| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST  American Decorative Arts Essays by Gerald W.R. Ward, Nonie Gadsden and Kelly H. L'Ecuyer. American Decorative Arts features over 100 carefully selected masterpieces of furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, base metals, coins and medals, basketry and sculpture from one of the world's preeminent collections. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466986
US $19.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 130 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2006 Active/In stock
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|  Art and Reform: Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening Girls, and the Paul Revere Pottery Text by Nonie Gadsden. The handmade ceramics of the Paul Revere Pottery, often enlivened with stylized images of animals, flowers or abstract patterns, are best known today by the name of the girls' club whose members created the wares: >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467167
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Paperback, 8 x 9 in. / 104 pgs/ illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Artful Adornments Text by Yvonne J. Markowitz. A mode of expression that can be traced back to the earliest civilizations, jewelry can be as culturally revealing as it is stunningly beautiful. Artful Adornments: Jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston features >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467686
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Clth, 9 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Based in Berlin Introduction by Angelique Campens, Fredi Fischli, Magdalena Magiera, Jakob Schillinger, Scott Cameron Weaver. Foreword by Klaus Biesenbach, Christine Macel, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Based in Berlin showcases some 80 emerging artists currently living and working in Berlin, pursuing practices ranging from painting and drawing to sculpture, photography, film and video, text, performance and installation. The publication is produ >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863350451
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Pbk, 6 x 9.25 in. / 200 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Beca Lipscombe & Lucy McKenzie: The Inventors of Tradition Edited by Catriona Duffy, Lucy McEachan. Introduction by Beca Lipscombe, Lucy McKenzie, Catriona Duffy, Lucy McEachan. Situated at the intersection between art, design and social history, The Inventors of Tradition is a fascinating and original visual study of the history of the Scottish textiles industry since the 1930s. For decades, textiles >>more
Walther König, Köln/Koenig Books
ISBN 9783863350529
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Clth, 9.75 x 12 in. / 144 pgs / 168 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2012 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Carnegie Museum of Art: Decorative Arts and Design Edited by Jason T. Busch. Text by Jason T. Busch, Rachel Delphia, Sarah Nichols, Dawn Reid, Richard Simmons. Carnegie Museum of Art is renowned for its collection of decorative arts and design objects. This volume presents, for the first time, the collection's highlights, from early porcelain to Arts and Crafts furniture to contemporary >>more
Carnegie Museum of Art
ISBN 9780880390521
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Pbk, 7.25 x 8.75 in. / 224 pgs / 250 color / b&w / 10 duotone.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Ceramic Millennium Edited by Garth Clark. Essays by Clement Greenberg, Nancy Selvage, Doris Shadbolt, Philip Rawson, John Bentley Mays, Paul Greenhalgh, Michael McTwigan, Mark Pennings, Justin Clemens, George Woodman, David Hamilton, Susan Tunick, Edward Lebow, et al. Over the last two decades of the twentieth century, the Ceramic Arts Foundation (formerly the Institute for Ceramic History) presented International Ceramics Symposiums in New York, Toronto, London and Amsterdam, among other cities. In the >>more
The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ISBN 9780919616455
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 430 pgs / 140 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/01/2006 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass Text by Gerald W.R. Ward. Arguably the most famous glass artist since Louis Comfort Tiffany, Dale Chihuly has been credited with elevating blown glass from delicate decorative object to groundbreaking fine art. Chihuly's "Blanket Cylinders," "Seaforms," "Persians" and chandeliers >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467648
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Clth, 10 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Complete Copier Edited by Laurens Geurtz, Job Meihuizen, Joan Temminck. Starting his career as a glassblower at the Leerdam glass works factory when he was just 14 years old, Andries Copier (1901–1991) went on to become the greatest glass designer that the Netherlands has ever >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628338
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 520 pgs / 1,225 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Daniel Brush Edited by Amy Wilkins. Introduction by Dr. Oliver Sacks. Text by David Revere McFadden, Brett Littman, Daniel Brush, Olivia Brush, Saskia Hamilton, Paul Keegan. The work of Daniel Brush (born 1947) does not fit neatly into the categories commonly used to describe contemporary art or craft. While he uses traditional art media such as pen and ink and paper >>more
Museum of Arts & Design
ISBN 9781890385248
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Clth, 13.5 x 13 in. / 276 pgs / 486 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Design for a Living World Text by Abbott Miller, Ellen Lupton, Andy Grundberg. Design for a Living World was developed by The Nature Conservancy, one of the world's leading conservation organizations, in order to raise global awareness about the impact and promise of sustainable sourcing. Ten prominent designers, >>more
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 9780910503884
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Pbk, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 200 pgs / 325 color.
