Wednesday 21 December 2022
The inscriptional letter cutter Ralph Beyer (1921–2008) found a way between the craft-based historicism and technological modernism to establish an individual style of lettering. Beyer is now the...
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Wednesday 30 November 2022
Often called ‘the potter’s potter’, Richard Batterham has been held in high esteem by fellow potters and collectors alike, but this is the first monograph on his life and work. At Bryanston...
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Monday 31 October 2022
This book chronicles the life, work and legacy of one of the foremost artists of traditional stitched textile patterns in Hungarian Transylvania, Teréz Schéfer (1884–1971). (In the Hungarian...
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Tuesday 04 October 2022
Accompanying an exhibition of the same name, this three-volume publication is a weighty tome with over 1000 pages and 1200 illustrations. More than a dozen authors contribute to an authoritative...
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Wednesday 21 September 2022
William Morris’s creativity in the decorative arts was celebrated in the V&A’s 1996 exhibition, showcasing his activities as painter, stained-glass artist, interior decorator, furniture designer,...
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Wednesday 07 September 2022
Mount Stuart is celebrating the imagination, eclecticism, and craftsmanship of 19th-century design in its new exhibition on the Scottish Isle of Bute. The Neo-Gothic mansion was designed by the...
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Wednesday 27 July 2022
The Danish furniture designer Jakob Berg (1958–2008) belonged to a generation of Danish furniture designers that sits between the mid-century Golden Age of Danish design and the New Nordic 21st...
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Friday 01 July 2022
Poland as a political entity was lost in 1795 and, despite uprisings in the 19th century, would not be reconstituted until after the First World War. The Polish Arts & Crafts movement Młoda...
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Monday 06 June 2022
Paul Nash (1889–1946) often claimed that design work was on a par with fine art. However, he held some harsh opinions on the great and the good, comments which are repeated in James King’s...
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Saturday 14 May 2022
This book looks afresh at the archive collections associated with Bernard Leach and his personal collection of pots, as well as new research about his time in Japan and the collecting of his...
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