Search Results: Arts: Applied from The Owl at the Bridge

South Hadley, Mass. : Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, c1994.. Soft Cover. 175 p., illus. (some col.) ; 31 cm. With the assistance of Thomas Branchick ; essays by David Carrier, James Martin, and Wendy M. Watson. 33 art restoration projects are described. "Organized by the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum ... with the assistance of the Williamstown Regional Art Conservation Laboratory ... " Bibliography (p. 174-175). Stock# 40,790, Fine, nice inscription from the author./ paper. . .

London, Mitchell Beazley, 2001. Hard Cover. 240 p., illus., 28.5 cm. The Rhode Island School of Design has regarded glass as a fine art for decades and as a consequence several artist in this book--Dale Chihuly, Howard Ben Tre--came from that program. Stock# 31,795x. Fine, new/ dj fine.

"A Publication of the American Antiquarian Society's Program in the History of the Book in American Culture." xxiv, 230 pages, 97 figures; 27.5 cm. Red cloth stamped in gold; no dust jacket; Near Fine. Stock#ofc0837.

NY, Whitney Library of Design/Watson-Guptill [1988]. Soft Cover. 4 p.l., 234 p., index, illus. incl. color; 21 x 27.5 cm. Introduction by Paula Rice Jackson. Stock# 34,209x. Fine/ paper.

Mobile, Alabama, Museum of Art, 1998.. Soft Cover. Organized and Toured[!] by Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, October 9-November 29, 1998. 62 p., color photos; color pictorial paper covers, 28 cm.; fine. Includes brief biographical sketches for each of the 24 participating artists. stock#100843. Contemporary American art, design, decorative arts.

'Second printing, 1996'. Contents include an essay, "The Life of Forms", by Linda Norden. On Dale Chihuly's Glass Baskets (color photos with Chihuly comments); Murray Morgan, Baskets: Holders of Secrets; Basket Drawings; List of Plates (with dates & measurements); Selected Collections. Softcover. Square quarto; 148 pages, color photos; 29.5 cm. Color pictorial paper covers; minor wear; Very Good. stock#3098/h.

Offprint reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, June 1953. 12 pages, plate; stapled; Good. Stock#ofc0499.

"Each of the 100 basic art-related terms in Design Language is examined with scholarship and wit... using vocabulary to explore style, form, and composition." Hardcover. 184 pages; 18.5 x 9.5 cm. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Stock#32654/h.

Boston, Bulfinch / Little Brown, 1992. Hard Cover. 240 p., 254 color illus., 27 cm. Second printing; first was 1988. "Selected from the pages of Maison & Jardin." Vg/vg. 101561.

NY, Harcourt, Brace [1940]. Hard Cover. Insect Pollination series with sixteen color plates by Fritz Kredel. 58 p., 16 color plates; 22 cm. Stock# 32,082. Vg/ dj vg.

Paris, l'Aventurine, 2001. Soft Cover. Foreword by Jean-Paul Midant. 228 p., 112 plates (many color); 33 cm. Since its first publication in 1856, the Grammar of Ornament has been an inspiring source for decorative artists. This is a particularly nice facsimile. A monument to Victorian style in itself, it brings together vivid images of historical and geographical variety. Fine; new from the publisher; stiff wrappers. 27546x.

N.Y., Doubleday, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4 p.l., 293 p.; 23.5 cm. First edition, so stated; first issue, with publisher's errata slip laid in at p. 238. Hampton, himself an interior decorator, discusses and illustrates the work of 22 colleagues from Elsie de Wolfe, Elsie Cobb Wilson, Ruby Ross Wood and Rose Cumming, who helped establish the function, through Dorothy Draper, Madelaine Castaing, David Hicks and Michael Taylor. Square format. Vg/vg. Stock#OB090.

N.Y., Grossman, 1963. Hard Cover. Oblong quarto. 79 pages. 'The text was arranged by Joseph Brumenthal and set in his Emerson type at The Spiral Press, New York'. Printed in Switzerland. Part autobiographical as the artist explains his love of the form of letters. His drawings, about half in color, are beautifully reproduced. The bright colors of the boards contrast with the black and white of the slipcase. Fine in slipcase worn at edges but sound. Stock #27306/h.

The Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques [1983]. Hard Cover. 128 p., index, 105 b/w & 30 color illustrations; 28 cm. Contents include Miniature Houses and Rooms; Furniture; Silver; Pottery, Porcelain and Glass; Miniature Books; Advice for Collectors; glossary; bibliography. 'In the final analysis, it is not control but freedom that so delights the eye in a really wonderful miniature. Our eyes are tricked-- and somehow we let the little image before us defy our knowledge that it is small and a replica. By surprising us, it allows us to escape into its own perfect world.' Stock# 40,194. Vg/ dj vg, in mylar;

Art Institute of Chicago / Abbeville Press, NY [c1983]. 'First edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Oblong, 168 p., illus. incl. color; 22.5 cm. Essay by Bruce Hatton Boyer, "Creating the Thorne Rooms"; catalog entries compiled by Fannia Weingartner; photographs by Kathleen Culbert-Aguilar & Michael Abramson. "Painstakingly constructed to a scale of one inch to one foot, these intriguing models offer intricately detailed views of European interiors from the 16th century through the 1930s and of American furnishings from the 17th century to 1940." Dj; fine. stock#31333.

Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher; NY, Distributed by St. Martin's Press ©1979. Soft Cover. vii, 207 p., illus.; 23 x 20 cm. "Applying recent discoveries in brain research to the teaching of drawing skills, Dr. Betty Edwards presents a set of basic exersizes designed to release creative potential and tap into the special drawing abilities of the right half of the brain." ISBN (10): 0312904924. Stock#47705. Vg / soft cover.

NY, Soufer Gallery / Pucker Gallery, Boston, 2006. Soft Cover. 20 p. imcl. covers; color photographs of 62 pieces; 28 cm. Gallery catalog of an exhibition from 19 Sept.-24 Oct. 2006. Stapled in color pictorial paper; minor exterior scuffing courtesy of the postal service; VG. stock#953.

Thames & Hudson, NY [c1986; Printed in Hong Kong]. Soft Cover. 82 illus. (54 color); cm. Contents of this handbook include Equipment & Materials; Carragheen Moss; Ox-Gall & Alum; Paper & Colours; Variations on Basic Marbling; Creative Marbling & Ebru; Oil Marbling; Marbling in the 18th Century; Sources of Materials; Select Bibliography. Color stiff-paper covers; minor wear; VG+.

Moscow, Beresta, 1996. Series: Russian Decorative Metalwork. Hard Cover. 196 p., 119 color plates; 30.5 cm. Text in Russian & English. "From the Collection of the All-Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Art, Moscow." Contents include Basic Techniques of Enamel, List of [43] Contemporary Russian Enamelers [with thumbnail biographies], and a Bibliography. Grey cloth stamped in silver; color pictorial dj; marker ribbon; fine; new from publisher. Beautiful book. Stock#34271x.

N.Y., Rizzoli, 1990.. Hard Cover. 439 p. illus. many in color. 33 cm. Originally published in Russian, this was translated from the French. ”The most comprehensive treatment of Soviet posters, paintings, murals, tableware, ceramics, textiles, and monuments from the first two decades after the revolution.” Stock #100,631. Vg/dj vg. Russia Art