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Fotosommer Stuttgart 2010 by Arnoldsche
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £23.10Fotosommer Stuttgart, the now internationally established forum for contemporary photography began eight years ago as an exhibition project organised by committed photographers. As the largest... -
On Collecting: Documents on Contemporary Crafts No. 4 by Andre Gali
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £12.38Art collectors and their collections make up an important part of the contemporary arts and crafts infrastructure. Not only do museums and art collectors improve an artist's financial situation by... -
As We Like it: Jewellery and Tableware 1988-2008 Ulrich Haass 9783897902916
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.35Training in design in Germany is multifaceted and unique, unparalleled in Europe for breadth of range. The Goldsmithing and Watch-making School in Pforzheim provides a three-year college course in... -
Chunghi Choo and Her Students: Contemporary Art and New Forms in Metal by Jane Milosch
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £38.45Chunghi Choo (b. 1938 in South Korea) is a world-renowned metalsmith and jewellery artist who is best known for her works that incorporate such techniques as electroforming and electro-applique... -
The Scene and the Unseen: Oper in Bildern. Fotografien von Monika Rittershaus by Iris Maria vom Hof 9783897906693
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Photographer Monika Rittershaus is regarded as an inspiring interpreter of today's musical theatre in all its diversity, opulence, and drama, but also in its human profundity, uniqueness, and... -
Sonja Duo-Meyer Ceramics: Works 1992-2017 by Gabi Dewald 9783897904866
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.35Thanks to a conscious reduction in form and colour, the ceramics by the Swiss artist Sonja Duo-Meyer (b. 1953) unfurl incredible expressive power. Their flowing silhouettes appear almost meditative,... -
Ikora and Myra Glass by WMF: One-of-a-Kind and Mass-Produced Art Glass from the 1920s to the 1950s by Heinz Scheiffele 9783897901896
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.35With contemporary advertising and sales catalogues as its sources, this book represents the first exhaustive survey of the Ikora and Myra lines in glass produced between the 1920s and 1950s by the... -
The !Xun & Khwe Art Project: Contemporary Art by the San People from South Africa. Collection Hella Rabbethge-Schiller by Hella Rabbethge-Schiller 9783897907058
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.35The !Xun & Khwe Art Project was developed in 1993 in a refugee camp in Schmidtsdrift, South Africa. After being party to the struggles for liberation from colonial rule, endangered groups of San... -
Attai Chen: All the World’s a Stage Carina Shoshtary 9783897907201
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.30All the World’s a Stage grants an in-depth insight into the fascinating oeuvre of the Israeli artist Attai Chen (1979–2023). The four series of jewellery presented in the book take a poetical look at... -
Open Space - Mind Maps: Positions in Contemporary Jewellery by Ellen Maurer Zilioli 9783897904637
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783897904637Author Ellen Maurer ZilioliFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint ArnoldschePublisher... -
Sigurd Bronger: Laboratorium Mechanum by Jorunn Veiteberg 9783897903456
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £36.35A key, a safety pin, a balloon, a propeller, a voltmeter - these unexpected objects in art jewellery rewrite the world of the Norwegian "jewellery engineer" Sigurd Bronger. He carries over his... -
Adrian Schiess - Bernhard Schobinger - Annelies Strba: Graber Collection Matthias Haldemann 9783897904477
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.85Through a decade of friendship, sharing the same environs and being active collectors, Sonja Graber and Christian Graber are inextricably connected to the photographer Annelies Strba, the jewellery... -
Evert Nijland: Jewellery Ward Schrijver 9783897904699
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £26.98Evert Nijland (b. 1971) is one of the leading jewellery artists of his generation. Trained in the Conceptual Art and Minimalism of the 1990s at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, he developed... -
Gilbert Portanier: Oeuvre 2000-2008 Peter Nickl 9783897902893
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £36.85In 1948, Gilbert Portanier, a painter, discovered clay as a material to work with at Vallauris, the ceramics centre in the south of France. There he developed his unique style in the medium. What is... -
NOW!: Jewels of Norman Weber Barbara Vinken 9783897903319
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.60Perhaps Norman Weber - as a native of Schwabisch Gmund - was born with a love of jewellery. Following a traditional training as a gold and silversmith in Kaufbeuren-Neugablonz, where he teaches today... -
Georg Dobler - Schmuck Jewellery 1980-2010: Composition of Dreams by Cornelie Holzach 9783897903302
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.35Since the beginning of his creative work in 1980, Georg Dobler, the jewellery artist and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts and Science in Hildesheim, has engaged in working with geometrical... -
Silver Triennial International by Christianne Weber-Stober 9783897903876
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.60This publication, accompanying the 17th Silver Triennial, presents the current world of international silversmithing and metal design. A rich repertoire of hand-crafted everyday objects illustrates... -
Hanne Borchgrevink: The Aesthetics of Plainness Paintings Erlend Hammer 9783897904378
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £30.15Painting and graphic prints are the preferred mediums of the Norwegian artist Hanne Borchgrevink (b.1951), who over the course time has focused her attention on the house as the leitmotif of her work... -
Ruudt Peters: Source / Bron Aaron Decker 9783897904996
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £32.93Ruudt Peters (b. 1950) is a pioneering conceptual jewellery artist who challenges traditional definitions of adornment by pushing the boundaries of context, wearability, material and presentation. On... -
Liv Blavarp: Jewellery. Structures in Wood Cecilie Skeide 9783897904972
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £26.68Maple, birch, walnut, lemonwood and palisander are just a few of the woods from which Liv Blavarp (b. 1956) creates exceptional one-off jewellery pieces. The rigidity or softness of the wood plays... -
