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Decorative Arts, Jewelry, Ceramics, Glass, Textiles

    

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A Banquet of Wonders: Delighting in the World
A Banquet of Wonders: Delighting in the World
Edited by Benjamin Loyauté. Text by Ryoko Sekiguchi, Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Yves Élie, Laure Ménétrier. Afterword by Axelle de Buffévent.

At the crossroads of an artistic, aesthetic and poetic heritage, A Banquet of Wonders: Delighting in the World invites readers to partake in a visual feast of art and decorative objects celebrating the taste for >>more

JBE Books
ISBN 9782365680752
US $40.00 CAN $58.00 TRADE
Clth, 6 x 8.5 in. / 280 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 04/16/2024 Awaiting stock


Bohemian Glass: The Great Masters
Bohemian Glass: The Great Masters
Edited by Caterina Tognon, Sylva Petrová.

Realized in collaboration with the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, Bohemian Glass highlights the work of six major Czech glass artists born in the 1920s and ’30s. These great masters nurtured a new mode >>more

SKIRA
ISBN 9788857249858
US $50.00 CAN $72.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 200 pgs / 240 color.
Pub Date: 03/05/2024 In stock


Cartier: Islamic Inspiration and Modern Design
Cartier: Islamic Inspiration and Modern Design
Text by Evelyne Possémé, Judith Henon-Raynaud.

Throughout modern history, Islamic art has influenced the production of jewelry and decorative objects in the Western world. The prestigious French luxury manufacturer Cartier is no exception to this rule. Spanning the early 20th century >>more

SKIRA
ISBN 9782370742353
US $49.95 CAN $71.95 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 248 pgs / 320 color.
Pub Date: 04/16/2024 Awaiting stock


Formafantasma: Oltre Terra
Formafantasma: Oltre Terra
Edited by Hanne Eide, Kristian Wikborg Wiese, Marianne Yvenes.

In this volume, the Milan-based multidisciplinary design studio Formafantasma investigates the history, ecology and global dynamics of the extraction and production of wool. A wide range of artworks, agricultural and cultural objects, photographs, videos and >>more

Walther König, Köln/The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
ISBN 9783753303666
US $40.00 CAN $58.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 154 color / 108 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/09/2024 In stock


NasonMoretti: The History of a Murano Glassworks Family
NasonMoretti: The History of a Murano Glassworks Family
Edited by Cristina Beltrami.

This volume looks at the most successful objects created by the glassworks firm of Nason & Moretti and its collaborations with some of the most important figures in design and architecture, demonstrating the great vitality >>more

Marsilio Arte
ISBN 9791254631409
US $45.00 CAN $65.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 224 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 03/19/2024 Out of stock


Threads: Material, Myths & Symbols
Threads: Material, Myths & Symbols
Text by Jörg von Alvensleben, Martin Rudolf Brenninkmeijer, Gösta Ingvar Gabriel, Birte Hinrichsen, Corinna Otto, Maria Spitz.

Inspired by ancient myths and legends that still echo in contemporary culture, Threads deals with the symbolic meanings that thread holds for human life. Works of contemporary art by Louise Bourgeois, Antonio Tempesta and others >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783753304953
US $40.00 CAN $58.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 176 pgs / 82 color.
Pub Date: 06/25/2024 Awaiting stock


Wilmotte / Murano
Wilmotte / Murano
Text by Bruno Racine, Marzia Scalon. Photographs by Alessandra Chemollo, Luigi “Gigi” Ferrigno.

This book documents the collaboration between French architect and designer Jean-Michel Wilmotte (born 1948) with the historical glass workshop of Murano for his Vessels series. The transparency and malleability of glass allow for delicate artworks >>more

SKIRA
ISBN 9782370742247
US $50.00 CAN $72.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 168 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 03/26/2024 In stock


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

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100 Masterpieces of Design
100 Masterpieces of Design
Edited by Françoise Guichon, Frédéric Migayrou. Preface by Alfred Pacquement. 100 Masterpieces of Design showcases one of the world’s largest design collections. Founded in the early 1990s, the Pompidou’s collection includes more than 200 designers and houses over 8,000 international pieces. Among its wide-ranging holdings >>more

Centre Pompidou
ISBN 9782844264756
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 120 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2014 In stock


1000 Vases
1000 Vases
Edited by Pier Paolo Pitacco.

A vase is never merely a container. As Georges Braque once said, "the vase gives form to emptiness": ever since the earliest human civilizations, this object has had a purpose that is greater than its >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857246734
US $60.00 CAN $82.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 8.25 in. / 904 pgs / 1000 color.
Pub Date: 04/05/2022 In stock


A World Of Belts
A World Of Belts
By Anne Leurquin.

A World of Belts is the fifth book in the series devoted to ethnic jewelery and body ornamentation from the Ghysels collection. Over 40 years in the making, this remarkable collection is made up of >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788884918659
US $75.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.7 x 11.5 in. / 360 pgs / 440 illustrations.
Pub Date: 11/30/2004 In stock


Alcantara
Alcantara
Edited by Luca Masia.

Since the beginning of its history, Alcantara has established a fruitful working relationship with designers and creative people from all over the world in the most diverse areas of design.

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SKIRA
ISBN 9788857248257
US $52.00 CAN $73.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 04/25/2023 In stock


American Decorative Arts
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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466986
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 130 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2006 In stock


Artifices instables
Artifices instables
Edited with text by Cristiano Raimondi. Text by Cecilia Canziani, Valérie Da Costa, Chus Martínez, Agnčs Roux.

Featuring more than 200 works by artists from the 19th century to today, this publication features the Fischers, Albert Diato, Eugčne Baudin, Johan Creten, Simone Fattal, George Ohr, Ron Nagle, Pablo Picasso and Magdalena Suarez >>more

Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867494491
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 408 pgs / 156 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/07/2021 Out of stock


Arts and Crafts Jewelry in Boston
Arts and Crafts Jewelry in Boston
Text by Nonie Gadsden, Meghan Melvin, Emily Stoehrer.

At the turn of the 20th century in Boston, a vibrant and active community of jewelry makers—along with artists, craftspeople, scholars, critics and patrons—found unity in the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement, which >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468577
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 224 pgs / 135 color.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 In stock


Beauty
Beauty
Edited with introduction by Andrea Lipps, Ellen Lupton. Foreword by Caroline Baumann. Interviews by Andrea Lipps, Ellen Lupton, Suvi Saloniemi. Beauty--the book, born out of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's 2015 Triennial of the same name, curated by Andrea Lipps and Ellen Lupton--showcases some of the most exciting and provocative design created around the globe >>more

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9781942303114
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 12.5 in. / 276 pgs / 160 color / 75 duotone.
Pub Date: 12/29/2015 In stock


Blind Maps and Blue Dots
Blind Maps and Blue Dots
By Joost Grootens.

