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From the 150 Best series, a gorgeous collection of inspiring design ideas for transforming tiny interiors into beautiful and inviting living spaces.

Over the past decade, tiny spaces have grown in popularity thanks to skyrocketing real estate costs, increased awareness of climate change, and a return to urban living.

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Unique, practical and inspirational handbook that explains folding techniques used in diverse disciplines, from jewellery to architecture.

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This stunning collector's edition includes the original John Derian Picture Book and the equally gorgeous John Derian Picture Book 2. Packaged in a beautiful slipcase along with a limited-edition print, this is the ultimate gift for fans of the beloved artist and home goods designer.

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There were many Melvin Days, but the term `Artist' encompasses all of them

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The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection celebrates some of the most beautiful objects ever made. Focussing on 50 works, this book showcases the decorative art of creating small-scale carvings, snuffboxes, inlay pictorial illusions, and more, in cut-and-polished natural stones, often incorporating the widely known technique of pietre dure.

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Long revered as the authority on craftsmanship and Japanese aesthetics, Yanagi devoted his life and writing to defend the value of craft. In an age of feeble and ugly machine-made things, The Beauty of Everyday Things is a call to deepen relationships with the objects that surround people.

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Making the new politics of craft and sustainability

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The materials included in this bibliography focus on the craftsmen responsible for the creation of fine furniture. works that examine the sociological, political, economic and environmental conditions within which furniture craftsmen worked, as well as furniture factories and furniture retail businesses themselves;

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Examines how the concepts of 'home', 'migration' and 'belonging' can be used to contextualise contemporary art practices and visual culture.

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This practical manual shows you how to preserve cloth-bound library books. Schechter gives detailed instructions for the cleaning and mending of paper, book hinge repair, case and textblock reattachment, cloth rebacking, and retitling. The book can be used as a repair manual in libraries or as a training tool.

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Through a series of conversations with the major European jewellery designers of today, this book opens the door to contemporary practice and offers an essential reference for all students and practitioners of jewellery design.

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This book brings the fascinating world of folk art into the classroom and offers extension activities that integrate art, social studies, science, language arts, and music.

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For years one of Germany's foremost cultural organizations, the Werkbund included in its membership such pioneers of the modern movement as Henry van de Velde, Hermann Muthesius, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe. Joan Campbell traces its history from its founding in 1907 to 1934, when it was absorbed into the bureaucracy of the National Social

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Provides an introduction to the way that artists working in various media think about craft. This book also includes historical case studies analysing craft's role in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, design, contemporary art, and the crafts themselves.

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Celebrating over 60 years of Interior and Garden Design Education.

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Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between Pre-Raphaelite artists and scientists. 'Temple of Science' sets out the history of the campaign to build the museum before taking the reader on a tour of art in the museum itself.

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A history of the Palace of Versailles as the paradigm of cultural capital in Western architecture, interior design, and material culture from the 17th century to the present.