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General Architecture Surveys, thirteen
General Architecture Surveys, thirteen
estimate: $200–300
result: $1,125
provenance: Collection of Mark McDonald
Ken Smith Landscape Architect John Beardsley, The Monacelli Press, NY, 2009. Color, 230 pages, Hardcover.
The Architect’s Eye American Architectural Drawings from 1799-1978 Deborah Nevins, Robert A.M. Stern, Pantheon. B & W/Color, 173 pages, Hardcover with dustjacket.
The Lives of an Architect (TLOAA) J. West, Fauve, USA, 1988. B & W, 128 pages, Hardcover with dustjacket.
Jed Johnson Opulent Restraint Interiors Pierre Berge, Rizzoli, NY, 2005. Color, 223 pages, Hardcover with dustjacket.
Designing Women Interiors by Leading Style Makers Margaret Russell/John Hall et al., Stewart Tabori & Chang, 2002. Color, 174 pages, Hardcover with dustjacket.
Stamberg Aferiat Architecture Rosa Goldberger, Rizzoli, 1996. B & W/Color, 158 pages, Softcover.
Interiors Uchida, Mitsuhashi and Studio 80, Rikuyo-Sha, 1987. 176 pages, Softcover.
Neo-Renaissance to Post-Modernism 1870-1995 A Hundred and Twenty-Five Years of Dutch Interiors Bergvelt, van Burkom, Gaillard et al., Uitgeverij, Rotterdam, 1996. B & W/Color, 376 pages, Hardcover with dustjacket.
Country Houses Today Jeremy Mellvin, Wiley, 2006. Color, 208 pages, Hardcover.
Earth Sheltered Housing Design Guidelines, Examples, and References, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1979. B & W, 318 pages, Hardcover with dustjacket.
Mark McDonald has always been at the epicenter of the world that is mid-century design, to a large extent, it is a world he created. For over forty years, Mark has pioneered whole fields of collecting, providing the scholarship and creating the market for mid-century furniture, studio jewelry, ceramics and Italian glass.
In 1983, Mark opened Fifty/50 with partners Mark Isaacson and Ralph Cutler. This groundbreaking gallery defined collectors’ taste. At the time, modern works were still largely overlooked; Mark and his partners collected and presented the rarest and most interesting pieces, often working with the makers themselves, to create compelling exhibitions accompanied by catalogs documenting the work.
In the 1990s, Mark opened Gansevoort Gallery, where he continued to curate collections and exhibitions of lasting impact. Over the years, he established relationships with artists and their estates becoming the go to authority on the designs of Art Smith, Ilonka Karasz and Leza McVey, among others. His enthusiasm for the material extended beyond the gallery floor to the back room where lucky visitors got to flip through Mark’s impressive design reference library and discuss the importance of works with him.
A connoisseur and wealth of knowledge, Mark became a resource for prominent collections across the globe—private and public alike. He inspired a generation of collectors and dealers introducing designers and their production to an audience that continues to grow. In 2002, Mark closed Gansevoort and established 330 gallery in Hudson, New York. Now, semi-retired, Marks splits his time between New York and Florida. He still collects, curates, supports, and shepherds the scholarship of mid-century design.