Mapmaking has been an essential part of human development since ancient times: through the art of cartography, people have been able to record geographical explorations and communicate spatial information in relation to themselves and the >>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786581
US $40.00 CAN $56.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 192 pgs / 47 color.
Pub Date: 06/08/2021 In stock


Bulgari: Serpenti
Bulgari: Serpenti
Edited with text by Alba Cappellieri.

In this luxurious clothbound volume, the house of Bulgari meditates on the theme of metamorphosis and an ancient symbol of regeneration, the serpent. The snake has been an icon for the Roman fashion house from >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836649471
US $45.00 CAN $61.00 TRADE
Clth, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 248 pgs / 190 color.
Pub Date: 06/07/2022 In stock


Carnegie Museum of Art: Decorative Arts and Design
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 $27.95 TRADE
Pbk, 7.25 x 8.75 in. / 224 pgs / 250 color / b&w / 10 duotone.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 In stock


Complete Copier
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
US $95.00 CAN $127.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 520 pgs / 1,225 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 In stock


Corbella Milano
Corbella Milano
Edited by Bianca Cappello, Angelica Corbella.

In 1865, the Corbella Company, which proclaimed itself the “First Italian Manufacturer of Jewelry and Weapons for the Theatre,” was founded in the heart of Milan. From the very beginning of its long history, it >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836640362
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 216 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock


Crafted: Objects in Flux
Crafted: Objects in Flux
Text by Emily Zilber. Contemporary art and craft presents a profusion of paradoxes. It bridges ancient traditions and state-of-the-art technologies, cutting-edge concepts and enduring tenets about skilled making and beauty, and in so doing blurs the lines between art, >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468294
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 09/29/2015 In stock


Czech Glass
Czech Glass
Text by Mária Gálová.

This volume introduces an international audience to 10 Czech artists working with glass today. Artists include Luba Bakicová, Klára Horácková, Martin Janecký, Vladimíra Klumpar, Tomáš Krejcí, Zdenek Lhotský, Michal Macku, Jaroslav Róna, Petr Stanický and >>more

KANT
ISBN 9788074373527
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 8 x 8 in. / 168 pgs / 55 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2022 In stock


Deco Ceramics
Deco Ceramics
Edited with text by Caludia Casali. Text by Olivia Rucellai, Lorenzo Fiorucci.

Italian designers Domenico Rambelli, Francesco Nonni, Pietro Melandri, Riccardo Gatti and Giovanni Guerrini are among its protagonists; also represented are German ceramics of the Weimar Republic and works from France and Belgium.

Expanding the context of >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836636075
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 177 color.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock


Design Struggles
Design Struggles
Edited with text by Claudia Mareis, Nina Paim. Text by Danah Abdulla, Tanveer Ahmed, Zoy Anastassakis, Brave New Alps, Johannes Bruder, Cheryl Buckley, Sria Chatterjee, Alison J. Clarke, common-interest, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Decolonising Design, Bianca Elzenbaumer, Arturo Escobar, Kjetil Fallan, Griselda Flesler, Paola De Martin, Ramia Mazée, Tania Messell, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Rebecca Ross, Nan O’Sullivan, Mia Charlene White.

Critically assessing the complicity of design in creating, perpetuating and reinforcing social, political and environmental problems—both today and in the past—Design Struggles proposes to brush the discipline against the grain, by problematizing Western notions of >>more

Valiz
ISBN 9789492095886
US $35.00 CAN $49.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 448 pgs / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/11/2021 Out of stock


Design for a Living World
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, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9780910503884
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 200 pgs / 325 color.
Pub Date: 05/14/2009 In stock


Diva! Italian Glamour in Fashion Jewellery
Diva! Italian Glamour in Fashion Jewellery
Edited with text by Alba Cappellieri.

A book about costume jewelry and its creative intersections with Italian excellence, Diva! presents 200 Italian fashion jewels from the Dolce Vita of the 1950s to the Pręt-ŕ-Porter of the 1980s, from the minimalism of >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836648047
US $65.00 CAN $88.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 304 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock


Double Act: A Contemporary Glass Collection
Double Act: A Contemporary Glass Collection
Edited by Caterina Tognon.

This volume documents a rare collection of works from the International Studio Glass movement that arose in the 1950s, signaling a major revival of the craft. Housed in Venice, Italy at the Istituto Veneto di >>more

Marsilio Arte
ISBN 9791254630624
US $35.00 CAN $49.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 336 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 03/14/2023 In stock


Ettore Sottsass: The Glass
Ettore Sottsass: The Glass
Edited by Luca Massimo Barbero.

The brilliant architect and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) designed glass wares from 1947 until the end of his career. He established a working relationship with the glass makers on the Venetian island of Murano during >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857235356
US $70.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 11.75 in. / 328 pgs / 579 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock


Fabric of a Nation
Fabric of a Nation
Edited with text by Pamela A. Parmal, Jennifer M. Swope, Lauren D. Whitley. Preface by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

A New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift guide pick

A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468768
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 10.5 in. / 240 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2021 In stock


FontanaArte: House of Glass
FontanaArte: House of Glass
Edited by Christian Larsen.

Accompanying a show in Venice, this comprehensive volume chronicles the legendary Milanese glass manufacturer FontanaArte through the production periods led by its four great artistic directors: Gio Ponti (1932–33), Pietro Chiesa (1933–48), Max Ingrand (1954–67) >>more

SKIRA
ISBN 9788857248011
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 04/25/2023 In stock


Fulvio Bianconi at Venini
Fulvio Bianconi at Venini
Edited by Marino Barovier, Carla Sonego.

The refined output of vases, bowls, and animals by the great graphic artist, illustrator, and designer for the long-standing Venetian glasshouse.

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Skira
ISBN 9788857230085
US $80.00 CAN $100.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 12.25 in. / 512 pgs / 1389 illustrations.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 Out of stock


Geert Lap: Specific Objects
Geert Lap: Specific Objects
Text by Titus M. Eliëns, Ernst van Alphen, Jac Geurts.

The ceramic work of the Durch ceramicist Geert Lap (1951–2017) belongs to a late modernist tradition that rejected decoration and historical references. In its intent and eloquence, his oeuvre bears comparison with the minimalism of >>more

Nai010 Publishers
ISBN 9789462085114
US $80.00 CAN $110.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 272 pgs / 250 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/12/2019 In stock


Gianmaria Buccellati Foundation: A Century of Goldsmith’s Art
Gianmaria Buccellati Foundation: A Century of Goldsmith’s Art
By Gianmaria Buccellati.

The extraordinary jewelry made by the famous international fashion house and its masters. An Italian story.

