 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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|  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
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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 Artful Adornments
Text by Yvonne J. Markowitz. A mode of expression that can be traced back to the earliest civilizations, jewelry can be as culturally revealing as it is stunningly beautiful. Artful Adornments: Jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston features >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467686
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Clth, 9 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 In 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
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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 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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|  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
ISBN 9780878467648
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Clth, 10 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 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
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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|  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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 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
ISBN 9780878468416
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 08/23/2016 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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|  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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 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 In 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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 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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 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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|  (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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 Jewelry by Artists
Text by Kelly H. L'Ecuyer. Contributions by Michelle Tolini Finamore, Yvonne J. Markowitz, Gerald W. R. Ward. Studio jewelry is defined not by an aesthetic or philosophy, but by its makers and their work process. Studio jewelers are independent artists in small workshops, directly handling their materials and producing one-of-a-kind pieces that >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467501
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Clth, 9.5 x 10.25 in. / 280 pgs / 200 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Out of stock
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|  Joris Laarman: Lab
Edited by Anita Star. Text by Andrea Lipps, Sarah Schleuning, Cindi Strauss, Mark Wilson. >>more
August Editions
ISBN 9781947359000
US $60.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7.75 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 200 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/10/2017 In 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
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 In stock
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 Maria Pergay: Complete Works 1957-2010
By Suzanne Demisch, Stephane Danant. Text by Adam Lindemann. Maria Pergay: Complete Works 1957-2010 is the first comprehensive survey of the work of the legendary French furniture designer, whose work has attracted clients and collectors from around the world for decades. Pergay is most >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862081740
US $70.00 CAN $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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 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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|  Panerai
Foreword by Angelo Bonati. Text by Giampiero Negretti, Philippe Daverio, Paolo Galluzzi, Simon de Burton. The recent history of Officine Panerai is exceptional: from small craft workshop to manufacturer of fine sports watches, it has become now a leading player on the world's markets, given the remarkable speed with which >>more
Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831720748
US $80.00 CAN $110.00 TRADE
Hbk, 12.5 x 12.5 in. / 232 pgs / 105 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2015 Out of 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
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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|  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
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 In 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
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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 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
ISBN 9780878466993
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2006 In 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 In 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 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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|  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
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 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 In 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 refined output of vases and bowls by the great architect and designer for the long-standing Venetian glasshouse. An architect, designer, interior decorator, and columnist for Domus magazine, Tomaso Buzzi (1900–1981) was one of the >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857222479
US $90.00 CAN $115.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 12 in. / 448 pgs / 1000 color.
Pub Date: 04/21/2015 Out of 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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|  Created by the house of Van Cleef & Arpels in 1968, the Alhambra chain is an instantly recognizable icon of jewelry design and yet still a perennial favorite for daily wear. Easy to wear owing >>more
Editions Xavier Barral/Van Cleef & Arpels
ISBN 9782365111911
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 212 pgs / 55 color / 68 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 In stock
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 Van Cleef & Arpels: The Art & Science of Gems
Text by Alvin Pang, Laurence Mouillefarine, Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter, Adriano Davoli, Timothy Adams, Vivienne Becker, Alberto Cavalli, Laurence Benaďm, François Farges. For more than a century, the designs of the French jewelry house Van Cleef & Arpels have represented the marriage of an unrivaled sense of elegance with an extraordinary level of technical expertise and prowess. >>more
Editions Xavier Barral
ISBN 9782365110983
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 12.5 in. / 296 pgs / 136 color.
Pub Date: 05/24/2016 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 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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|  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 In stock
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