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Decorative Arts

Architecture

Ernest Gimson Arts & Crafts Designer and Architect

Carruthers Annette, Greensted Mary, Roscoe Barley

ISBN: HB: 9780300246261, Yale University Press, October 2019
372 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 320 colour and black&white illus.

This study of the renowned designer-maker Ernest Gimson (1864-1919) combines biography with analysis of his work as an architect and designer of furniture, metalwork, plaster decoration, embroidery, and more. It also examines Gimson's significance wi...

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Decorative Arts

Eclat The Masters of New Jewelry Design (New Edition)

Pastor Carlos

ISBN: PB: 9788416851928, Hoaki, April 2019
236 pp., 29x19 cm, fully illustrated in colour

"Masters of New Jewellery Design" offers a bold and daring look at the intriguing and fascinating world of contemporary jewellery design through some of the field's most prominent international artists and emerging new talents. They present their lat...

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History of Art

Decorative Arts

Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums

So Jenny F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300237023, Yale University Press, March 2019
272 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 290 colour and black&white illus.

From personal ornamentation to funerary practice, from palace decoration to private devotion, jade has played a major role in Chinese social, cultural, and political life for millennia. Exploring the history of this revered stone through the esteemed...

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Decorative Arts

European Porcelain In The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Munger Jeffrey, Sullivan Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9781588396433, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2018
312 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 321 colour illus.

The quest to discover the process of making porcelain was one of the defining aspects of post-Renaissance Europe, and it had significant artistic, technical, and commercial ramifications. This beautifully illustrated book showcases ninety works, span...

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Decorative Arts

European Clocks and Watches In the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vincent Clare, Leopold J. H., Sullivan Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9781588395795, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2015
256 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.

Among the world's great technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time the Metropolitan Museum's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the early...

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Decorative Arts

Design

Eclat The Masters of New Jewelry Design

Borras Montse, Climent Carlos

ISBN: HB: 9788492810970, Hoaki, October 2014
256 pp., 29.5x19.6 cm, richly illustrated

Through beautiful photos and interviews with designers, this book instroduces the jewelers who have dominated the landscape of jewelry design in recent years. In presenting their creations, which fuse tradition and innovation with fascinating results...

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Interior Design

Decorative Arts

European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago

Brosens Koenraad, Bertrand Pascal-Francois, Bremer-David Charissa, Cleland Elizabeth, Delmarcel Guy, Forti Grazzini Nello, Mayer Thurman Christa C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300119602, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2008
450 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 200 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated book presents a rich variety of European tapestries from the Art Institute of Chicago. These exquisite tapestries include medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque examples, manufactured at almost all the major centres of productio...

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