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Decorative Arts & Design
Wristwatch Annual 2022 The Catalog of Producers, Prices, Models, and Specifications
Peter Braun, Marton Radkai
With Wristwatch Annual, collectors have at hand a wealth of information on the latest offerings from today’s most important watch producers, from Swiss mainstays like Rolex and Patek Philippe to the maverick independent brands springing up across Europe and the U.S. The book is arranged alphabetically by producer, and the movement, functions, case, band, price, and variations of each pictured watch are fully described.
This year’s edition, like its predecessors, features a variety of additional articles on independent watchmaking, key personalities in the watch world, and the technical aspects of horology. An illustrated glossary and a primer on watch care help acclimate the reader to the world of fine timepieces.
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Abbeville Press 297 x 210mm. 352pp., 1400 col. April 2022 £28.99, Paperback The essential guide for the collector of mechanical wristwatches, with complete information on over 1,400 models from 130 international brands.
The Modern Guide to Antique Jewellery
Beth Bernstein
The ultimate go-to guide, The Modern Guide to Antique Jewellery takes the reader on a tour through time, venturing from the 1700s all the way through to the early 20th century. From how to look chic while wearing jewellery that outdates you by 100 years, to how to spot and score the best pieces, this book is a must-read for all enthusiasts and collectors who have an affinity for the jewels of the past. Fun factual tidbits are presented in a witty, conversational style, and lively narratives explore each piece’s history. Part travelogue, featuring the most influential shops in New York, LA, London, Paris and Amsterdam; part educational guide, with anecdotes from dealers and experts; and part celebration of historical jewellery, this book is an invaluable and accessible reference.
Topics covered include (but are not limited to): how to identify the most popular gemstones, materials, styles and collectible pieces in the market today, and how to select antique jewellery to complement your lifestyle. The Modern Guide to Antique Jewellery reveals what to look for and where to locate rare finds, as well as how the experts score the pieces that decorate the fingers, ears, necks and wrists of the collector.
9781788841580
ACC Art Books 225 x 165mm. 192pp. April 2022 £25.00, Hardback The ultimate tour guide to antique jewellery, from the 1700s to the early 20th century, offering guidance on what and where to buy, as well as trade secrets from top dealers and shop owners.
The Art of Wallpapers: Morris & Co. in Context
Mary Schoeser
This extensively illustrated volume focuses on William Morris (1834–1896), placing his wallpaper designs within the context of the radical changes in taste witnessed during the Victorian era. Against a backdrop of the fanciful, naturalistic patterns that typified fashionable papers in Morris’s youth, the impact of the Reform Movement of the mid-19th century is underscored, particularly the reformers’ crusade against such multi-coloured ornamental decoration. The role of imported Japanese wallpapers is also explored, giving insight into a seldom-discussed cultural exchange evidenced within the story of Morris & Co, which produced wallpapers from 1864 until 1940 and, after a post-war hiatus, from the 1960s to the present. Amplifying Morris’s role in the creation of an influential and lasting style, his work is set within a selection by other designers, including Christopher Dresser and C. F. A. Voysey. Also introduced are firms of significance including Jeffrey & Co. and Arthur Sanderson & Sons, both of whom block-printed the Morris wallpapers. In a highly visual presentation, what is revealed are influences across time and within a global context, as pertinent to the creation of wallpaper art in the 19th century as it is today.
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ACC Art Books 300 x 220mm. 176pp. March 2022 £30.00, Paperback Collecting the majority of William Morris’s wallpaper designs in one volume, this lavishly illustrated volume, accompanies an exhibition at Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios.
Contemporary British Silver Designers
John L. Davis, Gordon Hamme
The discovery of silver cannot be pinpointed; humans have mined it far back into antiquity. Our fascination with this malleable metal and the beautiful works of art that can be shaped from it continues to this day. This book brings together two expansive collections of silver objects, the ‘Lion’ collection and the ‘Hamme’ collection. The ‘Lion’ collection provides a broad overview of beautiful silver objects made by a great variety of British contemporary silversmiths. It is divided between holloware, caddy spoons and napkin rings. Part of the collection revolves around the theme of lions, because the lion image bears a resemblance to the collector’s family history. The Hamme collection is a spectacular array of ‘hero’ pieces and commissions that demonstrate some of the best of each silversmith’s work. With more than 500 images, Contemporary British Silver Designers shares some of the finest work crafted by 21st-century silversmiths.
With over 500 images, this book showcases some of the finest work crafted by 21st-century silversmiths, and contains interviews with several top contemporary silver designers.