This book illustrates a century in the history of goldsmith art through the treasures of the Buccellati Foundation designed by >>more

Skira editore
ISBN 9788857234366
US $95.00 CAN $120.00 TRADE
Hbk, 12 x 12.5 in. / 320 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 07/21/2020 In stock


Gianni Arnaudo: Anti-Design
Gianni Arnaudo: Anti-Design
Text by Gianni Arnaudo.

This new monograph details the pioneering career of Italian architect Gianni Arnaudo, whose bold sensibilities have secured his place as one of contemporary design’s most significant figures. As one of the primary founding practitioners at >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857244143
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 224 color.
Pub Date: 07/13/2021 In stock


Glass from Finland in the Bischofberger Collection
Glass from Finland in the Bischofberger Collection
Edited by Kaisa Koivisto, Pekka Korvenmaa.

A new volume from the project “Le Stanze del Vetro” dedicated to Finnish glass design. ?This richly illustrated volume features artworks from 1932 to 1973 in the Bruno Bischofberger Collection, bringing together 330 masterpieces in >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857227610
US $75.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 416 pgs / 260 color.
Pub Date: 10/06/2015 Out of stock


Goldstruck: A Life Shaped by Jewellery
Goldstruck: A Life Shaped by Jewellery
By Stephen Webster. Foreword by Tracey Emin. Photographs by Rankin and Amelia Troubridge.

Goldstruck: A Life Shaped by Jewellery sets luxurious imagery of a lifetime’s work alongside an honest and often comically autobiographical account of a career in the jewelry world.
The book is a lavish collation of Stephen >>more

Heni Publishing
ISBN 9780956873842
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 12.25 in. / 384 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 11/15/2015 In stock


Handicraft
Handicraft
Edited by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Rainald Franz, Tina Zickler. Interview by Rainald Franz, Tina Zickler, Richard Sennett.

It traces the history of handicraft, explores new developments on the interface to digital technologies, and presents masterpieces from a range of craft disciplines.

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Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903131835
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 FLAT40
Pbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 208 pgs / 247 color.
Pub Date: 07/25/2017 Out of stock


Hidden Patterns: Visualizing Networks at Barabasi Lab
Hidden Patterns: Visualizing Networks at Barabasi Lab
Text by Peter Weibel, Albert-László Barabási, Mónica Bello, Julia Fabényi, Kathleen Forde, József Készman, Isabel Meirelles, Carlo Ratti, Matthew Ritchie, András Szántó.

The Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR) at Northeastern University, Boston, directed by Professor Albert-László Barabási (bestselling author of The Formula, Linked and Network Science), has a simple objective: think networks. The center's research focuses >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775748629
US $46.00 CAN $63.50 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 01/19/2021 In stock


Hilma af Klint Orange Notebook
Hilma af Klint Orange Notebook

This is a blank book with a beautiful Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) painting detail on the cover from her series Paintings for the Temple. This notebook features textured paper over board binding, colored endpapers and >>more

Bokförlaget Stolpe
ISBN 9789189069220
US $24.95 CAN $34.95 SDNR50
Hbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/11/2020 In stock


Imaginings by Kiki van Eijk
Imaginings by Kiki van Eijk
Text by Blaire Dessent, Lidewij Edelkoort, Marc Mulders, Susanne Russeler.

Over the past 20 years, the Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk (born 1978) has created an extensive oeuvre including carpets, tapestries, lamps, glassware, furniture and sculptural objects. Her playfulness with form, great attention to tactility >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462086104
US $40.00 CAN $56.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 144 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 02/16/2021 In stock


Immutable: Designing History
Immutable: Designing History
By Chris Lee.

Here, graphic designer and Pratt Institute professor Chris Lee looks at graphic design in relation to politically loaded documents such as passports, money and property deeds, showing how the profession’s entanglement with power can be >>more

Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148420
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 5.75 in. / 192 pgs / 50 duotone.
Pub Date: 05/30/2023 Out of stock


Imperial Threads: Motifs and Artisans from Turkey, Iran and India
Imperial Threads: Motifs and Artisans from Turkey, Iran and India
Text by Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, Julia Tugwell.

(Due to the development of firearms during that period, these dynasties are commonly referred to as the “Gunpowder Empires.”) Focusing on carpets as the primary medium, the volume also features manuscripts, metalwork, ceramics and more. >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836636174
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 200 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 Out of stock


In Grimani
In Grimani
Edited by Giulio Manieri Elia, Ritsue Mishima, Ana Milijanovic.

Where contemporary art meets the millennium-old glassmaking techniques. The Palazzo Grimani Museum in Venice opens its doors to contemporary art with the exhibition In Grimani, a collateral event of the Venice Biennale featuring the glass >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831716475
US $36.00 CAN $49.95 TRADE
Pbk, 10.25 x 8.25 in. / 144 pgs / 74 color.
Pub Date: 08/13/2013 In stock


In Praise of Hands
In Praise of Hands
Text by Franco Cologni. Photographs by Patrick Gries, Francesco Cito.

A trip to the discovery of jewelry manufacturing. Founded in Paris in 1896, Van Cleef & Arpels is perhaps the most renowned maison of fine jewelry in the world. The book reveals for the first >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831714860
US $90.00 CAN $125.00 TRADE
Hbk, 13 x 11 in. / 200 pgs / 157 color.
Pub Date: 09/10/2013 In stock


Ines Doujak & John Barker: Loomshuttles, Warpaths
Ines Doujak & John Barker: Loomshuttles, Warpaths

Loom Shuttles, Warpaths is a visual study of textiles and their global history—a history that is characterized by cultural, class and gender conflict, and one that sheds light on the asymmetrical relationships between Europe and >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052184
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 12.5 in. / 344 pgs / 48 color / 348 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock


Italian Art Ceramics
Italian Art Ceramics
Edited by Valerio Terraroli, Paola Franceschini.

Beautifully illustrated and well documented with detailed technical entries, this volume surveys the production of Italian ceramic art through 500 objects. The essays examine the stylistic trends from the brilliant floral decorativism of the Tuscan >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788876246869
US $80.00 CAN $100.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 328 pgs / 255 color / 474 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/08/2007 Out of stock


Italian Textile Design
Italian Textile Design
Text by Vittorio Linfante, Massimo Zanella.

The dynamic geometrical patterns of Emilio Pucci; the dazzling trompe-l’śil effects of Roberta di Camerino; the pop sensibilities of Gianni Versace and Franco Moschino; the bold street-style prints of Iuter and Sunnei—these and countless other >>more

Marsilio Arte
ISBN 9791254630891
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 224 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock


Italian Tin Boxes
Italian Tin Boxes
Edited by Dario Cimorelli, Michele Gabbani, Marco Gusmeroli.

