Decorative Arts

In this classic book, first published in 1968, David Pye assesses the importance of craft in a mechanised age. At a time when many questioned the ...

Although Ernst Grube made the study of painting in the Muslim world a principal concern, he also dealt with other aspects of Islamic art in some de...

Every year in the highlands of Guatemala, the town of Sumpango celebrates Day of the Dead by flying kites. The kites are massive, the largest measu...

An exploration of the treasures of Japanese art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reveals a wealth of fascinating works dating from prehistoric tim...

A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the Foiled Quarto Journals combine high-quality production and FSC pages with magnificent art. Perfe...

Sugar skulls are used as an offering to the deceased during the Mexican celebration Day of the Dead, which focuses on remembering loved ones, and c...

The striving for a royal crown, the ennobling of a clever financial policy, or the immortalizing of glorious victoriesall of this is reflected in t...

Kate Heiss is a contemporary British Printmaker who creates limited edition screen prints and linocuts on paper. Kate studied at the Royal College ...

An exploration of the evolution of the Japanese Mingei (folk art) movement within the context of todays concerns  Originating in Japan in the 1920s...

In an abandoned storage unit in Philadelphia, a collector discovered more than 150 works on paper by a presumably self-taught artist. The works fal...

An overview of Chinese culture, particularly visions of life and the afterlife, told through feast imagery from three historically transformative d...

Visions of Nordic introspectiveness, occult pocket watches, suburban drifting, untamed forests and butterfly appreciation all come together in a st...

The Designmuseum Denmark was founded in 1890 and is the country's national museum for design and handicrafts as well as the Archive for Danish Desi...