1990s Books

From the Visionaire website: 23 THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES is our nude issue. Setting fashion aside but keeping style intact, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld picked up his camera for...

The first edition of Louis de Bernieres' best known work, set in Greece during World War Two. The first edition, first impression, in the variant black cloth binding. Signed by the...

Large format softcover in brown paper printed dustwrapper. Facendo mobili con Archizoom, Asti, Aulenti, Ceroli, De Pas d'Urbino Lomazzi, Ernst, Fini, Mangiarotti, Marotta, Mendini, Michelucci, Nespolo, Portoghesi, Ruffi, Sottsass, Superstudio, Vignelli. Profusely illustrated with more than 500 images (photographs and drawings). Text in Italian. Poltronova, printed by Artigraf - Firenze in 1996 (texts by Pier Carlo Santini) Profusely illustrated with more than 500 images (photographs and drawings). Text in Italian, 21 x 30 cm, 180 pages. Santini was born in Lucca on 20 April 1924. After the interval of the war, he attended the Faculty of Letters of the University of Pisa graduating in 1951 under the guidance of Carlo Ludovico Raggianti, with a thesis on Giambologna, worthy of praise and the dignity of publication. From 1952 to 1957 he was editor of "SeleArte", a bimonthly training and information of the artistic disciplines, commissioned by Ragghianti and published by Adriano Olivetti. In 1957 he moved to Milan, to the editorial office of "Comunità" to assume the responsibility of the architecture section. In this period he conceived and produced the first monographs of living architects: Moretti, Figini...

Italian Empire Furniture, Furnishings and Interior Design 1800 -1843 Published by Rizzoli, New York / Philadelphia, 1998. Hard Cover in Slipcase. First Printing. Napoleon's arriva...

Published by The Institute Contemporary Arts, London, 1996, 1st editionPublished in celebration of Vija Celmins first Europen retrospective at the ICA London. Even thirty years after...

Published in Switzerland by Acatos 1st Edition 1999 Autobiography of the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, told in a combination of traditional printed text, handwritten text and poetry, hand drawn art...

Published by Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, 1st edition, New York, 1991. Hardback with English text. Penned by the legendary author and art historian Jacques Damas, who published wi...

Skyscrapers: Form & Function (Marshall Edition) Hardcover – 1st Edition January 1, 1995. by David Bennett (Author), James R. Steinkamp (Photographer), Sir Norman Foster (Foreword). A...

Over the Desert - Tents And Weaving Of Nomadic Pastors. Au fil du de´sert: Tentes et tissages des pasteurs nomades de Me´diterrane´e (French Edition) (French language) Paperback...

Designed and printed by Stephen Gan, James Kaliardos & Cecilia Dean FIRST EDITION -- 1/1500 THE SEA was inspired by ancient Oriental watercolor books, Egyptian manuscripts, and chil...

From the Visionaire website: 22 CHIC marks our second collaboration with a guest editor, this time Mario Testino. Together we assembled a scrapbook of chic based on Testino’s idea t...

From the Visionaire website: In 29 WOMAN we explore the multifaceted nature of woman – as model, Madonna, muse, and more. Highlights include the eight-part black-and-white series by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin and Brana Wolf, which features supermodels in the nude, save for a Louis Vuitton...

From the Visionaire website: 12 DESIRE is our collaboration with DIFFA, Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. The art dealer Paul Morris helped us gather all the original artw...