Search Results: ARCHITECTURE/ INTERIOR DESIGN from Pellbooks

New York: New York: New York Housing Authority, 1944, 1944. Large illustrated softcover printed on extra-heavy stock. Includes photographs, site and unit plans of many of : First Houses, Williamsburg Houses, Harlem River Houses, Red Hook Houses, Queensbridge H ouses, South Jamaica Houses, Edwin Markham Houses, James Weldon Johnson Houses and many more as well as a 10 Year Review and tables and charts. Laid in is a cooperative study of housing density.. Very Good.

1974 Fine. First Thus. Softcover green paper catalog with silver lettering and embossing on stiff covers. 50 pages with full-page full-color plates of stunning porcelain birds manufactured by the company.. Fine as New.

NY, Exeter Books, 1988 F/F as new. 192pp fully illustrated with color and black and white photographs . In this beautifully presented volume, the author critically asses the contribution of individual architects, such as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and of schools, l ike the Bauhaus. Liveley narrative and very attractive illustrations..

New York: Dodge Corporation, 1912. All 12 volumes bound in 2 separate Hardcover volumes, Vol.31( Jan -June 19121) and Vol.32 (July - Dec. 1912). Both volumes are bound in black libarary bindings with matching volume# , title and year on the spine. the outermost layer of the spine cloth cover is split down the middle, not affecting the book at all. Measuring 7x 10 inches. Ex-ref. libray with tiny withdrawl stamp on the front end paper and rear end paper of the volumes. Magazine covers are not bound in and each issue starts with page 2. Profusley illustrated with thousands of photographs and drawings, maps.. Very Good.

New York: Dodge Corporation, 1941. All 12 volumes bound in 2 separate Hardcover volumes, Vol. ( Jan -June 1941) and Vol. July - Dec. 1941. Both volumes are bound in brownish colored libarary bindings with matching volume# , title and year on the spine. Ex-ref. libray with tiny withdrawl stamp on the front end paper and rear end paper of the volumes. Magazine covers are not bound in and each issue starts with page 2. Profusley illustrated with thousands of photographs and drawings, maps, vintage advertising for architecture firms and materials suppliers. Both volumes are very heavy.. Very Good.

New York: Dodge Corporation, 1940. All 12 volumes bound in 2 separate Hardcover volumes, Vol. ( Jan -June 1940) and Vol. July - Dec. 1940. Both volumes are bound in brownish colored libarary bindings with matching volume# , title and year on the spine. Ex-ref. libray with tiny withdrawl stamp on the front end paper and rear end paper of the volumes. Magazine covers are not bound in and each issue starts with page 2. Profusley illustrated with thousands of photographs and drawings, maps, vintage advertising for architecture firms and materials suppliers. Both volumes are very heavy.. Very Good.

1945. Complete bound set of all volumes of the foremost Finnish modern architecture journal for the year 1945. Bound in attractive purple-mabled boards with leather spine. .

1943. This is a complete bound set of all 12 issues of the foremost Finnish avant-garde architectural review : Arkkitehti. It covers the year 1943 and is written entirely in Finnish. It includes hundreds of maps, drawings, and fold-out plans of the most advanced Finnish archtitectural projects for the year. An index before issue Nr 1-2 includes a list of architects whose works are covered in the 12 issues: Aulanko, Valde/Cajanus Goesta/ Erno, Sylvi/ Holmberg-Palmquist, kerstin/Koivula, Reino/ Kuhlefelt-Ekelund, Eva/ Nordstroem, E./ Meuschen, Clara/Nygard, Werner/Nykanen, Juho/ Peltonen, Jamari/Rankka , aulis/ Ruuth, Elli/ Tolonen, Lauri, Wahlroos Gunar/ Karl August Wrede and Vaelikangas, Martti. Issues are bound in purple marbled-paper over boards with purple cloth spine and corners and bright gilt lettering. In excellent condition. Includes a list of addresses and phone numbers of the most prominent Finnish architects in Helsinki starting out with Alvar Aalto. Countless architecture and… Read More

Prague ( Praha ): Czech Museum, 1996. In large illustrated wraps with Czech and German lettering. 106PP, ENGLISH & CZECH TEXT. A SERIOUS EXHIBITION FEATURING THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF THE SCHOOL AS WELL AS A CHAPTER ON THE BAUHAUS & CZECH ALLIES, PLUS AN ARTICLE ON THE MODERNIST KOSICE CHAPTER. 10 ARTICLES IN ALL, Also including 100 mostly color illustrations.. Near Fine.

Bonn: Edition Cantz, 1992. Fine as new in tall illustrated stiff cardboard covers. Lavishly produced and printed. 153 pages, in English and German; Extra-heavy.. Fine as New.

