French Silver in the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: PB: 9781606068281,
Getty Publications,
April 2023
178 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 277 colour illus., 4 tables
178 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 277 colour illus., 4 tables
The collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver at the J. Paul Getty Museum is of exceptional quality and state of preservation. Each piece is remarkable for its beauty, inventive form, skillful execution, illustrious provenance,...
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50.00 GBP
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How to Read European Decorative Arts
ISBN: PB: 9781588397515,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
March 2023
168 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 141 colour illus.
168 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 141 colour illus.
Illuminating three centuries of European artistry and ingenuity, this volume in The Met's acclaimed How to Read series provides a wide-ranging exploration of decorative arts from British writing tables to Russian snuffboxes.
Spanning three decades o...
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19.95 GBP
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English Furniture 1680-1760 and English Needlework 1600-1740
The Percival D. Griffiths Collection (Volumes I and II)
ISBN: SET: 9780300259889,
Yale University Press,
February 2023
864 pp., 29,2x24,8 cm, 600 colour and black&white illus.
864 pp., 29,2x24,8 cm, 600 colour and black&white illus.
Brings together a superb collection of over 650 detailed examples English furniture and needlework from 1600 to 1760.
These volumes are dedicated to one of the finest collections of early English furniture and needlework, formed by Percival D. Griff...
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200.00 GBP
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Ateliers of Europe
An Atlas of Decorative Arts Workshops
ISBN: HB: 9783791388175,
Prestel Publishing,
February 2023
288 pp., 28,7x25,0 cm, 215 colour illus.
288 pp., 28,7x25,0 cm, 215 colour illus.
This visually stunning love letter to the art of craft takes readers inside Europe's most illustrious – and in many cases endangered – decorative arts workshops to profile how artisans continue to maintain the highest centuries-old standards of workm...
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45.00 GBP
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Pattern and Flow
A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s
ISBN: HB: 9780300266191,
Yale University Press,
November 2022
196 pp., 26,9x25,7 cm, 260 colour illus.
196 pp., 26,9x25,7 cm, 260 colour illus.
Showcasing marbled paper, paste paper, fold-and-dye papers, and more, this book reveals a little-known arts phenomenon from its grass roots in the 1960s to artistic heights in the following decades.
"Pattern and Flow" chronicles the flourishing of A...
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50.00 GBP
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Spirit of Chairs
The Chair Collection of Thierry Barbier-Mueller
ISBN: PB: 9783037787106,
Lars Muller Publishers,
October 2022
392 pp., 30,0x22,0 cm, 910 illus.
392 pp., 30,0x22,0 cm, 910 illus.
The chairs in this private collection are not an assembly of objects of everyday use. They are a congregation of creatures often eluding their primary purpose as seating. Metaphorically exaggerated height and disassociation transform the chairs into...
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65.00 GBP
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Hear Me Now
The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
ISBN: HB: 9781588397263,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
September 2022
192 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 154 colour illus.
192 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 154 colour illus.
Nineteenth-century stoneware by enslaved and free potters living in Edgefield, South Carolina, highlights the central role of Black artists in the region's long-standing pottery traditions.
Recentering the development of industrially scaled Southern...
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35.00 GBP
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Persia
Ancient Iran and the Classical World
ISBN: HB: 9781606066805,
Getty Publications,
May 2022
432 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 300 colour illus.
432 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 300 colour illus.
The founding of the first Persian Empire by the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great in the sixth century BCE established one of the greatest world powers of antiquity. Extending from the borders of Greece to northern India, Persia was seen by the Greeks...
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55.00 GBP
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Underworld
Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting
ISBN: HB: 9781606067345,
Getty Publications,
January 2022
240 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, illus.
240 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, illus.
What happens to us when we die? What might the afterlife look like? For the ancient Greeks, the dead lived on, overseen by Hades in the Underworld. We read of famous sinners, such as Sisyphus, forever rolling his rock, and the fierce guard dog Kerber...
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60.00 GBP
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Lucie Rie
Modernist Potter
ISBN: PB: 9781913107307,
Yale University Press,
January 2022
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.
The life and legacy of brilliant but elusive potter Lucie Rie is investigated through interviews, letters and the analysis of her elegant, modernist vessels.
Lucie Rie (1902-1995), one of the 20th century's most celebrated and iconic potters, combin...
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25.00 GBP
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