Italian Tin Boxes: 1885–1950 traces the history of this humble, fascinating object in Italy from its origins through its heyday, surveying a selection of more than 500 boxes produced between the late 19th century and >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836635979
US $65.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.5 x 11 in. / 258 pgs / 320 color.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock


Jewellery
Jewellery
Text by Alba Cappellieri.

Jewellery: From Art Nouveau to 3D Printing presents an extraordinary collection of jewels and jewelers from the start of the 20th century to the present day. The book is a global journey through taste and >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857237374
US $70.00 CAN $92.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 In stock


Jewels by Giulio Manfredi Celebrate Raphael
Jewels by Giulio Manfredi Celebrate Raphael
Edited by Arnaldo Colasanti, Alberto Rocca.

Italian-born, Connecticut-based jeweler Giulio Manfredi presents his latest collection of 21 jewels, each inspired by a different character from Raphael’s The School of Athens. Surrounded by preparatory drawings of the famous painting in Raphael’s Cartoon >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836652921
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Hbk, 12 x 12 in. / 128 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 05/30/2023 In stock


Joe Colombo: Designer
Joe Colombo: Designer
Edited with text by Ignazia Favata. Text by Domitilla Dardi.

The Tube Chair, the Spider lamp and the Boby trolley (now in the collection of MoMA in New York); the “Monoblocks,” such as the Mini-Kitchen or the Total Table with its integrated dishes; the beautiful >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836646333
US $90.00 CAN $126.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 282 color / 461 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/17/2021 In stock


Joris Laarman: Lab
Joris Laarman: Lab
Edited by Anita Star. Text by Andrea Lipps, Sarah Schleuning, Cindi Strauss, Mark Wilson.

Furniture generated by smart algorithms, the first fully functional 3-D printed steel bridge, and a 3-D printable chair that can be downloaded from the Internet—these are but a few examples of the ingenious oeuvre of >>more

August Editions
ISBN 9781947359000
US $60.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7.75 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 200 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/10/2017 In stock


Jörg Schellmann: Discreet Beauty of Simplicity
Jörg Schellmann: Discreet Beauty of Simplicity
Text by Mateo Kries, Jörg Schellmann, Donald Judd, Liam Gillick.

A longtime art dealer and publisher, Jörg Schellmann (born 1944) has been working with the world’s most important contemporary artists for over 40 years, but only began producing his own furniture designs in the past >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775748544
US $50.00 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 312 pgs / 168 color.
Pub Date: 04/13/2021 In stock


Kai Althoff Goes with Bernard Leach
Kai Althoff Goes with Bernard Leach
Edited by Emily Butler. Text by Dominic Eichler, Matthew Tyas. Interview by Iouri Podlatchikov, Kathy Halbreich.

German artist Kai Althoff (born 1966) is renowned as a figurative painter and creator of all-encompassing poetic environments that incorporate textiles, photographs, drawings and artifacts. Althoff draws from a wide range of literary, cultural and >>more

Whitechapel Gallery
ISBN 9780854882854
US $100.00 CAN $140.00 TRADE
Hbk, 12 x 13.75 in. / 188 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 03/29/2022 Out of stock


Kwab
Kwab
Text by Reinier Baarssen.

The 17th-century auricular or lobate style—Kwabstijl, in Dutch—is one of the most important and remarkable Dutch contributions to the decorative arts in Europe.

Soft, smooth, undulating masses that resemble the curvature of the cartilage of the >>more

nai010 publishers/Rijksmuseum
ISBN 9789462084285
US $80.00 CAN $107.50 TRADE
Hbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock


Lenci
Lenci
Text by Valerio Terraroli, Stefania Cretella, Maria Grazia Gargiulo, Claudia Casali.

The glorious Manifattura Lenci of Turin is the star of this volume, which presents 150 works from the important Giuseppe and Gabriella Ferrero Collection. The historic Lenci factory was founded by Enrico Scavini and his >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836639205
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 192 pgs / 120 color / 220 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/23/2018 In stock


Les Cristalleries Saint-Louis
Les Cristalleries Saint-Louis
In 1767, King Louis XV of France conferred the title of "Royal glassworks of Saint-Louis" on the Müntzthal glass workshop in Lorraine, already in operation for 200 years. Fifteen years later, the workshop's crystal glass >>more

Actes Sud
ISBN 9782330049164
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 160 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 12/29/2015 In stock


Lino Tagliapietra: Glasswork
Lino Tagliapietra: Glasswork
Text by Lino Tagliapietra.

The life and work of a major Venetian glassmaker.

This is a large illustrated volume on the work of the legendary master glassmaker Lino Tagliapietra. On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of his career, this >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831725477
US $90.00 CAN $125.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11.75 x 8.2 in. / 172 pgs / 165 color.
Pub Date: 03/28/2017 In stock


Louis Comfort Tiffany: Parakeets Window
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Parakeets Window
Text by Nonie Gadsden.

The story of the resplendent Parakeets stained glass window—from national and international recognition to years of obscurity, followed by a return to the limelight—parallels the public reception of the art of its maker, Louis Comfort >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468560
US $9.95 CAN $14.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 78 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock


Making Design
Making Design
Text by Cara McCarty, Matilda McQuaid, Susan Brown, Kimberly Randall, Lucy Commoner, Sarah D. Coffin, Cynthia Trope, Gail S. Davidson, Caitlin Condell, Gregory Herringshaw, Stephen Van Dyk, Elizabeth Broman, Jennifer Cohlman Bracchi, Sarah Lawrence, Mary McWilliams. Cooper Hewitt possesses one of the most diverse and comprehensive collections of design works in existence and is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. Reopening in late >>more

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9780910503747
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 912 pgs / 1100 color.
Pub Date: 02/24/2015 In stock


Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas
Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas
Edited by Donna Ghelerter. Foreword by Madelyn Shaw. Text by Virginia Bayer, Linda Florio, Donna Ghelerter.

Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas serves as a definitive source on this lauded American designer. Working in the heady milieu of 1930s New York, Mergentime (1894–1941) became best known for strikingly new printed fabrics, >>more

West Madison Press LLC
ISBN 9780692768273
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / 145 color / 39 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/27/2017 In stock


Maria Pergay: Complete Works 1957-2010
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 $92.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 325 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 Out of stock


Maurice Marinot: The Glass 1911–1934
Maurice Marinot: The Glass 1911–1934
Edited by Jean-Luc Olivié, Cristina Beltrami.

This is the first English-language volume on Maurice Marinot (1882–1960), a pioneer in the development of glass as a studio art form.

Initially a member of the fauves, in 1911 Marinot visited the glassworks of the >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857240473
US $50.00 CAN $69.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 06/25/2019 In stock


Napoleone Martinuzzi
Napoleone Martinuzzi
By Marino Barovier.

