This unique treasury presents 279 full-color illustrations of miniature chairs--made of such materials as ticket stubs, gum wrappers, playing cards, and buttons. These emblems of miniature design reveal an exuberance and creativity bound to delight readers of all sizes.

Chairmania: Fantastic Miniatures

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

McFadden, David Revere

Beylerian, George M.

Antiques & Collectibles

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

This book looks at a group of artists and sculptors who use the techniques of knitting and the concepts of lacemaking to produce works that take the form of freestanding sculptures, architectural interventions, sound &amp; video works and performance art Includes an index of artists and exhibited works Published in association with the Museum of Arts and Design, New York Radical Lace &amp; Subversive Knitting presents an array of works that reflect the energy, vitality and innovation demonstrated by a diverse group of contemporary artists who apply traditional knitting and lacemaking techniques to unusual materials, or new techniques and technologies to traditional materials. The works brought together here are by artists from many different countries. Individually these works speak to the pervasive and persuasive cultural, social, and political issues with which art intersects today. The role of hand work as a symbol of community and communication is highlighted in many of these pieces, and the artist's personal commitment to collaborative experiments is the focus of others. The works are also barometers of change in the visual arts of our time, signaling the dissolving of the categories of art, craft and design that have fragmented the world of aesthetic and functional objects for more than a century. David Revere McFadden is the Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts &amp; Design, New York.

Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting

Scanlan, Jennifer

Edwards, Jennifer Steifle

Reference

Museum of Arts & Design

Jack Lenor Larsen: Creator and Collector

Widely considered a master of twentieth-century textile design, world-renowned designer Jack Lenor Larsen has also collected the crafts of world cultures and related contemporary art for the last fifty years. The synergy between his design and his collecting is the subject of this book, which offers insights into Larson's artistic vision and the nature of creativity itself. Over forty of Larsen's most innovative textiles are juxtaposed with the treasures that helped to inspire them. Engagingly revealed is Larsen's eye for art by such well-known figures as Dale Chihuly, Dame Lucie Rie, and Wharton Esherick, among others, as well as anonymous but no less gifted artists from Japan, Korea, Colombia, Africa and India. Also discussed are Larsen's contributions to modern textile, interior and architectural design, and his often ground-breaking technical achievements. A narrative chronology, the most complete in print, concludes this profile of a celebrated creator, world-travelling collector, and friend to artists and artisans of all nations.

CONSTANTINE, Mildred

Crafts & Hobbies

Merrell Publishers

The work of Daniel Brush (born 1947) does not fit neatly into the categories commonly used to describe contemporary art or craft. While he uses traditional art media such as pen and ink and paper or canvas, he also uses materials such as blocks of billet steel, pure aluminum, pure gold and precious gems; he also makes exquisite jewelry. These mysterious artworks--drawings, paintings, small sculptures, jewelry and other objects hard to classify--reveal, upon close inspection, details that are astonishing in their precision and technical facility. Most of Brush's work is in private collections around the world, and it is rarely seen in public. Containing more than 450 photographs (all of which represent the artworks at their actual size), this book shows much of the artist's work of the last decade and affords a rare opportunity to contemplate these objects.

Daniel Brush

Arts & Photography

Littman, Brett

Brush, Olivia

Hamilton, Saskia

Keegan, Paul

Individual Artists

Arline Fisch is known as the leading American creator of jewellery as art. This introduces the most important aspects of her work, including the full-body jewellery that covers the wearer's body like armour.

Elegant Fantasy: The Jewelry of Arline Fisch (English and German Edition)

Bell, Robert

FISCH, Arline M.

San Diego Historical Society

Rigby, Ida Katherine

Decorative Arts & Design

Arnoldsche

Italian art glass of the twentieth century represents a high point in the history of the medium. In this century, such legendary Muranese factories as Venini, Seguso and Barovier &amp; Toso, among others, joined forces with major artists, architects, designers and skilled glassworkers to renovate and expand the traditions of excellence that had been the hallmarks of Venetian glass for centuries. From experiments in new forms, colors and techniques in the first decades of the century, through the golden years of Italian preeminence in the field at mid-century, to the influx of talented artists from other countries today, Venetian glasswork of the twentieth century is a testament to creative spirit and artistic innovation. Presented at the American Craft Museum from fall 2000 through winter 2001, Venetian Glass: Twentieth Century Italian Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection is one of the first comprehensive overviews of twentieth-century Italian glass art in the United States, and the first in this country to present a heretofore unknown private collection of Italian glass masterworks. The extraordinary design by Massimo Vignelli coupled with the stunning photographs by Luca Vignelli give life and texture to each piece. Responding to the dearth of publications about twentieth-century Italian glass art available in the US, this accompanying catalogue--featuring over 200 works--is certain to occupy a significant place in the current revival of interest in glasswork as an art form.

Venetian Glass: 20th Century Italian Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection

Barovier, Marino

Scarpa, Tobia

Tagliapietra, Lino

SCARPA, Carlo

Moore, Benjamin

Bianchin, Cristiano

Barbini, Alfredo

Diaz de Santillana, Laura

Ohira, Yoichi

Sacks, Susan

Stearns, Thomas

Zynsky, Toots

Barovier, Ercole

Bianconi, Fulvio

Vetrerie, Muranese

Frantz, Suzanne K.

Charta

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