Decorative Arts & Design |

An Artist's Village: G.F. and Mary Watts at Compton

Mark Bills

with contributions by Perdita Hunt, Hilary Underwood, Veronica Franklin Gould, Desna Greenhow

ISBN 13:

978-0-85667-696-3

£19.95

The book tells the story of the impact of George Frederic Watts OM RA (1817-1904) and his wife Mary Seton Watts (nee Fraser-Tytler, 1849-1938) on Compton, a small village in Surrey.

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Court on Canvas: Tennis in Art

Ann Sumner

with Kenneth McConkey, Robert Holland, Sue Elks

ISBN 13:

9780856677069

£20

Court on Canvas: Tennis in Art celebrates the origins of the game in Birmingham and explores the ways in which tennis has inspired artists from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.

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The Stylemakers: Minimalism and Classic-Modernism 1915-45

Mo Teitelbaum

ISBN 13:

978 0 8566 7703 8

£37.50

In Paris in the 1920's a new style was born, rejecting the embellishments of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, it allied the linear proportions of late eighteenth-century furniture to a twentieth-century perc

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The Cocktail Shaker: The Tanqueray Guide

Simon Khachadourian

ISBN 13:

978-0-85667-520-1

ISBN 10:

0-85667-520-2,

£25

This reference, designed for collectors and admirers alike, celebrates a golden age when designers from the famous luxury goods houses had a ball with novelty cocktail shakers.

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Fountain Pens - United States of America and United Kingdom

Andreas Lambrou

ISBN 13:

9780856675324

ISBN 10:

0 85667 532 6

£49.50

This volume contains over five hundred full-color photographs of the most important and some previously unpublished pens from the United States of America and United Kingdom.

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Avant-Garde Design - Dutch Decorative Arts 1880-1940

Editors:

Marjan Groot

Frans Leidelmeijer

Titus M. Eilëns

ISBN 13:

9780856674662

ISBN 10:

0 85667 466 4

£35

Dutch decorative arts of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods are much in demand throughout the world.

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