HELGA ZAHN: Jewelry. One-off and Series Die Neue Sammlung 9783897904811
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £19.80Helga Zahn (1936-1985) was one of the leading jewellery artists in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s. The autodidact, who was raised in Schwarzenbach an der Saale, had a preference for silver and... -
Dreher Carvings: Gemstone Animals from Idar-Oberstein Wilhelm Lindemann 9783897905078
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £36.05Engravers Gerd and Patrick Dreher are famous the world over for their masterly animal figures, each of which is cut from a single gemstone. In the early twentieth century, grandfather,... -
Sculpture to Wear: The Jewelry of Marjorie Schick Tacey Rosolowski 9783897902589
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £37.65For decades the American artist Marjorie Schick has been a pioneering exponent of avant-garde jewellery. Her dynamic objects, charged with energy, are rooted in the revolutionary late 1960s European... -
Jewellery in Israel: Multicultural Diversity 1948 to the Present by Iris Fishof 9783897903968
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £30.15In Israel East meets West. Their jewellery traditions blend, resulting in creative innovations. In the 1930s, European immigrants introduced the spirit of the Bauhaus, while oriental craftsmanship... -
Blazes: Japanese Idol and Pilgrim Images: The Collection of Wilfried Spinner (1854-1918) by Martina Wernsdorfer
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £30.15Between 1885 and 1891 the Swiss pastor Wilfried Spinner sojourned in Japan on behalf of the East Asian mission. He founded the first Christian parishes in Tokyo and Yokohama and began to intensively... -
Otto Kunzli - The Book Florian Hufnagl 9783897903838
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £51.58The Swiss artist Otto Kunzli has revolutionised modern art jewellery. In the 45-odd years in which he has been addressing the topic of jewellery, Kunzli has carved out for himself a unique position... -
Nsaio6: New Jewellery from Idar-Oberstein Ute Eitzenhofer 9783897904736
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £27.48Beginning with the renaissance of gemstones in jewellery design since the 1970s, Ute Eitzenhoefer, Theo Smeets, Lothar Brugel (ret. 2014) and Eva-Maria Kollischan (since 2014) successfully... -
Ute Eitzenhofer: Schmuck Jewellery by Cornelie Holzach 9783897904064
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.60Jewelry designed by Ute Eitzenhofer is intrinsically complex and contradictory. Her designs range from playful, sensual, reassuring, to dark, angry, provocative and brutal. Intrinsic beauty and its... -
William Underhill: Casting a Legacy by Wayne Higby 9783897906907
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.55William Underhill (1933–2022) was one of the great talents and enigmas of the modern American studio craft movement. He became an acclaimed master of lost-wax casting, pursuing the sculptural... -
Felieke van der Leest: The Zoo of Life: Jewellery & Objects 1996-2014 Jorunn Veiteberg 9783897904217
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.60"When I am working with colours, I feel like a painter. When I am working with metal, I feel like a constructor. And when I am working with toys, I feel like a child." (Felieke van der Leest). The... -
Dorothea Pruhl: Colliers/Necklaces Florian Hufnagl 9783897903012
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.35As used in German, the French word 'collier' denotes a particularly valuable form of neck jewellery - it represents a promise and betokens dignity to the woman wearing it. This is the sense in which... -
TONundTON: 1990-2019 by Jurg Fischer 9783897905627
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.60The 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,... -
Claus Bury: Hanau City Map by Martin Hoppe 9783897906440
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.30The Hanau City Map project by Claus Bury relates to the new city of Hanau, which was formed from 1597 on and is characterised by its strictly geometric pattern of streets and star-shaped ramparts... -
Feast: Contemporary Jewelry from the Susan Beech Collection Susan Cummins 9783897907331
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.35Welcome to a private tour of the home of American collector Susan Beech. Since 1991, Beech has been transforming her house in Tiburon, California, into an extraordinary environment, in which the... -
Devotion: Image, Recitation, and Celebration of the Vessantara Epic in Northeast Thailand by Thomas Kaiser
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.35The Vessantara Jataka is the tale of Buddha's last life, before he was reborn as the historical Buddha 2,500 years ago. In this earlier existence as Prince Vessantara he demonstrated evidence of the... -
Winfried Krueger: No Title by Galerie Marzee 9783897904170
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.35Winfried Kruger (born 1944) belongs to that generation of jewellery artists who witnessed the birth of avant-garde jewellery in the 1960s. The skilled goldsmith liberated himself from precision,... -
Contemporary Jewellery in Context: A Handshake Blueprint Peter Deckers 9783897904989
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.60In five complementary contributions, recognised authors draw a fascinating and complex picture of contemporary jewellery in the twenty-first century. Through a rich palette of themes, works, reports... -
Goldscheider: History of the Company and Works Catalogue Rovert Dechant 9783897902169
RRP: £168.00Booksplease Price: £112.04Goldscheider, a Viennese factory (est 1885), soon sped to the top of European ceramics makers. Figures and vessels of faience and terracotta as well as bronze and alabaster, all of top quality in... -
Corina Staubli: Beneath the Skin by Nana Pernod 9783897905146
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £50.78The publication Beneath the Skin provides an overview of the last ten years of work by the Swiss artist Corina Staubli (b. 1959). It shows the altercation in the tension between exterior and interior... -
Wolfgang Rahs: Seven Skills and a Lot of Wilderness by Astrid Becksteiner-Rasche 9783897906334
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £36.05As early as the 1970s, Wolfgang Rahs (*1952) was inspired by the avant-garde art scene in Graz by the contemporary art festival Steirischer Herbst and the Forum Stadtpark collective, one of the...