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Hardcover:
9780500239483 | Thames & Hudson, November 15, 2016, cover price $120.00
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9780865653085 | Vendome Pr, October 22, 2013, cover price $65.00
Product Description: Emille Gallé was one of the leading figures of the Art Nouveau movement in France, and founder of the famous Ãcole de Nancy. A polymath and committed social activist, he was best known for his glasswork and faience. Furniture became his third discipline after experimenting with the manufacture of wooden bases on which he could mount his glass vases...read more
Hardcover:
9781851496624 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, August 16, 2012, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Emille Gallé was one of the leading figures of the Art Nouveau movement in France, and founder of the famous Ãcole de Nancy.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781580818445 | L A Theatre Works, September 15, 2011, cover price $69.95
Hardcover:
9780810980464 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 2009, cover price $125.00
Product Description: This beautiful and comprehensive work illustrates a seemingly inexhaustible selection of the oil and electric light fixtures issued by the Tiffany studios: table and floor lamps, chandeliers and sconces. Also included are the other metalware items produced by the firm, including fancy goods, desk sets, miscellaneous household goods such as toiletry and smoking accessories, inkstands, candlesticks, photograph frames, book ends, tea screens, clocks, tobacco jars, humidors - the list is almost endless...read more
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9781851495177 | Slp edition (Antique Collectors Club Ltd, February 1, 2007), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This beautiful and comprehensive work illustrates a seemingly inexhaustible selection of the oil and electric light fixtures issued by the Tiffany studios: table and floor lamps, chandeliers and sconces.
Hardcover:
9780888544469 | Royal Ontario Museum, February 16, 2006, cover price $45.00
Product Description: Alastair Duncan , the world-renowned authority on Louis C. Tiffany, has produced the definitive work on America's premier artist-designer, examining every facet of Tiffany's unrivalled achievements in a lifetime consecrated, in his own words, to 'The Quest of Beauty'...read more
Hardcover:
9781851494576 | Slp edition (Antique Collectors Club Ltd, November 1, 2004), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Alastair Duncan , the world-renowned authority on Louis C.
Product Description: Illustrated survey with expert on Tiffany glass as its guide. Topics include traditional and stained glass items; Tiffany revival; varieties of glass and tools; soldering; cutting glass; design; window ornaments; lead cane lampshades; copper foil techniques...read more
Paperback:
9780486426075 | Dover Pubns, February 25, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Illustrated survey with expert on Tiffany glass as its guide.
9780713486391 | B T Batsford Ltd, July 1, 2002, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Covers traditional stained glass, lamps and lanterns, ceilings, clock faces and three-dimensional glass sculptures.
Product Description: The catalogues of the Paris Salons at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century provide a unique archive of illustrations of the decorative arts at a pivotal time in their development, the five previous volumes covering Jewellery, Furniture, Ceramics and Glass, and Objets d'Art...read more
Hardcover:
9781851493746 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, July 1, 2002, cover price $99.50 | About this edition: The catalogues of the Paris Salons at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century provide a unique archive of illustrations of the decorative arts at a pivotal time in their development, the five previous volumes covering Jewellery, Furniture, Ceramics and Glass, and Objets d'Art.
Product Description: The French word orfevrerie defines the art of the goldsmith and silversmith plus that of the artist craftsman who works in precious metals. Metalware, in the context of this book, covers the works of both the sculptor and metalworkers. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9781851493043 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, March 1, 2000, cover price $99.50 | About this edition: The French word orfevrerie defines the art of the goldsmith and silversmith plus that of the artist craftsman who works in precious metals.
Featuring more than five hundred vibrant illustrations, a magnificent and gorgeous volume examines the indigenous tradition of Art Deco in America and brings to light the beauty and extent of this style, from buildings designed by William van Alen and Joseph Urban to furniture revolutionized by Art Deco designs. Original.
Hardcover:
9780810918504 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 1986, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Explores the tradition of the streamlined design and reveals how it was manifested in the great buildings, furniture, and merchandise of the 1930s
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9780500280935 | Thames & Hudson, May 1, 1999, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Explores the tradition of the streamlined design and reveals how it was manifested in the great buildings, furniture, and merchandise of the 1930s
Product Description: Art Deco style, in all its manifestations, is represented with over 350 illustrations. The text, written by the world's leading authorities at auction houses and major galleries, explores jewelry, lighting design, furniture, architecture, and more, for a fuller appreciation and understanding of this important period...read more
Hardcover:
9780525246138 | E P Dutton, May 1, 1988, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Art Deco style, in all its manifestations, is represented with over 350 illustrations.
Paperback:
9781577150466 | Knickerbocker Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Art Deco style, in all its manifestations, is represented with over 350 illustrations.
