Product Description: Furnishing the Eighteenth Century provides an illuminating, interdisciplinary look into European and American furniture during the century that connoisseurs and collectors consider its golden age. Lavishly illustrated, this lively collection of essays by historians, art historians, and literary scholars examines the ways furniture of this period reflects the global contacts and social rituals developed in eighteenth-century Europe and America...read more

A guide on how to celebrate and survive the holiday season offers suggestions that can be followed with a minimum of time and budget, in a manual that covers gift giving, music, car games, home-made holiday cards, and hosting parties. (view table of contents)

An eclectic guide to interior design explains how to create the ultimate dream home that emphasizes such wisdom as 'Keep it sexy,' 'Break the rules,' 'Make room for fun,' and 'Keep moving even if your address stays the same.' (view table of contents)

Product Description: Painters in the past and commercial artists in our own day have relied on allegory to create "message pictures." Once thought to rival literary works or political oratory in influence and prestige, such paintings, with their references to ancient myth, the Bible, or medieval astrology, all too often puzzle modern viewers...read more

Product Description: Tokujin Yoshioka was born in Japan in 1967. He is one of the most important Japanese designers working today, and despite his age he has already worked in collaboration with renowned individuals such as Issey Miyake and Ross Lovegrove...read more

Product Description: This treasury of elegantly detailed designs and popular motifs draws on centuries-old Japanese art traditions and the serenity of nature for its stunning black-and-white images. Selected from a periodical called Artistic Japan, originally published in London in 1888 and 1889, the collection features a fascinating array of reproducible, royalty-free art...read more

A colorful hands-on guide offers paper crafters the basic techniques, lists of materials and supplies, and easy-to-follow instructions for making more than seventy creative and humorous cards that convey unsentimental and whimsical sentiments. Original.

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: Taking inspiration from The Book of Kells—an ancient illuminated manuscript that contains the four Gospels of the New Testament and was translated by Celtic monks—this crafter's companion features more than 100 designs that can be easily used and employed by artists...read more

Product Description: Glamour. It's hard to define yet most know it when they see it. Today, glamour may still invoke the sophistication and refinement of the golden years of Hollywood art deco, but country, industrial and even nature glamour have joined the more traditional modes...read more

Product Description: Antiques in Italian Interiors, Volume II presents a collection of extravagant classic Italian interiors that house marvelous collections of artwork and antiques.

Product Description: The Telfair Museum of Art’s Owens-Thomas House in Savannah, Georgia, is considered one of the finest examples of Regency architecture in the United States. Named a National Historic Landmark in 1976 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, the Owens-Thomas House was designed by British architect William Jay and was built from 1816 to 1819...read more

Product Description: Contents: PROFANE IMAGERY ON MISERICORDS AND BADGES R. Mellinkoff; The Power of Sexual and Scatological Display E. C. Block; Misericords and the World of Bruegel C. Grossinger; Tutivillus M. Hall; Where the Abbot Carries Dice: Gaming Board Misericords in Context T...read more

Bringing together Eugene Atget's portraits of authentic Old Paris with photographs of contemporary interiors, this compilation explores the city from opposite ends of the 20th century.

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Product Description: Fully illustrated with rich color photographs throughout and including dozens of complete renovations with step-by-step instructions, this comprehensive resource offers useful design tips and decorating ideas for achieving the look of a modern style kitchen...read more

Product Description: Decorative Patterns from Italy contains a wonderful collection of patterns reproduced from some of the countrys most beautiful Gothic and Renaissance churches. Most of the designs are taken from floor mosaics and wall friezes in churches and have been carefully restored and digitized for contemporary use...read more

Product Description: William Seltzer Rice (1873-1963) was a young artist of twenty-seven when he stepped off a train in Stockton, California, in 1900; he had left his home in Pennsylvania to take the job of assistant art supervisor for the Stockton public schools...read more

THE ADVANTAGES OF THE PICK-AND-SCREEN SYSTEM This book is for the coach who likes to share ideas. I'm hoping -::ices questions that some coach can answer or want A coach might have the exciting conclusion or alter-r_-. e to a certain play we are using. I don't know everything : basketball, but I do know that this system will bring the discipline that all coaches would like to have. This offense will be adaptable to your way of thinking and V.7ti.:7 offensive patterns, whatever they may be. The strongest point of this system is that it develops a pride in shoot-rebounding, and even movement without the ball. This offense has worked for me for 19 years. It is one that works no matter what material you have; and the the material, the better the results. Although this offense is a patterned one, its options are and therefore, very difficult to stop.

Product Description: At the turn of the last century, Art Noveau, characterised by its natural, swirling lines and exuberant use of colour, held sway as the dominate style in architecture and design. The style defined the Edwardian period, with its departure from more formal Victorian styles...read more