A splendid catalog devoted to the work of an artist who was responsible for some of the most original glass artworks in art history. Napoleone Martinuzzi became a partner of leading Murano glassmaker Paolo Venini >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857221403
US $100.00 CAN $130.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11.25 x 12 in. / 480 pgs / 1780 color.
Pub Date: 10/14/2014 In stock


New Territories
New Territories
Introduction by Lowery Stokes Sims. Text by Mari Carmen Ramírez, Gabriela Rangel, Jorge Rivas Pérez, Regine Basha, Fabiana Lopes and Nessia Leonzini Pope, Antonio Sánchez Gómez, Ana Elena Mallet, Magdalena Grüneisen, Adélia Borges, Adriana Kertzer, Marcella Echavarría New Territories examines creative practices in today's globalized world, in which disciplines overlap more than ever before. Looking in particular at countries such as Brazil, Cuba, Panama, Columbia, Mexico, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and >>more

Turner
ISBN 9788415832850
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 264 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 12/31/2014 In stock


Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
Text by Aurélien Fouillet. Interview by Emmanuel Bérard. Translation by Michelange Quay, Brian Lawrance.

Designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance’s (born 1974) training in both sculpture and furniture design is evident throughout his eclectic body of work. His architectural designs, seen in places such as the Sketch restaurant in London or the >>more

Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563987
US $28.50 CAN $38.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 120 pgs / 25 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock


Objects of Imagination
Objects of Imagination
Text by Jessica Gerschultz. Photographs by Mohammed Al Shammarey.

Nearly 40 artists from across the Arab World collaborate to create a unique body of ceramic artworks. Using the same base of a large earthenware plate, the techniques range from drawing with oxides and painting >>more

SKIRA
ISBN 9788857249544
US $50.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Hbk, 10.5 x 11.75 in. / 172 pgs / 216 color.
Pub Date: 09/26/2023 In stock


Otto Jakob: Ripe Fruit
Otto Jakob: Ripe Fruit
Edited by Angelika Taschen. Text by Vivienne Becker.

Otto Jakob (born 1951) is an internationally renowned German jewelry maker, and perhaps one of the most unusual. After studying painting under Georg Baselitz, he turned to goldsmithing. As an autodidact, he learned to mix >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775744942
US $85.00 CAN $115.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 296 pgs / 309 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Out of stock


Paolo Venini and His Furnace
Paolo Venini and His Furnace
By Marino Barovier, Carla Sonego.

In-depth research based mainly on the unpublished materials coming from the Venini Historical Archive. The protagonist of Murano glass in the twentieth-century, Paolo Venini (1895–1959), with his passionate activity spanning almost forty years, made a decisive >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857233543
US $85.00 CAN $105.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 11.8 in. / 532 pgs / 1722 color.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock


Paolo Venini and His Furnace
Paolo Venini and His Furnace
By Marino Barovier, Carla Sonego.

In-depth research based mainly on the unpublished materials coming from the Venini Historical Archive. The protagonist of Murano glass in the twentieth-century, Paolo Venini (1895–1959), with his passionate activity spanning almost forty years, made a decisive >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857233543
US $85.00 CAN $105.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 11.8 in. / 532 pgs / 1722 color.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock


Paul Revere: Sons of Liberty Bowl
Paul Revere: Sons of Liberty Bowl
By Gerald W.R. Ward. American patriot Paul Revere is wrapped in the swirling mixture of myth and poetry through which history often descends, but as a craftsman and artist, he left behind more tangible traces as well. In this >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468324
US $9.95 CAN $14.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 56 pgs / 23 color.
Pub Date: 08/23/2016 In stock


Polina Joffe: Ode to Construction
Polina Joffe: Ode to Construction
Introduction by Madeleine Morley, Max Boersma.

This dynamic and superbly designed book is Berlin-based graphic designer Polina Joffe's investigation into Russian Suprematism and Constructivism, demonstrating the fluidity of design in the digital age.

>>more

Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148352
US $29.00 CAN $39.00 TRADE
Hbk, 4.75 x 6.5 in. / 664 pgs / 270 duotone.
Pub Date: 03/01/2022 Out of stock


Power Mode
Power Mode
Edited by Emma McClendon.

Power Mode: The Force of Fashion explores the multiple roles fashion plays in establishing, reinforcing, and challenging power dynamics within society. Published in tandem with The Museum at FIT exhibition of the same title, this >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857239873
US $45.00 CAN $62.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 128 pgs / 117 color.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock


Quilts and Color
Quilts and Color
Text by Pamela A. Parmal, Jennifer M. Swope. Quilts and Color presents more than 60 graphically bold American quilts from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, one of the finest and largest collections of quilts in the world. Influenced by twentieth-century art developments such as Abstraction, >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468249
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Clth, 9 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2014 In stock


René Lalique at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
René Lalique at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Edited by Maria Fernanda Passos Leite.

René Lalique (1860–1945) and the British Armenian businessman and philanthropist Calouste Gulbenkian were friends for more than 50 years. Between 1899 and 1927 Gulbenkian acquired 80 exceptional works of art directly from the artist. "My >>more

SKIRA
ISBN 9788857249285
US $35.00 CAN $50.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 136 pgs / 108 color.
Pub Date: 06/06/2023 In stock


Rivolta Carmignani
Rivolta Carmignani
Text by Paola Segramora Rivolta.

When quality and style become a trademark. The family-run business Rivolta Carmignani has been synonymous with top quality for decades. Founded in 1867, it specialized in the manufacturing and marketing of personalized linen for hotels >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831716413
US $40.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11.5 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 118 color.
Pub Date: 03/04/2014 In stock


Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels
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, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9780910503853
US $55.00 CAN $65.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011


Sgrafo vs. Fat Lava
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 $21.50 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 64 pgs / 22 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Out of stock


Shapes From Out of Nowhere
Shapes From Out of Nowhere
Introduction by Adrienne Spinozzi. Text by Glenn Adamson, Robert A. Ellison, Jr.

A comprehensive overview of 20th-century non-representational ceramics from the earliest years of the modernist revolution to the postwar period through to the present, Shapes From Out of Nowhere features an unparalleled gathering of over 150 >>more

August Editions
ISBN 9781947359062
US $69.95 CAN $97.95 TRADE
Clth, 10 x 12 in. / 272 pgs / 275 color.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 Out of stock


Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art
Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art
Foreword by Ralph Rugoff. Text by Allie Biswas, Marie-Charlotte Carrier, Jarah Das, Hettie Judah, Cliff Lauson, Jenni Lomax, Debbie Meniru, Elinor Morgan, Suzanna Petot, Amy Sherlock.

Few materials have experienced a similar reevaluation in contemporary art as clay has over the past few years. This timely publication accompanies a large-scale exhibition at Hayward Gallery, London, exploring how contemporary artists are using >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775752558
US $50.00 CAN $69.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 01/03/2023 In stock


Tapio Wirkkala at Venini
Tapio Wirkkala at Venini
Edited by Marino Barovier and Carla Sonego.

