Georg Jensen Silversmithy: 77 Artists, 75 Years, 1st Ed Hardcover

English & Other Silver in the Irwin Untermeyer Collection by Yvonne Hackenbroch. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1963. This book is limited to English silver from the middle of the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries, together with a very few objects of silver from other countries. It is a collection which, with some exceptions, was formed at a time when early English silver...

English Goldsmiths and Their Marks by Sir Charles J. Jackson. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1921. Second edition hardcover with no dust jacket. 747 pp. A history of goldsmiths and ...

This catalogue was published on the occasion of an exhibition organised and held at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. With 147 pieces illustrated, company ...

by Jennifer Hawkins Opis This is a comprehensive catalogue of the Scandinavian Ceramics and Glass collection at the V&A, showing comparative material from all four Scandinavian countries. The history of the many ceramics and glass factories, their artists and designers is outlined against a changing social and political background. Scandinavian design, from the 1950s to the 1970s, was a by-word for modernism. Scandinavian style was the style to which all other designers aspired during that time and the Nordic designers were awarded all the major prizes. Earlier, during the 1920s and 1930s Scandinavian designers were establishing influential design concepts, and ceramics and glass production attracted many of the key artists. Masterworks are included: from Alvar Aalto's "Savoy" vase to Tapio Wirkkala...