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The English Glass Chandelier

The book is the first to deal comprehensively with this subject. The range covered extends from the first use ofglass for lighting in the...

A Circus of Spheres - Cirque De Spheres

his book accompanies a major exhibition in the Carte Blanche series at the Musée de Design et d’arts Appliqués Contemporains, Lausenne, S...

The Art of Barovier Glass 1866-1972

This is a lavish, superbly illustrated reference to the amazing work of this famous maker. Page after page of breath-taking designs, all ...

Lino Tagliapietra Glass

The first comprehensive monograph to be devoted to this significant artist.His work blends the centuries-old skill of Muranese glass-work...

Murano - The Island of Glass

Murano owes its worldwide fame to blown glass. The works created by the skillful hands of the island’s master glassblowers have been exp...

Murano - A History of Glass

Discusses the origins of glass production, describing methods used by the Egyptians and the Romans. The earliest evidence of glass-making...

Murano - The Glass-making Island

The glass making world of Murano is currently experiencing an ongoing review between the old and the new, between loyalty of traditional ...

Murano Glass (1910-1970) - Theme and Variations

This book is part of the series of comprehensive handbooks on Murano glass. This time, Marc Heiremans discusses the masterly glass-worki...

Venetian Art Glass - 1840 - 1970

Rare glass objects from the latter half of the nineteenth century illustrate the beginning of the effort to revive art glass production i...

Venetian Glass 1890-1990

Superb large-scale colour photographs, including many of previously unpublished rare pieces in private collections, illustrate the unriva...

Portrait Miniatures from the Daphne Foskett Collection

This beautiful publication explores the secret and intimate world of the miniature painted portrait. The art of painting in miniature has...

Miller's Garden Antiques

….And so I face the Vinyl Curtain

Simon Drew's idiosyncratic views of the human and animal kingdoms have already been the exclusive subject of twenty books. His words and ...

Simon Drew’s Inappropriate Address Book

This may well be an address book but it is certainly unlike any other. Profusely illustrated throughout in full colour, it contains a del...

Giambattista Tiepolo Paintings and Frescoes

Each individual work is re-examined with reference to the history of its criticism up to the present times and new suggestions are made o...

Tiffany Silver Flatware

The antique silver flatware of Tiffany &Co., New York City, is highly sought-after, but the collector is frustrated by the lack of availa...

Mr Whistler’s Gallery - Small Masterpieces from an 1884 Exhibition

Best known as a painter and printmaker, James McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903) was also an influential designer of domestic interiors, and ...

The Paris Salons 1895-1914: Volume l - Jewellery A-K

t illustrates some 3,000 pieces of jewellery, the work of such giants as Boucheron, Falguières, Fouquet and Gaillard, as well as that of ...

19th Century Lustreware

Lustre is a form of decoration which can be applied to any form of ceramic body, be it earthenware or porcelain. Its popularity in the ni...

Edwardian cats & kittens

Gondola Days - Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle

At the end of the nineteenth century, a remarkable group of artists, writers and patrons gathered regularly at the Palazzo Barbaro in Ven...

Italia 61 - The Nation on Show

The first in a new series, Contemporary Architecture in Turin, that reconstructs the complex topography of places, buildings, architects...

Living by the Mediterranean

The Mediterranean climate, with its mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, has always spoken to the imagination of true hedonists and ...

Horses in Russian Art

This is the first-ever monograph dedicated to the theme of horses in works of art from the collection of the Russian Museum in St Petersb...

Marrakech - Living on the Edge of the Desert

Marrakech is a place of contrasts: half African and half Andalusian. Amid its luxuriant palm groves, through the ochre colored streets of...

Retail Centers - Designing the World’s Best

Founded in 1984 by Ronald Altoon and James Porter, Altoon & Porter has sustained its growth through all economic cycles with a clear adhe...

Senigallia Public Library

An in-depth analysis of a single project by Massimo and Gabriella Carmassi, the renovation of an early 19th century marketplace and slaug...

The Main Line

Country Houses 1870-1930 Suburban Domestic Architecture Series Suburban Domestic Architecture Series This volume chronicles the magnifice...

Timeless Living - 1995–2005

Timeless Living is a stunning collection of modern architectural and interior design projects – a pictorial tour through every room of th...

