Decorative Arts & Design

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.

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

Textiles from Burma presents the richness of these traditions, illustrated with examples from the James Henry Green Collection at Brighton Museum and from other collections around the world.

This book considers how and why these women collected, and explores the obstacles they overcame to assemble the objects.

The volume presents the history of the renowned jeweler's work using the rich mineral resources of Russia, from celebrated Easter eggs to delicate animal sculptures.

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.

The Topkapi Saray Museum's collection of Chinese ceramics is one of the world's largest and most important, yet comparatively little of it has ever been published.

The two principal techniques 'cloisonne' and 'champleve' can be traced through widely ranging cultures over many centuries, cloisonne going back as far as the sixth century BC.