Through the peak period of Art Deco creativity in the 1920s, many artists and studios produced portfolios of original designs for commercial use. Often these original works went unsigned and, after inspiring their limited, exclusive audience, disappeared. Here is one such portfolio (most likely French or German, 1925‒30) recently rediscovered and now reproduced as an original and probably unique document of the Art Deco years. Over 800 royalty-free jewelry designs and motifs dazzle with Art Deco invention: buckles, buttons, clips, belts, mirrors, pendants, cigarette cases, rings, chains, necklaces, watchbands, brooches, studs, clusters of intricate, delicate, sharp-edged Art Deco charms, many graced with the too-often forgotten humor and wit lying just beneath the geometry. Jewelry designers, collectors of Art Deco, and period specialists will find equal amounts of inspiration and aesthetic delight in this rare, precisely executed collection of fresh, authentic Art Deco design, now rescued from oblivion. Artists, designers, and crafters will find it a valuable Art Deco treasury.

Authentic Art Deco Jewelry Designs (Dover Jewelry and Metalwork)

Deboni, Franco

History

Dover Publications

Verrre Venini

Umberto Allemandi & C.

Paolo Venini was not a native Venetian, yet he still managed to work in Venice and ultimately become known as the foremost name in Venetian glass of this century.This book traces the history of the firm from its modest beginnings to its heyday in the post war years. While much archival material was lost in a disastrous fire, the works speak for themselves in 190 beautiful photographs which do full justice to their vibrant colors and luminosity. The facsimile reprint of the scarce "blue catalogue" of design shapes drawn to scale and dated is of special interest to dealers, museum curators and collectors.

Venini Glass (Archivi Di Storia Dell'arte)

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Umberto Allemandi & Co

One of the most important changes in the 20th century has been the evolution of decorative arts from 'craftsmen' to 'art': nowadays glassware has gained total rcognition in museums and public opinion. The extraordinary ability and originality in techniques between the lat 40s and the 50s and the great success of Venini's design was surely one of the principal reasons for the international praise for Venetian glass: new exceptional techniques and outstanding creativity since 1925 have placed Venini's masterpieces with the highest artistic expressions of art in our century. This edition features the famous 'blue copybook' of Casa Venini, the private firm diary in which information on all glassware was entered.

Venini Glass

Umberto Allemandi

One of the most important changes during the 20th century was the evolution of the decorative arts from the rank of crafts to that of art: glass, today, has duly earned its place in museums, markets and the public opinion. The extraordinary inventiveness between the end of the 1940s and throughout the 1950s, together with the enormous success enjoyed by Venini design, helped arouse international interest in Venetian glass. New techniques, impossible to imitate, risked consigning the firm's earlier production (from 1925 to the Second World War) undeservingly to the shadows while they placed Venini artworks among the highest artistic expressions of our times. The much awaited reprint of the last edition of the catalogue raisonn, has been enlarged with a section on lighting (lamps and chandeliers), a Dictionary of artists, the Red Catalogue, the Green Catalogue and the extended Blue Catalogue (doubled compared to the earlier edition). These three catalogues contain all the reproductions of Venini item

Venini Glass, 2 Volumes

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

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