[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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N° du livre: 121350

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: 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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N° du livre: 120704

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: 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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N° du livre: 120500

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: 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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N° du livre: 121131

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: Design, art, konst, auction, collection,

[FRENCH TRADE CATALOGUE WALLPAPER].

A large album of French decorative wallpaper designs from P.O. & Cie. Paris 1925.

. Oblong folio. (47.5 x 30 cm). Contains 436 design plates with coloured wallpaper samples. Preceded by price lists on two leaves (one on front paste-down) and two loose folios. Bound in original cloth, lettered "P.O & Cie Paris 1925" on the upper cover, lightly rubbed, cotton ties. A huge, well-preserved collection of various wallpaper samples offered by a French company at a time when wallpapers were very fashionable in decoration. Printed on different kinds of paper, some with metallic elements. Contains many traditional French elaborate designs with floral motifs, damask patterns and several inspired by wood and tile. Others are more contemporary with "modern style" patterns. These are in the Art Deco style with geometric forms, intense colours and stylised decorations. Many plates have matching wallpaper borders attached. Small samples cut from four plates and a few plates with minor tears otherwise in excellent condition. An impressive collection in tune with the style and taste of the time. 

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N° du livre: 121640

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: Design, design, wallpaper, french, france, papier peint à rayures, sampled, trade, catalogue,

[THE STUDIO LTD]:

Modern Book Production. London, The Studio Limited, Printed at the Curwen Press, Plaistow, 1928.

. 4to. Pp. viii, 186, most of which with illustrations including some coloured paper samples pasted in. Partly unopened. Publisher's decorated vellum-backed boards in rare matching dust wrappers. First edition of this informative work on book production in various European countries and the US. It covers the best of typography, illustration, binding, design, etc. at the time, and is profusely illustrated with about three hundred reproductions. This work forms a sequel to the Art of the Book, published by the Studio in 1914. See item 27. A mint copy. Ref. Sims, 137.

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N° du livre: 121615

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: Design, paper, design, english, british, illustrated, typography, art, bookbinding,

[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.

Charlotte Du Rietz Rare BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 120735

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: Design, carpet, design, designs, illustrations, röllakan, flossa, rya, fabric, weaving, weave, double weave, damask,

[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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N° du livre: 121544

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: Design, design, sweden, swedish, catalogue, frank, josef frank, svenst tenn,

LE CORBUSIER (JEANNERET, CHARLES-ÉDOUARD):

Le Modulor and Modulor 2. Éditions de L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui. Two volumes. Boulogne, 1950 & 1955.

. Square small 4to. (14.7 x 14.7 cm). Pp. 239, (1); 341, (3). Richly illustrated throughout b y the author. As issued in original coloured decorated dust jacket over stiff card wrappers. Some minor wear to covers, small tears, chipped along edges of rear cover of volume two and remains of old label on rear cover of volume one. Bookseller label on front paste-down of volume one. First edition. The Modulor is Le Corbusier's famous treatise on universal measurement in terms of anthropometric scale of proportions, tailored to the average human body. It was used as a system in the design of several of Le Corbusier's buildings and was later codified into two books. His use of type and images in his books was truly revolutionary for twentieth-century design.

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N° du livre: 121610

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: Design, design, architecture,

CROW, GERALD H.:

William Morris Designer. The Special Winter Number of the Studio. Edited by C.G. Holme. London 1934.

. 4to. Pp. 120. Richly illustrated throughout, including a front photo and four colour design samples tipped in. Original decorated wrappers. A special issue of the Studio published in conjunction with the centenary of William Morris' birth.

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N° du livre: 121626

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: Design, design, art, fashion, magazine, art & craft,

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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N° du livre: 121151

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: 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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N° du livre: 121489

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: 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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N° du livre: 121236

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: Design, jewellery, jeweller, england, british, english, trade, advertisement, design, rings,

PAPETERIES DE GENVAL:

[TRADE CATALOGUE WALLPAPER] Large album containing design samples for balatum wallpaper. Genval, Belgium, 1932.

. Oblong folio. (46 x 32.5 cm). The album contains 163 colour plates with designs printed on paper, along with a plate featuring two photos of the factories in Genval and Mont-Saint-Guibert. A printed price list is pasted on front paste-down. Original cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering reading "PG Carte Riche 1932" on upper board, rubbed with some loss on the covers. This impressive, large collection contains strikingly elaborate wallpaper patterns, many in typical Art deco style. Featuring eye-catching floral, geometric and tropical patterns including stylised and two-dimensional plants (for example leaves of palm trees, ferns, flowers heads of roses, etc.). Rendered in bright, intense colours, often with striking contrasts, and some with gold and silver accents. Some samples are accompanied by images of rooms decorated with the corresponding design, while others have been given a narrow matching border. Palateries de Genval was founded in 1904 by Auguste Lannoye. The company specialised in the production of wrapping paper, wallpaper, especially balatum, which is a smooth material of felt soaked in bitumen and gutta-percha, similar to linoleum.

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N° du livre: 121639

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: Design, design, wallpaper, Belgian, patterns, samples, art deco, balatum, trade, catalogue, interior, decorated, decoration,

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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N° du livre: 121155

Catalogue: Design

Mots-clés: Design, russia, russian, russe, porcelain, design,