9781788841603
ACC Art Books 300 x 237mm. 240pp., 300 col. May 2022 £45.00, Hardback
An Unbroken Thread Celebrating 150 Years of the Royal School of Needlework
Susan Kay-Williams
Many initiatives to support women were begun in the late 1800s, but the Royal School of Needlework (RSN) is one of the few that remain. This initiative was born from the desire of three women – Princess Helena, Lady Victoria Welby and Lady Marian Alford – to popularise the lost art of ornamental needlework. Their other, yet no less important goal was to provide employment for women compelled to earn their own livelihood. Though women are no longer so limited in occupational options, the RSN has been keeping traditional embroidery techniques alive for a century and a half.
Published to coincide with the RSN’s 150th anniversary, this book will tell the story of the RSN from its founding in 1872 to the current day.
9781788841627
ACC Art Books 270 x 215mm. 224pp., 200 col. March 2022 £35.00, Hardback Published to coincide with the Royal School of Needlework’s 150th anniversary, this book accompanies the exhibition 150 Years of the Royal School of Needlework: Crown to Catwalk, from 1 April to 4 September, 2022 at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London
British Furniture 1820 to 1920 The Luxury Market
Christopher Payne
British Furniture 1820 to 1920 is the first book on the subject for several decades and the only book ever published to span the century from 1820 through to 1920. It creates a continuum to underline the importance of the late Recency style favoured by George IV, moving through to the first two decades of the 20th century, with a host of ever-changing styles and fashions. Many of the makers’ names are familiar to furniture collectors, such as Gillows, Hollands, Collinson & Lock, Morris & Co. and Maples. However, the importance of others, such as Baldock, Blake, Trollope, Hindley & Wilkinson, Hamptons or Lenygon & Morant - as well as a host of provincial makers - is explained. British Furniture 1820 to 1920 is a landmark publication and arguably the first book to properly assess British furniture design through the whole of the Victorian era.
9781788841740
ACC Art Books 288 x 243mm. 608pp. June 2022 £125.00, Hardback In over 600 pages, all lavishly illustrated, Christopher Payne creates the new and definitive work on this subject.
Bulgari | Serpenti The Power of Metamorphosis
Alba Cappellieri
Metamorphosis is a central theme of contemporary creativity. With a pioneering spirit, Bvlgari investigates metamorphosis in all its different meanings: symbolic, creative and artistic. The protagonist of the narration is the snake, an emblem of metamorphosis and regeneration in all cultures, and an icon of the Roman maison’s goldsmith mastery from the 1940s to today. In symbolic metamorphoses, the snake embodies the archetype of transformation and renewal. With regards to artistic metamorphoses, Bulgari asked five artists to represent their own idea of metamorphosis: Azuma Makoto, Daan Roosegaarde, Ann Veronica Janssens Vincent Van Duysen, and Refik Anadol, have interpreted this theme through the poetics of their respective artistic languages. The results are surprising, heterogeneous and powerful, demonstrating that metamorphosis is the most revolutionary and profound act in the life of a person, a society or a culture.
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Silvana 240 x 170mm. 248pp., 200 col. Available £35.00, Hardback English, Italian The snake has been a constant source of inspiration over the centuries, so much so that it has also influenced contemporary designers and stylists, as evidenced by the creations of the Bvlgari fashion house.
A detailed study of contemporary artist and jewellery creator, Dickson Yewn, renowned as the designer worn by the likes of Michelle Obama.
Yewn Contemporary Jewels and the Silk Road
Juliet de la Rochefoucauld, Dickson Yewn
Dickson Yewn is the quintessential modern-day literatus. His contemporary jewellery is a crystallisation of thousands of years of Chinese material history. Square rings rub shoulders with antique porcelain forms, shapes taken from Ming furniture and the geometric latticework found in Chinese architecture. Yewn focuses on these traditional Chinese motifs, but also understands the significance of different materials.
This new monograph of his work details the inspiration Yewn has drawn from the Imperial court, exploring its influence on the art of jewellery, from silks, embroidery, painting, architecture and cloisonné enamel to courtesan culture. Beautiful, detailed illustrations and photographs highlight Yewn’s fealty to the artisanal techniques employed by the Imperial courts. Esteemed jewellery writer Juliet Weir-de La Rochefoucauld invites the reader to explore the deeper symbolism behind Yewn’s jewels.
