Description: Hard bound in white cloth with white stamped letters to the spine and cover. Illustrated endpapers. Intro by Mayer Rus. A beautiful survey of contemporary design in the Hamptons. Hollywood East - New York’s “good life” - Shingle style, blue & white, seagrass with coral and twig - the standard uniform of the Hampton interior. Here presented through the eyes of 24 top designers, we share the fantasy of the dream homes beyond the privet. Over 300 pages lavishly illustrated in full color!  Intro by Mayer Rus. Designers included: Jamie Drake, Thomas O’brien, Mark Zeff, Randy Kemper, Enrico Boetti & Dominic Kozerski, Thom Filicia, Kelly Graham, Jonathan Adler & Simon Doonan, Vicente Wolf and more. This copy shows only the most minor wear. Interior clean and binding strong. Missing original dust jacket.  Now out of print and exceedingly scarce!

Bookseller Inventory # 18824

$350

Designing The Hamptons: Portraits Of Interiors
Rus, Mayer & Lind, Diana

Publisher:   Edizioni Press, New York
Publication Date:   2006
Binding:   Hard Bound
Book Condition:   Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition:   First Edition

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In this stunning book, Kelly Wearstler presents gorgeous photographs of her most incredible design achievement — her home, the Hillcrest Estate — in a luxurious large-format hardcover with an elegant cloth slipcase With her impeccable taste, fearless technique, and eye for colors, shapes, patterns, and fabrics, Kelly Wearstler’s status as an internationally acclaimed interior designed is unmatched. She will confidently cover walls in black and white floral wallpaper, embellish a bedroom with a sculpture of a greyhound, or add a lush space of color to a completely white room. Combining grace and flawless skill, she can change a simple room into a work of art.

Description: Hard bound limited edition in publishers slipcase. #1887 in a limited edition of 3000 printed copies. Photography by Grey Crawford and Mark Edward Harris. A beautifuly produced edition.

Bookseller Inventory # 18305

$500

Domicilium Decoratus : Hillcrest Estate, Beverly Hills, California
Wearstler, Kelly

Publisher:  Collins Design
Publication Date:  2006
Binding:  Hard Bound
Book Condition:  Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition:  No Dust Jacket
Edition:  Signed & Limited Edition

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Donald Deskey studied architecture at the University of California, but did not follow that profession, becoming instead an artist and a pioneer in the field of Industrial design. In Paris he attended the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, which influenced his approach to design. He established a design consulting firm in New York City, and later the firm of Deskey-Vollmer which specialized in furniture and textile design. His designs in this era progressed from Art Deco to Streamline Moderne.  In the 1930s, he won the competition to design the interiors for Radio City Music Hall. In the 1940s he started the graphic design firm Donald Deskey Associates and made some of the most recognizable icons of the day. He designed the Crest toothpaste packaging, as well as the Tide bullseye. His company is still in operation in Cincinnati. A collection of his work is held by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. 214 pages. One plate cut out (page 179/180) Some wear to dust jacket, and previous owners bookplate to endpage, otherwise very good. A RARE monograph.

Bookseller Inventory # 20792

$200

Donald Deskey Decorative Designs and Interiors
Hanks, David A.

Publisher: E P Dutton, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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Jean-Michel Frank (1895-1941) was the most influential French interior designer of the 1930’s. He is known for minimalist interiors decorated with walls of straw marquetry, sofas of creamy leather, screens of mica, and plain-lined but sumptuous furniture. Frank was inspired by the abstraction of primitive arts, bringing to the 1930s an original style whose elegance won him the loyalty of a wealthy and elite clientele. Frank’s style of understated luxury perfectly complemented the Picassos and Braques his clients hung on their walls.

In 1915 he was informed the death of his two elder brothers, French soilders on front line, and then his fathers subsequent suicide. Four years later he lost his mother who had been in an asylum for several years. In the first part of the 1920’s he traveled the world. It was in Venice that he first met the cosmopolitan society, and the Parisian decorator Adolphe Chanaux. Together in 1932 they opened their shop in Paris. During the winter of 1939 he left France for South America and the United States. Tragically in 1941, he committed suicide while in New York. His subtle sense of understatement and minimal design is still a influence on interior designers even to this day.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Limited printing, one of four thousand printed copies. 216 pages profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in English and French. Designed by Andree Putman, and with photographs by Jacques Boulay. A beautifully produced monograph authored by Jean-Michel Frank’s former studio Partner Adolphe Chanaux. Some wear and minor chipping to dust jacket, otherwise very good. A rare and sought after monograph.

Bookseller Inventory # 18331

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Jean-Michel Frank
Chanaux, Adolphe

Publisher: Editions Du Regard
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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