Museum Exhibitions - European Decorative Arts
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Die Wiener Werkstätte: Modernes Kunsthandwerk von 1903-1932
Wien (Vienna): Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, 1967. Softcover. Beige wraps. 100 pp + 80 bw plates. Text is in German. Issued in conjunction with a 1967 exhibition of items made in Vienna's avant-garde heyday, mainly by the Wiener Werkstätte, and by such artists as Josef Hoffmann, Dagobert Peche, C...... More
Swiss Graphic Designers
[Cincinnati]: The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Art Museum. Softcover. BW illus. stapled wraps, [24 pp.], illus. in black & white & red. Issued in conjunction with a series of exhibitions of these examples of promotional design created by Swiss artists. With an essay by Josef Muller-Brockmann, an introduction by Noel..... More
La Menora: Culto, Storia e Mito
Milan: Skira, 2017. Softcover. Black softcover with color illustration and yellow and white lettering. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Musei Vaticani, Vatican City, May 15-July 23, 2017. Text in English and Italian. More
Wiener Werkstatte: Avantgarde, Art Deco, Industrial Design
Wien: Neuwirth, 1984. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth binding with gilt lettering. Gray dust jacket with color illustrations. German and English. This publication by Dr. Waltraud Neuwirth, keeper of glass and ceramics at the Austrian Museum of Applied Art, Vienna, is the catalogue to the exhibition of the same name... The importance..... More
BIEDERMEIER: The Invention of Simplicity
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2006. Hardbound. Tan cloth/boards; color-illustrated dustjacket with lavender spine. 400 pp., 410 color illustrations. The book examines Biedermeier painting, furniture and decorative arts as a style and a cultural attitude. Visual arts of the period, roughly 1815-1835, which are still largely unstudied as distinct from Romanticism..... More
Cinquantenair de L'Exposition de 1925
1976. Softcover. Black/green patterned wraps. 165 pp. Several bw and color plates. Text in French. More
Trois Siecles de Papiers Peints
Paris, France: Musee des Arts Decoratifs, 1967. Softcover. White & blue wraps. 133 pp. + advertisements. Profuse bw plates. Text is in French. Issued in conjunction with a 1967 exhibition of three centuries of French wall paper. With an introduction by Eugene Claudius Petit and an essay by Jean-Pierre Seguin..... More
Nordic Cool: Hot Women Designers
Washington, DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2004. Softcover. Color illus. wraps; 111 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color. Foreword by Judy L. Larson; Essay by Jordana Pomeroy; Includes housewares, interiors, jewelry, furniture, and more by female designers from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland. More
Finnish Crafts: Tapio Wirkkala and Rut Bryk
Washington, D.C. The Finnish Embassy, 1956. Softcover. Black and white illustrated wraps; 16 pp. with several bw illustrations. An exhibition circulated by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service; a few of the beautiful designs by husband-and-wife team of artists, Wirkkala and Bryk. More
European Helmets, 1450-1650: Treasures from the Reserve Collection
New York, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. Softcover. Beige pictorial stapled wraps; 48 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw. Accompanied the exhibition "European Helmets, 1450-1650" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2000 and 2001; Features 73 helmets, with annotations, as well as 25 marks and inscriptions. More
Design in Scandinavia: An Exhibition of Objects for the Home from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden
New York: American Federation of Arts, 1954. Softcover. Brown wraps. 125 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. Includes a nine-page introductory essay and an illustrated catalogue listing of many works, from furniture to textiles to pottery. More
Design in Scandinavia: An Exhibition of Objects for the Home from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden
New York: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1954. Softcover. Brown & illus. wraps. 125 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1954 exhibition of Scandinavian-designed decorative objects. Includes an introductory essay and an illustrated catalogue listing of many works, from furniture to textiles to pottery. More