Pub Date: 05/14/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Dressing Ourselves Edited by Alessandro Guerriero. Essays by Marco Scotini, Lorenza Pignatti, Fabio Destefani, Paola Nicolin and Riccarda Mandrini. Conceiving a “self-portrait dress” was the charge given to world-famous architects, designers, musicians and artists by Alessandro Guerriero, and the results were an exercise in cross-genre creativity that would stun a traditional runway front row. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881585120
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Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 120 pgs / 164 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock
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|  English Silver In The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, Volume 2 Artwork by Ellen Alcorn. The collection of English silver at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston was established in the 1930s and has long been considered one of the finest collections of such objects in the world, having grown >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878464807
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Hardcover, 9 x 11.5 in. / 416 pgs / 28 color / 800 duotone.
Pub Date: 12/02/2000 Active/In stock
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|  Fashioning Felt Text by Susan Brown, Matilda McQuaid, Andrew Dent, Christine Martens. Felt is the oldest fabric known to mankind; its earliest examples date back to 6,500 B.C. In recent years, the fabric has found contemporary applications in an extraordinary range of fields, including product design, fashion, >>more
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 9780910503891
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Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 03/06/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Gariboldi: The Decorative Arts in Italy Edited by Giacinta Cavagna di Gualdana. Foreword by Marco Romanelli. The long career of decorative arts designer Giovanni Gariboldi (1908–1971) forms a key chapter in twentieth-century Italian industrial design. This monograph provides the first full account of Gariboldi’s life, from his early days under art >>more
Edizioni Corraini
ISBN 9788875702748
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Hbk, 8.25 x 12.25 in. / 176 pgs / 142 color / 26 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Gijs Bakker and Jewelry (2007) Dutch jewellery and product designer Gijs Bakker (b. 1942) has been a prominent figure in international jewellery for over forty years. He has been setting trends in both form and design since the 1960s. Bakker >>more
Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt
ISBN 9783897902237
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|  Gino Sarfatti: Selected Works 1938-1973 Text by Marco Romanelli, Sandra Severi. The Senate may have tried legislating the lightbulb, but only one person has ever truly loved it, and that was Italian designer Gino Sarfatti (1912–1985). After abandoning his studies in aeronautical engineering for financial reasons, >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836621743
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 496 pgs / 700 color / 400 duotone.
Pub Date: 12/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Gio Ponti: Fascination for Ceramics Text by Dario Matteoni, Pietro Petraroia, Giacinta Cavagna di Gualdana. One of the last century’s leading architects and industrial designers, Gio Ponti (1891–1979) was at the helm of Italy’s massive design renaissance in the years following World War Two, becoming particularly celebrated for his incredibly >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836620647
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 120 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Giuliana Michelotti: Inform Text by Stefano Tonchi, Cristina Morozzi, Giuliana Michelotti. For 20 years, Giuliana Michelotti has designed fashion, objects and jewelry of uncommon organic sensuality in collaboration with such leading firms as Valentino, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana and Christian Lacroix. Always a passionate and inquisitive >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881586431
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Hardback, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 84pgs / 55 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Glasstress Texts by Adriano Berengo, Laura Mattioli Rossi, Rosa Barovier Mentasti, Francesca Giubilei, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Fausto Petrella, Tina Oldknow, Luca Beatrice. Over the centuries, glass has been relegated to a limited number of uses and contexts. It has taken great effort and imagination to free this material from the clichés imprisoning it. This book offers an >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881587438
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Hbk, 8.5 x 12 in. / 176 pgs / 149 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Home-Made Europe By Vladimir Arkhipov. Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Jeremy Deller. For this enchanting sequel to the critically acclaimed Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts (2006), Russian artist Vladimir Arkhipov has travelled across Europe to further his collection. The objects he has found are made by everyday >>more
