: 121357

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, design, illustrations, patterns, woodcuts,

SCHMITT, HELENE:

Stickereien (Embroideries). Entwürfe von Helen Schmitt. Auf Stein gezeichnet von der Verfasserin. Parts I-III (all published). Basel, Wassermann & Schäublin & Dresden, In Kommission bei der Verlagshandlung Wilhelm Baensch, 1906-7.

. Large folio (41 x 52 cm). Comprises twenty-four beautiful coloured lithographed plates (one double-page) printed on strong cardboard of different colours, some highlighted in gold. Together with one leaf of foreword and three leaves with explanatory text and photographic illustrations. As issued in loose sheets in original illustrated stiff wrappers, with some wear and neat restorations. Housed in specially made cloth portfolio by Atelier Devauchelle in Paris. First and only edition, self-published by the artist. We assume in a very small number.A gorgeous Art Nouveau work with decorative ornamental designs for embroidery but could also be used for other techniques; wood painting and carving, book covers, furnitures, curtains, clothes, etc. Helene Schmitt was a teacher of embroidery at the Frauenarbeitsschule in Basel. Some of her works were exhibited at the Basel Trade Exhibition of 1901. According to Schmitt's foreword: "The designs for embroidery, which are available here in lithographic form, are a selection from the drawings that I designed as head of the class for coloured embroidery at the Woman's Work School in Basel over the past 5 years. Part of the work was exhibited at the Basel Trade Exhibition from 1901 for the first time. Since then I have mostly reworked the designs and now publish them in this new form ... The patterns were created for the needs of my pupils and were implemented in the school itself. Our school is not a technical school and the embroidery courses are attended by the schoolchildren for a longer or shorter period according to their wish. One will therefore find among these sheets, in addition to technically very simple works, also more complicated ones; however, the technical requirements never exceed the level of what can be acquired in a similarly organized school. I know that the artistic appeal of such women's work does not just depend on the template, but essentially also on how much taste and care is put into the technical part of the work. Unfortunately, very little of these intentions can be seen in the lithographic plates. Photographic illustrations have therefore been added to the brief explanations of the text sheets. They should show the effect of the whole and clarify the technical treatment. In addition, the text about the technique and the material will provide the necessary information ... The drawings should also have some value for non-embroiderers who know what is important using a pattern. Most are easy to implement in a different technique; some of the borders are suitable for wood painting ... "A wonderful work in genuine Art Nouveau style. A few plates with small crease at corners but overall a very good set. Very rare in the market.

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Book number: 121046

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, art nouveau, jugend, design, illustration, german, germany, woman artist, ornamental, embroidery design,

SEISEN, YOSHII (Artist) [Kimono designs]:

Hana Tsuma. Matsuya Gofukuten Ishobu Kensyyo Moyo. Kyoto, Uns›d›, 1908.

. A large-format album (33.5 x 23.5cm) with one hundred beautiful kimono designs, sparsely decorated, woodblock-printed in vivid colours, protected by tissue-guards (slightly darkened). Printed Japanese captions. Contains 52 leaves including title and colophon. Four leaves with small marginal tear and two leaves with minor hole. The leaves are folded in the traditional Japanese fashion. Bound in the original decorated silk-covered wrappers, worn and stained, with some loss of silk. Title label on upper cover, small loss of one character.This impressive zuan-ch› (design) book was produced by Matsuya Clothing Store (predecessor of Matsuya Department Store). Consisting of various award-winning design entries in a competition organised by them. The patterns depicting flowers and plants are very refined and sophisticated. Fine impressions and colours. The first twelve designs are captioned as January - December, and the remaining numbered 13 to 100. Issued by the famous publishing house Uns›d› in Kyoto.

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Book number: 121365

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, komono, design, textile, fashion, illustrated, woodcut,

SEKKA, KAMISAKA:

Miyako no omokage: Betsu k› ky›zome : (Faces of the Old Capital). Kyoto, Tanaka Jihe, Meiji 23 (1890).

. 8vo size (24 x 16.5 cm). Complete with 27 leaves, double folded in the Japanese fashion. Comprises fifty-four coloured wood cut plates. Bound in the fukuro-toji style. Original wrappers, rubbed and soiled, title label on front cover, with some loss. First few leaves with some staining at lower margin, otherwise a very good copy.First edition of Kamisaka Sekka's first work of a series of design manuals (zuan-ch›). Towards the end of the 19th century, this kind of design book became very popular in Kyoto, centre of the leading Japanese textile design and production as well as of printing. The books themselves were made by skilled artists who made the woodblocks, and hand-printed the sheets. Kamisaka Sekka was one of Japan's leading artists and designers at this time. He became known for his courageous and visually dynamic designs. He initially worked in the traditional Rinpa style, a Japanese genre based on nature which emerged in the early 17th century, evolving in the early 20th century into the Neo-Rinpa style. A scarce, well-preserved design manual created by "the father of Japanese modern design".

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Book number: 121509

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asitic, kimono, design, illustrated, woodcut, exploration, art,

ROKKAKU SHISUI (CHUTARO):

Shinsen moy› no shiori. (New patterns for bookmarks). Two volumes. Kyoto, Unsodo, Meiji 34 (1901).

. Two volumes comprising 42 double-page woodcut prints with multiple motives or patterns, of which many coloured. The leaves are folded in the Japanese fashion. Two preliminary pages and one colophon in Japanese. Original decorated paper covers. Housed in original cloth folder, worn. Some browning to the endpapers but the woodcuts are in excellent condition with good impression. First edition.Rokkaku Shisui (1867-1950) was an authority on Japanese lacquer ware. Together with Tenshin Okakura he founded the Japan Art Institute. He lived for some time in the US where he worked at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and at the Metropolitan Museum.

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Book number: 120480

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, woodcut, illustrated, design, lacquer,

LUISA SPAGNOLI:

[Sales Order Catalogue of Fashion Clothes]. Perugia 1955, 1956 and 1957.

. This collection of fashion plates consists of 111 chromolithographic plates with multiple images and 74 textile samples pasted in on paper. Each fashion style is numbered and prices are added in pencil. Annotation in German on first leaf. Housed in a paper folder. We believe this manual used to belong to a buyer for a fashion store. The impressive collection includes the typical ultra-feminine and luxurious styles of the mid-1950s. The catalogue contains samples of shawls, stoles, knitwear, jersey wool blouses, summer dresses and skirts, sport wears, jackets, coats, dresses and sweaters decorated with gold and silver embroidery. The textile samples include shantung silk, linen, rustic linen, burlap, artificial synthetic, cotton, hemp etc. In fine condition.The enterprise Luisa Spagnoli was founded by Luisa Sargentini in 1928. Upon her death the leadership was passed on to her son Mario and upon his death to his son Lino Spagnoli in 1953.

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Book number: 121254

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, fashion, mode, clothes, haute couture, italy, italian, french, design,

Labyrint-spelet. [SWEDISH BOARD GAME].

Labyrint-spelet. (Labyrinth board game). Stockholm, Adolf Johnsons förlag, Central-tryckeriet, 1903.

. Colour printed sheet (72 x 62 cm). Printed in green, black and orange. Rules and instructions printed outside the labyrinth. Original envelope with a coloured lithograph pasted on front cover. A Swedish game in the form of a labyrinth. The players have to get through the maze lined with nasty animals to reach the beautiful maiden at the centre. With three small almost invisible holes but overall in very good condition.

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Book number: 120257

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, design, game, games, spel, sweden, swedish, svenskt, familj, barn, children, family, maze