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Meiji Ceramics: Japanese Export Porcelain 1868-1912 by Gisela Jahn 9783897901971
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £72.20Pressure exerted by America in 1854 caused Japan to open its doors after 260 years of isolation. Wide receptiveness to everything Western was the driving force behind the modernization of Japan... -
Thomas Bohle by Rudolf Sagmeister 9783897904316
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £37.65The Austrian ceramic artist Thomas Bohle is an extraordinary figure in the field of ceramic vessels. His double-walled objects, created at the wheel with technical perfection, effortlessly transcend... -
Documents on Contemporary Crafts 1-5 by Andre Gali 9783897905801
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £50.81Documents on Contemporary Crafts is a book series published by Norwegian Crafts in collaboration with Arnoldsche Art Publishers. The series provides a critical reflection of contemporary crafts... -
Fritz Maierhofer: Jewellery and More! by Gabriela Koschatzky-Elias
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £36.85Gabriela Koschatzky-Elias writes absorbingly on the life and work of Fritz Maierhofer, one of the most important contemporary Austrian jewellery artists, whose international career took off in... -
The Magic of Ceramic Glazes: Nils Thorsson and the Artist Stoneware of Royal Copenhagen 1932–1975 Jorg Schwandt 9783897907485
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £36.85The deeply luminous, finely textured glazes of classic Chinese ceramics have long been fascinating to experts and collectors. At firing temperatures of 1300 Degrees C, the ceramic body and the glaze... -
Handmade in Germany: Maufactory 4.0 Pascal Johanssen 9783897905412
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £30.15Manufacturers from Germany enjoy a worldwide reputation. Whether porcelain, watches, organs or writing implements, the origin of artisanal craftsmanship lies in the immaterial cultural heritage of... -
Lotte Reimers: And Ceramic Art Ingrid Vetter 9783897901735
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.35Lotte Reimers' joining forces with Jakob Wilhelm Hinder and the extensive ceramics exhibition with which he was touring West German cities in 1951 marks the onset of her passion for this craft... -
Bruno Pedrosa: Between Worlds Thereza Pedrosa 9783897907256
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £37.65Discover the vibrant art from the 55-year-long career of Bruno Pedrosa (b. 1955), one of Brazil's foremost contemporary artists. This monograph expertly delves into the exquisite diversity of his... -
Sam Kramer: Jeweler on the Edge Toni Greenbaum 9783897905641
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.60Despite being one of the most influential - and indeed most eccentric - of the American modernist jewellers, Sam Kramer (1913-1964) has received little recognition. His expressive, organic work and... -
Helfried Kodre: Jewellery and Sculpture by Wolfgang Prohaska 9783897902398
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £19.80Helfried Kodre is a pioneering Austrian exponent of contemporary art jewellery. He learnt goldsmithing in the 1960s while studying art history and worked at first with Elisabeth Defner, to whom he... -
Danner Prize 2020: 100 Years of Support to Bavaria's Outstanding Arts and Crafts by the Danner Foundation Danner Foundation 9783897905993
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.55In 2020, in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in new design concepts and developments in craftsmanship, the Danner Prize, four honorary Danner awards, and an impressive exhibition were... -
Deep-Seated: The Secret Art of Upholstery Olaf Thormann (GRASSI Museum) 9783897906815
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £32.93Upholstered pieces of furniture are familiar to all of us as more or less constant companions of everyday life. Upholstery is comfortable, it conveys security and promises comfort, it has a specific... -
Magnificence of Rococo: Kaendler’s Meissen Porcelain Figures by Alfredo Reyes 9783897907072
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £57.83The name Johann Joachim Kaendler (1706-1775) is closely entwined in the 18th century with the golden age of the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory. His exceptional artistic talent, coupled with... -
Textile Practices – A Women’s Realm Stephanie Kahnau 9783897907423
