7. BOOKS etc – Interior design, décor etc.
(photo: cover of Arkley’s copy of Gilliat, Mix & Match [650])
[643] # * Calloway, Stephen. Art Deco Interior and Panel Designs. London: Bracken Books, 1988 [HAA 10.2.i.25]: large-format, reproducing plates from book 1st publ.in Leipzig 1928; some pp.tagged
[644] # * The Colour Book. London: Mitchell Beazley, 1997 [HAA 10.2.i.26]: with flip pages for combining different wall/floor/ceiling colours; tagged at pp.6/7 (purple/green interior)
[645] # CSR Fibron pamphlet (c.1990?) [HAA 10.2.i.27]
[646] # Encyclopedia of Australian Gardening (Part 2), Rushcutters Bay, NSW: Bay Books, 1978 [HAA 10.2.i.28]
[647] # * Fisher, Karen. Living for Today: Low budget high style ideas in interior design. London: Thames & Hudson, 1972 [HAA 10.2.i.29]: ex.Oakleigh library copy (withdrawn); late 60s/70s interiors: psychedelic colours etc.; pp.19/20 missing, pp.21/22 & 57/58 clipped
[648] Foliage House Plants. Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, 1972: cacti, ferns etc.
[649] # * Freedom Furniture Winter 1992 catalogue [HAA 10.2.i.31]: pp.61-64 clipped (desks, beds)
[650] # * Gilliat, Mary, Mary Gilliat’s Mix & Match Decorating Book, London: Michael Joseph, 1984 [HAA 10.2.i.33]: NB extensive clipping here; the title obviously provided the title of Arkley’s 1992 Tolarno exhibition (see photo of cover above)
[651] # Gold, Frances Joslin. The Instant Decorator, New York: Clarkson N.Potter Inc., 1976 [HAA 4.7.1]: extensively altered and annotated; the “sixteen see-through rooms” here were a key source for Arkley from the late 80s: esp. Blue Chip (with Davila, 1991), “Mix’n’Match” series etc.
[652] Golden Book of Nature Crafts, c.1958?
[653] # * Golden Homes, Artarmon, NSW: Grolier Society, 1973 [HAA 10.2.i.34]: pp.43-4 clipped, and several other ills.of cut out
[654] # Gray, Linda. Room for Change: Innovative and Exciting Ideas for Transforming your Home. London: Thames Macdonald, 1988 [HAA 10.2.i.35]: designs, “how to” tips etc.
[655] # * Halpern, Frieda. Full-Colour Russian Folk Needlepoint Designs. NY: Dover, 1976 [HAA 10.2.i.36]: various pages clipped / marked / missing (cf. Mosaic etc.)
[656] # * Harland, W.& S. Growing Cacti & Succulents in Australia and New Zealand. Kenthurst, N.S.W.: Kangaroo Press, 1981 [HAA 10.2.i.37]: cover annotated “source”; pp.33/34, 59/60 clipped, and p.72 annotated with variations on the name “Argyrodermas”; also a few inserted images of cacti from other sources
[657] # * Ideal Kitchen Plans, Australian House & Garden, n.d [1950s-early 60s?] [HAA 10.2.i.39]- several pp.tagged & clipped (kitchens, curtains etc.) {see HAA entry for details}
[658] # Interiors for Today. {details? c.1970?} [HAA 10.2.i.40]: ex Camberwell library; title page removed; kitchens, bedrooms etc.in 70s style; no evident markings
[659] # * Leighton, John. Suggestions in Design: Three Thousand years of Ornaments, Styles, Motifs. NY & London: Paddington Press, 1977 [HAA 10.2.i.41]: reprint of London 1888 ed.; ex Prahran College lib copy; pp.64/65 removed
[660] # Modern Homes Illustrated, London: Odhams Press, n.d. [1939 or later] [HAA 10.2.i.42]: incl. numerous interior views with furniture etc., but no evidence of material having been removed; NB re date, see advert on page v re estate “under development in 1939”
[661] # Ott, Richard. Oriental Design Stained Glass Pattern Book. New York: Dover, 1986 [HAA 10.2.i.43]: black outlined flowers, birds. etc.
[662] # * Our House, vol.2, no.1. Silverwater, NSW: Express Publications [n.d.] (c.1995?) [HAA 10.2.i.44]: pp.15/16, 21/22 & 27/28 clipped; p.59: brickwork pattern on p.59 circled (and Bunnings brochure inserted); pp.91/92, 95/96 & 105/6 clipped; pp.110-11 marked, p.110 annotated by Arkley: “fine form” (with sketch), opposite photo of pedestal on p.111
[663] # Pepin, Betty. Be Your Own Decorator [1961]. New York: Pyramid Books, 1962 [HAA 10.2.i.45]: “Books for Women” series
[664] # * Project & Kit Homes, Sydney: Australian Home Journal, n.d. [HAA 10.2.i.46]: pp.43/33, 59/60 and back cover all clipped
[665] # Renovating your Home – Australian Home Journal How-To Series, Sydney, n.d. [c.1978?] [HAA 10.2.i.47]
[666] # * Roche, Tony, & Monahan, Patricia. Decorating with Stencils. London: Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 1995 [HAA 10.2.i.48]: pp.143/4 cut/loose (Moroccan tiles), pp.152/3 tagged (French Empire patterns)
[667] # Roses – Charted Designs, New York: Dover, 1987 [HAA 10.2.i.49]: needlework patterns
[668] # Tenney, Kevin. Painted Finishes (Better Homes and Gardens Mini Workbook Series). Sydney: Murdoch Books, 1998 [HAA 10.2.i.51]
[669] # Vance, Peggy. William Morris Wallpapers. London: Bracken Books, 1989 [HAA 10.2.i.52]: 40 large-format colour plates (originals in V&A); paint-spattered but otherwise unmarked
[670] # Verneuil, A.& M., Art Deco Designs. New York: Portland House, 1988 [HAA 10.2.i.53]: large format; “classic gift wraps”; based on 1925 designs
[671] # Woman’s Day Decorating Guide no.18, Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1973. HAA 10.2.i.54]: magazine format; front cover, p.9/10, p.11/12, p.39/40 all clipped