Porphyry: Red Imperial Porphyry Power and Religion (Book)

This is number 111 from the limited edition of 1,000 copies. The first 25 are special leather bound copies, a further 25 were for collaborators on the publication, the next 350 were reserved for subscribers and 650 were for general sale. Therefore we know that this was one of the subscribers copies. With green cloth covers in a green slipcase with an embossed frog motif to the front. 424 pages with over 350 large detailed illustrations, 60 color plates and more than 1000 reference illustrations. This magnificent dinner and dessert service was the crowning achievement of the great English potter Josiah Wedgwood who made it between 1773-1774 as a commission from the Empress Catherine...

by Sandra Dachs, Patricia De Muga & Laura Garcia Hintzo Focuses on Eileen Gray, a breakaway designer in a world dominated by male-centric style schools Besides an introductory essay, each title in the By Architects series is compiled by key modern architects through sketches, drawings, photos of the original productions, and ambient shootings A design-orientated book for a design-orientated series, Eileen Gray boasts an innovative layout and a special binding Neglected for most of her career, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is now regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early twentieth century and the most influential woman in those fields. Her work inspired both modernism and Art Deco. Eileen Gray was to stand alone throughout her career, first as a lacquer artist, then a furniture designer, and finally as an architect. At a time when other leading designers were almost all male and mostly members of one movement or another - whether a loose grouping like De Stijl in the Netherlands, or a formal one such as the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne - Gray remained staunchly independent. Her design style was as distinctive as her way of working. Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on the geometric forms and industrially produced materials used by the International Style designers, such as Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Mies van der Rohe, who shared much of her ideology. Her voluptuous leather and tubular steel Bibendum Chair and clinically chic E-1027 glass and tubular steel table...