The World Bank - Building Monographs

Rarely does an organisation of worldwide importance acquire a home that matches its aspirations. This book explores the design and engine...

Health Spaces of the World - Volume 2

New designs for health facilities are in constant demand. The Health Spaces Series features projects that are considered to be among the ...

HOK

OK is not a firm to be restrained. This is the first edition in a new series: The Master Arcitect Series Revisited,. HOK is presented as ...

LS3P Associates Ltd.

LS3P has practiced as a firm for over forty years. Their work is as diverse as an architectural practice can be, but all of the work is f...

Paktong

Paktong, a rare Chinese alloy, imported in small quantities during the eighteenth century, was used by European craftsmento make domestic...

Jackson's Silver and Gold Marks of England, Scotland & Ireland

Sir Charles Jackson’s English Goldsmiths and Their Marks has long been the classic reference book on British antique silver hallmarks. Fi...

Eighteenth Century gold Boxes of Europe

The world's leading expert examines the best examples throughout Europe. Public, private and Royal collections from all over the world ha...

Starting to Collect Antique Jewellery

Starting to Collect Antique Jewellery explores a wide range of topics which students, dealers, private collectors and historians expect t...

Continental Church Furniture in England

This is the first book on the history of the virtually unknown phenomenon of the importation of Continental church furniture into England...

Eighteenth Century French Furniture

This guiide discusses the period from the Regence to Neoclassicism. Its clear language and comprehensive coverage enables newcomers to id...

Furniture for the Dream King

Ludwig II and Anton Pössenbacher, Munich Cabinet-maker to the Bavarian Court Anton Pössenbacher (1842-1920), cabinet-maker to the Bavaria...

Louis-Philippe Furniture - Early Historicism (1850 - 1870)

The very first comprehensive work on Louis-Philippe furniture, this book surveys the most important furniture types, stylistic features, ...

The English Regional Chair

This is arguably the most detailed study ever made of any branch of British furniture. It covers in considerable depth, on a region by r...

The Symbolic World of Egyptian Amulets

The amulets of ancient Egypt are an extraordinary testimony to the unique originality and wealth of Pharaonic civilization. This intrigui...

Tom Schamp - Illustrator

Whether he creates greetings cards or CD sleeves, posters, calendars, or magazine covers, Tom Schamp always remains a draftsman with a tr...

Form Colour Inspiration

This is the first publication to provide an extensive survey of the arts of New Britain, part of Papua New Guinea. The major focus is on ...

The Oxherder - A Zen Parable Illustrated

In the Buddhist parable of the oxherder, a herdsman’s search for his missing ox is likened to an individual’s journey toward enlightenmen...

Antique Needlework Tools and Embroideries

This is a comprehensive study of needlework tools from the seventeenth century to the Edwardian era. The book starts with the heavy silv...

Saints

Stained Glass from its Origns to the Present

Stained glass has always been an art of inspiration and devotion, infusing space with a warm, magical glow. This book is a comprehensive ...

Traditional Hungarian Folk Art

Living in Style: A Guide to Historic Decoration and Ornament

Seurat - Sunday on The Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat’s masterpiece is among the most recognizable and frequently reproduced paintings in the world. First exhibited in 1886, La...

Furniture

This title is presented in a question and answer format and provides a broad range of representitive items on furniture. It teaches the r...

Miller's 20s and 30s Ceramics - A Collector's Guide

The range of affordable ceramics of the 1920s and 1930s typified by innovative shapes and eye-catching designs, offers scope to the moder...

The Lamas of Tibet

This unique work brings together seventy portraits of the great Lamas (teachers) of Tibet. The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual and temporal...

Bridges - Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature

Bridges celebrates the technical and artistic achievements in the creation, design, engineering, construction, and social history of more...

The Elements of Style

An in-depth chronological survey of the key styles and periods of architectural design in the UK and US over the past 500 years, with ove...

Animal Style

In 2006, Mudac, Lausanne, issued a summons to the animal kingdom. From social phenomenon to contemporary art, it became clear that change...

Less - Alternative Living Strategies

Space to live in is both a basic necessity and also a catalyst for needs and desires. Numerous artists thus create housing models in whi...

Gardens of Italy: A Touring Guide to Over 100 of the Best Gardens

This volume looks specifically at the gardens of Italy, including the formal Renaissance terraces of Roman villas, the luscious exotic pl...