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Featuring wide-ranging examples of Shaker furniture, household objects, textiles, and religious drawings, this stunning book discusses Shaker design and its influence on modern and contemporary designers.

A gorgeously illustrated volume devoted to the early days of Meissen, when the princes and nobles of Saxony sent the highly prized porcelain objects as diplomatic gifts to foreign courts

This book is the most comprehensive study to date of Thomas Hope, focusing on his multifaceted role as designer and patron. The contributors examine his wide-ranging contribution to the arts as well as his extensive writings. Richly illustrated with new photographs, the volume presents a vast array of paintings, furniture, sculpture, and works of art, many of which h...

This lavishly illustrated book is the first to examine the multi-dimensional career of “Athenian” Stuart—18th-century designer, artist, and tastemaker. Shining new light on Stuart’s work, early training, interest in archaeology, patrons, work record, and legacy, the book reveals the full extent of his influence and achievements.

This intriguing book examines one hundred miniature works produced by artist Sheila Hicks during her long creative career. While these small woven and wrought works demonstrate the breadth of the artist’s concerns with color, weaving traditions, materials, and new technology, they also offer insights into her conceptual and technical forays.

This book catalogues and discusses The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s entire collection of medieval aquamanilia—cast metal objects used to pour water for hand washing in religious and secular contexts. Selected examples from other collections are also included in this wide-ranging exploration of the vessels’ history and cultural significance.

This richly illustrated book encompasses the full range of works created by world-famous jewelry designer Georg Jensen. The book surveys his entire career, from early flatware, hollowware, and jewelry designs in the arts and crafts idiom through his accomplishments as the foremost international designer of elegant silver creations in the modernist style.

Protest fashion from the Vietnam War years is widely familiar, but today few are aware that dramatic fashion and textile designs served as patriotic propaganda for the Japanese, British, and Americans during the Asia-Pacific War (1931–1945). This fabulously illustrated book presents hundreds of examples of how fashion was employed by those on all sides of the conflict to boost morale and fan...

This beautiful book examines the design achievements of Finland over the last seven decades, focusing on the central and decisive role played by Modernism. It discusses the work of such renowned architects and designers as Alvar Aalto and Kaj Franck, as well as of manufacturers including Arabia and Marimekko.

This book—the first comprehensive study of Marimekko designs—presents over two hundred examples of exuberant fashions and home furnishings by the Finnish company that pioneered a new definition of fashion. The book traces the history of Marimekko from 1951 to today and examines its revolutionary impact on world design.

This remarkable account of the foremost silversmith in eighteenth-century London is also a social history of consumerism in Georgian London.

This anthology gathers together the most significant writings on the theory of the decorative arts from the mid-eighteenth century to the 1940s. With selections by architects, designers, and critics as well as sociologists and historians, the volume reconstructs the historical debates over how to define the decorative arts and distinguish them from the fine arts—issues still argued today.

This stunning book celebrates the many contributions of women designers to twentieth-century American culture. Encompassing work in fields ranging from textiles and ceramics to furniture and fashion, the book features the achievements of women of various ethnic and cultural groups, including both famous designers (Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, Donna Karan) and their less well-known sisters.

This inviting book casts new light on the notorious Bloomsbury Group and how the social and cultural issues of their day influenced their interpretation and decoration of the home. Christopher Reed analyzes rooms designed by and for Bloomsbury artists and argues that the Bloomsbury interiors constitute important episodes in the history of modernity.

This abundantly illustrated book is the definitive study of Thomas Jeckyll’s life and work, presenting his notable architectural commissions and diverse examples of his decorative arts. The authors explore Jeckyll’s innovative designs and restore the artist to his deserved place as one of the most brilliant members of the Aesthetic Movement.

This magnificent book is the first to display and discuss the jewelry inspired by archaeological discoveries and created by the Castellani family in nineteenth-century Rome. Authorities describe the making and marketing of the jewelry and the family’s involvement in cultural and political affairs.

This beautiful book is the first to discuss the vase as an artistic form in a variety of media. Focusing on Neoclassical style and imagery from the eighteenth century, it presents and examines some one hundred items from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s reserve collection—paintings, works on paper, silver, furniture, and other art works that use the vase motif.