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Helsinki 1921. 24x16. 16 pp.text + 8 pp. with four elaborate perspective renderings, one elevation, two sections and one site plan + 3 folding detailed building plans. Printed wrappers, an excellent copy. Rare publication presenting Eliel Saarinen's utopian Kalavala House project. This imposing edifice, designed by Saarinen between 1919 and 1921 but never realised, was meant to be a monument to Finnish culture, containing a "Finnish Pantheon" crowned by a tower eighty metres tall, artists' studios, a concert hall, a research institute, and even a mausoleum.

Hong Kong, Urban Council / Jingdezhen, Jingdezhen Museum of Ceramic History, 1989. 29x22. 280 pp. Full-page colour photos of 98 objects (plus some colour photos of bases) in the catalogue; ca 40 additional photos and drawings in the introduction. Publisher's pictorial boards. Scarce. Fully ilustrated catalogue with introductory text on the excavation by Liu Xinyuan. Catalogue text bilingual in Chinese and English; the introduction in Chinese provided in condensed English translation.

Paris, Berggruen & Cie, (1964). 22x11. 120 pp. 409 reproductions. Pictorial wrappers with a brown original linocut by Picasso, a fine copy. Fully illustrated catalogue of 409 prints, comprising four sections: I. Eaux-fortes, Pointes Sèches, Aquatintes. II. Lithographies. III. Gravures sur bois et linoléum. IV. Affiches.

Wien 1932. 21x15. 72 pp. Ca 115 photos and 13 drawings and plans. Attractive printed wrappers by the Viennese book designer and photographer Robert Haas. A fine copy with very light external wear. III. Auflage. A survey of modern furniture from the Herrgesell company in Vienna. Designers, when identifed, are Ernst Lichtblau (including a tubular rocking-chair), Alexander Popp, Armand Weiser, and Victor Reiter.

Zeeland, Michigan, The Herman Miller Furniture Co. 1952. 22x28. 116 pp. Ca 130 photos with dimensions and product numbers, and numerous line drawings. Publisher's designed cloth. An attractive copy in mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket with small repairs; tiny unobtrusive corner scuffing. Second edition, with prefaces to both editions by George Nelson.

Stockholm 1923-41. 84; 96; 96; 132; 106; 96; 168; 120; 96; 88; 72; 76; 80; 80; II+106; 96 pp. + 2 colour plates in vol. 11. A total of ca 930 illustrations, mainly photos. Bound in three volumes, half brown morocco, all printed/pictorial front wrappers reserved. A handsomely bound set with insignificant external signs of wear and aging. As usual, there is a faint light pink offset from pictures on to opposite and reverse pages in volumes 1-3. A complete set of the sixteen yearbooks published by the Swedish "Decorative Artists' Guild", with articles on historical and traditional decorative art as well as contemporary furniture, textiles, metalwork, glass and ceramic ware, posters, etc., including photos of work by Ragnar Östberg, David Blomberg, Carl Malmsten, Josef Frank, Björn Trägårdh, Estrid Ericson, Carl-Axel Acking, Elias Svedberg, Astrid Sampe, Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Dora Jung, Simon Gate, Edvard Hald, Elis Bergh, Alvar Aalto, Viktor Lindstrand, Gerda Strömberg, Wilhelm Kåge, Edgar Böckman, Louise Adelborg, Lisbet Jobs, Artur Percy, and others.

Paris, Ludovic Baschet, (1885). 28x20. II+102 pp. (including four monochrome photogravure plates) + portrait photo frontispiece with guard-tissue. 25 reproductions (20 full-page) in the text. Fine half cloth with marbled boards. (Union des Femmes Peintres & Sculpteurs). A rare publication paying homage to the Ukranian-born painter, sculptor, feminist and diarist Marie Bashirtseff (1858-84) published just after her untimely death. Includes an exhibition catalogue listing 100 paintings, 40 pastels and drawings, five sculptures, and a number of 'Études d'après le modele'. Preface by François Coffée, texts in homage to the artist by Emmanuel Ducros, Saint-Amant, Paul Deschanel, and others, some fifty reviews from journals and magazines 1881-84, and diary notes by the artist.

Berlin, Wasmuth, (1894-99). 47x31. II+16 pp. + 50 plates with ca 55 perspectives and elevations, 10 photographs, and 80 plans, sections and detail drawings. Originally published in fascicles, here provided with a general title leaf. Original printed half cloth (possibly neatly rebacked), the boards slightly darkened with minor stains, interior fine. Each plate illustrating one contemporary villa, mostly in German-speaking countries but including villas in France. Among the architects are Emanuel Seidl, Constantin Uhde, Lambert & Stahl, Otto Stahn, August Exter, Franz Habich, Bodo Ebhardt, Ludwig Otte, Hugo Hartung, Felix Lindhorst, Lucien Magne, and Stephen Sauvestre.