| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  Artifices instables
Edited with text by Cristiano Raimondi. Text by Cecilia Canziani, Valérie Da Costa, Chus Martínez, Agnès Roux. Featuring more than 200 works by artists from the 19th century to today, this publication features the Fischers, Albert Diato, Eugène 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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  Carnegie Museum of Art: Decorative Arts and Design
Edited by Jason T. Busch. Text by Jason T. Busch, Rachel Delphia, Sarah Nichols, Dawn Reid, Richard Simmons. Carnegie Museum of Art is renowned for its collection of decorative arts and design objects. This volume presents, for the first time, the collection's highlights, from early porcelain to Arts and Crafts furniture to contemporary >>more
Carnegie Museum Of Art
ISBN 9780880390521
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
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|  Complete Copier
Edited by Laurens Geurtz, Job Meihuizen, Joan Temminck. Starting his career as a glassblower at the Leerdam glass works factory when he was just 14 years old, Andries Copier (1901–1991) went on to become the greatest glass designer that the Netherlands has ever >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628338
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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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 In stock
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|  Design for a Living World
Text by Abbott Miller, Ellen Lupton, Andy Grundberg. Design for a Living World was developed by The Nature Conservancy, one of the world's leading conservation organizations, in order to raise global awareness about the impact and promise of sustainable sourcing. Ten prominent designers, >>more
Cooper Hewitt, 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
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|  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 Prêt-à-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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  The refined output of vases, bowls, and animals by the great graphic artist, illustrator, and designer for the long-standing Venetian glasshouse. >>more
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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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 In stock
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|  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 his career in the jewellery world. The book is a lavish collation of >>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
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|  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. >>more
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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  (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 In stock
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  Jeff Zimmerman
Text by Rachel Wolff. Foreword by Zesty Meyers, P.J. Park. Photographs by Sherry Griffin. American master glass artist Jeff Zimmerman (born 1968) began his career studying the Italian traditions of glassmaking with Lino Tagliapietro and Pino Signoretto, but was influenced conceptually by contemporary artists such as Maya Lin, Kiki >>more
R & Company/Gallery Seomi/Whitehaus Media
ISBN 9780970460851
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Clth, 8 x 13.25 in. / 86 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 In stock
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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 Out of stock
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|  Maria Pergay: Complete Works 1957-2010
By Suzanne Demisch, Stephane Danant. Text by Adam Lindemann. Maria Pergay: Complete Works 1957-2010 is the first comprehensive survey of the work of the legendary French furniture designer, whose work has attracted clients and collectors from around the world for decades. Pergay is most >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862081740
US $70.00 CAN $92.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 325 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 Out of stock
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|  Born in 1930, Maria Pergay is one of the most innovative and influential French furniture designers of her time, recognized internationally as an iconic tastemaker. A pioneer of material experimentation, she almost single-handedly transformed stainless >>more
Demisch Danant
ISBN 9780977329731
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Clth, 7 x 9.5 in. / 48 pgs / 11 color / 26 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/25/2017 In stock
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|  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
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|  NYC Makers: The 2014 MAD Biennial
Edited with text by Jake Yuzna. This publication traces the curatorial methodology behind the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)'s institution-wide exhibition, NYC Makers: The 2014 MAD Biennial. Marking a new chapter for the Museum, NYC Makers surveys the work of >>more
Museum of Arts and Design
ISBN 9781890385293
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 352 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/31/2014 In stock
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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 In stock
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|  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
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| 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
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|  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
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|  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 In stock
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels
Text by Sarah D. Coffin, Suzy Menkes, Ruth Peltason. Since its opening on the place Vendôme in Paris in 1906, renowned jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels has played a leading role in setting style and design trends in luxury jewelry and in the development >>more
Cooper Hewitt, 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
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|  Sgrafo vs. Fat Lava