9781788841092
ACC Art Books 285 x 285mm. 280pp. June 2022 £75.00, Hardback
Venetian Glassworks Carla Nasci - Ferruccio Franzoia Collection
Edited by Tiziana Casagrande
This book presents the collection of Venetian glass donated by spouses Carla Nasci and Ferruccio Franzoia to the Carlo Rizzarda Modern Art Gallery in Feltre. A collection of over 800 pieces ranging from the 18th century to today. The first group includes the elegant Liberty and Déco glasses produced by Vetri Soffiati Muranesi Cappellin Venini & C. in the 1920s: the artistic director of the company was Vittorio Zecchin. The second group is represented by the artefacts produced between 1925 and 1960 referable to the figure of Carlo Scarpa, creator of highly successful, innovative glass shapes and fabrics. The third type of documented artefacts is that of table glasses: consumer objects destined for ephemeral use and therefore an important testimony of taste and customs.
9788836648399
Silvana 280 x 280mm. 552pp., 670 col. Available £45.00, Hardback
9781788841467
ACC Art Books 300 x 237mm. 432pp., 850 col. May 2022 £45.00, Hardback
The Story of British Tea Chests and Caddies Social History and Decorative Techniques
Edited by Anne Stevens, Kate Richenburg, and Gillian Walkling
Tea was introduced to Britain in the 1650s. Its popularity burgeoned over the following two-and-a-half centuries, until it became a defining feature of British culture. Drawing inspiration from China, British craftsmen worked to display their skills on numerous tea-related objects, which ritualised the process of drinking tea and imbued it with luxury status. Calling on an array of different materials and techniques, they developed a huge variety of canisters and lockable containers for storing and preserving this precious commodity.
This book brings together a great range of decorative antique tea containers, presenting them alongside detailed historical research conducted into their making and their place in British society across the centuries. It also explores the materials and techniques employed.
Nutmeg: Graters, Pomanders and Spice Boxes Luxury and utility from the 16th century to the present day
John Reckless
Once, nutmeg was worth its weight in gold. For much of human history, the tiny Banda Islands in Indonesia were the only source of this esteemed spice. From the age of the Silk Roads through to the mid19th century partial shift of production to the Caribbean, this book traces the story of nutmeg, revealing its extensive and often surprising influence over conflict, politics, social mores, and Western society. Beautiful antique silver, gold, enamel, bone, ivory, treen and Tunbridgeware graters and rasps demonstrate how much nutmeg was valued throughout history. This book gathers pictures of some of the finest examples world-wide, alongside mechanical and base metal graters and spice containers.
9781788841450
ACC Art Books 300 x 237mm. 312pp. May 2022 £45.00, Hardback
Dr. Elliot Todd
This two-volume set offers an unparalleled insight into the history of Danish porcelain. Founded in 1775, Royal Copenhagen remains one the oldest porcelain manufacturers still in operation today. Throughout its history, the factory has experienced numerous highs and lows, and has weathered more than 130 years of competition from the Bing & Grøndahl Porcelain Factory.
Danish Porcelain was inspired by a two-generation collection of porcelain, stoneware and faience from Royal Copenhagen and Bing & Grøndahl, initially gathered by the author’s father in 1947. Featuring detailed appendices and almost 2000 pictures, these two volumes provide an informative guide to the history of Danish porcelain.
Art Underfoot The Nazmiyal Collection
Jason Nazmiyal, Elisabeth Parker, Markus Voigt
In New York, Jason Nazmiyal has a rug collection like no other. For the past three decades, interior designers and collectors have flocked to his Manhattan gallery to source art for the floor, be it a treasured antique classical carpet, an elegant Art Deco rug, or a Scandinavian minimalist piece. This book delves into the history of the handmade carpet across the world.
With stunning interior photography and full of practical advice for the professional decorator as well as the amateur enthusiast, this publication is a useful and beautiful addition to the library of anyone with an interest in interior decoration.
Abr Ikat Robes from Central Asia
Elena Tsareva
Ikat textiles, known as abr in their lands of origin in Central Asia, are beloved across the world. This book presents a new approach to the patterned silk textiles by focusing on complete robes from a major Russian collection. By studying the history, making, and changing fashions of ikat robes, the past is brought to life.
With stunning photography and previously unpublished research findings, this publication is a new take on ikat costume for those interested in the history of textiles and fashion, but also for those wishing to admire the sheer beauty and exquisite craftsmanship of these remarkable textiles.
