underground interiors: decorating for alternative lifestyles, norma skurka and oberto gili
“this red lacquered bathroom is not part of the luxury quarters of a pleasure ship, though that is what it resembles”
quadrangle books, new york, 1972
12 x 9 inches (30.48 x 22.86 cm)
$30 purchase
venturi, rauch, and scott brown
“functionalism, yes, but.”
a & u, japan, 1981
11.5 x 8.5 inches (29.21 x 21.59 cm)
$70 purchase
interior decoration a to z, betty pepis
“what goes on the shelves is also pretty typical, for books rarely stand alone but share space with propped pictures, collector’s items, simple souvenirs and curios.”
doubleday & company inc, new york, 1965
11 x 8.5 inches (27.94 x 21.59 cm)
$12 purchase
Andrea Branzi, The Hot House: Italian New Wave Design
“Our first projects were imaginary, ironic interventions. They were ideological models in the sense that they were meant to serve as pointers for architectural design, placing it in conflict with existing buildings and with geography.”
MIT Press, Cambridge, 1984
9 x 11 inches (23 x 28 cm)
$40 PURCHASE
Bernard Rudofsky, Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture
“It is not in the least paradoxical to say that a culture may founder on real and tangible progress”
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1964
9½ x 9½ INCHES (24 x 24 CM)
$30 PURCHASE
Landau Royston, New Directions in British Architecture
“It is now ninety years since the telephone came into public use..”
George Braziller, Inc. New York, NY 1968
6.75 x 9.5 INCHES (17.1 x 24.1 CM)
$20 Purchase
Vittorio Gregotti, New Directions in Italian Architecture
“The continuity of events is not a tradition in itself; it becomes so within the conscience of man..”
George Braziller, Inc., New York, NY 1968
6.75 x 9.5 INCHES (17.1 x 24.1 CM)
$20 Purchase
Eric Pick, Paul Rosenblatt and Edward Mills, eds., New York Architecture Volume 1
“Has New York been the center of architecture … at ant time?”
New York Chapter AIA, New York, NY, 1988
7.75 x 12 INCHES (19.68 x 30.48 CM)
$30 Purchase
William J R Curtis, Fragments of Invention: The Sketchbooks of Le Corbusier November 4-November 29, 1981
“The inspirations for the form were many and included power-station cooling towers.”
Cambridge, Harvard University, 1981
8.5 x 11 INCHES (21.6 x 28 CM)
SOLD
Francoise de Franclieu, Le Courbusier Sketchbooks 3, 1954-1957 “
Synthesis of the major arts”
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982
10.5 x 10.5 INCHES (26.7 x 26.7 CM)
$200 Purchase
