Автор: Antigone Clarke Название: Antique Boxes: 1760-1880 ISBN: 0764316885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764316883 Издательство: Schiffer Рейтинг: Цена: 14155.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The box represents great temptation. "Open me" it says. The human cannot resist it; its charm is overwhelming. So too, is the charm of this remarkable book, in which antique boxes and tea caddies - along with the people who inspired, made, and used them - dance gracefully through the pages. The reader is guided through the aesthetic, cultural, and social influences of the years covered, accumulating a deep understanding of the form, decoration, and purpose of eighteenth and nineteenth century boxes. The extensive text covers wooden, tortoiseshell, ivory, papier m*^ach*/e, and lacquer boxes. There are chapters on Anglo Indian, Scottish, Irish, Penwork, Straw work, and Tunbridge ware boxes, as well as on boxes made for special purposes. Captions include complete descriptions, values, and circa dates for all boxes shown. The 905 images include original drawings, magnificent photographs of complete pieces, and close-ups illustrating the structure and decoration of boxes. This is an indispensable companion for box collectors and reflects fascinating information about cultural forces that shaped the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Название: Tables, Boxes, Screens, Cabinets Pb ISBN: 1906155356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781906155353 Издательство: Black Dog publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 5775.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Adrian Quan is one of the most unique and discerning furniture designers working today. `Tables, Boxes, Screens, Cabinets` is the first book to explore Quan`s stylish and graceful body of work in detail, providing a beautifully illustrated insight into the intriguingly playful and thoughtful creative process that informs his compositions.
Автор: Arene Burgess Название: 19th Century Wooden Boxes ISBN: 0764303198 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764303197 Издательство: Schiffer Рейтинг: Цена: 5080.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Pandora would have had the best of times between these two covers. For those who just cant resist a peek under the lid, like the author, there is endless full-colour satisfaction inside. An intrepid collector and antiques scholar and dealer, Burgess gives the inside scoop on every manner of containers, from apple boxes to their zinc decorations. Inside empty boxes, she finds the hopes that filled brides chests, weaves a story about the sewing chores of housewives of yore, gives you a taste of what snuff the men were made of, and sheds light on where candles once awaited nightfall. Inside boxes ranging from Shaker plain to the outrageous constructions of wooing gentlemen, Burgess takes the lid off life in the nineteenth century.
Название: Antique Boxes - Inside And Out ISBN: 1851495029 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781851495023 Издательство: ACC-distribution titles Рейтинг: Цена: 5643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The first large, comprehensive book on all types of antique boxes from diverse cultures. The first book to emphasize contents and usage of boxes and help identify and define the nature of a particular box. Includes vast numbers of illustrated examples with beautiful color images accompanies by concise, readable text.
Автор: Deborah Keresztury Название: Art Deco Bakelite Jewelry & Boxes ISBN: 0764313479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764313479 Издательство: Schiffer Рейтинг: Цена: 6714.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Art Deco style of the early 1930s can be seen as domesticated Cubism. As with cubist paintings, the elements of design were reduced to their minimal essence and applied to everyday items for public consumption. Here Bakelite plastic jewelry and boxes are studied as reflections of this style. The book is a visual garden of Deco design, with hundreds of items photographed in color and described with their useful purposes, materials, and current values. Bakelite is collected because it is different and fun. This book is important because it demonstrates how the new Art Deco style provided the Depression-ridden world with color and style in a form most people could afford.
Автор: Braithwaite Название: Across the Moscow River - The World Turned Upside Down ISBN: 0300204183 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300204186 Издательство: Wiley yUP Рейтинг: Цена: 4785.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 'This extremely interesting, truthful, and honest book gives an objective and dramatic picture of Russia. If others in the West had understood my country as profoundly as Rodric Braithwaite does, history would have treated us all more kindly.' Mikhail Gorbachev Rodric Braithwaite was British ambassador to Moscow during the critical years of Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the failed coup of August 1991, and the rise of Boris Yeltsin. From the vantage point of the British Embassy (once the mansion of the great nineteenth-century merchant Pavel Kharitonenko) with its commanding views across the Moscow River to Red Square and the Kremlin, Braithwaite had a ringside seat. With his long experience of Russia and the Russians, who saw him as 'Mrs Thatcher's Ambassador', on good personal terms with Mikhail Gorbachev, he was in a privileged position close to the centre of Russia's changing relationship with the West. But this is not primarily a memoir. It is an intimate analysis of momentous change and the people who drove it, against the background of Russia's long history and its unique but essentially European culture. Braithwaite watched as Gorbachev and his allies struggled to modernise and democratise a system which had already reached the point of terminal decay. Against the opposition of the generals, they forced the abandonment of the nuclear confrontation as the Soviet Union fell apart. The climax of the drama came in August 1991 when a miscellaneous collection of conservative patriots - generals, politicians and secret policemen - attempted to reverse the course of history and succeeded only in accelerating the collapse of the Soviet Union. Braithwaite left Moscow with Russia at its lowest ebb, grappling with the problems of an unfamiliar market economy on its uncertain path towards becoming a modern liberal state. Written with vigour, frankness and hope, and with a considerable feel for atmosphere and tension, this is a revealing and compassionate account of one of the twentieth century's most dramatic reversals of fortune. Rodric Braithwaite and his wife Jill were based in Moscow from September 1988 to May 1992.
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