 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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 Art and Reform: Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening Girls, and the Paul Revere Pottery Text by Nonie Gadsden. The handmade ceramics of the Paul Revere Pottery, often enlivened with stylized images of animals, flowers or abstract patterns, are best known today by the name of the girls' club whose members created the wares: >>more MFA Publications ISBN 9780878467167 US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE Paperback, 8 x 9 in. / 104 pgs/ illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Out of 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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|  A kaleidoscopic, colorful, and dazzlingly illustrated history of Bulgari jewelry, this engaging book showcases more than three hundred objects from the late-nineteenth century to the present day. The color illustrations are of such high fidelity >>more Skira ISBN 9788857208305 US $95.00 CAN $120.00 TRADE Hbk, 11.5 x 11.5 in. / 388 pgs / 1015 color. Pub Date: 07/05/2011 Out of 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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 Chains Edited by Alba Cappellieri. This book retraces the historic, symbolic and aesthetic evolution of the chain, one of the most abundant and beloved of jewelry items, and examines its intersections with art, fashion, design and manufacturing, from antiquity to >>more Silvana Editoriale ISBN 9788836638468 US $39.95 CAN $53.95 FLAT40 Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 145 color. Pub Date: 10/23/2018 Out of 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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|  A personal diary with writings, illustrations and photographs by Ettore Sottsass offering a glimpse and an overview of his lengthy and prosperous career. The volume constitutes a sort of intimate diary and reflection through images >>more Skira ISBN 9788884913258 US $19.99 CAN $25.99 TRADE Hbk, 9.25 x 13 in. / 132 pgs / 110 illustrations. Pub Date: 05/01/2003 Out of 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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|  Gino Sarfatti: Selected Works 1938-1973 Text by Marco Romanelli, Sandra Severi. The Senate may have tried legislating the lightbulb, but only one person has ever truly loved it, and that was Italian designer Gino Sarfatti (1912–1985). After abandoning his studies in aeronautical engineering for financial reasons, >>more Silvana Editoriale ISBN 9788836621743 US $85.00 CAN $112.50 TRADE Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 496 pgs / 700 color / 400 duotone. Pub Date: 12/31/2012 Out of 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 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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 (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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|  Imperishable Beauty Text by Yvonne Markowitz, Elyse Z Karlin. "A new, imperishable beauty," was how the artist and architect Henry van de Velde described it. European Art Nouveau jewelry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries embraced a new aesthetic characterized by sensuous >>more MFA Publications ISBN 9780878467341 US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE Hardback, 8.75 x 9.25 in. / 176 pgs / 160 color. Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Out of 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 In 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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|  Lethal Elegance Text by Joe Earle. As the "soul of the samurai," the sword is famously both the symbol and instrument of Japanese military prowess. Less known, at least in the west, is its role as a fashion accessory or status >>more MFA Publications ISBN 9780878467754 US $37.50 CAN $50.00 TRADE Pbk, 8.25 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 300 color. Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Out of 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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|  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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|  Roads of Arabia Edited by Ute Franke, Joachim Gierlichs. Roads of Arabia provides a unique cultural historical panorama of the Arabian Peninsula: the first hand axes, 6,000 year-old anthropomorphic stele, monumental Egyptian giant statues, Roman glass and metal works, early Islamic ceramics and other >>more Wasmuth ISBN 9783803033567 US $65.00 CAN $87.00 FLAT40 Pbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 308 pgs / 387 color. Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Out of 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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|  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 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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|  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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 Vital Art Nouveau 1900 Edited by Lucie Vlecková, Radim Vondrácek. Text by Iva Knobloch, Otto Urban, Lucie Vlecková, Radim Vondráceek, Filip Wittlich, et al. Vital Art Nouveau 1900 presents a selection of the most outstanding works of Czech and European Art Nouveau style from the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, all of which are on >>more Arbor Vitae/Museum of Decorative Arts Prague ISBN 9788074670541 US $65.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE Flexi, 8.25 x 9.75 in. / 304 pgs / 539 color. Pub Date: 10/31/2014 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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|  Women's Work: Embroidery in Colonial Boston Text by Pamela A. Parmal. Charming us with their whimsy and conjuring a warm domesticity, embroideries from the colonial era also astonish us with the high prices they bring at art auctions. A single work could take years to make, >>more MFA Publications ISBN 9780878467785 US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Clth, 8 x 9.5 in. / 174 pgs / 80 color. Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Out of 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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