Catalogue, International Exhibition, Contemporary Glass and Rugs
Washington, DC: American Federation of Arts, 1929. First Printing. Softcover. Blue paper wraps with black lettering. Unpaginated. [140] with several bw illus. Catalogue from the exhibition of glass and rugs, mounted in 9 different US locations between November 1929 and December 1930: The Met, NY; MFA, Boston; Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia;..... More
L'Art Decoratif aux Expositions des Beaux-Arts
Paris: Guerinet, 1903. Hardcover. Portfolios with printed boards. 100s of bw plates. Premier Volume: Bronzes -- Orfèvrerie -- Bijouterie -- Faiences --Porcelaines --Sculpture Décorative. Not collated, believed complete. More
Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today
Roma: Istituto Poligrafico for The Compagnia Nazionale Artigiana, 1950. Softcover. Cream, green, and red illustrated wraps; 66 pp. text followed by approx. 65 pp. bw illustrations. With a foreword by Walter Dorwin Teague. Includes information about Italy after the war (WWII), the arts and crafts in Italy, notes on the..... More
Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour: A Love Affair with Style
1990. Hardcover. Maroon cloth, black ill. DJ. 108 pp. 69 bw and color plates. Includes fine art, porcelain, furniture, books, clocks, and other luxurious Rococo items treasured by the couple. More
Musical Instruments and Their Decoration: Historical Gems of European Culture
Cincinnati: Seven Hills Books, 1986. Hardcover. Spice cloth with gold lettering; yellow ill. DJ. 163 pp. 109 bw and color ills. Array of richly decorated musical instruments in the world's most important collections. Primarily keyboards and stringed instruments. More
The Lunning Prize Designers' Exhibition
New York, New York: Georg Jensen Inc., 1957. Softcover. Color wraps. Unpaginated, approx. 30 pp. Profusely illustrated in bw. Accompanied an exhibition of Scandinavian design featuring winners of the Lunning Prize, including Carl-Axel Acking (Sweden), Tias Eckhoff (Norway), Kaj Franck (Finland), Nanna and Jorgen Ditzel (Denmark), and others. More
Dosor Dosor Dosor
Stockholm, Sweden: Nationalmuseum, 1990. Hardcover. Glossy illustrated boards, no DJ. 216 pp. 28 large color plates and 500 small BW photos. In Swedish with English key to the annotations and English translations of section descriptions. Exhibition catalogue featuring 500 snuff boxes from the collections of the Nationalmseum and the Tobacco..... More
Italian Re Evolution: Design in Italian Society in the Eighties
La Jolla, California: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1982. Softcover. White wraps. 205 pp. Hundred of bw illus. Text is in English and Italian. More
Stig Lindberg: Formgivare
1982. Softcover. White ill. stapled wraps. 39 pp. Numerous bw plates. Text in Swedish. Examples include ceramics, plastics, glass, and textiles. More
Czech Cubism: Architecture, Furniture, and Decorative Arts 1910-1925
New York, New York: Princeton Architectural Press / Vitra Design Museum, 1992. Softcover. Color illus. wraps. 337 pp. Profusely illustrated in bw and color. Accompanied a traveling exhibition prepared by the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, in collaboration with the National Technical Museum, Prague, and Vitra Design Museum, Weil am..... More
Czech Cubism: Architecture, Furniture, and Decorative Arts 1910-1925
New York, New York: Princeton Architectural Press / Vitra Design Museum, 1992. Hardcover. Color illus. wraps. 337 pp. Profusely illustrated in bw and color. Accompanied a traveling exhibition prepared by the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, in collaboration with the National Technical Museum, Prague, and Vitra Design Museum, Weil am..... More
Illustrated Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of English Decorative Art at Lansdowne House; February 17th -28th, 1929
London: The Collector, 1929. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, color illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard, xx, 112, 102 leaves of plates, 555 illustrations (some color). Catalogue prepared by Mr. and Mrs. A.J.B. Wace of a loan exhibition at Lansdowne House held February 17th..... More