[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,

[ART NOUVEAU].

Documents d'art décoratif. Trente planches en couleurs et en noire. Paris, Librairie Renourd, H. Laurens (ca 1910).

. Folio. Thirty mounted plates, of which sixteen in colour, on thick cardboard. As issued loose in original cloth-backed illustrated portfolio with cotton ties. Title page slightly browned but otherwise in excellent condition. First edition. A collection of various Art Nouveau designs for ceramics, decorative panels, furniture, silver and ironworks, jewellery, etc made by famous artists of the time, including Roubille, Brandt, Bacard, Daurat, and Ségaud. There are many textile patterns from this period that date back to earlier centuries. Some of the plates were also published in "Documents de décoration moderne" issued about 1900.

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Book number: 100760

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau, art nouveau, jugend, design, exploration, france, french, decoratif, decoration, konst, art, textiles, textile,

[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,

[FRENCH FASHION].

La Mode Illustrée Journal de la Famille. Cinquième année de la publication. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1864.

. Folio.Pp. iv, 416. With numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text depicting clothes, accessories, hairstyles, patterns, etc. Without any coloured plates. Contemporary quarter cloth on marbled boards, lightly rubbed. The journal was first published in 1859 and became one of the most important French magazines at the later half of the 19th century. Distributed on a weekly basis, each issue featured a description of women's fashion and hair styles of the day, accompanied by numerous illustrations as well as inserted hand-coloured prints.

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Book number: 120696

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, design, fashion, mode, journal, style, illustration, illustrated, french, france, magazine, women, woman,

[FRENCH FASHION].

La Mode Illustrée Journal de la Famille. Sixième année de la publication. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1865.

. Folio.Pp. iv, 416. With fourteen beautiful hand-coloured fashion plates (all?) and numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text depicting clothes, accessories, hairstyles, patterns, etc. Contemporary quarter cloth on marbled boards, lightly rubbed. The journal was first published in 1859 and became one of the most important French magazines at the later half of the 19th century. Distributed on a weekly basis, each issue featured a description of women's fashion and hair styles of the day, accompanied by numerous illustrations as well as inserted hand-coloured prints. 

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Book number: 120698

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, design, fashion, mode, journal, style, illustration, illustrated, french, france, magazine, women, woman,

[PERFUME TRADE CATALOGUE].

Parfums Bienaimé. Paris, Draeger, 1947.

. 4to (30.4 x 24.3 cm). Pp. (30) and twenty exclusive colour illustrations printed on glossy paper, with gold highlights. Original cream coloured card covers, lettered in gilt. A few small creases to the cover.Extravagant trade catalogue promoting exclusive perfume brands with exquisite pictures. Robert Bienaimé was a French perfumer who is known for his work at Houbigant Parfum where he created several well-known fragrances for the company. In 1935 he established his own business Parfums Bienaimé in Paris. A superb copy of a rare work.

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Book number: 121237

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, perfume, parfym, french, france, bienaimé, design, fashion,

[TRADE CATALOGUE / FASHION / ART DÉCO].

Les premiers beaux jours. La Grand Maison du Blanc, Paris, Place del' Opera. (Paris, Draeger, ca 1929).

. Lovely catalogue with stylish design and visual impact in the Art Déco style. Irregular shaped 8vo. Pp. (12) including covers. Publisher's stapled colour decorated wrappers. Text in French by Paul Reboux. Illustrations in b/w and colour by Charles Martin (1884-1934), a French artist and contributor to fashion magazines of the time. A well-preserved catalogue by the famous Parisian designer printer Draeger. Ref. Modern Publicity 1930, The Studio p. 76. / Pages dÕor de lÕedition publicitaire, 94. / Alain Draeger, Draeger, les pages d'or de l'édition, (2019) pp. 112-3.

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Book number: 121496

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, france, french, design, fashion, trade, marketing, mode,

[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,

[JAPANESE TEXTILE SILK SAMPLES].

