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Soviet Textiles Designing the Modern Utopia
ISBN: PB: 9780878467037, DAP, MFA Publications, August 2006
96 pp., 22.9x21 cm, 52 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Between 1927 and 1933, as the new Soviet Union emerged and the Communist party struggled to transform an agrarian country into an industrialized state, a group of young artists pitched in by designing fabrics depicting trac...
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£22,00
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Samuel Colt Arms, Art, and Invention
ISBN: HB: 9780300111330, Yale University Press, May 2006
288 pp., 30.4x24.8 cm, 255 colour images, 71 black&white illus.
Samuel Colt (1814-1862) first patented his 'Colt' revolver in 1835 and quickly redefined the architecture of handguns. This stunning book traces the evolution of Colt's most famous invention and examines his ambition for artistic excellence as well a...
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£70,00
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French Tapestries and Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: HB: 9780892363797, Getty Publications, March 2006
208 pp., 30.6x23.6 cm, 55 colour illus.,146 black&white illus.
This lavishly-illustrated book is a survey of the Getty Museum's seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French textiles – one of the world's finest collections. Featuring twenty-five extraordinary tapestries woven at the Gobelins and Beauvais manufactur...
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£69,00
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