EMPOWERED GARDENS. Architects and Designers at Home

Author: Soucek King, Carol Phd
Country: New York
Code: 4710
Language: English
Year Published: 1997
No. of pages: 183
Illustrations: 197 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11”x 9”
Weight: 1.00
Price: 29.50

From a tranquil urban town house garden in San Francisco to a rustic country cottage landscape outside Paris, more than 300 photographs taken outside the homes of internationsally renowned architects and designers, both prominent and emergent, show the remarkable alchemy that occurs when their authoritative talent and sensiblility are turned toward the residential garden and outdoor room. This book offers a fascinating window into the home gardens and design philosophies of some of the interior design and architecture world’s most influential talents.

FINNISH MODERN DESIGN. Utopian Ideals and Everyday Reality 1930 - 1997

Author:
Country: English
Code: 2789
Language: English
Year Published: 1998
No. of pages: 411
Illustrations: 105 Color Illustrations. 258 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11 1/2”x 9”
Weight: 5.00
Price: 75.00

The design achievements of Finland over the last seven decades are observed and analyzed in this lavish volume produced through the Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki. Fourteen art historians and cultural scholars probe the issues of modernism in Finnish design with beautiful photographs of individual objects, buildings, and pieces of furniture. The catalog was prepared for an American exhibition, and an appendix includes very informative Selected Histories of Finnish Companies in the Applied Arts. This is an inspiring comprehensive overview of many of the real high points of the Finnish modern movement in design and aesthetic approach.

GIEHTA DAIDU / The Great Book of Sami Handicraft/ Den Stora Boken om Samernas Slöjd.

Author: Kihlberg, Kurt
Country: Sweden
Code: 4162
Language: Swedish/ English
Year Published: 1999
No. of pages: 144
Illustrations: 70 Color Illustrations. 18 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11”x 9”
Weight: 3.00
Price: 85.00

The Sami, a people from the far north in Scandinavia, are characterized largely by their reindeer breeding practices and nomadic lifestyle. This book delves into their handicraft tradition and presents the foremost artists of this movement with their unique work. It also includes an index of the marks and signatures of Sami craftpersons, noting the most legendary with an *. Overall, the exquisite simplicity, dogmatic reserve, and measured aesthetic perfection characterizing these objects, which range from ornamented knives, drums, baskets, chests, and leather goods, is simply fascinating.

GOLDEN STATE OF CRAFT: CALIFORNIA 1960-1985.

Author: Laurie, Jo; Emily Zaiden, Sharon K. Emanuelli
Country: California
Code: 6815
Language: English
Year Published: 2012
No. of pages: 78
Illustrations: 81 Color Illustrations. 7 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
Price: 49.50

Presented by Craft in America and the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) as part of the Getty initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 – 1980, Golden State of Craft: California 1960 – 1985 surveys an extraordinary, innovative artistic period that blossomed in post-World War II California. Promoted in large part by two central figures—Edith Wyle, founder of the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum and Eudorah M. Moore, director of the Pasadena Art Museum’s California Design exhibition series—an inspired group of artists made significant contributions to the American Craft Movement, the art world at large, and influenced modern American taste overall.

GUIDEBOK: DESIGN AND KUNSTHÅNDVERK 1905-2005 .

Author: Halen, Widar; Kjellberg, Anne; Stemshaug, Inger Helene
Country: Norway
Code: 6055
Language: Norwegian / some English
Year Published: 2005
No. of pages: 64
Illustrations: 51 Color Illustrations. 3 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 7”x 6”
Weight: 1.00
Price: 29.50