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Looking at Textiles A Guide to Technical Terms

Phipps Elena

ISBN: PB: 9781606060803, Getty Publications, December 2011
112 pp., 23.2x15.8 cm, 78 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

This is a concise yet detailed guide to the fundamental terms, materials, and techniques used to create textiles. Textiles have been made and used by every culture throughout history. However diverse – whether an Egyptian mummy wrapping, a Turkish ca...

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Branding First, Volume 2

ISBN: HB: 9789881562432, Bookport, SendPoints, November 2011
318 pp., 26x20.3 cm, 1000 colour illus.

For sale in Balkans only! New branding can be a breath of fresh air for established companies, or the first element of a reliable foundation for new businesses to build their reputation on. "Branding First, Volume 2" explores the importance of new...

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Decorative Arts

Duncan Phyfe Master Cabinetmaker in New York

Kenny Peter M., Brown Michael K., Bretter Frances F., Thurlow Matthew A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300155112, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2011
400 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854), known during his lifetime as the "United States Rage", to this day remains America's best-known cabinetmaker. Establishing his reputation as a purveyor of luxury by designing high-quality furniture for New York's moneyed eli...

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White

Hara Kenya

ISBN: HB: 9783037781838, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2011
64 pp., 19.5x13.5 cm, 4 black&white illus.

"White" is not a book about colors. It is rather Kenya Haras attempt to explore the essence of "White", which he sees as being closely related to the origin of Japanese aesthetics – symbolizing simplicity and subtlety. The central concepts discussed...

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Decorative Arts

Design

Modern World American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920-1950

Gordon John Stuart, Isenstadt Sandy, Orgeman Keely, Orr Emily M., Wendt Pan, Woo Justin, Wright Diane C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300153019, Yale University Press, November 2011
432 pp., 31.1x23.7 cm, 329 colour images, 19 black&white illus.

The Yale University Art Gallery is home to an amazing collection of American decorative arts. "A Modern World" provides a comprehensive look at the Gallery's holdings of modernist design made in America or for the American market. The catalogue featu...

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Curated A New Experience in Retail Design

Sandu

ISBN: HB: 9788492810253, Hoaki, October 2011
240 pp., 28.5x21 cm, richly illustrated

Retail merchandising is not just about garments hanging on a rail in isolation or displaying items on shelves. Leading fashion retailers and luxury lifestyle stores now rely heavily on conceptual interior and space design to reflect the whole image a...

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Design

American Christmas Cards, 1900-1960

Ames Kenneth L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300176872, Yale University Press, October 2011
320 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 250 colour illus.

The power of Christmas derives from the appeal of its repeated rituals, the presumed antiquity of its traditions, and its ability to adapt to changing cultural conditions. Christmas cards seemed inevitable and ubiquitous, but in recent years the genr...

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Hannes Wettstein Seeking Archetypes

Haemmerli Thomas, Kung Max

ISBN: HB: 9783037782651, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2011
292 pp., 29x23 cm, 662 illus.

We sit on them, write with them, ride them, listen to music through them, and live inside them. The furniture, product, and interior designs of Swiss designer Hannes Wettstein, who died in 2008, have left their mark on everyday life and shaped contem...

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Culture Studies

Design

French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975

Sherman Daniel J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226752693, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 51 halftones, 10 colour illus.

For over a century, the idea of primitivism has motivated artistic modernism. Focusing on the three decades after World War II, known in France as "les trentes glorieuses" despite the loss of most of the country's colonial empire, this probing and ex...

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Posters

Design

Windows on the War Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945

Kort Zegers Peter, Druick Douglas W., Akinsha Konstantin, Bird Robert, Bugajski Jill, Jolles Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780300170238, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2011
400 pp., 32.4x24.8 cm, 300 colour images, 140 black&white illus.

"Windows on the War" is a groundbreaking publication – the first in English to focus on posters designed by the Soviet Union's "TASS" news agency to bolster support for the Soviet war effort. "TASS" posters were created by a large collective of Sovie...

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