This substantial overview explores Finnish designer and sculptor Tapio Wirkkala (1915–85) and his output for the famous Murano glass company Venini. Creator of the Finlandia vodka bottle and designer for companies such as Ittala, Wirkkala’s >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857246666
US $69.95 CAN $94.95 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 272 pgs / 560 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2022 In stock


Ted Noten: Ubiquist
Ted Noten: Ubiquist
Text by Jennifer Allen. Ted Noten (born 1956) is one of today’s most original, radical designers. His transparent acrylic bags—which contain objects ranging from animals, jewels and cocaine to pistols—have seduced collectors and confused the establishment. Beauty and violence, >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462082328
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 11.5 in. / 232 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 01/26/2016 In stock


The Art of Cartier
The Art of Cartier
Text by Pierre Rainero, Guillermo Solana, Jorge Varela. The Art of Cartier is published to coincide with the exhibition of more than 400 pieces from the historic collection of the legendary French jeweler Cartier at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. Cartier was founded >>more

Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza
ISBN 9788415113324
US $85.00 CAN $112.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 11 in. / 408 pgs / 950 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Out of stock


The Art of Silver Jewellery
The Art of Silver Jewellery
By Rene Van Der Star.

This book and exhibition presents over 250 silver necklaces, and earrings - objects of ceremonial beauty and originality created by tribal peoples of China. Four catalog essays by leading experts illuminate the context creation in the late >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788876243837
US $65.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10.25 x 12.25 in. / 240 pgs / 404 illustrations.
Pub Date: 04/04/2006 In stock


The Collector's Cabinet and Miniature Pharmacy
The Collector's Cabinet and Miniature Pharmacy
Text by Paul Van Duin, Reinier Baarsen, Roelof Van Gelder, Annette I. Bierman, Gerhard C. Cadée, Dave Van Gompel.

This cabinet houses a miraculous collection, including a mini-apothecary’s shop filled with more than 300 jars, pots and medicine bottles. Concealed behind the rear wall of the cabinet, 55 secret drawers reveal a varied collection >>more

nai010 publishers/Rijksmuseum
ISBN 9789491714726
US $60.00 CAN $79.00 TRADE
Pbk, 11.75 x 16.5 in. / 184 pgs / illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 10/24/2017 Out of stock


The Ghost of Weaving
The Ghost of Weaving
Edited by Freek Lomme.

The textures of our culture are reflected within the patterns we produce. Sometimes the surface that hosts the pattern is more slippery than imagined, or the pattern appears to have been too unstable in the >>more

Onomatopee
ISBN 9789491677731
US $29.95 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 32 pgs / 24 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/09/2018 Out of stock


The Ghosts of Sunday Morning
The Ghosts of Sunday Morning
Edited by Timo de Rijk, Glenn Adamson.

Accompanying an exhibition at Design Museum Den Bosch, this publication traces the 50-year history of the European Ceramic Work Center, a facility for sculptors, architects and designers. The book includes archival photographs, comments from associated >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462084940
US $35.00 CAN $39.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 8.5 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 In stock


The Gift of Kings: The Noblest of Wools
The Gift of Kings: The Noblest of Wools
Photographs by Bruna Rotunno.

This book portrays the stunning landscapes and extraordinary people of those rural regions in Australia and New Zealand from which Loro Piana’s wool originates. Depicted here are the cutting-edge breeders who, for generations, have cared >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857238555
US $85.00 CAN $112.50 FLAT40
Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 156 pgs / 118 color.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 In stock


The Gijs + Emmy Spectacle
The Gijs + Emmy Spectacle
Text by Marjan Boot. Husband-and-wife team Gijs Bakker (born 1942) and Emmy van Leersum (1930-1984) are internationally recognized as pioneers in the field of modern jewelry design. Together, they created an extensive oeuvre of minimalistic, futuristic jewelry from unorthodox >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462081239
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 174 pgs / 120 color / DVD (PAL).
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 In stock


The Glass Ark
The Glass Ark
Edited with text by Giordana Naccari, Cristina Beltrami.

This publication traces the history of 20th-century Murano glass art through the motif of the glass animal. Taken from the collection of Pierre Rosenberg, art historian and former Director of the Louvre, over 750 glass >>more

skira
ISBN 9788857245201
US $65.00 CAN $88.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 320 pgs / 900 color.
Pub Date: 10/12/2021 In stock


The Jewelry of Ideas
The Jewelry of Ideas
Foreword by Caroline Baumann. Preface by Susan Grant Lewin. Edited with text by Ursula-Ilse Neuman. Text by Thomas Gentille.

The Jewelry of Ideas is published in conjunction with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s exhibition celebrating gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection of Contemporary Jewelry. This renowned collection, built by the New York–based Lewin >>more

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9781942303183
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7 x 9 in. / 176 pgs / 225 color.
Pub Date: 12/26/2017 In stock


The M.V.M. Cappellin Glassworks and the Young Carlo Scarpa
The M.V.M. Cappellin Glassworks and the Young Carlo Scarpa
Edited by Marino Barovier, Carla Sonego.

From transparent glass to milky glass, from delicate simple shapes to Phoenician designs, in over 400 pages and 900 images, The M.V.M. Cappellin Glassworks and the Young Carlo Scarpa tells an essential chapter in the >>more

Skira Paris
ISBN 9788857239255
US $85.00 CAN $115.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 560 pgs / 2,520 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock


The Master's Touch
The Master's Touch
Text by Alberto Cavalli.

Origins and future of national and international artisanal excellence.

What is craftsmanship? How do you determine excellence? The answers lie in identifying and carefully analyzing the elements of fine craftsmanship to arrive at a definition of >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831724340
US $35.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 6 in. / 416 pgs / 59 color.
Pub Date: 02/20/2018 Out of stock


The Wonders of Africa
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 creatures >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836619498
US $60.00 CAN $79.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 204 pgs / 330 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 Out of stock


Thomas Stearns at Venini
Thomas Stearns at Venini
Edited by Marino Barovier.

American artist Thomas Stearns (1936–2006) collaborated with the legendary Venini glassworks as a guest designer between 1960 and 1962. Stearns was the first American to design for Venini; he won a Fulbright Travel Grant, left >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857241005
US $85.00 CAN $115.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 480 pgs / 1000 color.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock


Tiny Treasures
Tiny Treasures
Text by Courtney Leigh Harris.

Intricate and appealing, curious and uncanny, miniature works of art exert surprising power. Over thousands of years and across cultures, artists and artisans have created small objects for many purposes: tiny gold amulets of ancient >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468935
US $24.95 CAN $35.95 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock


Toni Zuccheri at Venini
Toni Zuccheri at Venini
Edited by Marino Barovier and Carla Sonego.

