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ART DECO FRANCE – NORTH AMERICA AT CITE DE L’ARCHITECTURE PARIS

Thursday 02 February 2023

An exhibition which shows the influence of France in the 1920s over the architecture, decor, lifestyle, and taste of North America is now showing at La Cité Architecture & Heritage Centre in...

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EVELYN & WILLIAM DE MORGAN: A MARRIAGE OF ARTS & CRAFTS

Thursday 12 January 2023

This handsome volume accompanies an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum that will travel to Sacramento and St Petersburg, Florida. It comprises a dozen essays by independent art historians and...

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THE INSCRIPTIONS OF RALPH BEYER

Wednesday 21 December 2022

The inscriptional letter cutter Ralph Beyer (1921–2008) found a way between the craft-based historicism and technological modernism to establish an individual style of lettering. Beyer is now the...

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RICHARD BATTERHAM: STUDIO POTTER

Wednesday 30 November 2022

Often called ‘the potter’s potter’, Richard Batterham has been held in high esteem by fellow potters and collectors alike, but this is the first monograph on his life and work. At Bryanston...

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KÓNYA GYULÁNÉ SCHÉFER TERÉZ AND HER PEASANT SEWING COLLECTION

Monday 31 October 2022

This book chronicles the life, work and legacy of one of the foremost artists of traditional stitched textile patterns in Hungarian Transylvania, Teréz Schéfer (1884–1971). (In the Hungarian...

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MAJOLICA MANIA: TRANSATLANTIC POTTERY IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES, 1850–1915

Tuesday 04 October 2022

Accompanying an exhibition of the same name, this three-volume publication is a weighty tome with over 1000 pages and 1200 illustrations. More than a dozen authors contribute to an authoritative...

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WILLIAM MORRIS

Wednesday 21 September 2022

William Morris’s creativity in the decorative arts was celebrated in the V&A’s 1996 exhibition, showcasing his activities as painter, stained-glass artist, interior decorator, furniture designer,...

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FANTASY TO FABRICATION: 19TH-CENTURY DESIGN AT MOUNT STUART 

Wednesday 07 September 2022

Mount Stuart is celebrating the imagination, eclecticism, and craftsmanship of 19th-century design in its new exhibition on the Scottish Isle of Bute. The Neo-Gothic mansion was designed by the...

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JAKOB BERG: FURNITURE

Wednesday 27 July 2022

The Danish furniture designer Jakob Berg (1958–2008) belonged to a generation of Danish furniture designers that sits between the mid-century Golden Age of Danish design and the New Nordic 21st...

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YOUNG POLAND: THE POLISH ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT, 1890–1918

Friday 01 July 2022

Poland as a political entity was lost in 1795 and, despite uprisings in the 19th century, would not be reconstituted until after the First World War. The Polish Arts & Crafts movement Młoda...

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