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Fifties Glass by Leslie Pina
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £33.48A fascinating and insightful look into the art glass of the 1950s, this revised second edition spans the range of 1950s art glass from common collectibles to those of museum quality, displaying the... -
Fifties Furniture by Leslie Pina
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £30.24Take a detailed look at the exciting and highly collectible modern furniture of the 1950s--furniture created by renowned designers, including Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Harry Bertoia,... -
Herman Miller Office by Leslie Pina
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £34.87In this long-awaited new volume, classics by Herman Miller's super-designers - Gilbert Rohde, Charles and Ray Eames, and George Nelson - are shown along with more recent office furniture designs... -
Classic Herman Miller by Leslie Pina
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £33.46The great postwar modern furniture designs are classics, because they are still great. Herman Miller, the company that led the office revolution, is a name synonymous with the best modern residential... -
Mexican Jewelry and Metal Art by Leslie Pina
RRP: £81.99Booksplease Price: £57.51The collectible appeal of Mexican metal art can be attributed to artistic quality, variety, and large production volume. In addition to jewelry, it includes wearable art, table art, and wall art,... -
Depression Era Glass by Duncan by Leslie Pina
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.01The Duncan & Miller Glass Company, of Washington, Pennsylvania, was one of the glassmaking giants of the 1920s -1940s. This book focuses on the company's prolific Depression Era production and... -
Italian Glass: Century 20 by Leslie Pina
RRP: £63.99Booksplease Price: £46.16This long-awaited book will be a valuable tool for collectors, dealers, and researchers of modern Italian glass. Most comprehensive volumes are written in Italian, and none includes a value guide... -
Pular Purses: Its in the Bag! by Leslie Pina
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £28.13From fun and funky to excitingly exotic, popular purses of the mid-20th century have a fashion appeal all their own. More than simply functional, these bags feature bold, often whimsical stylings... -
Graphic Herman Miller Leslie Pina 9780764313035
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £33.33Herman Miller, the leader in modern twentieth-century furniture manufacture, was a totally design-oriented company. Known best for Eames and Nelson furniture designs, showrooms, and interiors, they... -
The Chase Catalogs: 1934 & 1935 by Leslie Pina
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.07The elegant yet practical chrome and brass houseware specialties created by Chase Brass & Copper Company during the 1930s are synonymous with Art Deco. Reprinted here for the first time are the... -
Nativity: Creches of the World Leslie Pina 9780764312120
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.50This book showcases a wide variety of Nativity sets that display multi-cultural artistic interpretations of the true meaning of Christmas. Artisans from more than forty countries on five continents... -
Ftoria American Line 2056 by Leslie Pina
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.67Fostoria is one of the best known and admired names in American glassware. Probably more brides and homemakers in America have received gifts of and purchased glassware made at the Fostoria factory,... -
Synthetic '70s: Fabric of the Decade by Leslie Pina
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.07The decade of the 1970s, like the 1960s, was one of extremes. Traditional plaids and prints, which were reintroduced, became popular at the same time that bold prints and geometrics, including Op Art... -
Mexican Silver Jewelry Details by Leslie Pina
RRP: £81.99Booksplease Price: £57.43The widespread appeal of Mexican silver jewelry can be attributed to the artistic quality and variety, plus the large production volume of these small treasures. It is both wearable art and the... -
Herman Miller: Interior Views by Leslie Pina
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £33.44Herman Miller has led in the modernization of the American home and workplace since Gilbert Rohde revolutionized the company with his Art Deco furniture in the 1930s. Interior installations (from the... -
Fashion Fabrics: 1960s Leslie Pina 9780764305849
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.76Fabrics can represent an era or a decade-the colors, patterns, textures, and fibers reveal as much about the culture as do the furnishings and clothing that relied on the fabrics. The decade of the... -
Depression Era Art Deco Glass by Leslie Pina
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.51From Anchor Hocking's Manhattan pattern to Carder and Teague designs for Steuben, all of the major American companies who made Art Deco glass during the Depression Era-Cambridge, Consolidated,... -
Crackle Glass in Color: Depression to 70s by Leslie Pina
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.01Over 400 color photos of crackle glass, company catalog pages, information on the manufacturers, detailed captions, up-to-date prices, bibliography, and an index. Crackle glass has become... -
Blenko: Cool '50s and '60s Glass by Leslie Pina
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £28.76Named after its founder, Englishman William Blenko, Blenko Glass Company, Inc. began producing stained glass in America in the late nineteenth century. It remains one of the few glass factories in... -
Fostoria Designer George Sakier by Leslie Pina 9780887408588
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.50Fostoria was a most remarkable glassd company and George Sakier(1897-1988) was a most remarkable designer of Fostoria glass. For over fifty years, through the Great Depression, Sakier sent classic... -
Tiffin Glass, 1914-1940 by Leslie Pina 9780764301025
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.98Tiffin was one of the giants of American glassmaking. The colorful decorative glassware from the first half of this century is quite popular today, and this is the first book to present all color... -
