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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... -
Typhaine Le Monnier – Playtime: An Artistic Journey in Form and Meaning Cristina Filipe 9783897907645
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $28.77In 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Mandala – In Search of Enlightenment: Sacred Geometry in the World’s Spiritual Arts by Peter van Ham
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $57.66Hailing from the cultural realm of India, the mandala signifies in its original sense a sacred circle. It serves as a meditation aid and at the same time reflects an ancient symbolism of strictly... -
HUNT: Kadri Malk's Jewellery Collection Kadri Malk 9783897905924
RRP: $63.21Booksplease Price: $44.54Under the ambiguous term HUNT (English: the hunt; Estonian: the wolf), Kadri Malk unites her collection of contemporary art jewellery. As a lone wolf, the Estonian artist and teacher compiled... -
Bernhard Huber: Transition Glass Projects by M. Wierschowski
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $37.86Using new techniques and new materials, Bernhard Huber creates abstract paintings in glass in large formats that shift on multiple planes between transparency, reflection and opacity. His colours are... -
Gone Astray / Auf Abwegen: The Art of Gold- and Silversmithing on the Edge of Reason: Hollowware-Jewelry-Utensils/ Zeitgenoessische Gold- und Silberschmiedekunst am Rande der Vernunft: Gefass - Schmuck - Gerat Ellen Maurer Zilioli 9783897907003
RRP: $50.31Booksplease Price: $34.80Contemporary gold- and silversmithing encompasses a vast range. Increasingly, a daring, (self-)critical, and inventive scene is edging its way to the fore, focusing on challenging the innovative... -
Tunnel - Johannes Nagel: Works in Porcelain - Arbeiten aus Porzellan 2018-2023 Glenn Adamson 9783897906945
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $37.86The catalogue Tunnel presents works from 2018 to 2023 by ceramicist Johannes Nagel (*1979). The majority of the objects were formed by the artist's hands digging into sand to form cavities, negative... -
Joël Faivre-Chalon: Conceptualising Jewellery. Doing and Sharing Emeric Pinkowicz 9783897907614
RRP: $50.31Booksplease Price: $34.42This monograph is devoted to Joel Faivre-Chalon (1953-2020), French creator of contemporary jewellery. Trained in Strasbourg and subsequently based in Montpellier, Joel Faivre-Chalon never viewed... -
Arts and Crafts is Cactus Sabine Runde 9783897906532
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $46.50The term 'craftsmanship' is associated with individuality, uniqueness, decorative potential, artistic quality, attention to material and to process. But what does craftsmanship mean today? This... -
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... -
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... -
Manfred Bischoff: Ding Dong by Rike Bartels 9783897906327
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $46.50Manfred Bischoff (1947-2015) was one of the most innovative jewellery artists of our time. He designed items of jewellery that tell stories and enriched his language of forms through references to... -
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... -
AVEM: Arte Vetreria Muranese. Artistic Production 1932-1972 Marc Heiremans 9783897905887
RRP: $139.32Booksplease Price: $93.14Arte Vetraria Muranese (AVEM) emerged from the liquidation of Successori Andrea Rioda in November 1931. The new factory placed a very personal accent on contemporary artistic glass production on... -
Among Friends: American and German Jewelry Artists from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum 9783897907638
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $36.83Helen Williams Drutt English is an American gallerist, collector, mediator, and promoter of contemporary art jewellery. In homage to this grand dame of international studio jewellery and her 60 years... -
LithoMania: Design Lab #11 Claudia Banz 9783897906600
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $28.77Rare stones have fascinated people for thousands of years. Their extraction is never free of conflict, but at the same time the trading and processing of stones brings together people from the most... -
Joyce J. Scott: Messages Mobilia Gallery 9783897906778
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $28.77For over 142,000 years, beads have played an important role around the world as the oldest form of personal adornment. Joyce J. Scott has revolutionised and transformed the potential of the... -
14th Westerwald Prize 2019 by Nele van Wieringen for the Westerwaldkreis 9783897905788
RRP: $50.31Booksplease Price: $41.34Since 1973 the Westerwald Prize distinguishes outstanding ceramic works in the context of a competition and presents them in an exhibition. The great interest in the award and geopolitical... -
In Flux: American Jewelry and the Counterculture by Susan Cummins
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $29.15In the 1960s and 1970s, a generation of young Americans rejected the promise of prosperity and the suburban dream embraced by their parents. Furious about the war in Vietnam, fighting for civil... -
Norwegian Art Photography: 1970-2007 Cecilie Malm- Brundtland 9783897900219
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $48.57This book represents the first monograph on modern Norwegian photography from the 1970s to the present. It traces recent developments taking place in the four movements in photography: Subjectivism,... -
Gene Koss: Sculpture by Tina Oldknow 9783897905542
RRP: $50.31Booksplease Price: $34.80Gene Koss creates majestic works in glass and steel that require demanding techniques to realise their monumental scale. These massive volumes of glass are married with elaborately engineered steel... -
Marcus & Co.: Three Generations of New York Jewelers Beth Carver Wees 9783897907171
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $49.60The New York jewellery firm of Marcus & Co. (1892-1942) created exceptional examples of Art Nouveau and Art Deco jewellery for an art-loving, wealthy elite. Innovative in their collaboration with... -
Gisbert Stach: Jewellery and Experiment by Pravu Mazumdar
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $25.54Gisbert Stach's (b. 1963) monograph Jewellery and Experiment presents a multifaceted opus from twenty-five years of gold- and silversmithing. In his oeuvre the primarily conceptual artist combines... -
The Grotta Home by Richard Meier: A Marriage of Architecture and Craft Tom Grotta 9783897905689
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $50.25A 'vessel for living' - such were the words Glenn Adamson used to describe this remarkable residence. Richard Meier designed the Grotta home to house Sandra and Louis Grotta's collection of... -
Antoine Leperlier: Shaping Time. Works in Glass from 1981 to Now / Donner forme au temps. Œuvres en verre de 1981 à aujourd’hui by Andrew Brewerton 9783897907041
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $47.54Antoine Leperlier (b. 1953) is a trained visual artist and painter. He has been working as a freelance glass artist since the 1980s, developing his own glass technique based on casting and the...