Nicolai, 1978. Large black cloth hardcover with thick photographic dustjacket. Book is Fine, unread and dj has a small closed tear on the lower front. Excellent, mostly black and white , architecture photographs of Berlin neighborhoods. Text in German and English. First E4. Fine as New/Very Good.

International Building Exhibition, 1987. Senatsverwaltung fur Bau- und Wohnungswesen, Berlin, 1989. Binding is Softcover.. Text in English; catalogue from the exhibition held; sections on Building Activities 1954 - 1988; The International Building Exhibition Berlin '87 - New Building Section: The Critical Reconstruction of the City; and The International Building Exhibition Berlin '87 - Urban Renewal Section: Careful Urban Renewal in Kreuzberg. Grey illustrated wraps with French flaps; 162 pp. plus a few adverts; illustrations throughout; Near Fine condition.. Near Fine.

NY, Whitney Museum of American Art and Flammarion, Paris, 1996 F/F. (small sticker residue on rear cover).Lavishly produced as a tribute to New York City and its eternal attraction for artists . Publishedto accompany a Whitney Museum exhibition, takes its title f rom the famous 1910Alfred Stieglitz photograph of New York's then-burgeoning skyline. 144pp, magnificently illustrated with a preface and an introduction to each plate section by Whitney curator Sussm an. Includes a slection of poems, excerpts, and lyrics by well-known writers, nd a lively essay on New York and its artists by Brendan Gill. Rounded off edges throughout..

Stuttgart: Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, 1982. Superbly crafted and designed catalog in stiff cardboard paper with cut-outs on ocver. Ist Edition. 90 pages with text in English. Exhibition documentation , fully illustrated. Fine as New.

London: Batsford, 1920. Second Impression from 1920. In folio-sized burgundy cloth with blind stamped decoration on front board. Gilt lettering on the front board as well on the spine. Size: 36 X 27 cm. 296 pages. Profusely illustrated. with frontispiece, numerous monochrome photographs and measured drawings. A lovely copy.. Second. Near Fine.

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Corp, 1956. First American edition in large yellow cloth Hardcover with black and teal-colored modern design embossed on cover and blocked black lettering on spine. The book is in Fine untouched condition, lacking a dustjacket. 240 pages, profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white plates. The book was originally published in German and is filled with examples of striking 1950s interior decorative elements. It includes examples of murals, mosaics, paint and fabric treatments, most in European public indoor spaces (lobbies, restaurants, offices). Includes an appendix list of painters & architects; this is a voluminous study of mid-century interior design and decoration by mostly European designers with bilingual text in German & English. Chapter topics include apartments, shops, restaurants, hotel rooms, schools and homes for children, administration and office buildings, exhibitions, theaters and cinemas, and churches.. Fine/No Dj.

Stuttgart: konradin Verlag,, 1952. Fine. An absolutely indispensible survey of every aspect of upholstery, wall-papering, carpet and linoleum laying and general interior decorating published by the renowned architectural publishing hou se of Konradin in Stuttgart. Text in German, ca 300 pages with many, many illustrations and some stunning full-color interior design drawings. Focuses on all the aspects of upholstery (polster), windo w dressings, wallpapering, laying linoleum and wool carpets plus a very extensice chapter on the composisiton of different types of material used including their chemical compounds. Many pages of deta iled drawings for modern arm-chairs, upholstered chairs, sofas chaise-longes etc. In blue cloth HC with gilt lettering, measuring 7 X 11 inches.. Fine.

Stuttgart, Germany: Julius Hoffmann, 1949. Ein Lehrgang und Ueberblick ueber alle Konstruktionsarten fuer Schrank, Tisch und Bett mit 143 Abbildungen und Konstruktionen. In large magazine-format softcover with illustrated paper dustjacket. Inside clean and bright and full of great furniture designs . Text in German. 94 pages.. Dritte Auflage. Very Good.

Graz, Austria: Haus Der Arkitektur, 1995. Stunning book from the "steirischer herbst" of 1995 with the aim "not to fossilize the present but to probe and search for an architecture of tomorrow." 250 pages 10"x12" prox., with a wide assortment of magnificent illustrations, architectural plans, photographs and prizewinning design throughout. Full color. Text in German and English.. First Edition. Pictorial Soft Cover. Fine.

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2008. Photographic hardcover. Ex univ. library in crisp and unread condition. By 1920, there were over two hundred women practicing architecture in the United States, actively working on major design and building projects before they were even given the right to vote. These women designed thousands of buildings nationwide: apartments in Kansas City, hotels in the nation's national parks, churches in Michigan, and mansions on the coast of California, to name a few. In The First American Women Architects, Sarah Allaback chronicles the lives and careers of more than seventy pioneering female architects practicing in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, nearly all of whom have been forgotten--until now. Organized alphabetically as a reference guide, this volume provides a biographical sketch of each architect's life, education, and professional career, and a list of known works and sources for further research.… Read More