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  Laure Albin-Guillot, “Micrographie Decorative” 1931

  LAURE ALBIN-GUILLOT (1879-1962) France
  Micrographie Decorative 1931
  Preface by M. Paul Leon, 20 photogravure plates in a variety of inks and papers, including silver and gold foil, all tipped-in and matted, text in French, limited to 300 numbered copies, folio, spiral-bound bds.
  Published by Draeger Freres, Paris.

  Micrographie Décorative was created as a tribute to Laure's husband after his death.

  Dimensions:
  Book: H: 16 ¾” x W: 15” x D: 1 3/8”
  Custom leather box 2008: H: 19” x W: 16 5/8” x D: 2 5/8”
  Custom silk slipcase: H: 20 1/8” x W: 17 ¼” x D: 4”

  Albin-Guillot, Laure (née Meffredi; 1879-1962), French photographer who became interested in photography soon after her marriage in 1897 to the physician/scientist Dr Albin Guillot. At first, her husband's circle of friends, which included architects, writers, and politicians, provided her with portrait subjects. During the 1920s and 1930s she was engaged by the design precepts of the New Vision, and produced more sharply focused close-ups of objects for clients like Bon Marché and Renault. At the same time, she continued to create soft-focus pictorialist nudes that appeared in artistic photography journals and as illustrations in volumes of poetry. Many of her images were exhibited during the 1920s and reproduced in Arts et métiers graphiques.

At a time when many photographers were indifferent to the quality of prints intended for reproduction, Albin-Guillot sought to invest hers with artistry and individuality. Engrossed by her husband's lifelong research in micrography, in 1931, in collaboration with Pierre Fresson, she published in his memory a volume of 24 photomicrographs of crystals, exquisitely printed on various coloured and metallic papers. Later, she and Fresson also collaborated on similar works, which were used as decoration on the liner Normandie.

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  Jan et Joel Martel / Primavera French Art Deco Courting Fantail Pigeon Sculptures c.1930

  JAN ET JOËL MARTEL (1896-1966)  France
  PRIMAVERA  Paris

  Pair of courting Faintail Pigeon Sculptures  c.1925-30

  Black glazed earthenware with silver / platinum decorative dot motif.

  Marks: PRIMAVERA FRANCE, 12684

  For related model: The Art Deco Style in Household Objects, Architecture, Scupture, Graphics, Jewelry, Theodore Menten (New York: Dover, 1972), p. 179.

  For more information see: Joël et Jan Martel: sculpteurs 1896-1966, Christophe Vital, et al. (Paris: Gallimard / Electa, 1996), pp. 127-9

  H: 8 1/16” x L: 9” x D at tail: 5 1/4”
  H: 7 1/8” x L: 10” x D at tail: 5 1/4”

  Jan & Joël Martel (the Martel Brothers/Twins, born in Nantes on 5 April 1896, both died in 1966)

  The twin Martel sculptors were among the founding members of Union des Artistes Modernes, and their original works include ornamental sculptures, statues, monuments and fountains displaying characteristics typical of the Art Déco and Cubist periods. The brothers took part in a number of Paris exhibitions including the Salon des Indépendants, Salon d’Automne, Salon des Tuileries and the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in 1925.  In 1932, they created the Claude Debussy monument which sits on the boulevard Lannes in Paris. Between 1924-1926, Robert Mallet-Stevens designed a studio for the Martel twins at 10 Rue Mallet-Stevens in Paris’ 16th Arrondissement.

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  Carla Tolomeo, Panca Ananassa, Unique Silk Velvet Settee, 2004

  Carla Tolomeo (1941-) Italy

  Panca ananassa  settee (unique) 2004

  Exotic variety of silk and cut silk velvets sewn and sculpted in the form of a spray of various pineapple shapes on a tufted cushion seat and upholstered legs.

  Marks:  Tolomeo (written on the velvet), Tolomeo script signature (brass plaque)

  Exhibited: Fondazioni Cerratelli, Pisa, Italy, Summer 2006
  Model illustrated and biographical information on Carla Tolomeo: Il Fogliaccio, July 7th, 2006

  For further information see: Carla Tolomeo Mai Sedersi Sugli Allori, Never rest on your laurels 1995-2004, Carla Tolomeo (Milano 2004)

  H: 75 ½” x W: 63” x D: 21 ½”

  Price: $48,000

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  ART OF THE SIXTIES, “Die Kunst der sechziger Jahre im Wallraf – Richarts Museum Köln” 1969

  ART OF THE SIXTIES
  “Die Kunst der sechziger Jahre im Wallraf – Richarts Museum Köln” 1969
  Published by Gert von der Osten und Horst Keller.
  Designed by Wolf Vostell.
  First edition.

  Dimensions:
  Book: H: 12” x W: 10”
  Custom leather box: H: 14” x W: 11 1/2” x D: 3 1/2”
  Custom linen slipcase: H: 15” x W: 12 1/8” x D: 4”

  This famous and striking exhibition catalogue is a work of art. Wolf Vostell designed the catalogue for the Ludwig collection of contemporary art, given as a permanent loan to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne. The work of 92 artists is represented, including objects by Dine, Dubuffet, Hockney, Jasper Johns, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Picasso, Rauschenberg, Vostell, Warhol, and Wols.