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Carnegie Museum of Art: Decorative Arts and Design Collection Highlights
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 US $19.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE Pbk, 7.25 x 8.75 in. / 224 pgs / 250 color / b&w / 10 duotone. Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock

|  | The Maker's Hand American Studio Furniture, 1940-1990
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 $42.00 TRADE Pbk, 9.25 x 10.25 in. / 168 pgs / 104 color / 71 b&w. Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock

|  | Wedgwood Artistry and Innovation
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 $0.00 TRADE Flexi, 5 x 7 in. / 200 pgs / 125 color / 2 b&w. Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock

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Glass Stress

Glass Stress Text by Laura Mattioli Rossi. While we may think of Marcel Duchamp as the artist who reinvigorated the possibilities of glass for Modernism, many artists before and since have found ways to explore its fecund ambiguities of fragility and hardness, >>more Charta ISBN 9788881587438 US $55.00 CAN $66.00 TRADE Hbk, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 144 pgs / 110 color. Pub Date: 11/30/2009 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock

|  | Fascinating Tinplate A Toy Collection
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 US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Hbk, 7.75 x 9.5 in. / 304 pgs / 289 color / 6 b&w. Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock

|  | Ode to Joy Russian Porcelain in the Yuri Traisman Collection
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 $180.00 TRADE Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 528 pgs / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 08/30/2009 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock

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Ceramic Millennium Critical Writings on Ceramic History, Theory and Art
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 US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 430 pgs / 140 b&w. Pub Date: 04/01/2006 Active/In stock

|  | The Elephant and the Lotus Vietnamese Ceramics in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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 $102.00 TRADE Hardcover, 9 x 10 in. / 272 pgs / 280 color / 10 b&w. Pub Date: 01/01/2008 Active/In stock

|  | Art and Reform: Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening Girls, and the Paul Revere Pottery

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 US $24.95 CAN $30.00 TRADE Paperback, 8 x 9 in. / 104 pgs/ illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Active/In stock

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Zenith: Swiss Watch Manufacture Since 1865

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 $180.00 TRADE Hbk, 8 x 11 in. / 328 pgs / 700 color. Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock

|  | Omega Sports Watches

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 $107.00 TRADE Hardcover, 8.5 x 11.5 in. / 144 pgs / 450 color. Pub Date: 09/01/2007 Active/In stock

|  | Longines Watches

Longines Watches Edited by John Goldberger. Text by Giampiero Negretti. >>more Damiani ISBN 9788889431405 US $99.00 CAN $119.00 TRADE Hardcover, 8 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 240 color. Pub Date: 09/01/2006 Active/In stock

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Omega Watches

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 $107.00 TRADE Hardcover, 8 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 260 color. Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Active/In stock

|  | Imperishable Beauty Art Nouveau Jewelry
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 $54.00 TRADE Hardback, 8.75 x 9.25 in. / 176 pgs / 160 color. Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock

|  | Giuliana Michelotti: Inform

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 US $39.95 CAN $48.00 TRADE Hardback, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 84pgs / 55 color. Pub Date: 02/01/2008 Active/In stock

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Silver of the Americas, 1600-2000 American Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Volume 3
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 US $100.00 CAN $120.00 TRADE Hardcover, 9 x 10.75 in. / 544 pgs / 1,000 b&w and 30 color. Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Active/In stock

|  | Yearning for Beauty The Wiener Werkst?tte and the Stoclet House
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 US $95.00 CAN $114.00 FLAT40 Hardcover, 9.75 x 13 in. / 452 pgs / 418 color and 267 b&w. Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/In stock

|  | American Decorative Arts MFA Highlights
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 $24.00 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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Soviet Textiles Designing the Modern Utopia
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 US $24.95 CAN $30.00 TRADE Paperback, 8 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 52 color. Pub Date: 08/01/2006 Active/In stock

|  | Textile and Fashion Arts MFA Highlights
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 US $19.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 130 color. Pub Date: 07/01/2006 Active/In stock

|  | Sounds Of The Silk Road: Musical Instruments Of Asia Musical Instruments of Asia
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 $30.00 TRADE Paperback, 8 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color. Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

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Roberta Furlanetto: Weave Tessere
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 $42.00 TRADE Paperback, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 128 pgs / 101 color. Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

|  | Dressing Ourselves

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 US $44.95 CAN $54.00 TRADE Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 120 pgs / 164 color. Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

|  | Jewelry And Design

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 US $19.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 6 in. / 148 pgs / 100 color. Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/In stock

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Lethal Elegance Samurai Sword Fittings
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 US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE Clothbound, 8.5 x 9.25 in. / 250 pgs. Pub Date: 12/02/2004 Active/In stock

|  | Netsuke Fantasy and Reality in Japanese Miniature Sculpture
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 US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE Paperback, 8.5 x 9.25 in. / 356 pgs / 500 color. Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Active/In stock

|  | Illy Collection A Decade of Artist Cups by illycaffè
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 US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE Hardcover, 7.75 x 7.75 in. / 212 pgs / 351 color / 33 b&w. Pub Date: 04/02/2003 Active/In stock