Fuel Publishing
ISBN 9780956896230
US $34.95 CAN $34.95 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 8.25 in. / 272 pgs / 230 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts Edited by Vladmir Arkhipov. Foreword by Susan B. Glasser. The clever, bizarre and poignant DIY housewares that fill the pages of Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts have stories to tell. They communicate the textures of the lives of ordinary Russians during the collapse of >>more
Fuel Publishing
ISBN 9780955006135
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Clothbound, 4.75 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2006 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Illy Collection Artwork by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Neil Aitken, Hannah Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola, Ernesto Illy, Vittoria Illy, Marina Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Bourgeois, David Byrne, Sandro Chia, Mario Giacomelli, Jeff Koons, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis KouneEdited by Michel Comte. Text by Andrea Illy, Francesco Illy, Matteo Thun, Achille Bonito Oliva. Which is more important, the coffee you drink or the cup you drink it from? The choice is a difficult one for any aesthete to make, and it is only highlighted and intensified by famed >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881584062
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Hardcover, 7.75 x 7.75 in. / 212 pgs / 351 color / 33 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/02/2003 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Imperishable Beauty Text by Yvonne Markowitz, Elyse Z Karlin. "A new, imperishable beauty," was how the artist and architect Henry van de Velde described it. European Art Nouveau jewelry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries embraced a new aesthetic characterized by sensuous >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467341
US $45.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Hardback, 8.75 x 9.25 in. / 176 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Jeff Zimmerman Text by Rachel Wolff. Foreword by Zesty Meyers, P.J. Park. Photographs by Sherry Griffin. American master glass artist Jeff Zimmerman (born 1968) began his career studying the Italian traditions of glassmaking with Lino Tagliapietro and Pino Signoretto, but was influenced conceptually by contemporary artists such as Maya Lin, Kiki >>more
R 20th Century/Gallery Seomi/Whitehaus Media
ISBN 9780970460851
US $45.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Clth, 8 x 13.25 in. / 86 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Jewelry And Design Essays by Silvana Annicchiarico, Alba Cappellieri and Marco Romanelli. Part of the series Italian Design from the Milan Trienniale, this volume documents the genesis, the symbolism and the history of jewelry, in a curious journey full of surprises as we discover jewelry's connection to >>more
Charta/Triennale di Milano
ISBN 9788881584963
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Paperback, 6 x 6 in. / 148 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Jewelry by Artists Text by Kelly H. L'Ecuyer. Contributions by Michelle Tolini Finamore, Yvonne J. Markowitz, Gerald W. R. Ward. Studio jewelry is defined not by an aesthetic or philosophy, but by its makers and their work process. Studio jewelers are independent artists in small workshops, directly handling their materials and producing one-of-a-kind pieces that >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467501
US $55.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.5 x 10.25 in. / 280 pgs / 200 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Kaitag Edited by Carlo Scaramuzza. Text by Robert Chenciner, Luigi Molinis, Moshe Tabibnia. Daghestan is a largely inaccessible and mountainous part of the Caucasus region. Its multi-ethnic population have created a remarkably vibrant textile tradition known as Kaitag: rectangular fabric panels embroidered with vividly colored silks and incorpo >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836617999
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Hbk, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 152 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Lethal Elegance Text by Joe Earle. As the "soul of the samurai," the sword is famously both the symbol and instrument of Japanese military prowess. Less known, at least in the west, is its role as a fashion accessory or status >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467754
US $37.50 CAN $37.50 TRADE
Pbk, 8.25 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Longines Watches Edited by John Goldberger. Text by Giampiero Negretti. >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788889431405
US $99.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 8 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 240 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2006 Active/In stock