Some Orimono Hyohon. (Dyed fabric samples). Types no. 6. Nihon Senshohoku Hyohonsha (Japan Fabric Dyeing Sample Co.). Kyoto, 1927 - 35.

. Oblong folio (47.5 x 24.9 cm). Pp. (77). A large-format ledger with 97 samples of Japanese silk for kimonos mounted on thick paper. With printed descriptive Japanese text. Original string binding with blue cloth covers, upper cover with white text. The swatches are dated between 1927 and 1935 so it seems that samples were added year by year as the string binding can be untied and retied.A collection of beautiful coloured silk samples which used to belong to a Japanese manufacturer of high-quality silk. Comprises sixty-three swatches measuring 16.5 x 18.5 cm, twenty-three larger (27.4 x 17.2 cm), five even larger (34 x 24.5 cm) and further six small at the end. Thirteen empty leaves. An impressive well-preserved album with a beautiful collection of stylish textile samples.

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Book number: 120894

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, textile, fabrics, sample, design, kimono, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

[JAPAN - SALES CATALOGUE].

Straw Hats Catalogue. New Fashion 1922. Full Fasihoned (sic) and Hand Tinished (sic). Y. Watanabe & Co., Bakudocho, Nihombashi, Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo 1922.

. A sales pamphlet comprising 10 pages folded with front cover printed in red and black and with a straw hat illustration. Size 13 x 18.5 cm. Title in English otherwise Japanese text. The catalogue offers various kinds of hats with illustrations and prices. Some minor staining.

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Book number: 120665

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, hat, hats, fashion, design, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, comemrce, sales,

[TRADE CATALOGUE / FRANK, JOSEF]

Svenskt Tenn. Strandvägen 5 A, Stockholm. (1952).

. Size: 21 x 14 cm. Pp. (iv), (48). Photographic illustrations of furniture, lamps, fabrics, etc, all designed by Josef Frank, Austrian-born architect, artist and designer who emigrated to Sweden in 1933. He became the most prestigious designer at the famous design company Svenskt Tenn. Text in Swedish. Original covers made of floral patterned wallpaper designed by Josef Frank, with printed title on gold paper label on upper cove, with wear along extremities.

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Book number: 121544

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, design, sweden, swedish, catalogue, frank, josef frank, svenst tenn,

[JAPANESE TAMBA-FU COTTON SAMPLES]

Title label: "Mingei (Folk Craft) Tamba - Pattern dyeing section". Japan, about 1930s -1950s.

. An album of 49 hand-woven cotton samples dyed in the katazome (stencil) technique. Pasted on rough paper (lightly browned). Ribbon-bound in original decorated textile-covered boards. Size: 29.5 x 25 cm. Hand-written paper title label on upper cover. Impressive album with lovely samples dyed with indigo blue and some also contain red pigment. The patterns have different flower and bird motifs. Some are lightly faded and a few with light discolouration. Japan has a long tradition of textile art, with each region developing its own special style. Tamba-fu has been traditionally made in Saji district, Hy›go prefecture for hundreds of years. In the late 19th century, tambu-fu clothing went out of fashion but saw a revival in the 1920s as the Mingei movement developed. Unsophisticated but appealing album that probably once belonged to a textile manufacturer or a dyer company.

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Book number: 121540

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie asien, asiatic, textile, design, cotton, pattern, dyeing,

ARDENNE DE TIZAC, JEAN HENRI D':

Les étoffes de la Chine. Tissus & Broderies. Paris, Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, ca 1915.

. Folio. Size: 39 x 29 cm. Pp. xii + 52 photogravure plates on heavy paper, sixteen with hand coloured details. The illustrations have French captions with the collector's name. Text and plates loose as issued in the original folder of illustrated yellow boards, cloth spine, cotton ties. A portfolio with rare and treasured ancient Chinese silk and velvet fabrics from the most prominent private French collections. Comprises images of embroidered clothes and garments. Scarce, especially in the original stunning boards.

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Book number: 100671

Catalogue: Textile

Keywords: Textile, china, chine, kina, chinese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, textile, design,