Edited by Nicolas Trembley. Text by Ronan Bouroullec, Horst Makus, Nicolas Trembley. From Raymond Loewy’s austere “Form 2000” teapot set of the mid-1950s to the Sgrafo vases of the 1960s and the improbable “Fat Lava” glacis of the 1970s, postwar German ceramics exhibited a tremendous stylistic diversity, >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037642771
US $15.00 CAN $21.50 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 64 pgs / 22 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Out of stock
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|  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
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|  Silver of the Americas, 1600-2000
Edited by Gerald W.R. Ward and Jeannine Falino. Text by Gerald W.R. Ward, Jeannine Falino, Jane Port, Rebecca Ann Gay Reynolds. At more than 500 pages, and featuring 1000 detailed reproductions, this handsome, extensive collection catalogue complements and updates Kathryn C. Buhler's landmark 1972 opus, American Silver, 1655-1825. It includes all of the American silver in >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467211
US $100.00 CAN $132.50 TRADE
Hardcover, 9 x 10.75 in. / 544 pgs / 1,000 b&w and 30 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Out of stock
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  Textile and Fashion Arts
Essays by Pamela A. Parmal, Lauren D. Whitley, Susan Ward, Alexandra B. Huff and Tiffany Webber-Hanchett. Humans have been producing textiles since the days of hunting and gathering. Over time, those primitive woven baskets, animal-skin garments and woolen coverings have given way to the increasingly sophisticated and varied clothing, furnishings, accessories >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466993
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2006 Out of stock
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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 In stock
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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 In stock
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  The Wonders of Africa
Edited by Ivan Bargna, Giovanna Parodi da Passano. Text by Marc Augé, Jean-Paul Colleyn, Suzanne Preston Blier. The Wonders of Africa provides a generous overview of the wealth of African art held in Italian collections. Works are examined under four themed chapters: “Collections,” “Masks,” “Fetishes” and “Invisibles” (i.e. representations of folkloric 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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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 In stock
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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 In stock
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|  Van Cleef & Arpels: Timeless Beauty
Since opening its first boutique on the Place Vendôme in Paris in 1906, Van Cleef & Arpels has played a pioneering role in the development of the art of jewelry design. Now, on the occasion >>more
Editions Xavier Barral
ISBN 9782365110013
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 280 pgs / 280 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Out of stock
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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| 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
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|  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
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|  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 In stock
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|  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
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|  Yvònne Joris
Text by Titus M. Eliëns. Pioneer & Terrier celebrates the life and career of Yvònne 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 In stock
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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
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|  Art and Reform: Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening Girls, and the Paul Revere Pottery
Text by Nonie Gadsden. The handmade ceramics of the Paul Revere Pottery, often enlivened with stylized images of animals, flowers or abstract patterns, are best known today by the name of the girls' club whose members created the wares: >>more
MFA Publications, 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
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|  Artful Adornments
Text by Yvonne J. Markowitz. A mode of expression that can be traced back to the earliest civilizations, jewelry can be as culturally revealing as it is stunningly beautiful. Artful Adornments: Jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston features >>more
MFA Publications, 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
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|  Based in Berlin
Introduction by Angelique Campens, Fredi Fischli, Magdalena Magiera, Jakob Schillinger, Scott Cameron Weaver. Foreword by Klaus Biesenbach, Christine Macel, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Based in Berlin showcases some 80 emerging artists currently living and working in Berlin, pursuing practices ranging from painting and drawing to sculpture, photography, film and video, text, performance and installation. The publication is 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
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|  Beca Lipscombe & Lucy McKenzie: The Inventors of Tradition
Edited by Catriona Duffy, Lucy McEachan. Introduction by Beca Lipscombe, Lucy McKenzie, Catriona Duffy, Lucy McEachan. Situated at the intersection between art, design and social history, The Inventors of Tradition is a fascinating and original visual study of the history of the Scottish textiles industry since the 1930s. For decades, textiles >>more
Walther König, Köln/Koenig Books
ISBN 9783863350529
US $54.95 CAN $65.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.75 x 12 in. / 144 pgs / 168 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2012 Not available
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|  Beyond The Screen
By Wang Shixiang. Artwork by Nancy Berliner. Text by Malcolm Rogers, Craig Clunas, Curtis Evarts, Sarah Handler, Wang Zhengshu, Wen Zhenheng. >>more
MFA Publications, 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
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|  Beyond the Screen
By Wang Shixiang. Artwork by Nancy Berliner. Text by Malcolm Rogers, Craig Clunas, Curtis Evarts, Sarah Handler, Wang Zhengshu, Wen Zhenheng. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Chinese furniture reached a pinnacle of exceptional design and meticulous workmanship. Beyond the Screen leads the reader on a journey that encompasses not only the evolution of these exquisite >>more