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|  Maria Pergay: Complete Works 1957-2010 By Suzanne Demisch, Stephane Danant. Text by Adam Lindemann. Maria Pergay: Complete Works 1957-2010 is the first comprehensive survey of the work of the legendary French furniture designer, whose work has attracted clients and collectors from around the world for decades. Pergay is most >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862081740
US $70.00 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 325 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Ode to Joy Edited by Yuri A. Traisman. Text by Donald Kuspit, Elena Smirnova, Karen Kettering, Elvira Sametskaya, Alexander Borovsky, Olga Sosnina. Epilogue by Natalis Sipovskaya, Olga Sosnina. A bearded Jewish man with an umbrella from the 1870s, a stiff border guard from the 1930s, a serious but sexy female geologist from the 1950s and a young boy with a lemur on his >>more
Pinakoteka
ISBN 9780615247151
US $150.00 CAN $150.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 528 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Omega Sports Watches Edited by John Goldberger. Text by Giampiero Negretti. Omega was entrusted with timekeeping at the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1932 and has since been the official timekeeper at 22 Olympics. That association has led to more than half a century of pioneering >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788889431702
US $89.00 CAN $89.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 8.5 x 11.5 in. / 144 pgs / 450 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Omega Watches Edited by John Goldberger. Essay by Giampiero Negretti. John Goldberger has been collecting and studying vintage watches for over 25 years, which means he's spent many happy hours at jewelers' shops, flea markets, conventions and auctions around the world. His comprehensive and detailed >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788889431276
US $89.00 CAN $89.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 8 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 260 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Active/In stock
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|  Peter Skubic: Radical Skubic Jewelry Text by Manuela Schlossinger. Preface by Florian Hufnagl. Conversation with Helmuth Gsöllpointer, Florian Hufnagl, Petra Hölscher. Considered an enfant terrible among contemporary jewelers, Peter Skubic (born 1935) approaches jewelry as a sculptural experiment, investing his brooches and other pieces with angular austerity, clarity of proportion and bizarre agglomerations. This volu >>more
Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869842073
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 189 pgs / 126 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2012 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Roads of Arabia Edited by Ute Franke, Joachim Gierlichs. Roads of Arabia provides a unique cultural historical panorama of the Arabian Peninsula: the first hand axes, 6,000 year-old anthropomorphic stele, monumental Egyptian giant statues, Roman glass and metal works, early Islamic ceramics and other >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803033567
US $65.00 CAN $65.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 308 pgs / 387 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Roberta Furlanetto: Weave Foreword by Paola Nicolin. Introduction by Renata Molho. Fabric is to Roberta Furlanetto what oil and canvas are to painters. In fact, she might well take a canvas, fray it and weave it into other textiles with threads and precious stones. Furlanetto constructs >>more
Edizioni Corraini
ISBN 9788875700904
US $35.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 128 pgs / 101 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels Text by Sarah D. Coffin, Suzy Menkes, Ruth Peltason. Since its opening on the place Vendôme in Paris in 1906, renowned jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels has played a leading role in setting style and design trends in luxury jewelry and in the development >>more
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 9780910503853
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Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Sgrafo vs. Fat Lava Edited by Nicolas Trembley. Text by Ronan Bouroullec, Horst Makus, Nicolas Trembley. From Raymond Loewy’s austere “Form 2000” teapot set of the mid-1950s to the Sgrafo vases of the 1960s and the improbable “Fat Lava” glacis of the 1970s, postwar German ceramics exhibited a tremendous stylistic diversity, >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037642771
US $15.00 CAN $15.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 64 pgs / 22 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Shards By Garth Clark. Edited by John Pagliaro. Foreword by Ed Lebow. Breaking the ceramic arts up into incisive, historic, award-winning essays, Shards is an anthology of writings by Garth Clark, one of the most noted proponents of the medium. The writings in this volume span 25 >>more
D.A.P./Ceramic Arts Foundation
ISBN 9780972509701
US $45.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Clothbound, 7.5 x 9.25 in. / 518 pgs / 150 duotone.
