Decorative Arts

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...

Over 450 vivid color photos provide a sweeping overview of the amazing range of iron artwork being created by 82 of today's artist-blacksmiths. The...

The Chippendale cabinet-making firm, founded by Thomas Chippendale senior in about 1750, became famous partly through the successful publication of...

In this groundbreaking reassessment of the conventional understanding of a cohesive Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, Imogen Hart argues that a ...

This book gives a comprehensive overview of Russian decorative art from the twelfth century to the early twentieth and includes some of the most te...

The Royal Armouries stunning collection of arms and armour provides a unique historical perspective on visual and material culture from across the ...