The latest in Skira’s exhaustive series on the great Italian glassmakers, Toni Zuccheri at Venini documents the career of Italian artist, architect, designer, sculptor and poet of glass and nature, Toni Zuccheri (1936–2008). The son >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857246659
US $69.95 CAN $94.95 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 264 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2022 In stock


Toni Zuccheri: Poet of Nature and Glass
Toni Zuccheri: Poet of Nature and Glass
Text by Rosa Chiesa, Sandro Pezzoli.

Toni Zuccheri (1936–2008) was an artist, architect, designer and sculptor. He collaborated with some of the biggest names in postwar Italian art (Gio Ponti, Lucio Fontana and Gaetano Pesce, among others) and worked for some >>more

Marsilio
ISBN 9788829703227
US $50.00 CAN $69.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 232 pgs / 293 color.
Pub Date: 08/25/2020 Out of stock


Tools: Extending Our Reach
Tools: Extending Our Reach
Text by Cara McCarty, Matilda McQuaid. Tools celebrates the richness of the human imagination through a surprising range of juxtaposed and seemingly disparate objects. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name that celebrates the fall 2014 reopening of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian >>more

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9780910503778
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 02/24/2015 In stock


Treasures of the Mughals and the Maharajas
Treasures of the Mughals and the Maharajas
Edited by Amin Jaffer, Gian Carlo Calza.

Treasures of the Mughals and the Maharajas allows readers to immerse themselves in the jewelry traditions of the Indian subcontinent, from the Mughal period to the modern day. The evolution of gem-setting and jewelry is >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857235943
US $70.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 392 pgs / 388 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock


Trick Glasses
Trick Glasses
Text by Kitty Laméris, Marc Barreda.

At the end of the 16th century, ingeniously designed glasses created for various drinking games began to appear in Europe. The glasses stimulated a sense of togetherness, provided entertainment value and, of course, encouraged drunkenness. >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462087736
US $75.00 CAN $108.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 328 pgs / 500 color.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock


Twentieth-Century Jewellery
Twentieth-Century Jewellery
By Alba Cappellieri.

The largest and most diverse anthology on jewelry, supported with a concise, authoritative and stimulating essay. This is the third book in Skira’s series dedicated to the modern decorative arts, following Italian Art Ceramics 1900-1950 >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788861305328
US $85.00 CAN $105.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 248 pgs / 340 illustrations.
Pub Date: 10/12/2010 In stock


Van Cleef & Arpels: Time, Nature, Love
Van Cleef & Arpels: Time, Nature, Love
Text by Alba Cappellieri. Contributions by Nicolas Bos, Franco Cologni, Vivienne Becker, Stefano Papi.

This opulent volume presents the legendary jewelry and precious objects of the French luxury brand Van Cleef & Arpels. Published to accompany a major exhibition surveying the history of the maison at Milan’s Palazzo Reale—a >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857241777
US $55.00 CAN $77.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 12.25 in. / 272 pgs / 386 color.
Pub Date: 04/21/2020 Out of stock


Van Cleef & Arpels: Timeless Beauty
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 $99.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 280 pgs / 280 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Out of stock


Venetian Glasses
Venetian Glasses
Edited by Tiziana Casagrande, Ferruccio Franzoia.

Glassmaking has been a tradition in Venice since the Middle Ages, with most glassmakers concentrated on the island of Murano. Venetian glassmakers have continued to innovate down to the present day with the rise in >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836648399
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 11 in. / 552 pgs / 670 color.
Pub Date: 06/07/2022 In stock


Venice and American Studio Glass
Venice and American Studio Glass
Edited with text by Tina Oldknow, William Warmus.

Assembled by Tina Oldknow and William Warmus, former curators of modern and contemporary glass at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, Venice and American Studio Glass brings together 155 outstanding glass vessels, sculptures >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857243870
US $70.00 CAN $97.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 368 pgs / 368 color.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock


Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini
Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini
Edited by Marino Barovier, Carla Sonego.

Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini presents, for the first time, the entire glass production of Murano painter and glassmaker Vittorio Zecchin (1878–1947) at the two storied glassworks.

Between 1921 and 1925, Zecchin served >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857237121
US $85.00 CAN $112.50 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 472 pgs / 1530 color.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 In stock


Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini
Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini
Edited by Marino Barovier, Carla Sonego.

Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini presents, for the first time, the entire glass production of Murano painter and glassmaker Vittorio Zecchin (1878–1947) at the two storied glassworks.

Between 1921 and 1925, Zecchin served >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857237121
US $85.00 CAN $112.50 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 472 pgs / 1530 color.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 In stock


Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry
Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry
Edited by Janis Staggs. Text by Ronald S. Lauder, Renée Price.

The Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshops, was founded in 1903. The firm’s artistic cofounders, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, subscribed to the English Arts and Crafts ideal of exceptionally well-made objects designed by artists and >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775743921
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 120 pgs / 188 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock


Wild Beads of Africa
Wild Beads of Africa
Edited by Billy Steinberg. Text by Jamey D. Allen.

This is the first book dedicated to African powderglass beads, with over 180 photographs of gorgeous pieces from a collection assembled by songwriter Billy Steinberg (co-writer of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”).

Most of the pieces showcased >>more

Steinberg
ISBN 9780692907108
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 216 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 Out of stock


Yes! No! Swiss Posters for Democracy
Yes! No! Swiss Posters for Democracy
Edited by Bettina Richter. Text by Jakob Tanner.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, poster campaigns have been a distinctive element of Swiss politics. This book reproduces posters from 1918 to the present.

>>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786611
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 03/30/2021 In stock


Yvňnne Joris
Yvňnne Joris
Text by Titus M. Eliëns.

Pioneer & Terrier celebrates the life and career of Yvňnne Joris (1950–2013), who served as the director of Het Kruithuis Museum in the Netherlands from 1987 to 2009. During her two decades at the museum, >>more

Nai010 Publishers
ISBN 9789462084490
US $30.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 124 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 03/19/2019 Out of stock



                                                                                                     

VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT

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 Publications
ISBN 9780892072729
US $60.00 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9.25 x 12 in. / 181 pgs / 148 color / 83 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Not available


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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467167
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE
Paperback, 8 x 9 in. / 104 pgs/ illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Not available


Artful Adornments
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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467686
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Clth, 9 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 Not available


Based in Berlin
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 produced >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863350451
US $22.95 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9.25 in. / 200 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 Not available


Beca Lipscombe & Lucy McKenzie: The Inventors of Tradition
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
US $54.95 CAN $65.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.75 x 12 in. / 144 pgs / 168 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2012 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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878464357
US $30.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / 64 color / 68 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2000 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. 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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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 Not available


