This absorbing volume features profiles and interviews of 64 artists and reveals their artistic influences and interpretations along with 112 stunning photos of iconic work.
To connoisseurs of modern furniture, names such as Wendell Castle, Wharton Esherick, Sam Maloof and George Nakashima are signposts to a revolution in the decorative arts that remains one of...
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Thirty-one color plates are supported by curator Halper's essay describing the life and creative development of Solberg, an octogenarian whose inimitable jewelry incorporates the vitality of found object assemblage with superb intelligence ...
Author and furniture maker Roger Holmes offers an insider's perspective on the art and craft of producing exquisite contemporary furniture in his conversational Introduction and maintains that 'art or craft, this is very personal work' ...
Regional Furniture Society Newsletter , no . 26 ( summer 1997 ) , no . ... ( Re exhibition of contemporary studio furniture by Wendell Castle , Alphonse Mattia , Albert Paley , Bob Trotman , Timothy Philbrick , and Peter Danko . ) ...
MULLER 1571—1628 101 Embracing Couple (Mercury and Lara?) Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, and white gouache heightening; H: 18.7 cm (7%; in.); W: 21.7 cm (89/16 in.) 86.GG. 595 MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: At bottom, ...
Quellen und Technik der Fresco-, Oel-und Tempera-Malerei des Mit telalters . ... [Darmstadt]: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 351-52. van de Graaf, op. cit., 174. Goetghebeur, N., and L. Kockaert. 1980. Le grand Calvaire d'Albert ...
A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation’s origins to the present day.
A high-wire artist traces his six years of planning and training to walk a wire between the towers of the nearly completed World Trade Center in 1974 and describes the history-making realization of his goal eight times in the course of an ...