Beads In Fashion 1900-2000 Leslie Pina 9780764307928
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £30.76Beads have been a fascinating method for embellishing fashion since ancient cultures sought personal adornment. The twentieth century has seen some of the most innovative, colorful, and wonderful... -
Crackle Glass Too: 1950s-2000 by Leslie Pina
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £27.67Neither a particular style nor the product of one company, crackle glass has become one of the popular fields of twentieth century glass collecting. Crackling, a finish caused by dipping the hot... -
Alexander Girard Designs for Herman Miller by Leslie Pina
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £35.32Among the great designers at Herman Miller in the 1950s and 1960s, Alexander Girard enhanced Eames' and Nelson's furniture with innovative textiles. As head of Herman Miller's Textile Division since... -
Whiting and Davis Purses: The Perfect Mesh by Leslie Pina
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £38.38The Whiting & Davis purse is the epitome of the mesh bag. For over one hundred years, these "shimmery pieces of splendor" have graced the fashionable woman's wardrobe. Thanks to designs ranging from... -
Blenko 1972-1983 Catalogs Introduction by Leslie Pina 9780764313837
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £25.14This reprint of twelve 1972-1983 Blenko Glass Company catalogs is the third in the trilogy covering Blenko's early and middle years. 1983 marks the beginning of the "late" period when the label was... -
Wearable Art Accessories and Jewelry 1900-2000 by Leslie Pina
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £28.16From one-of-a-kind, hand-made fashions, accessories, and jewelry to commercially made, highly decorative items, wearable art has become an important category for collectors of vintage costume and... -
Ftoria: Serving the American Table 1887-1986 by Leslie Pina
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.32Fostoria is one of the best known and most admired names in American glass. Probably more brides and homemakers have received gifts and purchased glass made at the Fostoria factory in Moundsville,... -
Pottery, Modern Wares 1920-1960 by Leslie Pina 9780887406928
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £34.18This handsome new book explores production pottery, the factory-made and hand-decorated wares produced by selected American and European companies that are of special interest to collectors. Familiar... -
Specs Appeal: Extravagant 1950s & 1960s Eyewear Leslie Pina 9780764314032
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £28.29"The eyes have it," in this colorful selection of outrageously whimsical eyeglass stylings from the fabulous 1950s and hip 1960s! Whether dotted with rhinestones, molded into "cat's-eyes," or built... -
The Herman Miller Collection: The 1955/1956 Catalog Leslie Pina 9780764304408
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £28.09Few people have seen an original copy of any of the highly sought after Herman Miller product catalogs. This exact reprint of the profusely illustrated 1955/56 Herman Miller Collection will introduce... -
Purple Glass: 20th Century American and Eurean by Leslie Pina 9780764315152
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.78Color is one of the most interesting qualities of glass, and many people collect according to color. Purple Glass is a sample of various collectible glassware made in the United States and Europe... -
Blenko Catalogs Then and Now: 1959-1961, 1984-2001 by Leslie Pina
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £20.93A combination of original Blenko catalog pages and photographs, this book completes the Blenko "story," covering the much sought after early designs and the later designs readily available to... -
circa Fifties Glass from Eure and America by Leslie Pina 9780764302299
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £35.32circa Fifties Glass from Europe & America includes the Italian and Scandinavian designer art glass usually referred to as "Fifties glass," plus a more popular modern glassware produced... -
Pular '50s and '60s Glass: Color Along the River by Leslie Pina
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.78Here is a fascinating study of commercial glass production along the Ohio River Valley in the 1950s and 1960s. Companies such as Blenko, Pilgrim, Rainbow, Viking, Kanawaha, Bischiff, Morgantown, and... -
Archimede Seguso: mid-mod glass from murano: lace and stone by Leslie Pina
RRP: £63.99Booksplease Price: £46.16Archimede Seguso (1909-1999), one of the great Muranese masters, took traditional glassmaking techniques to extremes. His introduction of merletto lacework technique at the Venice Biennale of 1952... -
Herman Miller 1940 Catalog and Supplement: Gilbert Rohde Modern Furniture Design by Leslie Pina 9780764307058
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £27.82The Herman Miller Furniture Company was devoted to manufacturing period reproduction furniture until pioneer industrial designer Gilbert Rohde walked into their Grand Rapids showroom in 1930. A... -
Designed and Signed: 50s and 60s Glass, Ceramics and Enamel Wares by Georges Briard, Sascha Brastoff, Marc Bellaire, Higgins... by Leslie Pina 9780887409356
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.94Highly collectible household objects designed and signed by name artists of the 1950s and 1960s are presented here. The artists have become well known: Georges Briard, Sascha Brastoff, Mark Bellaire,... -
Furniture 2000: Modern Classics and New Designs in Production by Leslie Pia
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £39.48Many of the great modern classic furniture designs of the twentieth century are still in production and available to the public in America and abroad. There are also many recent designs destined to... -
Deco Decor: Porcelain, Glass, and Metal Accessories for the Home by Donald-Brian Johnson 9780764331787
RRP: £63.99Booksplease Price: £45.43Here is a unique vision of "life's backdrop," a virtual tour of the Art Deco style, encompassing every room in the house, from attic to basement. Hundreds of porcelain, glass, and metal decorative...