Ettore Sottsass

Ettore Sottsass
Author: Ettore Sottsass, Jr.
Publisher: Skira
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2018-02-27
Genre: Architect-designed glassware
ISBN: 9788857235356
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The brilliant architect and designer Ettore Sottsass "made glass" from 1947 until the end of his career. This volume documents the entire period of his glass oeuvre, from the series he designed in the 1970s for Vistosi to the Memphis collections of the 1980s, the symbolic forms of the 1990s, the stunning constructions for the Millennium House in Qatar, and the famous Kachinas. The wealth of images, the analysis of design and painting together with the coeval cultural and artistic context, and the summary of works including many unpublished pieces make this volume edited by Luca Massimo Barbero the first scientific study on Ettore Sottsass's works in glass and crystal

Czech Glass

Czech Glass
Author: Sylva Petrová
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 9788087989630
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Thomas Stearns at Venini

Thomas Stearns at Venini
Author: Marino Barovier
Publisher: Skira Editore
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9788857241005
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Thomas Stearns and his collaboration with the Venini glassworks in the early Sixties in the new chapter of the series "Le Stanze del Vetro". The American artist Thomas Stearns (1936-2006) collaborated with the Venini glassworks as guest designer between 1960 and 1962. Thomas Stearns designed elegant blown-glasspieces with irregular features using various materials. Stearns was the first American to design for Venini; he won a on Fulbright Travel Grant, left Cranbrook Academy, and showed up in Murano with new ideas, but absolutely no knowledge of the Italian language. But, from this potentially disastrous situation grew a collection of ground-breaking designs that actually won the "Best of Show" award at the Venice Bienale of 1962. When the judges found out that the winner was not Italian, but a monolingual American, they actually rescinded the award. By then, however, it was pretty impossible to deny that Thomas Stearns had created something really special. Stearns' amazing designs proved too difficult to put into mass production, which made them even more special.

The Daguerreotype

The Daguerreotype
Author: Dominique de Font-Réaulx
Publisher: 5Continents
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9788874394661
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Illustrates the development and rapid spread of Louis Daguerre's photographic invention in France by a variety of daguerreotypes drawn from the collection of the Musee d'Orsay.

The Art of Not Making

The Art of Not Making
Author: Michael Petry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780500290262
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Can an artist claim that an object is a work of art if it has been made for him or her by someone else? If so, who is the author of such a work? And just what is the difference between a work of art and a work of craft? In the first book of its kind, Michael Petry tackles these questions head on.

The Voyages of Cadamosto and Other Documents on Western Africa in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century

The Voyages of Cadamosto and Other Documents on Western Africa in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century
Author: G.R. Crone
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317012003
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Translation and edition. The additional documents, in translation, comprise a letter by Antoine Malfante, 1447, an account of the voyages of Diogo Gomes, c. 1456, and extracts from João de Barros, Decadas de Asia. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1937. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the map of "North-western Africa in the fifteenth century" which appeared in the first edition of the work.