Ceramic Millennium
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 $55.00 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 430 pgs / 140 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/01/2006 Not available


Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass
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 are >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467648
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Clth, 10 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 Not available


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 Not available


Crochet Coral Reef
Crochet Coral Reef
Edited with text by Margaret Wertheim, Christine Wertheim. Foreword by Donna Haraway. Text by Marion Endt-Jones, Leslie Dick, Anna Mayer. Now perhaps the world's largest participatory art and science project, the Crochet Coral Reef combines mathematics, marine biology, environmental consciousness-raising and community art practice. Almost 8,000 people around the world have contributed to making an >>more

Institute for Figuring
ISBN 9780977962235
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 208 pgs / 83 color.
Pub Date: 06/26/2015 Not available


Daniel Brush
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 and Design
ISBN 9781890385248
US $85.00 CAN $100.00 TRADE
Clth, 13.5 x 13 in. / 276 pgs / 486 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2012 Not available


Della Robbia
Della Robbia
By Marietta Cambareri. Contributions by Abigail Hykin, Courtney Leigh Harris.

The glazed terra-cotta technique invented by Luca della Robbia, along with his exceptional skill as a sculptor, placed him firmly in the first rank of Renaissance artists in the fifteenth century. The Della Robbia studio >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468416
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 08/23/2016 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 and >>more

nai010 publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ISBN 9789056622329
US $35.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Paperback, 11 x 8.75 in. / 200 pgs / 50 color / 160 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2002 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
ISBN 9783775705035
US $80.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 432 pgs / 150 color / 215 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/1995 Not available


English Silver In The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston
English Silver In The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston
Artwork by Ellen Alcorn. >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878463749
US $18.95 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9 x 11.5 in. / 240 pgs / 16 color / 362 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Not available


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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878464807
US $85.00 CAN $100.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9 x 11.5 in. / 416 pgs / 28 color / 800 duotone.
Pub Date: 12/02/2000 Not available


Ettore Sottsass: Metaphors
Ettore Sottsass: Metaphors

A personal diary with writings, illustrations and photographs by Ettore Sottsass offering a glimpse and an overview of his lengthy and prosperous career. The volume constitutes a sort of intimate diary and reflection through images >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788884913258
US $19.99 CAN $25.99 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 13 in. / 132 pgs / 110 illustrations.
Pub Date: 05/01/2003 Not available


Fascinating Tinplate
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 $55.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7.75 x 9.5 in. / 304 pgs / 289 color / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Not available


Fashioning Felt
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, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9780910503891
US $35.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 03/06/2009 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 Vŕlker 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
ISBN 9783775716994
US $40.00 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 198 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Not available


Games For The Gods
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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466801
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Clothbound, 10 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 207 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Not available


Gariboldi: The Decorative Arts in Italy
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
US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 12.25 in. / 176 pgs / 142 color / 26 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2012 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
ISBN 9783775711555
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 8.25 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 71 color / 101 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2002 Not available


Home-Made Europe
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 $40.00 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 8.25 in. / 272 pgs / 230 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 Not available


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 $40.00 TRADE
Clothbound, 4.75 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2006 Not available


Imperishable Beauty
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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467341
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hardback, 8.75 x 9.25 in. / 176 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Not available


Jewelry by Artists
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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467501
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Clth, 9.5 x 10.25 in. / 280 pgs / 200 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Not available


Kaitag
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 incorporating >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836617999
US $40.00 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 152 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Not available


Lethal Elegance
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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466795
US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Clothbound, 8.5 x 9.25 in. / 250 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/02/2004 Not available


Lethal Elegance
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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467754
US $37.50 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.25 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Not available


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
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 Not available


Maharam Agenda
Maharam Agenda
By Michael Maharam.

First renowned as a supplier of theatrical textiles to Broadway and beyond, Maharam pioneered the concept of engineered textiles for interior applications in the sixties, and is the world's leading provider of textiles to commercial >>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781876
US $65.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 232 pgs / 408 images.
Pub Date: 11/04/2011 Not available


Masters Of Origami
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
ISBN 9783775716284
US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 10 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2005 Not available


Netsuke
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 world... An excellent, >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466757
US $35.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8.5 x 9.25 in. / 356 pgs / 500 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Not available


Ode to Joy
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: 08/31/2009 Not available


Personal Touch, A
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
US $55.00 CAN $65.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 256 pgs / 250 color / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Not available


Roman, Byzantine And Early Medieval Glass
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
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 Not available


Russia!: The Majesty Of The Tsars
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 Publications
ISBN 9780892073320
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9.25 x 10.5 in. / 220 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2005 Not available


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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878464814
US $19.95 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8.75 x 9.5 in. / 64 pgs / 54 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Not available


Shards
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 $35.00 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 530 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Not available


Sounds Of The Silk Road: 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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466887
US $24.95 CAN $27.50 TRADE
Paperback, 8 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Not available


The Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers
The Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers
By Ian Lynam.

Despite the seemingly common expectation that art should be able to speak for itself, creators are often asked to explain the process behind their work, their experiences in their vocation, and, perhaps most dauntingly, the >>more

Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148390
US $20.00 CAN $28.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4 x 7 in. / 212 pgs / 39 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/09/2021 Not available


The Jewels of Trabert & Hoeffer-Mauboussin
The Jewels of Trabert & Hoeffer-Mauboussin
Text by Yvonne J. Markowitz, Nonie Gadsden, Elizabeth Irvine Bray, Elizabeth Hamilton, Frederic A. Sharf, Toni Strassler. From the mid-1930s through the 1940s, the collaboration of the American jewelry firm Trabert & Hoeffer with the Parisian house Mauboussin produced some of the most extraordinary high-style jewels of its time. Hollywood stars such >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468119
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Hbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 140 pgs / 30 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2014 Not available


The Jews Of Europe In The Middle Ages
The Jews Of Europe In The Middle Ages
Essays by Javier Castańo, 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
ISBN 9783775791915
US $55.00 CAN $65.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 225 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2005 Not available


The Maker's Hand
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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466634
US $35.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.25 x 10.25 in. / 168 pgs / 104 color / 71 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Not available


Van Cleef & Arpels: The Spirit of Beauty
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
US $75.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Clth, 9 x 13 in. / 296 pgs / 240 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Not available


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
ISBN 9783775713177
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 376 pgs / 185 color / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/02/2003 Not available


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
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Hardcover, 9.25 x 11.5 in. / 120 pgs / 72 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2008 Not available


Women's Work: Embroidery in Colonial Boston
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, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467785
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Clth, 8 x 9.5 in. / 174 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Not available


Yearning for Beauty
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
ISBN 9783775717786
US $95.00 CAN $115.00 FLAT40
Hardcover, 9.75 x 13 in. / 452 pgs / 418 color and 267 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Not available