Pub Date: 05/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Silver of the Americas, 1600-2000 Edited by Gerald W.R. Ward and Jeannine Falino. Text by Gerald W.R. Ward, Jeannine Falino, Jane Port, Rebecca Ann Gay Reynolds. At more than 500 pages, and featuring 1000 detailed reproductions, this handsome, extensive collection catalogue complements and updates Kathryn C. Buhler's landmark 1972 opus, American Silver, 1655-1825. It includes all of the American silver in >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467211
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Hardcover, 9 x 10.75 in. / 544 pgs / 1,000 b&w and 30 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Sounds Of The Silk Road: Musical Instruments Of Asia Text by Mitchell Clark. From the cymbals and gongs used by Chinese priests use to invoke deities to the oboes and drums of Turkish weddings, music and its related instruments are an integral part of life throughout Asia. Sounds >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466887
US $24.95 CAN $24.95 TRADE
Paperback, 8 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Soviet Textiles Essay by Pamela Jill Kachurin. Between 1927 and 1933, as the new Soviet Union emerged and the Communist party struggled to transform an agrarian country into an industrialized state, a group of young artists pitched in by designing fabrics depicting >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467037
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Paperback, 8 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 52 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2006 Active/In stock
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|  Space Light Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta This publication is the catalogue of a retrospective exhibition on the work of pioneer jeweler Margaret De Patta. A seminal figure in the American Modernist Jewelry movement, De Patta trained as a painter in the >>more
Officina Libraria (Acc)
ISBN 9781890385217
US $49.95 CAN $49.95 RETAIL
Pub Date: 00/00/0000 Active/
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| |  Textile and Fashion Arts Essays by Pamela A. Parmal, Lauren D. Whitley, Susan Ward, Alexandra B. Huff and Tiffany Webber-Hanchett. Humans have been producing textiles since the days of hunting and gathering. Over time, those primitive woven baskets, animal-skin garments and woolen coverings have given way to the increasingly sophisticated and varied clothing, furnishings, accessorie >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466993
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2006 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  The Elephant and the Lotus Introduction by John Stevenson. Text by Philippe Truong. For more than 2000 years, using the excellent clays of the Red River Valley, Vietnamese potters have produced some of the most sophisticated ceramic artifacts in Southeast Asia, dovetailing the Chinese ceramic tradition with other >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467174
US $85.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9 x 10 in. / 272 pgs / 280 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  The Maker's Hand Text by Edward S. Cooke, Kelly H. L'Ecuyer, Gerald W. R. Ward. The Studio Furniture movement began around the middle of the twentieth century, as a revival of the Victorian Arts and Crafts Movement, and as a reaction against the ongoing domination of mass-produced rote furniture. Over >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466634
US $35.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.25 x 10.25 in. / 168 pgs / 104 color / 71 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/In stock
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|  The New Jewelers: Desirable Collectable Contemporary Jewelry has long been an accessory attributed with talismanic power and significance, and its appeal crosses all boundaries of culture, age, and gender. In this beautiful new book, Olivier Dupon introduces over 100 of the >>more
Norton/Thames & Hudson
ISBN 9780500516294
US $45.00 CAN $45.00 RETAIL
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|  The Wonders of Africa Edited by Ivan Bargna, Giovanna Parodi da Passano. Text by Marc Augé, Jean-Paul Colleyn, Suzanne Preston Blier. The Wonders of Africa provides a generous overview of the wealth of African art held in Italian collections. Works are examined under four themed chapters: “Collections,” “Masks,” “Fetishes” and “Invisibles” (i.e. representations of folkloric crea >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836619498
US $60.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 204 pgs / 330 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Van Cleef & Arpels: Timeless Beauty Since opening its first boutique on the Place Vendôme in Paris in 1906, Van Cleef & Arpels has played a pioneering role in the development of the art of jewelry design. Now, on the occasion >>more
Editions Xavier Barral
ISBN 9782365110013
US $75.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 280 pgs / 280 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Wedgwood Text by Peter Kaellgren. Wedgwood has long been the gold standard in ceramics, an exemplar of English craftsmanship famed for its iconic blue-and-white patterns and unique glazes, and for the company's leading role in the industrialization of what was >>more
Royal Ontario Museum
ISBN 9780888544667
US $25.00 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Flexi, 5 x 7 in. / 200 pgs / 125 color / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Women's Work: Embroidery in Colonial Boston Text by Pamela A. Parmal. Charming us with their whimsy and conjuring a warm domesticity, embroideries from the colonial era also astonish us with the high prices they bring at art auctions. A single work could take years to make, >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467785
US $40.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Clth, 8 x 9.5 in. / 174 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Zenith: Swiss Watch Manufacture Since 1865 Edited by Manfred Rössler. This volume retraces the history of the famous Swiss watch house Zenith, documenting events and production over the course of the past 140 years. Setting out from the first pocket watches, which after the 30s >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862080699
