Found 9 items in the class "Books".

	GLASS: Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection by A. Duncan 671pp with over 600 colour illustrations. Cloth in a slipcase 31x27cms. An authoritative survey of the master craftsman and industrialist Louis C. Tiffany. Every Tiffany piece in the Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum Collection is reproduced in colour, many of them complemented by extracts from books, reviews, catalogues and price lists, while contemporary photographs show them in design books, domestic settings and trade catalogues. With chapters on the various Tiffany workshops, the designers and craftsmen who worked in them, and their methods of production.English.     $195.00
	GLASS: Tiffany's 20th Century - A Portrait of American Style From the Victorian era and Louis Comfort Tiffany's Art Nouveau masterpieces to the mid-century designs of Jean Schlumberger and the contemporary triumphs of Elsa Peretti and Paloma Picasso, Tiffany's 20th Century offers a stunning portrait of American design and style as epitomized by Tiffany & Co. 260 illustrations, 240 in color. This book contains lots and lots of photographs from the early printed advertisements to present. In fact, there are more photographs here than text. If you are a Tiffany's fan or a vintage jewelry collector, I think you will like this book.     $60.00
	GLASS: books Tiffany Favrile Art Glass Book Tiffany Favrile Art Glass book by Moise S. Steeg. ISBN #0764302078. Hard cover book size 9" x 12". Illustrations: 240 color photos. Pages: 192. Louis Comfort Tiffany's blown art glass, made from 1891 to 1928, embodies the artist's superior workmanship and satisfied his dream to introduce objects of both usefulness and beauty into the average household. These lovely objects, which he named Favrile and made in his New York City studio, display Tiffany's reverence for antique glass and include the colored, gold iridescent, blue iridescent, and opalescent forms featured in this book. Over 240 color photographs of objects from many public and private collections, a very interesting text, and meticulously composed descriptions display Tiffany's intriguing art glass together for the first time in book form. Comments about their rarity accompany the descriptions. Buyer pays shipping and handling of $5.50.    $59.95
	GLASS: Doubleday. 1980 edition. Very Good, 304 pgs., Photos & Illus Hardcover: Black cloth binding with title in gold on spine. Clean endpapers and pages. Many of these treasures were accidentally or purposely destroyed in the years after Tiffany's death. Some were locked away in warehouses for many years. Tiffany's pioneer efforts in Interior design is covered in this volume, as are his easel paintings. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 color plates. Nice tight binding. Jacket: Small closed tear (1/4 in.) on bottom edge and also a remainder of glue from price tag bottom right corner. Full-color illustrated examples of Tiffany's works on front and back.     $35.00
	GLASS: The Lamps of Tiffany Studios Rare out of print book in excellent condition. Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Publishing, 1983. An oversized volume bound in full red cloth gilt titles and 88 plates in full color. Any Tiffany collector will love this book. Buyer to pay shipping.    $700.00
	GLASS: books MASTERWORKS OF LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY - Collectors' Book MASTERWORKS OF LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY by Alastair Duncan, Martin Eidelberg, Neil Harris (c) 1989 reprint pub. by Abradale Press. The book is in new, mint, unused oversized (9 3/4" x 12") hard cover book with dusk jacket. This spectacular gloosy book with 160 pages and 125 illustrations (75 color) that are just stunning. Each picture in the book are very large and detailed. The book is also fun to read. It gives you a background into what influenced LTC's work, it covers the famous pieces and some of the lesser pieces. There is a great section on stained glass windows.    $45.00
	JEWELRY: Tiaras A History of Splendour by Geoffrey Munn Tiaras have always inspired a great fascination and the most beautiful and influential women have been painted, photographed and admired whilst wearing them. Even in the 21st century they are still worn and continue to inspire special poise and elegance.This lavishly illustrated book includes new photographs of a variety of Royal tiaras together with those of French and Russian Imperial provenances. Geoffrey Munn has been granted special access to the photographic archives of many famous jewellers, including Cartier, Boucheron and Fabergé, for his research. Other makers include Garrards, Castellani, Giuliano, Lalique, Fouquet and Tiffany.Many of these stunning tiaras also have great historical significance and their provenance is explained fully by the author, who is an specialist in jewellery and metalwork.Among the contemporary pieces illustrated are tiaras belonging to Jamie Lee Curtis, Vivienne Westwood, Elton John and Madonna, made by Slim Barratt, Galliano and Versace.    $75.00
	GLASS: The American Cut Glass Industry by Jane Shadel Spillman This authoritative book presents new information about the late 19th- and early 20th-century cut glass industry in Corning, New York.The recent discovery of a mass of archival material relating to T.G. Hawkes and Company, including thousands of letters, has enabled the author to research business practices in the glass industry in more detail than ever before.Using this new information, together with her already considerable knowledge, Jane Shadel Spillman has produced the first book on American cut glass to go beyond the glass and examine the workings of the industry itself, including labor relations, sources of blanks, special orders for the White House, Hawkes’s representation at the Paris world’s fair in 1889, and communication between the cut glass industry and silver manufacturers such as Gorham and Tiffany. Competition and cooperation between the glass cutting firms are also highlighted, and considerable attention is paid to other companies, such as J. Hoare, H.P. Sinclaire, and O.F. Egginton.There are 512 illustrations of glass pieces, catalog pages, advertisements and old documents, including 80 colour plates. This is a book which will be of special interest to collectors of cut glass, and also to students of business and social history.    $89.50
	GLASS: Glass Animals: 3500 Years of Artistry and Design by Albane Dolez Here, in 300 illustrations, are premier examples of the glassmaker's art, ranging in date from Dynastic Egypt to the present day, and from over twenty countries. The United States and Japan, Europe (from Russia to Spain), and the Middle East are all represented. In addition to the historic examples are Art Nouveau and Art Deco glass, and glass by such masters of the genre as Louis Comfort Tiffany and Emile Galle, all drawn from museum collections and private treasuries the world over. Pieces by the outstanding manufacturers of glass-Steuben, Baccarat, Lalique, Daum, Kosta Boda, and others-and contemporary examples from art glassmakers of today add to this diverse compendium of animals in glass. Equally diverse are the many types of glass, among them blown glass, mosaic, crystal, pate de verre, milk glass." GLASS ANIMALS: 3500 YEARS OF ARTISTRY AND DESIGN by Albane Dolez, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., N.Y., 1988. We learn of the many uses and appearances of glass animals throughout history: in stained glass windows, as vases, lamps, plaques, tiles, beakers, paperweights, jewelry perfume bottles and figurines. Here is a very beautiful book rendering in picture and narrative the fascinating history of these highly collectible objects of art glass. Oversized 9" x 12" hardback with dust cover in very good++ condition. 224 pages.     $60.00

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