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This beautiful garden includes the fabulous early C18th wrought iron arbour known as 'the Birdcage' as well as a grotto, fountains, statues and tree-lined all?es, making it the finest surivi... read more

Melbourne Hall Garden

Jodie Jones

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A gorgeous book on handmade bamboo baskets of intricate and wildly varied design, in an edition limited to 300 copies, published in Kyoto.

Basket of Dreams

Daniel Niles

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Edited and designed by Ruth Guilding, Luke Edward Hall and Jack Henshall; with contributions from Howard Sooley, Rowan Williams, David Dawson, Jessica Hayns, Robert Sackville-West and others... read more

The Bible of British Taste – Issue 3

Ruth Guilding
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Arikawa is a Japanese collector and dealer who once trained as a Buddhist monk. His collection is breath-taking in its range and quality. Here are classical cameos, Renaissance jewels, a Lal... read more

Divine Jewels: The Pursuit of Beauty

Kazumi Arikawa

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A bonanza of sleek design from the Italian rattan specialists.

Bonacina: The Beauty of Rattan

Marella Caracciolo Chia

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In 1811, architect, stone mason and shell-fancier George Perry published Conchology or the Natural History of Shells, illustrated with his own ravishing and sometimes fanciful watercolours. ... read more

Beautiful Shells

Mark Carnall

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From traditional Ojibwe beading to modern cast glass: masters of their crafts in Japan, India, Italy, France, Mali, Mexico, Britain and elsewhere.

Modern Artisan: A World of Craft Tradition and Innovation ...

Isabelle Dupuy Chavanat

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The celebrated 'image alchemist' has fun with one of the world's great textile collectors.

Stephen Ellcock’s Book of Textiles: The Karun Thakar Collection ...

Stephen Ellcock

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A carefully annotated, illustrated catalogue to the remarkable costumes and paraphernalia acquired in Siberia and Mongolia in the 1930s by two Danish travellers - Henning Haslund-Christensen... read more

Mongol Shamans: Shaman Costumes at the National Museum of Denmark ...

Rolf Gilberg

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The selected writings of the late Nicola Gordon Bowe, a brilliant scholar and delightful person. Her books on Harry Clarke and Wilhelmina Geddes are outstanding.

Visualizing the Celtic Revival: The Arts and Crafts movement in Irelan ...

Roisin Kennedy

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Textile design, embroidery, bookbinding, illustration, painting, enameling, stained glass, metalwork, furniture design and architecture by May Morris, Gertrude Jekyll, Annie Garnett et al. F... read more

Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement

Karen Livingstone

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An amazing illustrated compendium that covers everything from woodwork in Kashmir to tinselcraft in Ahmedabad. What fun it must have been to research this unmissable treasure!

Handmade in India: A Geographic Encyclopedia of Indian Handicrafts ...

M.P. Ranjan

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Deriving its name from Salix viminalis, this design company began by reviving the old French tradition of wickerwork using the osier beds that grow along the banks of the Rhône. Their origi... read more

The World of Atelier Vime: A Renaissance of Wicker and Style ...

Benoit Rauzy

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Catalogue of an exhibition at Château du Clos-Lucé, Amboise, which explores the scents of the period through the plants with which Leonardo was familiar with in childhood and, later, and t... read more

Leonardo da Vinci and the Perfumes of the Renaissance ...

Francois Saint-Bris

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From the V&A's senior jewellery curator: their history, geology, and owners.

Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time ...

Helen Molesworth

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Looks at the history of the celebrated Mackintosh building, including the fires of 2014 and 2018. Many illustrations.

The Mack: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art ...

Robyne Calvert

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Beautifully photographed sculptural ceramics from the collection of Anthony Shaw. Includes pieces by Gordon Baldwin, Ewen Henderson and Gillian Lowndes.

Seeing with Another Eye: ceramics – sculpture – painting ...

David Whiting

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Auguste and Gausserand met at a pottery school in Montpellier in 1948. For the next seventy years they would share studios in small towns in the south of France, amongst a community of post-... read more

Pots

Gyn Gausserand

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Watches: A Complete History of the Technical and Decorative Developmen ...

George Daniels

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The Life Thread: Paracas Textiles and Culture

Kerstin Paradis Gustafsson

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The Modern Guide to Antique Jewellery

Beth Bernstein

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Le Bijou Dessine: Designing Jewels

Guillaume Glorieux

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Grand Tour: The Worldly Projects of Studio Peregalli ...

Roberto Peregalli

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A re-issue of Leach's book, first published in 1978. Born in Hong Kong, he later lived for many years in Japan where he trained as a potter; eventually he settled near St Ives, built a Japan... read more

Beyond East and West: Memoirs, Portraits and Essays ...

Bernard Leach

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A short biography of the woman who managed Leach Pottery in Cornwall for forty years and was a fine potter in her own right. She met her husband, Bernard, in New York in the wake of the Grea... read more

Janet Leach: Potter

Joanna Wason

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A collection of nine essays that elaborate on the development and themes of Mingei, the Japanese art movement that found beauty in commonplace objects.

Mingei: Art Without Heroes

Roisin Inglesby

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Furniture, objects, designs, textiles and drawings by the great designer of the Viennese Arts & Crafts movement. To accompany the current exhibition at the Brussels Museum of Art and History... read more

Josef Hoffmann: Falling for Beauty

Adrian Prieto

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The H?tel Tassel, a townhouse in Brussels; many photographs. Very handsome.

Horta and the Grammar of Art Nouveau

Iwan Strauven

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A small book on this miraculous library, filled with 300 tiny books commissioned by Lutyens and Princess Marie Louise from some of the greatest authors of the time - Hardy, Conan Doyle and m... read more

The Miniature Library of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House ...

Elizabeth Clark Ashby

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Art as Jewellery: Artist’s Jewellery from Calder to Kapoor ...

Louisa Guinness

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Cule: Fortified Houses Between Glory and Ruin

Cristian Bracacescu

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Emerald

Jonathan Self

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Notes on Book Design

Amanda-Li Kollberg

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Jacques Doucet et Moise de Camondo: Une Passion pour le XVIIIe Siecle ...

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Hurrah for the second issue of this thoughtful and hugely entertaining magazine! Contributors this time include Celia Paul, A.N. Wilson, Christopher Woodward of the Garden Museum, Henrietta ... read more

The Bible of British Taste – Issue 2

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Syrian Living: Medieval to Modern

Anke Scharrahs

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