Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions
Focuses on a group of leading studio furniture artists whose response to the forms, materials, techniques, and meaning of China's rich furniture traditions reveals the creative power of an exchange in art and culture. This graceful book showcases furniture produced by 22 American, Canadian, and Chinese studio furniture makers for the Peabody Essex Museum.
Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions
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Night in the Middle Ages by Jean Verdon, ISBN 026803656X
"The contemporary world is uncomfortable with night, more precisely with night it has not domesticated with electricity. What was it like in the Middle Ages when darkness was nearly unbroken from the setting to the rising of the sun?" In Night in the Middle Ages renowned medievalist Jean Verdon offers an answer to this intriguing question. His book -- filled with fascinating stories that capture events of the medieval night, from the ordinary to the fantastic -- includes a cast of characters ranging from Duke Louis of Orleans and Chretien de Troyes to students, bailiffs, monks, and workers.
Part 1 of the book describes dark activities that are masked by the cloak of night. Murders, robberies, rape, betrayal, and licentious behavior all figure prominently in this set of stories. Fantasy forces of evil such as witches, werewolves, and even Satan himself, are also discussed. In the second section, Verdon depicts how medieval society attempted to "tame" the night through architecture, improved...
Night in the Middle Ages by Jean Verdon, ISBN 026803656X
Molesworth: The Pioneer of Western Design
Thomas Molesworth, were he alive today, would be both proud and amazed at the influence his Shoshone Furniture Company and the Cody artists' colony he inspired would have on his old hometown and the Western Design movement seventy-two years after he started producing furniture. Based on nearly two decades of buying, selling, pursuing, and researching Molesworth furniture, Terry Winchell has created a definitive book that covers all spectrums of Molesworth's work, including the influence of the other artists who made his style unique, as well as stylistically and financially successful. The fact that Molesworth's furniture career spanned thirty plus years speaks for itself. An excellent guide for collectors of Molesworth's work, this book is also an invaluable resource for fans of the Western Design movement.
Molesworth: The Pioneer of Western Design
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Childrens Favorite Songs, Vol.1
Childrens Favorite Songs, Vol.1
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