Decorative Arts

An award-winning, beautiful and simple introduction to the Book of Kells now available in Spanish. Here George Otto Simms, a world renowned author...

Voysey (18571941) was an architect who produced a prolificrange of pattern designs over a career that spanned 50years. His style, characterized by ...

For four decades, the embroiderers of Ninhue, Chile, have been stitching scenes of rural life in the 'place of stones' - their village in the footh...

The goldsmith and mineralogist Johann Christian Neuber (17361808) was one of the greatest masters of the gold objet gold boxes, watch cases, chate...

This is a must-have instructional and inspirational book for anyone interested in free-motion embroidery. Drawing on new material, as well as that...

From dime novels to Wild West movies, from cowboy heroes to tribal villains, from masculine mystique to female virtue: the nineteenth-century Ameri...

Many traditional crafts practiced in contemporary Egypt can be traced back hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Scenes inscribed on the walls of a...

The discovery of silver cannot be pinpointed; humans have mined it far back into antiquity. Our fascination with this malleable metal and the beaut...

The Royal Delft Pottery is the leading producer of authentic Delft Blue ornamental earthenware and acts and a centre of knowledge for the productio...

Isabel Gilbert Palmer has been passionate about flowers for years. For this book she has travelled around the world to listen to the stories of the...

First used to gauge New England's ever-changing weather, now viewed as American folk art, historic weathervanes have been a part of the region's...

Ed Hardy s (b. 1945) unique vision spans decades, creating an indelible mark on popular culture. Accompanying a major exhibition, this profusely il...

Buried in deep valleys, there are citadels of ochre earth. Near the sea there are white chalked casbahs and vast tranquil palm-gardens and deserts ...

Ruined cities overgrown by jungle. Towns buried beneath the ground. Statues lying half- hidden in the sand. Why do civilisations collapse? Why are ...

Born into the American aristocracy, Elizabeth Eyre de Lanux abandoned high society to pursue an artistic career. Starting her training with Constan...

The 18th-century Neapolitan crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago, which contains over 200 figures arranged in a panorama of street life, represen...

Americans living in the first decades of the twentieth century felt they inhabited a modern age. A spirit of excitement and experimentation transfo...

World renowned for its collection of Islamic art, the al-Sabah Collection in Kuwait also houses an important collection of ancient art. Splendors o...

The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consum...

Thornton Dial (b. 1928), one of the most important artists in the American South, came to prominence in the late 1980s and was celebrated internati...

During his short career, Koloman Moser became a towering figure in Viennese culture. His varied work in interior and graphic design, furniture, tex...

This is a glamorous coffee table book covering the work of the international designer, maker and craftsperson. Batch showcases the cream of the con...

Wedding floristry has always been one of the most important fields of interest for florists all over the world. Time and again, floral designers ma...

The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest collections of American folk art. For Kith and Kin provides an introduction to th...