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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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
Encountering - Retracing - Mapping: The Ethnographic Legacy of Heinrich Harrer and Peter Aufschnaiter by M. Flitsch
RRP: $63.21Booksplease Price: $43.51Since the 1970s the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich has held culturally significant collections of Heinrich Harrer (1912-2006) and Peter Aufschnaiter (1899-1973). Between 1945 until... -
Courtly Companions: Pugs and Other Dogs in Porcelain and Faience Gun-Dagmar Helke 9783897906006
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $47.54In the 18th century pugs found their way onto the laps of noblewomen and, with this, into the portraits of contemporary rulers. Small and forever panting, the pug could not be put to use as a... -
The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran Hadi Seif 9783897906686
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $36.83The Tekkieh Moaven is a significant religious monument in Kermanshah and one of the most important national memorials in Iran. Following the building's destruction in the early 20th century, it was... -
James Tower: Ceramics, Sculptures and Drawings Timothy Wilcox 9783897905702
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $25.93James Tower (1919-1988) is best known for his elegant forms in glazed earthenware. During a career spanning four decades, from the 1950s to the 1980s, he worked unceasingly in a wide variety of media... -
Sverre Bjertnaes: Works Knut Ljogodt 9783897905566
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $58.30Sverre Bjertnaes was higly influenced by realistic painter Odd Nerdrum, although he now merges figurative and abstract painting. Mid-career overview of the work of one of the leading contemporary... -
The Jewellery Box Jorunn Veitegerg 9783897906198
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $36.83Jorunn Veiteberg has been wearing jewellery with a passion ever since she was a teenager. Covering nearly 50 years, her collection contains some 550 items, including work by 210 jewellery artists... -
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... -
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... -
Otto Prutscher: Universal Designer of Viennese Modernism by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein 9783897905696
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $42.97Otto Prutscher (1880-1949) was an architect and a designer in all applied arts media, as well as an exhibition designer, teacher and member of all the important arts and crafts movements, from the... -
Enric Mestre: Ceramic Sculpture by Michael Francken 9783897905870
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $37.86Despite the fundamental functions that architecture must perform, it will always inspire artists across all genres with its masterful handling of space, harmony and proportion. Enric Mestre (b... -
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... -
Martin Bruno Schmid: Almost Nothing - Fast Nichts Gallery Schwarz Greifswald 9783897906570
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $36.83German artist Martin Bruno Schmid (b. 1970) works at the intersection of art and architecture; his tools are drills, saws, and sandpaper, his process includes hammering, shredding, and cutting... -
Brick Lane in London: All the World’s a Stage: Street Photography by David and Sonya Newell-Smith Bryn Campbell 9783897907379
RRP: $50.31Booksplease Price: $36.48Images of life, love, humour, and the surreal on London's Brick Lane form the basis of this sumptuous catalogue of photographs. Today Brick Lane is a favourite tourist destination, famous for its... -
ThinkingJewellery 2 by Wilhelm Lindemann
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $15.97Alongside artistically experimental aspects of education, the ThinkingJewellery 'trademark' stands as a contextual leitmotif throughout the gemstones and jewellery study programme at Trier... -
Majapahit: Sculptures from a Forgotten Kingdom Agus Aris Munandar 9783897907010
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $37.22Flourishing in East Java, Indonesia, between the late 13th and the early 16th centuries, art from Majapahit had a decisive influence on the development of Southeast Asian culture: its highly... -
TONundTON: 1990-2019 by Jurg Fischer 9783897905627
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $29.15The ceramicist Theres Stampfli (b. 1952) and the musician Peter K Frey (b. 1941) have been working together under the name TONundTON since 1990. The artist duo always operate in terms of location,... -
15th Westerwald Prize 2024: Ceramics of Europe Nele van Wieringen 9783897907317
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $37.22When words are bereft of their power and meaning, art is able to communicate in its stead. It has its own means of visualising multiplicity, commenting on events, or connecting thoughts. This is... -
Erwin Wurm: Dissolution by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein 9783897906372
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $28.77Gestural sculptures formed in ceramics are the focus of Erwin Wurm: Dissolution. Wurm's anthropomorphic ceramic sculptures, their forms oscillating between the ephemeral and the physical, are... -
Thorvald Hellesen: 1888-1937 by Dag Blakkisrud 9783897905931
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $46.50Thorvald Hellesen (1888-1937) was a Norwegian avant-garde artist who lived and worked in Paris in the 1910s and 1920s. He and his wife, the French artist Helene Perdriat, were part of a circle of... -
Jakob Berg: Furniture Pernille Anker Kristensen 9783897906303
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $36.83This is the first comprehensive presentation of the Danish furniture designer Jakob Berg (1958-2008) and his work. As a designer, he was ahead of his time and not only continued the story of the... -
Ornament in Transition: Silke Trekel Jewellery 1995-2020 by Ellen Maurer Zilioli 9783897906136
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $28.77The uniqueness of Silke Trekel (*1969) lies in the melding of artisan skills and awareness with a particular sensibility for the character and texture of the inherent quality of her materials... -
Taming the Beast: Silver by Earl Krentzin Jeannine Falino 9783897906488
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $28.77Earl Krentzin (1929-2021) was a virtuoso silversmith who poured his considerable talents into figurative sculpture, creating whimsical theatrical settings in silver with a wry humour. He was an... -
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... -
MUTANT: Narcissus Quagliata: Poems. Sketches. New Works 1968-2018 Narcissus Quagliata 9783897905467
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $28.77Narcissus Quagliata is considered one of the most significant contemporary artists in glass. He has defined a new pathway in this field by combining painting with light, and he is best known for his... -
#material4.0 by Madeleine Frey
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $28.77Based on the omnipresent term 'Industry 4.0', the publication #material4.0 reflects the interplay between the virtual world and the physical-real space. As part of the exhibition at Galerie Stadt... -
Vessel/Sculpture 3: German and International Ceramics since 1946 Olaf Thormann 9783897905436
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $54.57In 2008 and 2013 the GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts in Leipzig presented two representative inventory publications under the title Vessel / Sculpture. German and International Ceramics since 1946,...