Decorative Arts

A timely and expansive survey of a groundbreaking American art movement that overturned aesthetic hierarchies in a riot of color and ornamentation ...

The strange cries heard at night in a dilapidated penitentiary, the glimpse of a White Lady floating through a graveyard, the face at the window in...

These are exciting times for Japanese bamboo art. May 2017 saw the opening of Japan House Sao Paulo, whose inaugural exhibition 'Bamboo: The Materi...

Throughout history, patterns have come in countless permutations of motif, colour-way and scale. Yet what all have in common is the regularity of r...

Choosing colours for your home can become an overwhelming and confusing processthere is just so much on offer. Love Colour will help you to bring y...

'From advertising to design and fashion, millennial pink has taken popular culture by storm, and it isn't going anywhere' House & Garden Pink ...

The Arts and Crafts of the Hunza Valley in Pakistan is a thorough ethnographic field research conducted over a period of twenty years. It is augmen...

The aim of the bi-annual International Floral Art has always been to create a platform for the exchange of ideas and to provide a testing ground fo...

Mary Greensted tells the story of the birth and development of the arts and craft movement in Britain with the help of numerous illustrations showi...

Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and pr...

Covering both Iznik pieces de forme and the famous Iznik tiles that decorate Ottoman imperial monuments, Iznik integrates the entire spectrum of Iz...

The expressive potential of light captures the imagination of makers and designers from all sorts of disciplines. Based on interviews with more tha...

Monika Kopplin highlights the extraordinary variety of decorative techniques as well as the many stylistic features. The history and art history of...

This title discusses about the legendary artisan of antebellum North Carolina, in words and pictures. Thomas Day (1801-61), a free man of color fro...

Fashion Sketching aims to help emerging designers and fashion professionals cut down the time required to produce a collection. It offers every ty...

Now in its eleventh year of publication, Ceramics in America is considered the journal of record for historical ceramic scholarship in the American...

The National Trust''''s collection of Arts & Crafts design ephemera preserves a hugely important period in design history. This collection of 2...

Winterthur Museum is world renowned for its decorative arts collections and its exceptional educational programs. Adapted from the training materia...

After finishing her training in painting, ceramics and sculpting, Moniek Vanden Berghe turned her talents to floral art, achieving great success. O...

This major new book with essays by prominent scholars presents the austere and simply styled objects of the Shakers in context of their faith and c...

This book is the first authorised account of the history of the finest diamond jewellery in the world. It tells the story of the magnificent royal ...

The world-renowned collection of European decorative arts from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is full of sumptuous surprises. Some delicate and so...

At a time when interest in Russia's past has never been so strong and Russian artefacts at auction continue to achieve astonishing prices, Cynthia ...

This book focuses on a group of fascinating, multi-faceted 19th century objects from the field of the decorative and applied arts: the ornamented t...

From 1650 to 1900 Paris was the undisputed center of fashion and taste in Europe. Home to a unique concentration of artists, designers, patrons, cr...

5000 Years of Tiles is the essential, single-volume colour compendium of tile art and production around the world, from ancient times to the presen...

Front cover image The Art of Daily Life Portable Objects from Southeast Africa Constantine Petridis, with an essay by Karel Nel In stock 97888743...

One hundred masterpieces of European art and arts and crafts of the eighteenth century form a panorama of innovation, design and expert realisation...

It seems bizarre that in a place as crowded, noisy and expensive as London there are still wasted unused spaces. The relentless drive for regenerat...