MFA Publications, 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
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|  Ceramic Millennium
Edited by Garth Clark. Essays by Clement Greenberg, Nancy Selvage, Doris Shadbolt, Philip Rawson, John Bentley Mays, Paul Greenhalgh, Michael McTwigan, Mark Pennings, Justin Clemens, George Woodman, David Hamilton, Susan Tunick, Edward Lebow, et al. Over the last two decades of the twentieth century, the Ceramic Arts Foundation (formerly the Institute for Ceramic History) presented International Ceramics Symposiums in New York, Toronto, London and Amsterdam, among other cities. In the >>more
The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ISBN 9780919616455
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 430 pgs / 140 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/01/2006 Not available
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|  Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass
Text by Gerald W.R. Ward. Arguably the most famous glass artist since Louis Comfort Tiffany, Dale Chihuly has been credited with elevating blown glass from delicate decorative object to groundbreaking fine art. Chihuly's "Blanket Cylinders," "Seaforms," "Persians" and chandeliers 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
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|  Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne
Foreword by Adrian Dannatt. Text by Pierre Berge, Peter Marino, Reed Krakoff. These unreconstructed figurative sculptors and industrial designers have shown monsters and gilded butterflies in Paris, hippopotami in Tokyo, domesticated beasts in London and an enchanted garden in Florida, but their work has rarely been seen >>more
Reed Krakoff/Paul Kasmin/Ben Brown
ISBN 9780978889500
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
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|  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
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|  Daniel Brush
Edited by Amy Wilkins. Introduction by Dr. Oliver Sacks. Text by David Revere McFadden, Brett Littman, Daniel Brush, Olivia Brush, Saskia Hamilton, Paul Keegan. The work of Daniel Brush (born 1947) does not fit neatly into the categories commonly used to describe contemporary art or craft. While he uses traditional art media such as pen and ink and paper >>more
Museum of Arts 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
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|  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
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|  Dutch Ceramics 1890-1940
Essay by Mienke Simon Thomas. The current fascination with early twentieth-century design makes this exploration of Art Deco and Art Nouveau ceramics from the Netherlands both exciting and timely. Encompassing earthenware, porcelain and stoneware products produced between circa 1890 and >>more
nai010 publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ISBN 9789056622329
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Paperback, 11 x 8.75 in. / 200 pgs / 50 color / 160 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2002 Not available
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|  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
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| |  English Silver In The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, Volume 2
Artwork by Ellen Alcorn. The collection of English silver at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston was established in the 1930s and has long been considered one of the finest collections of such objects in the world, having grown >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878464807
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Hardcover, 9 x 11.5 in. / 416 pgs / 28 color / 800 duotone.
Pub Date: 12/02/2000 Not available
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|  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
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Hbk, 9.25 x 13 in. / 132 pgs / 110 illustrations.
Pub Date: 05/01/2003 Not available
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|  Fascinating Tinplate
Text by Carsten Fleischhauer, David Pressland, Guntram Turkowski. Fascinating Tinplate depicts one of the largest private collections of tinplate toys in Germany, a collection that is here made public for the first time, in close-up photographs that lovingly animate a lost world of >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783866781818
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Hbk, 7.75 x 9.5 in. / 304 pgs / 289 color / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Not available
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|  Fashioning Felt
Text by Susan Brown, Matilda McQuaid, Andrew Dent, Christine Martens. Felt is the oldest fabric known to mankind; its earliest examples date back to 6,500 B.C. In recent years, the fabric has found contemporary applications in an extraordinary range of fields, including product design, fashion, >>more
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9780910503891
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Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 03/06/2009 Not available
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|  Fragile Remnants: Egyptian Textiles of Late Antiquity and Early Islam
Edited by Peter Noever. Essays by Regina Hofmann de Keijzer, Regina Knaller, Veronika Mader, Christine Sthrenberg, Angela Vàlker and Anke Weidner. Curtains, blankets, pillows, tunics--most Coptic textiles, the ancient and early Islamic fabrics unearthed at burial grounds and other archaeological sites in Egypt, are woven wool or linen. They were produced between the third and eighth >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775716994
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Paperback, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 198 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Not available
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|  Games For The Gods
Essays by John J. Herrmann Jr. and Christine Kondoleon. Foreword by Bill Littlefield. As Athens prepares for 2004, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, proudly presents the original Olympics in all their sweaty, heroic glory. Like today, sports were a vital part of daily life in ancient Greece. >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466801