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £31.11Textiles are an integral part of our daily lives, and designing them is still a typically female metier. In this illustrated publication, Stephanie Kahnau presents 40 female textile designers of the... -
Sigurd Bronger: Wearables / Trag-Objekte by Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum 9783897907133
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Hollow goose eggs, natural sponges, packaging, balloons featuring smileys, shoe soles, scientific gauges, or even his mother's gallstones - the repertoire of things elevated to jewellery objects... -
Gerti Machacek: Jewellery Sculpture by Beatrix Kramlovsky 9783897906990
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £37.65As a metaphor for the living, Gerti Machacek's jewellery is very much centred on the body, geared toward movement and changing perspectives. Despite the different materials, its pervasive clarity... -
Tibetan Women’s Jewelry Lynn Levenberg 9783897907270
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £72.70Tibetan Women's Jewelry describes the cultural history of Central Tibet told through traditional jewellery and trade from the 17th century of the 5th Dalai Lama through the 14th Dalai Lama's 1959... -
Marzee Petra Hölscher 9783897907560
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.55The name Marzee refers to intertwined identities. There is Marie-Jose van den Hout (known as Marzee), the dealer and the individual whose drive and passion makes everything possible. There is Galerie... -
Daniel Kruger: Jewellery – The unexpected meaning of curious things by Barbara Schmidt 9783897907102
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.85Daniel Kruger's (b. 1951) new monograph Jewellery - The unexpected meaning of curious things presents his jewellery art of the last ten years. Kruger, who grew up in South Africa, studied at the... -
Elisabeth von Krogh: Retrospective - Prospective: Ceramics 1972–2024 by Ida Bringedal 9783897907188
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £30.15Elisabeth von Krogh (b. 1947) has been a prominent figure in the field of ceramics in Norway for several decades. Her works have been acquired by numerous Norwegian collections, and her artistic... -
Elisa Helland-Hansen: Pleasure and Use by Elisa Helland-Hansen 9783897907249
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.35This impressive monograph of the Norwegian potter Elisa Helland-Hansen (b. 1950) is an all-encompassing work of art. With unique hand-processed photographs, she documents her distinctive vessels,... -
Past – Present – Future: Visions of Creativity: The Design of Boris Berlin Vibeke P. Gether 9783897907232
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £37.65This publication presents a round table discussion between authors within the field of design and art history about the Russian-Danish designer Boris Berlin's works, his challenges and innovative... -
Typhaine Le Monnier – Playtime: An Artistic Journey in Form and Meaning Cristina Filipe 9783897907645
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.30In Typhaine Le Monnier's atelier, work never stops. Hands move instinctively while the mind circles around unresolved questions-shaping forms from fragments, discarded jewels, and fleeting ideas... -
Claus Bury: The Poetry of Construction by Volker Fischer 9783897905726
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £43.90Sculptor Claus Bury (b. 1946) has been enhancing public spaces in Germany for more than four decades with his monumental sculptures, which by now total more than 100. His canon of forms is comprised... -
Elisabeth Holder: From Jewellery to Contextual Art / Vom Schmuck zur Kontextuellen Kunst by Ellen Maurer Zilioli 9783897907096
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.30From Jewellery to Contextual Art presents the work of the artist and professor Elisabeth Holder and showcases her unique evolution. Coming from a classical goldsmithing background, she placed... -
Bizarre Beauty: The Art of William Harper by Glenn Adamson 9783897907164
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £37.65Over the course of six decades, the American artist William Harper (b. 1944) has conjured a body of work unique in the realm of jewellery. Masterfully crafted in enamel and gold, his pieces explore... -
Annamaria Zanella: The Poetry of Material / La Poesia della Materia by Jorunn Veiteberg 9783897905245
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.55A portrait of an eminent jewellery artist and her unique creations! Inspired by the Arte Povera movement, the Italian jewellery artist Annamaria Zanella (b. 1966) uses base materials, which only... -