9781788841504
ACC Art Books 290 x 237mm. 900pp. June 2022 £125.00, Hardback
9781898113980
Hali Publications Ltd 318 x 245mm. 256pp., 200 col. March 2022 £50.00, Hardback
9781898113942
Hali Publications Ltd 340 x 255mm. 384pp., 300 col. June 2022 £65.00, Hardback
Kauffer’s Covers The Book Jackets and Covers of Edward McKnight Kauffer
Ruth Artmonsky, Brian Webb
Edward McKnight Kauffer is considered one of the most important graphic designers in Britain in the first half of the 20th century. He had come to Europe from America to develop a career as a painter, but stranded in England with the onset of WW1, he decided to stay. In need of an income, he tried his hand as a graphic designer and was lucky enough to get commissions from Frank Pick of London Transport. He became its most prolific poster designer. A neglected but not at all insignificant part of his output was designing book jackets. This book is the first on this aspect of his work, including illustrations of some 250 jackets and an account of the publishers who commissioned them.
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Artmonsky Arts 215 x 175mm. 104pp., 347 col. Available £17.50, Paperback The first book to focus on Edward McKight Kauffer’s designs for book jackets, including illustrations of some 250 jackets and an account of the publishers who commissioned them.
European Fans The Untold Story
Hahn Eura Eunkyung
Throughout their history, hand fans were used not only as tools for everyday life but also as status symbols, religious ritual artifacts, fashion items, and even devices for discreet communication. The richness of symbolic and aesthetic aspects of fans is that of sophisticated and comprehensive artworks. European Fans explores the thematic, stylistic, as well as production aspects of 60 carefully selected European 18th to 20th century fans from Eurus Collection. Along with its beautiful fan illustrations, the book invites the reader to discover their untold stories. Eurus Collection, under the direction of Hahn Eura Eunkyung, is a sister institution of Hwajeong Museum in Seoul. With more than one thousand fans from all over the world, Eurus Collection is the largest of its kind in Asia.
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Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd 224 x 167mm. 248pp., 172 col. May 2022 £14.95, Hardback European Fans explores the thematic, stylistic and production aspects of 66 carefully selected European 18th to 20th century fans from Eurus Collection, South Korea.
10 Principles of Good Design Today
Agata Toromanoff
The 10 principles of good design set out by Dieter Rams in 1995 has influenced and inspired a new generation of designers in search of the perfect balance between practicality, simplicity and aesthetics. What does good design mean in the 21st century? How have the 10 principles influenced modern design? In this book, established and emerging designers tell us how they understand and put these rules into practice thereby contributing to the definition of what good design in the 21st century means, according to the criteria defined by Rams. The book showcases contemporary products from around the globe; a host of work by iconic designers, such as Nendo, Neri & Hu, Lara Bohinc and so on.
Inspiring Ikebana
Ilse Beunen, Ben Huybrechts
Inspiring Ikebana is the sequel to Exploring Ikebana, the first book by world famous ikebana artist Ilse Beunen. Throughout her career she has been inspired by many different things and as all artists do, she is continually looking for inspiration to create something new and innovative. Having written a comprehensive introduction to the ancient Japanese art of flower arrangement, she reveals in this new book several sources of inspiration: nature, the four seasons, festivals, vases and containers, artificial material, art and emotions.
More than 40 stunning ikebana creations, both in traditional and modern styles, are lavishly illustrated with detailed step by step photographs of the creative process, making it easy to follow and achieve a great result.
In Perfect Shape
Fritz Hansen
When you step into the headquarters of Fritz Hansen in Allerød, northwest of Copenhagen, you breathe in the spirit of a company that has made design history. The showroom displays pieces that have become icons. A recurring theme in the history of the Danish furniture maker is its collaborations with big-name visionary designers like Arne Jacobsen, Poul Kjærholm, and Piero Lissoni. With over 150 photos, this book recounts the history of an exclusive brand, the furniture that has made it so revered, and provides examples of how a single piece of furniture can beautify an entire room or building, and fire the imagination of those who live there.
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Artpower International 285 x 215mm. 240pp. February 2022 £30.00, Hardback
9789058566539
Stichting Kunstboek 280 x 215mm. 128pp., 400 col. January 2022 £29.95, Paperback
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teNeues Verlag GmbH 320 x 250mm. 224pp. February 2022 £45.00, Hardback
Making Design Fun Product Designs for Children
Edited by Images Publishing
Making Design Fun: Product Designs for Children draws on a wide range of detailed case studies that showcase the latest emerging product design techniques and trends from around the globe. Over 60 designers analyse how to design fun, engaging, and practical children’s products that appeal to both little ones and their guardians alike, focusing on how to integrate great design aesthetics with child psychology and safety. This beautifully presented and highly illustrated volume looks across a huge range of ideas for toys, stationery, clothing, tableware, sports equipment, furniture, technology products, and so much more. This book is suitable for all creatives who are committed to designing child-friendly, accessible, fun, and inspiring products for children.