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Clothbound, 10 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 207 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Not available
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|  Gariboldi: The Decorative Arts in Italy
Edited by Giacinta Cavagna di Gualdana. Foreword by Marco Romanelli. The long career of decorative arts designer Giovanni Gariboldi (1908–1971) forms a key chapter in twentieth-century Italian industrial design. This monograph provides the first full account of Gariboldi’s life, from his early days under art >>more
Edizioni Corraini
ISBN 9788875702748
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Hbk, 8.25 x 12.25 in. / 176 pgs / 142 color / 26 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2012 Not available
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|  Gerd Rothman: Jewellery
Essays by Dorothea Baumer, Barbara Cartlidge, Florian Hufnagl, Rüdiger Joppien and Sabine Runde. Since the early 1970s, gold- and silversmith Gerd Rothman has been reinterpreting traditional jewelry through a playful, intellectual approach. Working with body impressions taken from clients and from persons dear to them, he has crafted >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775711555
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Hardcover, 8.25 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 71 color / 101 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2002 Not available
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|  Home-Made Europe
By Vladimir Arkhipov. Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Jeremy Deller. For this enchanting sequel to the critically acclaimed Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts (2006), Russian artist Vladimir Arkhipov has travelled across Europe to further his collection. The objects he has found are made by everyday >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780956896230
US $34.95 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 8.25 in. / 272 pgs / 230 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 Not available
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|  Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts
Edited by Vladmir Arkhipov. Foreword by Susan B. Glasser. The clever, bizarre and poignant DIY housewares that fill the pages of Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts have stories to tell. They communicate the textures of the lives of ordinary Russians during the collapse of >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780955006135
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Clothbound, 4.75 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2006 Not available
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|  Imperishable Beauty
Text by Yvonne Markowitz, Elyse Z Karlin. "A new, imperishable beauty," was how the artist and architect Henry van de Velde described it. European Art Nouveau jewelry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries embraced a new aesthetic characterized by sensuous >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467341
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Hardback, 8.75 x 9.25 in. / 176 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Not available
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|  Jewelry by Artists
Text by Kelly H. L'Ecuyer. Contributions by Michelle Tolini Finamore, Yvonne J. Markowitz, Gerald W. R. Ward. Studio jewelry is defined not by an aesthetic or philosophy, but by its makers and their work process. Studio jewelers are independent artists in small workshops, directly handling their materials and producing one-of-a-kind pieces that >>more
MFA Publications, 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
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|  Kaitag
Edited by Carlo Scaramuzza. Text by Robert Chenciner, Luigi Molinis, Moshe Tabibnia. Daghestan is a largely inaccessible and mountainous part of the Caucasus region. Its multi-ethnic population have created a remarkably vibrant textile tradition known as Kaitag: rectangular fabric panels embroidered with vividly colored silks and incorporating >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836617999
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Hbk, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 152 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Not available
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|  Lethal Elegance
Essay by Joe Earle. As the “soul of the samurai,” the sword is famously both the symbol and instrument of Japanese military prowess. Less known, at least in the West, is its role as a fashion accessory or status >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466795
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Clothbound, 8.5 x 9.25 in. / 250 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/02/2004 Not available
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|  Lethal Elegance
Text by Joe Earle. As the "soul of the samurai," the sword is famously both the symbol and instrument of Japanese military prowess. Less known, at least in the west, is its role as a fashion accessory or status >>more
MFA Publications, 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
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|  Loetz: Bohemian Glass 1880-1940
Edited by Helmut Ricke, Ernst Ploil and Jan Mergl. Essays by Alena Adlerova, Duna Panenkov and Wolfgang Hennig. Johann Loetz Witwe, the most productive art glass manufacturer in Bohemia in the late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries, owed its success to the sophisticated stained glass work it created in historic designs. With artistic >>more
Hatje Cantz
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
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|  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
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|  Masters Of Origami
Essays by V'Ann Cornelius, Koshiro Hatori, Paul Jackson, Michael La Fosse, Robert Lang and David Lister. A small square of paper measuring six by six inches is the unprepossessing starting point for origami, the nearly 2,000-year-old Japanese art of paper folding. From this modest material beginning, the origami master creates objects >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775716284
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Hardcover, 10 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2005 Not available
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|  Netsuke
Essay by Joe Earle. An elegant and insightful book.
--The Art Newspaper
Exquisite.
