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Helfried Kodre: Jewellery and Sculpture by Wolfgang Prohaska 9783897902398
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $25.54Helfried 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: $54.18Booksplease Price: $36.83In 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: $63.21Booksplease Price: $42.48Upholstered 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: $109.65Booksplease Price: $74.60The 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: $54.18Booksplease Price: $40.13Textiles 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: $54.18Booksplease Price: $36.83Hollow 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... -
Tibetan Women’s Jewelry Lynn Levenberg 9783897907270
RRP: $139.32Booksplease Price: $93.78Tibetan 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: $54.18Booksplease Price: $36.83The 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... -
Gerti Machacek: Jewellery Sculpture by Beatrix Kramlovsky 9783897906990
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $48.57As 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... -
Daniel Kruger: Jewellery – The unexpected meaning of curious things by Barbara Schmidt 9783897907102
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $37.22Daniel 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: $54.18Booksplease Price: $38.89Elisabeth 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: $54.18Booksplease Price: $37.86This 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,... -
Kindred Spirits: 100 Japanese Ceramics in Chinese Style. The Shen Zhai Collection Claire Pollard 9783897907195
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $66.54Kindred 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... -
Past – Present – Future: Visions of Creativity: The Design of Boris Berlin Vibeke P. Gether 9783897907232
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $48.57This 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... -
Claus Bury: The Poetry of Construction by Volker Fischer 9783897905726
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $56.63Sculptor 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: $41.28Booksplease Price: $28.77From 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: $69.66Booksplease Price: $48.57Over 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: $54.18Booksplease Price: $36.83A 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... -
Ceramic Horizons: The Lotte Reimers Foundation Collection at Friedenstein Castle in Gotha Marlene Jochem 9783897905207
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $49.60The 300 works of the Lotte Reimers Foundation showcase the wide spectrum and the diversity of modern ceramic art. The works by 115 international artists, from classical vessels to free sculpture, are... -
Danner-Preis 2023 / Danner Prize 2023: Ausgezeichnetes Kunsthandwerk / Artistic Crafts of Distinction by Benno und Therese Danner’sche Kunstgewerbestiftung 9783897907034
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $37.86In 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: $54.18Booksplease Price: $37.86With 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: $178.02Booksplease Price: $114.23For 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: $41.28Booksplease Price: $28.77Sculptor 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: $63.21Booksplease Price: $43.51The 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: $41.28Booksplease Price: $29.15The 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... -
Tin-Glaze and Image Culture: The MAK Maiolica Collection in Its Wider Context Lilli Hollein 9783897906723
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $46.50The Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna holds a unique collection of Italian maiolica from the 15th to the 18th century, which is now being published almost in its entirety for the very first time... -
MORGAN -The Collector: Essays in Honor of Linda Roth's 40th Anniversary at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Vanessa Sigalas 9783897906792
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $38.89The essays in this lavishly illustrated volume offer a multi-faceted portrait of American financier J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) as a collector of art. A riveting exploration of Morgan's... -
Jewelry Stories: Highlights from the Collection 1947-2019 by Barbara Paris Gifford 9783897906020
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $37.86Jewelry Stories highlights the Museum of Arts and Design's unique, world-class collection of studio and contemporary art jewellery from the US, Europe, Australia, and Asia, a medium that comprises... -
James Wilson Morrice: Paintings and Drawings of Venice by Sandra Paikowsky 9783897906914
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $38.89James 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: $54.18Booksplease Price: $37.22Dana 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: $33.54Booksplease Price: $23.22ROCKstars 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: $41.28Booksplease Price: $29.15For 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: $50.31Booksplease Price: $34.80Joachim 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... -
Babetto: The Entity of Being / L'Entita dell'Essere / Die Einheit des Seins Fred Jahn 9783897906631
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $46.50The Italian goldsmith of the "Paduan School" Giampaolo Babetto is famous for his jewellery - geometrically distinct shapes arranged into refined entities of extraordinary perfection and beauty... -
Deganit Stern Schocken: How Many Is One: Jewellery / Objects / Installations by Liesbeth den Besten
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $37.86How Many Is One encapsulates one of the fundamental questions at the core of art and design. This issue is highly pertinent to jewellery design as a language that seeks form through which to... -
The Degas Plasters: Groundbreaking revelations about Degas' sculpture and the Hebrard bronzes Gregory Hedberg 9783897906730
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $71.50In 1955 seventy-four original plasters recording sculptures by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) were moved to the old Valsuani foundry in Paris only to reappear in France in 2004. These plasters are now being... -
Gabi Dziuba & Friends by Cornelie Holzach 9783897907140
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $37.86Gabi Dziuba's jewellery is stringent, laid-back, fragile, minimalist, glamorous, and progressive. Blister packs, coins, beans, or letters are turned into wilful creations. Collaboration with close... -
Therese Hilbert RED: Jewelry 1966-2020 Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum 9783897906235
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $36.83This 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... -
SALIR – Studio Ars et Labor Industrie Riunite: Contemporary Glass-Decorating on Murano, 1923–1993 by Marc Heiremans 9783897906938
RRP: $139.32Booksplease Price: $92.11In 1924, five young Italians founded the Studio Ars et Labor Industrie Riunite (S.A.L.I.R.) with the aim of modernising the ancient art of glass-decorating: Giuseppe D'Alpaos, Decio Toso, Guglielmo... -
Thomas Putze: Performances 2000-2020 by Katrin Burtschell 9783897906242
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $28.77For Thomas Putze, performance is a snapshot of a moment, a play on possibilities, and at the same time a well-planned and sophisticated act to captivate the onlooker. Yet above all, it is thinking,...