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Decorative Arts/Textiles/Design History

All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.

Ambrose, Gavin, and Paul Harris. Basics Design: Design Thinking. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing, 2010. 184 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9782940411177)

Barter, Judith A., ed. Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 208 pp.; 196 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300141139)

Becker, Cynthia, and Kristyne Loughran. Desert Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermès Collection. Exh. cat. New York: Museum for African Art, 2009. 84 pp.; 40 color ills.; 28 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (9780945802525)

Bourque, Bruce J., and Laureen A. LaBar. Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costume. Exh. cat. Augusta and Seattle: Maine State Museum in association with University of Washington, 2009. 192 pp.; 104 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (9780295988702)

Braches, Ernst. Ernst Braches: Dutch Art Nouveau and Book Design, 1892–1903. Trans. David Rodger. Amsterdam: De Buitenkant, 2009. 316 pp.; 500 ills. Cloth € 95.00 (9789076452609)

Bremer-David, Christina, Mimi Hellmann, Katie Scott, and Mary D. Sheriff. Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2009. 222 pp.; 115 color ills.; 88 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780892369638)

Cavallo, Sandra, and Silvia Evangelisti, eds. Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 314 pp.; 27 color ills.; 33 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754656470)

Dodsworth, Simon. The Fundamentals of Interior Design. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing, 2010. 176 pp.; 250 color ills. Paper $34.95 (9782940373925)

Douglas, Diane, and Vicki Halper, eds. Choosing Craft: The Artist's Viewpoint. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 336 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780807831199)

Earle, Joe. Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile; The Yoku Tanaka Collection. New York: Japan Society Gallery, 2009. 96 pp.; 70 color ills. Paper $19.95 (9780300151572)

Earle, Joe, ed. Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design. Exh. cat. New York: Japan Society, 2009. 144 pp.; 145 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9780900150476)

Giuntini, Christine, and Alissa LaGamma. The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009. 72 pp.; 36 color ills. Paper $19.95 (9780300149623)

Gumpert, Lynn, ed. The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art. Exh. cat. New York: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2009. 112 pp.; 48 color ills. Paper $25.00 (9780615220833)

Hanson, Marin F., and Patricia Cox Crews. American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870–1940: The International Quilt Study Center Collections. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 496 pp.; 812 color ills. Cloth $90.00 (9780803220546)

Hesse-Honegger, Cornelia. Art on Silk. Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2010. 128 pp.; 115 color ills. Cloth $70.00 (9783858812032)

Hickman, Richard, ed. Research in Art and Design Education: Issues and Exemplars. Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2009. 208 pp. Cloth $50.00 (9781841501994)

Higgins, Hannah B. The Grid Book. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. 312 pp.; 62 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780262512404)

Hohenegger, Beatrice, ed. Steeped in History: The Art of Tea. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2010. 240 pp.; 372 color ills. Paper $40.00 (9780977834419)

Karraker, D. Gene. Looking at European Frames: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. 88 pp.; 60 color ills.; 3 b/w ills. Paper $18.95 (9780892369812)

Koch, Jeanette, ed. Bound for Success: Catalogue for Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2009. Exh. cat. Oxford: Bodeleian Library, University of Oxford, 2009. 144 pp.; 390 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9781851243525)

Krohn, Deborah, and Peter N. Miller, eds. Dutch New York between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 464 pp.; 320 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300154672)

Lorance, Loretta. Becoming Bucky Fuller. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. 304 pp.; 7 color ills.; 59 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780262123020)

Machet, Laurence. Les Wedgwood: De la poterie à l'industrie des arts de la table. Paris: CTHS, 2009. 360 pp.; 31 color ills. Cloth €40.00 (9782735506705)

Mason, Darielle, ed. Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2010. 304 pp.; 254 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300154429)

Mayer, Roberta A. Lockwood de Forest: Furnishing the Gilded Age with a Passion for India. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009. 238 pp.; few color ills.; many b/w ills. Cloth $49.50 (9780874139730)

Mitchell, Louise. Stepping Out: Three Centuries of Shoes. Sydney: Powerhouse Publishing, 2008. 96 pp.; 113 color ills.; 7 b/w ills. Paper £14.99 (9781863171243)

Myzelev, Alla, and John Potvin. Material Cultures, 1740–1920: The Meanings and Pleasures of Collecting. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2009. 250 pp.; 39 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754661443)

Nelson, Louis P. The Beauty of Holiness: Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 496 pp.; 255 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780807832332)

Parsons, Tim. Thinking Objects: Contemporary Approaches to Product Design. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing, 2010. 192 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $49.95 (9782940373741)

Peck, Amelia. American Quilts & Coverlets in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2009. 320 pp.; 300 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780300159035)

Potvin, John, ed. The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800–2007. New York: Routledge, 2010. 272 pp.; 44 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780415873826)

Renfrew, Elinor, and Colin Renfrew. Basics Fashion Design: Developing a Collection. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing, 2010. 176 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $29.95 (9782940373956)

Rosenstein, Leon. Antiques: The History of an Idea. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009. 280 pp. Cloth $35.00 (9780801447341)

Ross, Phyllis. Gilbert Rohde: Modern Design for Modern Living. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. 288 pp.; 46 color ills.; 144 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300120646)

Steele, Valerie, and Patricia Mears. Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, 2009. 288 pp.; 300 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300145830)

Stromberg, Gobi. Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2009. 188 pp.; 240 color ills.; 32 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780977834402)

Swift, Ellen. Style and Function in Roman Decoration: Living with Objects and Interiors. Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2009. 264 pp.; 16 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754665632)

twopoints.net, ed. Neuland: The Future of German Graphic Design. New York and Barcelona: Actar, 2009. 450 pp.; many color ills. Paper $39.95 (9788496954564)

Wigan, Mark. The Visual Dictionary of Illustration. Lausanne: AVA Academia Publishing, 2009. 288 pp.; 250 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9782940373901)