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From Bakelite to Composite Design in New Materials
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 US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE Paperback, 10.25 x 8.25 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color. Pub Date: 03/02/2003 Active/In stock

|  | English Silver In The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, Volume 2

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 US $85.00 CAN $102.00 TRADE Hardcover, 9 x 11.5 in. / 416 pgs / 28 color / 800 duotone. Pub Date: 12/02/2000 Active/In stock

|  | Beyond the Screen Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries
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 US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE Hardcover, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / 64 color / 68 b&w. Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Active/In stock

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Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts

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 US $34.95 CAN $42.00 TRADE Clothbound, 4.75 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 180 color. Pub Date: 06/01/2006 Active/Awaiting stock

|  | Shards Garth Clark On Ceramic Art
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 $54.00 TRADE Clothbound, 7.5 x 9.25 in. / 518 pgs / 150 duotone. Pub Date: 05/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock

|  | Loetz: Bohemian Glass 1880-1940

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 US $75.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 336 pgs / 455 color / CD ROM. Pub Date: 12/02/2003 Active/Awaiting stock

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Piet Stockmans: Monograph

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 US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE Hardcover, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 112 pgs / 62 color. Pub Date: 08/02/2003 Active/Awaiting stock

|  | Structure And Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles

Structure And Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles Edited by Matilda McQuaid. Text by Cara McCarty. >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870700767 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Hardcover, 8.75 x 12 in. / 104 pgs / 67 color / 25 b&w. Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Active/In stock

|  | Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry

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 US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE 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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Masters Of Origami The Art of Paper Folding
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 US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE Hardcover, 10 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 120 color. Pub Date: 09/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

|  | Games For The Gods The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit
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 US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Clothbound, 10 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 207 color / 10 b&w. Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

|  | Ipek: The Crescent & The Rose Imperial Ottoman Silks and Velvets
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 US $150.00 CAN $180.00 TRADE 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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Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne

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 US $75.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE Clothbound, 11.75 x 10 in. / 112 pgs / 51 color / 62 b&w. Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Out of print/Not available

|  | Tupperware: Transparent

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 US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE Boxed, 7.5 x 10.75 in. / 192 pgs / 950 color. Pub Date: 09/01/2006 Out of print/Not available

|  | Fragile Remnants: Egyptian Textiles of Late Antiquity and Early Islam

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 US $40.00 CAN $48.00 TRADE 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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Russia!: The Majesty Of The Tsars Treasures from the Kremlin Museum
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 US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Hardcover, 9.25 x 10.5 in. / 220 pgs / 100 color. Pub Date: 10/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

|  | The Jews Of Europe In The Middle Ages

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 US $55.00 CAN $66.00 TRADE Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 225 color / 75 b&w. Pub Date: 01/02/2005 Out of print/Not available

|  | Shards Garth Clark on Ceramic Art
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 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 530 pgs / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

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Viennese Silver: Modern Design 1780-1918

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 US $29.98 CAN $36.00 TRADE Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 376 pgs / 185 color / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 10/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

|  | The Ceramic Forms Of Leza Mcvey

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 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Paperback, 8 x 12 in. / 88 pgs / 24 color / 66 b&w. Pub Date: 08/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

|  | Anni Albers

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 US $60.00 CAN $72.00 TRADE 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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Personal Touch, A Late 19th and 20th Century Silver From The Seawolf Collection
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 NAi Publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen ISBN 9789056623128 US $55.00 CAN $66.00 TRADE Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 256 pgs / 250 color / 32 b&w. Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

|  | Gerd Rothman: Jewellery

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 US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Hardcover, 8.25 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 71 color / 101 b&w. Pub Date: 08/02/2002 Out of print/Not available

|  | Dutch Ceramics 1890-1940

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 NAi Publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen ISBN 9789056622329 US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE 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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Roman, Byzantine And Early Medieval Glass Ernesto Wolf Collection
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 US $75.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE Hardcover, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 200 pgs / 250 color / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 12/02/2001 Out of print/Not available

|  | English Silver In The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston Vol. 1: Silver Before 1697
English Silver In The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston Artwork by Ellen Alcorn. >>more MFA Publications ISBN 9780878463749 US $18.95 CAN $23.00 TRADE Hardcover, 9 x 11.5 in. / 240 pgs / 16 color / 362 b&w. Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Out of print/Not available

|  | Beyond The Screen

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 US $30.00 CAN $36.00 TRADE 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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Samplers From A To Z

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 US $19.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE Paperback, 8.75 x 9.5 in. / 64 pgs / 54 color. Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Out of print/Not available

|  | Early Glass Of The Ancient World

Early Glass Of The Ancient World Contributions by Birgit Schlick-Nolte. Text by Marianne Stern. >>more Hatje Cantz Publishers ISBN 9783775705035 US $80.00 CAN $96.00 TRADE Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 432 pgs / 150 color / 215 b&w. Pub Date: 07/02/1995 Out of print/Not available

|  | Ado Toys

Ado Toys beautiful wooden toys manufactured in the 1920s-1950s by TB patinets in Holland >>more Museum Boijmans van Beuningen ISBN 9789069181325 US $22.50 CAN $27.00 TRADE Paperback Pub Date: 02/02/1995 Out of print/Not available

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