Ruhlmann's pavilion at the 1925 Paris Exposition was a sensation - and launched the Art Deco movement. This glossy, large-format book includes a facsimile of the original show catalogue.
It's been a while since there was a decent illustrated book available on Clubland. This shows all the old stalwarts but also novices such as Soho House and Ned's.
Have you ever found yourself cooing over a ventilation shaft? Not yet? ...which is why this illustrated introduction to the form - the coy, the robust, the artistic and the unapologetic - m... read more
Considers the sturdy craftsman bungalows of Cora Cadwallader Tuttle and William Hazel's eerie Victorian... A reminder that Frank Lloyd Wright was not the only American practitioner of the Ar... read more
A very handsome book which illustrates in gorgeous detail the couturier's passion for design outside the workshop. Part architectural history, part Who's Who of the 1930s' Côte d'Azur.
Cambridge as it might have been - Brutalist concrete ziggurats by Denys Lasdun, the fellows' gardens along the Backs eliminated for a soothing verdant parkland by Capability Brown, a Gothic ... read more
Modernism has an ecological bent in this survey of ambitious buildings that elide the distinction between human dwelling and the natural world. A fine treatise on the sharp corner and the cu... read more
An exemplary study, via the great masterpieces (Blenheim Palace, Castle Howard etc). CSS casts the romantic, emotional work of Vanbrugh against that of his more staid contemporaries, Wren an... read more
Great British tastemakers, beginning with Morris and Bloomsbury and including the Spitalfields Trust; houses and gardens that express Guilding's penchant for patina, artistry and making-do. ... read more
A very good-looking book on the gorgeous interiors dreamed up by the team behind the eponymous architectural salvage company and design studio: bohemian, inventive, chic. With contributions ... read more
Silks, jewels, fans, toile de Jouy, her private apartments and the Petit Trianon; also what came later - the myth, the cult, fashion and feminism. To accompany this autumn's blazing show at ... read more
A mentor to Le Corbusier, Ozenfant was an artist and critic who ran art schools in Paris and London in the 1920s and '30s. Highly regarded, he knew everyone: Leonora Carrington was a student... read more
The beloved and greatly missed CG, friend and cousin of us at Sandoe's. Here is a book largely made up of his own autobiographical pieces, some hitherto unpublished, with many photographs of... read more
First edition in near-fine condition with a near-fine dust jacket; some foxing to inside of dust jacket. Contains 79 illustrations/plates and 12 drawings.
First edition, first printing in very good condition in a very good dust jacket, including 120 black and white illustrations. Slight crumpling at top of spine of the board and dust jacket; f... read more
First edition. Very good, with a very good dust jacket. Pages are clean, tightly bound with minor shelf wear to boards which are buckled at their bottom corners; a 2cm tear to back cover of ... read more
Very good copy in very good dust jacket, with some slight bending of pages at top front fore edge with corresponding scuff of dust jacket; top of spine also very slightly scuffed.
Very good in a fine dust jacket: the very last few pages (bibliography, index) have a water stain at the top and are slightly cockled, otherwise an excellent, bright copy.
Near-fine copy with near-fine dust jacket. Pages clean and bright, a little foxing to the top edge but otherwise fine; tight binding and pristine dust jacket with only the lightest of shelf ... read more
As new, in a very good dustjacket: some light shelfwear, the top and bottom of the spine a little scuffed, but otherwise in excellent condition, the pages bright, firmly bound, with many ill... read more
A fine copy, almost as new, in a very good dust jacket: bright, clean and unmarred except for light tanning to the spine and a little shelfwear to the top of the spine. Has a bookseller's la... read more
First edition. Fine copy in a very good dust jacket, marred only by some creasing at the bottom left and corner of the front panel. Pages are crisp, clean and bright - about 500 pages of tex... read more