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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)
Bowers, John.
Introduction to Two-Dimensional Design: Understanding Form and Function, Second Edition.
Hoboken, NJ:
John Wiley & Sons,
2010.
160 pp.; 200 ills.
Paper
$45.00
(9780470163757)
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)
Cohen, David.
The Basics of Throwing: A Practical Approach to Form and Design.
London and Philadelphia:
A&C Black and University of Pennsylvania Press,
2010.
144 pp.; 100 color ills.
Paper
$29.95
(978081222041)
Cramsie, Patrick.
The Story of Graphic Design: From the Invention of Writing to the Birth of Digital Design.
New York:
Abrams,
2010.
352 pp.; 150 color ills.; 150 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780810972926)
De Long, David G., ed.
Sunnylands: Art and Architecture of the Annenberg Estate in Rancho Mirage, California.
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2010.
192 pp.; 119 color ills.; 14 b/w ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(9780812241617)
Diehn, Gwen.
Real Life Journals: Designing and Using Handmade Books.
Live and Learn. Edited by Deborah Morgenthal.
New York:
Sterling Publishing Co.,
2010.
Many color ills.
Cloth
$24.95
(9781600594922)
Dodsworth, Simon.
The Fundamentals of Interior Design.
Lausanne, Switzerland:
AVA Publishing,
2010.
176 pp.; 250 color ills.
Paper
$34.95
(9782940373925)
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)
Goggin, Maureen Daly, and Beth Fowkes Tobin, eds.
Material Women, 1750–1950: Consuming Desires and Collecting Practices.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
404 pp.; 51 b/w ills.
Cloth
$124.95
(9780754665397)
Goggin, Maureen Daly, and Beth Fowkes Tobin, eds.
Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750–1950.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
312 pp.; 54 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(9780754665380)
Goggin, Maureen Daly, and Beth Fowkes Tobin, eds.
Women and Things, 1750–1950: Gendered Material Strategies.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
396 pp.; 85 b/w ills.
Cloth
$124.95
(9780754665502)
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)
Heyse-Moore, Dominique, Gill Saunders, Christine Woods, and Trevor Keeble.
The Walls Are Talking: Wallpaper, Art and Culture.
Exh. cat.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2010.
115 color ills.; 15 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780984226009 )
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)
Kisluk-Grosheide, Daniëlle, and Jeffrey Munger.
The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York and New Haven:
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press,
2010.
228 color ills.; 29 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780300155204)
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)
Koeppe, Wolfram.
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered.
Exh. cat.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
120 color ills.; 1 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780300155181)
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)
Kusserow, Karl, ed.
Inner Sanctum: Memory and Meaning in Princeton's Faculty Room at Nassau Hall.
Princeton:
Princeton University Press,
2010.
50 color ills.; 30 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780691148618)
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)
Marshall, Patricia Phillips, and Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll.
Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color.
Exh. cat.
Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press,
2010.
20 color ills.; 243 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780807833414)
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)
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, eds.
Fashion, Interior Design and the Contours of Modern Identity.
Surrey, UK:
Ashgate,
2010.
47 b/w ills.
Cloth
£60.00
(9780754669159)
Owen-Crocke, Gale R.
Medieval Clothing and Textiles.
Ed. Robin Netherton.
Vol. 5.
Rochester, NY:
Boydell Press,
2010.
220 pp.; 42 ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9781843834519)
Netherton, Robin, and Gale R. Owen-Crocke, eds.
Medieval Clothing and Textiles.
Vol. 6.
Rochester, NY:
Boydell Press,
2010.
239 pp.; 38 ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9781843835370)
O'Rorke, Margaret.
Clay, Light, and Water.
University of Pennsylvania,
2010.
120 color ills.
Paper
$28.95
(9780812220995)
Parsons, Tim.
Thinking Objects: Contemporary Approaches to Product Design.
Lausanne, Switzerland:
AVA Publishing,
2010.
192 pp.; 200 color ills.
Paper
$49.95
(9782940373741)
Pietsch, Ulrich, and Theresa Witting, eds.
Fascination of Fragility: Masterpieces for European Porcelain.
Leipzig:
E. A. Seemann,
2010.
368 pp.; 430 color ills.
Cloth
€49.90
(9783865022479)
Pietsch, Ulrich, and Claudia Banz, eds.
Triumph of the Blue Swords: Meissen Porcelain for Aristocracy and Bourgeoisie, 1710-1815.
Leipzig:
E. A. Seemann,
2010.
400 pp.; 800 color ills.
Cloth
€49.90
(9783865022486)
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)
Reeder, Jan Glier.
High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exh. cat.
New York and New Haven:
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press,
2010.
355 color ills.; 30 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780300155228)
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)
Saletnik, Jeffrey, and Robin Schuldenfrei, eds.
Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism.
New York:
Routledge,
2010.
288 pp.; Many b/w ills.
Paper
$49.95
(9780415778367)
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)