Product Description: Six major design styles during 1880 - 1940 form the basis of the Modernist Movement which embraces a diverse range of the decorative and applied and graphic arts. Starting with the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and America we progress through European and American Art Noveau, the Weiner Werkstatte based on Vienna, the De Stijl movement centred in Holland, the Bauhaus emanating from Germany, and ending with the Art Deco movement throughout Europe and America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781851492749 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, June 1, 1998, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: Six major design styles during 1880 - 1940 form the basis of the Modernist Movement which embraces a diverse range of the decorative and applied and graphic arts.
Product Description: The fourth volume in Alastair Duncan's survey of works exhibited in Paris Salons at the turn of the century looks at designs in ceramics and glass. It covers Arts and Crafts to Art Noveau and the artisan craftsman to mass production. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9781851492299 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, February 1, 1998, cover price $99.50 | About this edition: The fourth volume in Alastair Duncan's survey of works exhibited in Paris Salons at the turn of the century looks at designs in ceramics and glass.
Hardcover:
9781851491902 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, September 1, 1996, cover price $99.50
Product Description: This new book by Alastair Duncan is the first major study and history of the output of the Orrefors factory and will be of great interest to all collectors and connoisseurs of glass. Very little has been published on the subject and this standard work of reference will be welcomed by glass collectors as well as lovers of twentieth century craftsmanship, and by all those who appreciate Scandinavian quality and design...read more
Hardcover:
9781851492244 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, October 1, 1995, cover price $89.50 | About this edition: This new book by Alastair Duncan is the first major study and history of the output of the Orrefors factory and will be of great interest to all collectors and connoisseurs of glass.
Product Description: The catalogues of the Paris Salons from the turn of the century provide a unique archive of illustrations of the decorative arts at a pivotal time in their development. These volumes contain over 5,500 illustrations of items of jewellery by leading designers such as Boucheron, Chaumet and Lalique...read more
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9781851491681 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, January 1, 1995, cover price $89.50 | About this edition: The catalogues of the Paris Salons from the turn of the century provide a unique archive of illustrations of the decorative arts at a pivotal time in their development.
Product Description: The catalogues of the Paris Salons from the turn of the century provide a unique archive of illustrations of the decorative arts at a pivotal time in their development. These volumes contain over 5,500 illustrations of items of jewellery by leading designers such as Boucheron, Chaumet and Lalique...read more
Hardcover:
9781851491599 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, January 1, 1995, cover price $89.50 | About this edition: The catalogues of the Paris Salons from the turn of the century provide a unique archive of illustrations of the decorative arts at a pivotal time in their development.
Product Description: Alastair Duncan, a recognized expert on the period, tells the story of the meteoric rise and fall of Art Nouveau, which began as a general reaction by young artists and designers to the stifling traditionalism and revivalism of the mid-nineteenth-century fine and decorative arts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Paperback:
9780500202739 | Thames & Hudson, June 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Alastair Duncan, a recognized expert on the period, tells the story of the meteoric rise and fall of Art Nouveau, which began as a general reaction by young artists and designers to the stifling traditionalism and revivalism of the mid-nineteenth-century fine and decorative arts.
This lovely volume features an informative text complemented by beautiful illustrations of Tiffany's stunning accomplishments, including the famous lamps, stained-glass windows, mosaics, jewelry, paintings, enamels, bronzes, and much more.
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Hardcover:
9780810981188 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1993, cover price $22.98 | About this edition: This lovely volume features an informative text complemented by beautiful illustrations of Tiffany's stunning accomplishments, including the famous lamps, stained-glass windows, mosaics, jewelry, paintings, enamels, bronzes, and much more.
Hardcover:
9780810938625 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1992, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Tells the story of Louis Comfort Tiffany and his business in glass lamps, mosaics, vases, and windows, with photographs of many works
Product Description: "Lavishly illustrated … an invaluable book."―Antique Collector The Art Deco movement, which swept through Europe and the United States in the early twentieth century, signaled the beginning of the modern age of design. This dazzling and distinctive style, with its emphasis on up-to-date individuality combined with good taste, fine materials, and exquisite workmanship, soon created new standards in furniture design, architecture, and the decorative arts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Paperback:
9780500276600 | Reprint edition (Thames & Hudson, June 1, 1992), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: "Lavishly illustrated … an invaluable book.
Hardcover:
9780810936171 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1991, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Traces the life and career of Majorelle, and provides a look at over 450 pieces designed by the French furniture maker
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9780810924406 | Harry N Abrams Inc, April 1, 1990, cover price $10.40 | About this edition: Shows examples of Tiffany's designs for murals, mozaics, glass panels, jewelry, lamps, vases, and bronzes
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