Danner-Preis 2023 / Danner Prize 2023: Ausgezeichnetes Kunsthandwerk / Artistic Crafts of Distinction by Benno und Therese Danner’sche Kunstgewerbestiftung 9783897907034
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.35In 2023 the Danner Foundation is honouring exceptional achievements in craft at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Landshut, Germany, with the Danner Prize, four additional honorary awards, and a... -
Seeing with Another Eye: ceramics – sculpture – painting: The Anthony Shaw Collection by David Whiting 9783897907119
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.35With a passion for art in all its forms, Anthony Shaw has created an extraordinary art collection which focuses in particular on British sculptural ceramics. The collection features among its major... -
Taschenuhrständer Porte-Montre Pocket-Watch Stands: Eine süddeutsche Privatsammlung by Bernd Bauer 9783897906808
RRP: £138.00Booksplease Price: £88.55For almost 300 years, pocket watches were important accessories for the nobility and middle-classes. In order to store the watches securely and stylishly, artfully designed stands that matched the... -
Martin Kargruber: from the inside out …: Holzskulptur 2014–2024 Thomas Elsen 9783897907263
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.30Sculptor Martin Kargruber (b. 1965), from South Tyrol, Italy, forms each of his distinctive sculptural objects from a single piece of solid wood. He consciously uses the wood's natural properties and... -
Claude Champy: Stardust / Poussie res d'e toiles Muriel Champy 9783897906969
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £33.73The Frenchman Claude Champy (*1944) brings together man and the cosmos in his ceramics. In his studio, mechanical, geological, and chemical processes fuse to form a ceramic total work of art - guided... -
Jakob Bengel, Oberstein: From Art Industry to Jewellery Design by Jakob Bengel-Stiftung 9783897906952
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.60The discovery of the Oberstein company Jakob Bengel as a prominent jewellery manufacturer has liberated Oberstein from the stigma of being the "underdog" of the German jewellery industry. Wilhelm... -
Kindred Spirits: 100 Japanese Ceramics in Chinese Style. The Shen Zhai Collection Claire Pollard 9783897907195
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £51.58Kindred Spirits showcases the remarkable flowering of Chinese style ceramics that took place in Japan after the mid-19th century. For over a thousand years, Chinese ceramics have been admired and... -
James Wilson Morrice: Paintings and Drawings of Venice by Sandra Paikowsky 9783897906914
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £30.15James Wilson Morrice: Paintings and Drawings of Venice is the first comprehensive overview of the artist's images of Venice, Italy. Living in Paris for most of his life, Morrice (1865-1924) was the... -
Dana Meyer: South Pacific Expedition Dana Meyer 9783897907577
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.85Dana Meyer's South Pacific Expedition provides a fascinating insight into the world of entomological collecting, driven by the human urge for discovery and adventure. Featuring numerous illustrations... -
ROCKstars: Idar-Oberstein by Ute Eizenhoefer 9783897906228
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £18.00ROCKstars presents works that focus on the "eternal material" in jewellery: they are declarations of love, experimental snapshots, or rebellious works revolving around precious stones. At Campus... -
North by Northwest: The Jewelry of Laurie Hall Susan Cummins 9783897906471
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.60For more than four decades, jewellery artist and educator Laurie Hall has been making stories the subject of her work. Her playful, often whimsical jewellery made with found objects is about the... -
Walpurgis Night’s Dream / Walpurgisnachtstraum: Photographs by Joachim Baldauf / Fotografien von Joachim Baldauf Iris Maria vom Hof 9783897907218
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £26.98Joachim Baldauf, renowned proponent of international fashion photography, presents a new, previously unknown side to his creative output. Inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Walpurgis Night" in... -
Therese Hilbert RED: Jewelry 1966-2020 Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum 9783897906235
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.55This exhibition catalogue for a show at the Neue Sammlung (Design Museum) in Munich documents the first solo show by Swiss jewellery artist Therese Hilbert, former student of Max Froehlich in Zurich...