The Shelley Style
Author : Susan Hill
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Pottery
ISBN : 9780951652503
Author : Susan Hill
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Pottery
ISBN : 9780951652503
Author : Jade Starmore
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Knitting
ISBN :
Author : Pierre Le-Tan
Publisher : New Vessel Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1954404050
"Funny and whimsical. There are wonderful asides ... It is also poignant." —The New York Times Beloved Parisian artist Pierre Le-Tan, known for designing New Yorker magazine covers and collaborations with fashion houses, summons up memories of inveterate art collectors in this utterly charming illustrated volume. He evokes fascinating, sometimes troubled figures through an array of intriguing and curious tales. With seventy of his distinctive pen and ink drawings—in vibrant color with meticulous cross-hatching—A Few Collectors opens a window onto the vast or minuscule world created by collectors out of a mix of extravagance and obstinacy. It recounts encounters in Paris, the Côte d’Azur, North Africa, London and New York, where Le-Tan’s subjects have amassed a range of treasures. Some involve famed figures like former Louvre Museum director Pierre Rosenberg. Others are insolvent aristocrats, princes of film and fashion, expatriate dandies, and flat-out obsessive eccentrics. Le-Tan devotes perhaps his finest chapter to himself.
Author : Brenda Grantland
Publisher : Brenda Grantland
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2016-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0984785906
A critical discussion of Hillary Clinton's speaking fees, focusing on the corporations that paid the fees
Author : Arthur Hayden
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : History
ISBN :
Chats on Old Furniture by Arthur Hayden is a detailed and practical guide for collectors of vintage sofas, beds, dressers, and more. Excerpt: "PAGE PREFACE 7 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 13 BIBLIOGRAPHY 19 GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED 23 CHAPTER I. THE RENAISSANCE ON THE CONTINENT 31 II. THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE 57 III. STUART OR JACOBEAN (SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) 79 IV. STUART OR JACOBEAN (LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) 109 V. QUEEN ANNE STYLE 133 VI. FRENCH FURNITURE. THE PERIOD OF LOUIS XIV..."
Author : Kristina Harris
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780764306396
With extensive text and over 440 photographs of authentic children's fashions from the 18th century through the 1920s comprise this book. Here are answers to the questions: Why did boys wear dresses? Why did girls wear corsets? Why were babies swaddled to prevent them form moving? The book brings together a wealth of information about boys' and girls' clothing and the history of childhood itself, with current values.
Author : Edward Faber
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780764301711
The development of the wristwatch styles in America, from the early years of the 20th century to the age of quartz. Richly illustrated with over 700 color photographs, the authors have traced the unique development of the American wristwatch, period by period. Original research brings life to some of the persons who influenced its development. Current prices make this a valuable collector's reference.
Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 1501514849
This volume celebrates the storied career of Stephen N. Fliegel, the former Robert Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). Authors of these essays, all leading curators in their fields, offer insights into curatorial practices by highlighting key objects in some of the most important medieval collections in North America and Europe: Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Louvre, the British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, the Getty, the Groeningemuseum, The Morgan Library, Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, and, of course, the CMA, offering perspectives on the histories of collecting and display, artistic identity, and patronage, with special foci on Burgundian art, acquisition histories, and objects in the CMA.
Author : Ray Ellsworth
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780764304590
Over 300 eye-popping platform shoe styles, in full color. These shoes span the world and the decades. The fun and daring designs include sporty, daytime, and evening styles, in the form of tie-ups, clogs, boots, slip-ons and sandals with ankle straps. Materials include snake skin, fur, glitter, colored leather, woven raffia and fabric materials. Some are practical, others simply outrageous, and all simply delightful.
Author : Isabelle Gadoin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 1000437000
This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19th century, including ceramics, metalwork, carpets, textiles and woodwork. Based on a foundational event, the very first exhibition of “Persian and Arab Art” held by a London Gentlemen’s Club in 1885, this book follows one generation of men, retracing the subtle shades of difference among “amateurs,” “connoisseurs,” “experts” and “collectors,” and exploring all the mechanisms of the construction of a collective fascination for the Orient. Isabelle Gadoin uncovers some of the first “scientific” analyses of Islamic objects and of the first private notebooks or exhibition catalogues, to provide an in-depth study of the way Westerners talked about Islamic objects and began to define what would become Islamic art history. All the while, Gadoin unravels the skein of Western prejudice, Romantic fancy, sincere admiration and ruthless appropriation, in art collecting, to write a new chapter of Orientalist history. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history of collecting, colonialism and postcolonialism, and Orientalism.