A collection of 20th century posters, all reproductions printed originally by Fernand Mourlot, “the master printmaker of France and one of the preeminent color lithographers of this century.” Mourlot contributes …
In the 1920s The Empire State Building was the center of a “race to the skies” competition between Walter Chrysler, of the Chrysler Corporation, and John Jakob Raskob, creator of …
In 2012, longtime Berkshire bookstore owner Eric Wilska purchased the property on Depot Street in West Stockbridge with a historic mill on it. Today the bookstore boasts an eclectic collection …
Since its founding in 1968, New York Magazine has told the story of that city’s constant morphing, week after week. Covering culture high and low, the drama and scandal of …
Grand Central was built in the early twentieth century, and it quickly became a crossroads of rail travel. In 1947, for instance, more than 65 million people passed through its …
The oeuvre of Bauhaus artist Alexander “Xanti” Schawinsky (1904-79) encompasses a range of social and political investigations. Schawinsky spent a lifetime relocating–from Switzerland to Germany to Italy to the United …
New York Rising is an illustrated history of real estate development in Manhattan, a story of speculation and innovation—of the big ideas, big personalities, and big risks that collectively shaped …
Arts et Métiers Graphiques was a bi-monthly art magazine about design and photography published between 1927-1939 in Paris. It was published by major type designer & socialite Charles Peignot. Total …
Photographed by renowned documentary photographer Margaret Bourke-White, this book focusing on the process and the beauty of making newsprint paper, from cutting down trees all the way to the final …