US $150.00 CAN $150.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 11 in. / 328 pgs / 700 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock
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Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
ISBN 9789069181325
US $22.50 CAN $22.50 TRADE
Paperback
Pub Date: 02/02/1995 Out of print/Not available
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|  Anni Albers Edited by Nicholas Fox Weber and Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi. Essays by Kelly Feeney, Jean-Paul Leclercq and Virginia Gardner Troy. Among the foremost textile designers of the 20th century, Anni Albers was a central figure of the Weaving Workshop at the Bauhaus in prewar Germany. Accompanying a centennial retrospective of her work, this volume contains >>more
Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 9780892072729
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Hardcover, 9.25 x 12 in. / 181 pgs / 148 color / 83 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Out of print/Not available
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|  Beyond The Screen By Wang Shixiang. Artwork by Nancy Berliner. Text by Malcolm Rogers, Craig Clunas, Curtis Evarts, Sarah Handler, Wang Zhengshu, Wen Zhenheng. >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878464357
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / 64 color / 68 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Out of print/Not available
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|  Beyond the Screen By Wang Shixiang. Artwork by Nancy Berliner. Text by Malcolm Rogers, Craig Clunas, Curtis Evarts, Sarah Handler, Wang Zhengshu, Wen Zhenheng. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Chinese furniture reached a pinnacle of exceptional design and meticulous workmanship. Beyond the Screen leads the reader on a journey that encompasses not only the evolution of these exquisite >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878464340
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / 64 color / 68 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Out of print/Not available
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|  Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne Foreword by Adrian Dannatt. Text by Pierre Berge, Peter Marino, Reed Krakoff. These unreconstructed figurative sculptors and industrial designers have shown monsters and gilded butterflies in Paris, hippopotami in Tokyo, domesticated beasts in London and an enchanted garden in Florida, but their work has rarely been seen >>more
Reed Krakoff/Paul Kasmin/Ben Brown
ISBN 9780978889500
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Clothbound, 11.75 x 10 in. / 112 pgs / 51 color / 62 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Out of print/Not available
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|  Dutch Ceramics 1890-1940 Essay by Mienke Simon Thomas. The current fascination with early twentieth-century design makes this exploration of Art Deco and Art Nouveau ceramics from the Netherlands both exciting and timely. Encompassing earthenware, porcelain and stoneware products produced between circa 1890 >>more
nai010 publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ISBN 9789056622329
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Paperback, 11 x 8.75 in. / 200 pgs / 50 color / 160 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2002 Out of print/Not available
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|  Early Glass Of The Ancient World Contributions by Birgit Schlick-Nolte. Text by Marianne Stern. >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775705035
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Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 432 pgs / 150 color / 215 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/1995 Out of print/Not available
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| |  Fascinating Tinplate Text by Carsten Fleischhauer, David Pressland, Guntram Turkowski. Fascinating Tinplate depicts one of the largest private collections of tinplate toys in Germany, a collection that is here made public for the first time, in close-up photographs that lovingly animate a lost world of >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783866781818
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Hbk, 7.75 x 9.5 in. / 304 pgs / 289 color / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Out of Print/Not available
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|  Fragile Remnants: Egyptian Textiles of Late Antiquity and Early Islam Edited by Peter Noever. Essays by Regina Hofmann de Keijzer, Regina Knaller, Veronika Mader, Christine Sthrenberg, Angela Vàlker and Anke Weidner. Curtains, blankets, pillows, tunics--most Coptic textiles, the ancient and early Islamic fabrics unearthed at burial grounds and other archaeological sites in Egypt, are woven wool or linen. They were produced between the third and eighth >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775716994
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Paperback, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 198 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Out of print/Not available
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|  From Bakelite to Composite Text by Adriaan Beukers, Moniek Bucquoye, Lieven Daenens, Klaus Drechsler, Vicki McConnell, Lut Pil, Ignaas Verpoest. Composites. We hardly ever think about them, but we use them every day. We play, work, fly, ride, eat, wear and build with them. We find them literally everywhere, in skis, surfboards, motor helmets, bicycles, >>more
Stichting Kunstboek
ISBN 9789058560865
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Paperback, 10.25 x 8.25 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 03/02/2003 Out of print/Not available