Harry Bertoia Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life
Edited by Jed Morse & Marin R. Sullivan
Italian-born American artist Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) was one of the most prolific, innovative artists of the post-war period. Trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he met future colleagues and collaborators Charles and Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, and Eero Saarinen, he went on to make one-of-a kind jewellery, design iconic chairs, create thousands of unique sculptures, and advance the use of sound as sculptural material. Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life accompanies the first U.S. museum retrospective of the artist’s career to examine the full scope of his broad, interdisciplinary practice, and feature important examples of his furniture, jewellery, monotypes, and diverse sculptural output. Lavishly illustrated, the book offers new scholarly essays as well as a catalogue of the artist’s numerous large-scale commissions.
Swiss Grand Award for Design 2021
Edited by Federal Office of Culture
Since 2007, Switzerland’s Federal Office of Culture has honoured the work of renowned designers who exemplify the quality and relevance of Swiss design practice both nationally and internationally. Simply put, the yearly awarded Swiss Grand Prix of Design reflects the best that Switzerland has to offer in this field. The roll call of winners illustrates the country’s multifaceted spectrum of design production. The 2021 laureates of the Swiss Grand Prix of Design are the graphic designer Julia Born, photographer and art director Peter Knapp, and researcher and lecturer Sarah Owens. This book introduces them through texts, a conversation, a short biography and images from their archives.
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The Images Publishing Group 230 x 170mm. 248pp., 250 col. June 2022 £25.00, Hardback
9783858818621
Scheidegger & Spiess 280 x 240mm. 240pp., 180 col. Available £52.00, Hardback
9783039420544
Scheidegger & Spiess 330 x 220mm. 132pp., 39 col., 32 b.&w. Available £25.00, Paperback English, French, German, Italian
Franz Josef Altenburg Clay and Form
Alfred Weidinger, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, and Rainald Franz
In his unique works Franz Josef Altenburg realised in clay the process of reduction and simplification that he had been pursuing systematically throughout his career. Combining the texture of the material with the order of his creations, the result is major series ranging from his Houses, Stairs, Pedestals, and Backdrops to his Blocks, Towers, Scaffolds, Containers, and Frames. With his expert mastery of handling and design techniques evident throughout the six decades of his oeuvre, Altenburg elevated ceramics into the realm of fine art. This book documents and analyses the artist, his work, and the site of his creativity in texts by art experts and a writer and offers for the very first time a comprehensive overview of his works, as well as an extensive illustrated biography with a list of exhibitions.
9783897906464
Arnoldsche Art Publishers 280 x 215mm. 140pp., 221 col. Available £42.00, Paperback English, German
9782376660385
Editions Norma 288 x 240mm. 304pp., 200 col., 150 b.&w. January 2022 £55.00, Hardback French
Art Déco - France Amérique du Nord
Emmanuel Bréon
With the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in 1925, Art Deco seduced the world. Crossing the Atlantic aboard sumptuous liners such as Île-de-France and Normandy, main French decorators such as JacquesÉmile Ruhlmann, Jean Dunand and Pierre Chareau exhibited in department stores, from New York to Philadelphia. From Mexico to Canada, this enthusiasm is driven by North American architects trained at the School National Museum of Fine Arts in Paris from the beginning of the 20th century, then at the Art Training Center in Meudon and at the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts, two art schools founded after the First World War world which strengthened the links between the two continents. This book reveals a reciprocal emulation which is illustrated in the architecture and ornamentation of skyscrapers as well as in cinema, fashion, press, sport... Thirty-seven texts and 350 illustrations make it possible to discover the unique links that unite France and America, from the Statue of Liberty by Bartholdi to the Streamline which succeeds Art Deco.
Le Bijou Dessiné Designing Jewels
Guillaume Glorieux, Michael Decrossas, Stéphanie Desvaux
The design of jewellery has long remained hidden from view and the public. Functional or bearers of unfulfilled dreams, since the 15th century these paper jewels have nevertheless been the unrevealed aspect of the models to which they have often given birth. This book presents a hundred drawings, mainly from the Van Cleef & Arpels Fund on Jewelery Culture, ranging from the second half of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century. It allows for the first time to shed light on this completely unknown part of the decorative arts, in which anonymous craftsmen or artists rub shoulders with the great figures of jewellery, Tiffany, Lalique, Vever, or renowned workshops such as Paillet, Brédillard and Mellerio, and Borgnis. Through the study of its technique, its authors or its use, this book allows us to grasp the issues such as the richness of this support, both a tool, an archival document and a true work of art.
9782376660453
Editions Norma 280 x 220mm. 192pp., 100 col., 20 b.&w. January 2022 £50.00, Hardback English, French