--Boston Globe
Joe Earle... has enlightened us with new facts associated with the subjects portrayed in netsuke and new insight into the background of this unique 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
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|  Ode to Joy
Edited by Yuri A. Traisman. Text by Donald Kuspit, Elena Smirnova, Karen Kettering, Elvira Sametskaya, Alexander Borovsky, Olga Sosnina. Epilogue by Natalis Sipovskaya, Olga Sosnina. A bearded Jewish man with an umbrella from the 1870s, a stiff border guard from the 1930s, a serious but sexy female geologist from the 1950s and a young boy with a lemur on his >>more
Pinakoteka
ISBN 9780615247151
US $150.00 CAN $180.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 528 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Not available
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|  Personal Touch, A
Essays by Mienke Simon Thomas, Eric Turner, Lynn Springer Roberts, Veena Duncker, Reinhard Sänger. Silver has been a cherished heirloom and gift for centuries. Historians claim that by 3100 B.C. ambassadors to the Egyptian king from Crete brought silver vases as gifts. Today, sterling silver is a favorite medium >>more
nai010 publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ISBN 9789056623128
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
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|  Roman, Byzantine And Early Medieval Glass
Essay by Marianne Stern. With the instincts of a true connoisseur, Ernest Wolf built a remarkably comprehensive collection of Roman, Byzantine, and early Medieval glasswork that is published here for the first time. Together these objects trace the formation >>more
Hatje Cantz
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
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|  Russia!: The Majesty Of The Tsars
Essay by Irina Bogrovnitskaya. The Majesty of the Tsars: Treasures from the Kremlin is the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum's companion exhibition to the major show Russia! at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. This dazzling exhibition focuses on Russia >>more
Guggenheim Museum 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
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|  Samplers From A To Z
Artwork by Pamela Parmal. For centuries, the sampler has been a mainstay of the seamstress's craft, at once a didactic tool, a commercial showcase, and, frequently, a work of art in itself. This beautifully illustrated, accessible book presents a >>more
MFA Publications, 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
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|  Shards
Edited by John Pagliaro. Essays by Garth Clark. Foreword by Peter Schjeldahl. Introduction by Ed Lebow. Breaking the ceramic arts up into incisive, historic, award-winning essays, Shards is an anthology of writings by Garth Clark, one of the most noted proponents of the medium. The writings in this volume span 25 >>more
D.A.P./Ceramic Arts Foundation
ISBN 9780972509718
US $29.95 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 530 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Not available
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|  Sounds Of The Silk Road: Musical Instruments Of Asia
Text by Mitchell Clark. From the cymbals and gongs used by Chinese priests use to invoke deities to the oboes and drums of Turkish weddings, music and its related instruments are an integral part of life throughout Asia. Sounds >>more
MFA Publications, 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
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|  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
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|  The Jews Of Europe In The Middle Ages
Essays by Javier Castaño, Renate Engles, Alfred Haverkamp, Maurice-Ruben Hayoun, Pia Herberer, Martha Keil, Frederek Musall and Werner Transier. Featuring abundant illustrations of religious, historical, and cultural objects and documents, this book traces the history of Judaism during the medieval period, from the 11th to the early 16th century. Two major centers of Jewish >>more
Hatje Cantz
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
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|  The Maker's Hand
Text by Edward S. Cooke, Kelly H. L'Ecuyer, Gerald W. R. Ward. The Studio Furniture movement began around the middle of the twentieth century, as a revival of the Victorian Arts and Crafts Movement, and as a reaction against the ongoing domination of mass-produced rote furniture. Over >>more
MFA Publications, 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
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|  Van Cleef & Arpels: The Spirit of Beauty
Foreword by Catherine Deneuve. Text by Francois Curiel, Vincent Meylan, Laurence Mouillefarine, Janet Zapata. This sumptuous clothbound volume reviews the history of the legendary French perfume, watch and jewelry designers Van Cleef & Arpels. The Paris-based company's prestige stems from a long list of prominent commissionsissued by royal and >>more
Editions Xavier Barral
ISBN 9782915173543
US $75.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Clth, 9 x 13 in. / 296 pgs / 240 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Not available
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|  Viennese Silver: Modern Design 1780-1918
Essays by Markus Brüderlin, William D. Godsey Jr., Diether Halama, Michael Huey, J.S. Marcus, Joseph Rykwert, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier and Christopher Wilk. The history of modern design is not only older but much more multifaceted than commonly assumed. This thesis is elegantly borne out through an exploration of the work and influence of the Vienna avant-garde of >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775713177
US $29.98 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 376 pgs / 185 color / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/02/2003 Not available
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|  Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry
Text by Janis Staggs. The Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshops, was established in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, artists who subscribed to the English Arts and Crafts ideal of exceptionally well-made objects designed by artists and executed >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775721653
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9.25 x 11.5 in. / 120 pgs / 72 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2008 Not available
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|  Women's Work: Embroidery in Colonial Boston
Text by Pamela A. Parmal. Charming us with their whimsy and conjuring a warm domesticity, embroideries from the colonial era also astonish us with the high prices they bring at art auctions. A single work could take years to make, >>more
MFA Publications, 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
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|  Yearning for Beauty
Edited by Peter Noever, Etienne Davignon, Paul Dujardin and Anne Mommens. Essays by Val»rie Dufour, Anette Freytag, Siegfried Mattl, Paulus Raine and Eduard F. Sekler, and conversations with Marc Hotermans and Heimo Zobernig. The Wiener Werkstâtte, founded in Vienna in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, became the international trademark for art as well as arts-and-crafts in the twentieth century. The fascinating history of the Wiener Werkstâtte >>more
Hatje Cantz
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
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