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|  Games For The Gods Essays by John J. Herrmann Jr. and Christine Kondoleon. Foreword by Bill Littlefield. As Athens prepares for 2004, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, proudly presents the original Olympics in all their sweaty, heroic glory. Like today, sports were a vital part of daily life in ancient Greece. >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466801
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Clothbound, 10 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 207 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Out of print/Not available
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|  Gerd Rothman: Jewellery Essays by Dorothea Baumer, Barbara Cartlidge, Florian Hufnagl, Rüdiger Joppien and Sabine Runde. Since the early 1970s, gold- and silversmith Gerd Rothman has been reinterpreting traditional jewelry through a playful, intellectual approach. Working with body impressions taken from clients and from persons dear to them, he has crafted >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775711555
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Hardcover, 8.25 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 71 color / 101 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2002 Out of print/Not available
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|  Ipek: The Crescent & The Rose Edited by Julian Raby and Alison Effeny. Essays by Nurhan Atasoy, Walter B. Denny, Hulya Tezcan, Louise W. Mackie. Foreword by Turk Ekonomi Bankasi. Status symbols, diplomatic gifts, artistic mediums and economic treasures--figured silk fabrics were among the most powerful and most characteristic artistic products of the Ottoman Empire. Wars were fought for control of silk revenues, and governments >>more
Azimuth Editions
ISBN 9781898592198
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Hardcover, 10.75 x 13.75 in. / 360 pgs / 157 color / 383 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2002 Out of print/Not available
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|  Lethal Elegance Essay by Joe Earle. As the “soul of the samurai,” the sword is famously both the symbol and instrument of Japanese military prowess. Less known, at least in the West, is its role as a fashion accessory or status >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466795
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Clothbound, 8.5 x 9.25 in. / 250 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/02/2004 Out of print/Not available
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|  Loetz: Bohemian Glass 1880-1940 Edited by Helmut Ricke, Ernst Ploil and Jan Mergl. Essays by Alena Adlerova, Duna Panenkov and Wolfgang Hennig. Johann Loetz Witwe, the most productive art glass manufacturer in Bohemia in the late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries, owed its success to the sophisticated stained glass work it created in historic designs. With artistic >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775713221
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 336 pgs / 455 color / CD ROM.
Pub Date: 12/02/2003 Out of print/Not available
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|  Masters Of Origami Essays by V'Ann Cornelius, Koshiro Hatori, Paul Jackson, Michael La Fosse, Robert Lang and David Lister. A small square of paper measuring six by six inches is the unprepossessing starting point for origami, the nearly 2,000-year-old Japanese art of paper folding. From this modest material beginning, the origami master creates objects >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775716284
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Hardcover, 10 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2005 Out of print/Not available
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|  Netsuke Essay by Joe Earle. An elegant and insightful book.
--The Art Newspaper
Exquisite.
--Boston Globe
Joe Earle... has enlightened us with new facts associated with the subjects portrayed in netsuke and new insight into the background of this unique w >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466757
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Paperback, 8.5 x 9.25 in. / 356 pgs / 500 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Out of print/Not available
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|  Personal Touch, A Essays by Mienke Simon Thomas, Eric Turner, Lynn Springer Roberts, Veena Duncker, Reinhard Sänger. Silver has been a cherished heirloom and gift for centuries. Historians claim that by 3100 B.C. ambassadors to the Egyptian king from Crete brought silver vases as gifts. Today, sterling silver is a favorite medium >>more
nai010 publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ISBN 9789056623128
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 256 pgs / 250 color / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Out of print/Not available
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|  Piet Stockmans: Monograph Edited by Jo Rombouts. Essays by Hilde Bouchez and Garth Clark. An emancipator of porcelain, Piet Stockmans has freed this material to be a purely artistic means of expression. The Belgian artist first defunctionalized tableware, then created installations with porcelain on walls and floors, and finally >>more
Stichting Kunstboek
ISBN 9789058560810
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Hardcover, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 112 pgs / 62 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2003 Out of print/Not available
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|  Roman, Byzantine And Early Medieval Glass Essay by Marianne Stern. With the instincts of a true connoisseur, Ernest Wolf built a remarkably comprehensive collection of Roman, Byzantine, and early Medieval glasswork that is published here for the first time. Together these objects trace the formation >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775790420
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 200 pgs / 250 color / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 12/02/2001 Out of print/Not available
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|  Russia!: The Majesty Of The Tsars Essay by Irina Bogrovnitskaya. The Majesty of the Tsars: Treasures from the Kremlin is the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum's companion exhibition to the major show Russia! at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. This dazzling exhibition focuses on Russia >>more
Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 9780892073320
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Hardcover, 9.25 x 10.5 in. / 220 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2005 Out of print/Not available
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|  Samplers From A To Z Artwork by Pamela Parmal. For centuries, the sampler has been a mainstay of the seamstress's craft, at once a didactic tool, a commercial showcase, and, frequently, a work of art in itself. This beautifully illustrated, accessible book presents a >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878464814
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Paperback, 8.75 x 9.5 in. / 64 pgs / 54 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Out of print/Not available
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|  Shards Edited by John Pagliaro. Essays by Garth Clark. Foreword by Peter Schjeldahl. Introduction by Ed Lebow. Breaking the ceramic arts up into incisive, historic, award-winning essays, Shards is an anthology of writings by Garth Clark, one of the most noted proponents of the medium. The writings in this volume span 25 >>more
D.A.P./Ceramic Arts Foundation
ISBN 9780972509718
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 530 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Out of print/Not available
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|  The Ceramic Forms Of Leza Mcvey Edited by Martin Eidelberg. At the height of her career in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Leza McVey was one of the best-known American ceramists. The strikingly original organic forms that she created won prizes and critical acclaim. >>more
Philmark Publishers
ISBN 9780972690706
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Paperback, 8 x 12 in. / 88 pgs / 24 color / 66 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2003 Out of print/Not available
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|  The Jews Of Europe In The Middle Ages Essays by Javier Castaño, Renate Engles, Alfred Haverkamp, Maurice-Ruben Hayoun, Pia Herberer, Martha Keil, Frederek Musall and Werner Transier. Featuring abundant illustrations of religious, historical, and cultural objects and documents, this book traces the history of Judaism during the medieval period, from the 11th to the early 16th century. Two major centers of Jewish >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775791915
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 225 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2005 Out of print/Not available
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|  Tupperware: Transparent Introduction by Lieven Daenen. Text by Moniek Bucquoye, Vic Cautereels, Sylvia Katz, Peter Scholliers, Frédéric Wolters, Peter Zec. New edition, finally available! In 1942, driven by natural curiosity and a shortage of industrial materials during the war years, Earl Silas Tupper, an American dreamer and amateur inventor, produced his first injection-molded plastic cup, >>more
Stichting Kunstboek
ISBN 9789058561848
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Boxed, 7.5 x 10.75 in. / 192 pgs / 950 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2006 Out of print/Not available
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|  Van Cleef & Arpels: The Spirit of Beauty Foreword by Catherine Deneuve. Text by Francois Curiel, Vincent Meylan, Laurence Mouillefarine, Janet Zapata. This sumptuous clothbound volume reviews the history of the legendary French perfume, watch and jewelry designers Van Cleef & Arpels. The Paris-based company's prestige stems from a long list of prominent commissionsissued by royal and >>more
Editions Xavier Barral
ISBN 9782915173543
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Clth, 9 x 13 in. / 296 pgs / 240 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Out of print/Not available
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|  Viennese Silver: Modern Design 1780-1918 Essays by Markus Brüderlin, William D. Godsey Jr., Diether Halama, Michael Huey, J.S. Marcus, Joseph Rykwert, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier and Christopher Wilk. The history of modern design is not only older but much more multifaceted than commonly assumed. This thesis is elegantly borne out through an exploration of the work and influence of the Vienna avant-garde of >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775713177
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 376 pgs / 185 color / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/02/2003 Out of print/Not available
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|  Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry Text by Janis Staggs. The Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshops, was established in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, artists who subscribed to the English Arts and Crafts ideal of exceptionally well-made objects designed by artists and executed >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775721653
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Hardcover, 9.25 x 11.5 in. / 120 pgs / 72 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2008 Out of print/Not available
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|  Yearning for Beauty Edited by Peter Noever, Etienne Davignon, Paul Dujardin and Anne Mommens. Essays by Val»rie Dufour, Anette Freytag, Siegfried Mattl, Paulus Raine and Eduard F. Sekler, and conversations with Marc Hotermans and Heimo Zobernig. The Wiener Werkstâtte, founded in Vienna in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, became the international trademark for art as well as arts-and-crafts in the twentieth century. The fascinating history of the Wiener Werkstâtte >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775717786
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Hardcover, 9.75 x 13 in. / 452 pgs / 418 color and 267 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Out of print/Not available
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