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Ikat. Patterns from Indonesia, Malaysia and India
Pepin Van Roojen
The Pepin Press, Amsterdam 2004, Agile Rabbit Edition, 128 pages,22 x22 cm., free CD-ROM, ISBN 9789057680588
euro 22,00
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Ikat is a very elaborate way of decorating cotton and silk textiles by resist-dying the yarns before weaving. This book contains stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The pictures can also be used to produce postcards, or to decorate your letters, flyers, etc. They can be imported directly from the CD into most design, image- manipulation, illustration, word-processing and e-mail programs; no installation is required.
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Louis Vuitton Manufactures
Nicholas Foulkes
Assouline, New York 2022, 400 pages, over 350 illustrations, 24.3 x 33 cm., Silk hardcover, ISBN: 9781649800763
euro 100,00
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Louis Vuitton fosters the idea that an atelier can be a place of fulfillment and individuality. A place where savoir-faire can be learned, respected and transmitted - and innovation nurtured - by artisans who routinely challenge the image of a traditional workshop. In pursuit of regional expertise and artisanal excellence, Louis Vuitton’s ateliers span the length and breadth of France and beyond, from Geneva (Switzerland), to Fiesso d’Artico (Italy) and even Texas (USA). Sites of historic interest or outstanding natural beauty will often have a Louis Vuitton workshop nearby: in Normandy, the sea-girt fastness of Mont-Saint-Michel can be seen from the workshop at Ducey, and in Beaulieu-sur-Layon, the light-flooded facility promises low environmental impact. Featuring photographs commissioned exclusively for this book, the volume showcases the extraordinary locations and buildings of Louis Vuitton’s ateliers, and the equally extraordinary artisans who express their talent through Louis Vuitton’s creations (trunks, bags, fragrances, watches, shoes, high jewelry and ready-to- wear), while carrying the founder’s techniques and savoir-faire into the twenty-first century. It is to these ateliers and the inspiring people who work there that this book is dedicated.
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Brioni
Tailoring Legends
Text by Olivier Saillard Foreword by Bret Easton Ellis
Assouline, New York 2022, 264 pages, 200 illustrations, 27.6 x 35.3 cm., Linen hardcover in a luxury slipcase, ISBN: 9781614288701
euro 195,00
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For more than seventy-five years, Brioni has remained the go-to tailor for the world’s most iconic men. Founded in 1945 by visionary tailors Nazareno Fonticoli and Gaetano Savini, the label’s bold designs have made it a sartorial destination for Hollywood movie stars, musicians, artists and heads of state. Transforming the landscape of menswear with impeccable standards, the Brioni name quickly became synonymous with the best in masculine style. The brand sealed its reputation as an industry leader in 1952 by presenting the first ever men’s fashion show in Florence’s Palazzo Pitti. This groundbreaking collection became the benchmark for Roman tailoring and established the modern notion of elegance in menswear.Featuring a personal foreword by novelist Bret Easton Ellis, Brioni: Tailoring Legends celebrates the House’s outstanding heritage and the evolution of men’s style through decades of its sartorial traditions, with rarely seen materials and original photography of archival garments.
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Dior New Looks
Jérome Gautier
Thames & Hudson, London 2022, 312 pages, 28.8 x 21.6 cm., Hardcover, ISBN 9780500025048
euro 53,00
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A timely celebration of one of the world’s greatest couture houses, which combines Christian Dior’s classics with the newest creations, published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Christian Dior’s first collection. In this lavish collection Jérome Gautier collects the outstanding elements of Dior’s style for every generation since 1947, pairing classic and contemporary photographs together with some exquisite rarities. Christian Dior’s “New Look” amazed the world as it emerged after wartime austerity, and reset the boundaries of modern elegance. Dior’s search for the perfect line and the ideal silhouette continues with couturiers of the first rank: Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons, and Maria Grazia Chiuri have all made their distinctive contribution. In these pages, the most beautiful fashion plates from Dior’s own time sit beside examples of the house’s creations from each decade. This beautiful volume honors and celebrates Dior past and present with undisputed elegance and panache.
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Lyonel Feininger
Opere dalle collezioni private italiane
Contributi critici di Wolfgang Büche, Danilo Curti-Feininger, T.Lux Feininger
Skira, Milano 2007, 184 pagine, 28,2 x 24,5 cm., 136 illustrazioni a colori, ISBN 978-8861303218
euro 40,00
Mostra Mart, Rovereto 19 maggio - 29 luglio 2007
Il volume illustra una piccola, ma raffinata rassegna organizzata al MART dedicata a Lyonel Feininger, artista nato in America, ma cresciuto in ambiente tedesco.
Questo maestro del Bauhaus – esponente di molti movimenti d’avanguardia, tra cui quello dei Blaue Vier – viene analizzato attraverso lavori provenienti in gran parte da collezioni trentine grazie all’incessante interesse promosso dal figlio Laurence (don Lorenzo) che, dal 1938 fino alla sua morte, avvenuta nel 1976, visse in parte a Trento, stringendo legami di amicizia e di lavoro e contribuendo così ad avvicinare il pubblico locale alle opere del padre.
Il catalogo presenta, tra le altre opere, una selezione di alcune tra le prove più importanti della produzione giovanile dell’artista come caricaturista. È questa una sezione di eccezionale carica creativa che offre uno sguardo approfondito sulla produzione di Feininger come disegnatore di caricature e fogli umoristici per importanti riviste tedesche tra il 1890 e il 1915.
La vena umoristica delle caricature, così come i tenui colori degli acquerelli o la luminosità delle prove a olio sapranno emozionare anche il grande pubblico, gettando uno sguardo nuovo sulla complessa realtà dell’arte moderna internazionale, attraverso l’opera di questo artista dalla sensibilità ricca di sfaccettature. Stupisce la grande capacità dell’artista di catturare la vivacità del mondo moderno, per la sua verve ironica e talvolta cinica nel rappresentare le espressioni e gli atteggiamenti della società tedesca a cavallo dei due secoli, per la freschezza e per l’essenzialità delle soluzioni grafiche e compositive.
Sono prove ricche di grande energia inventiva e umoristica, attuali nelle descrizioni dei tipi umani che presentano e ridicolizzano. Sono anche testimonianze importanti di un periodo travagliato e controverso, di una fase storica caratterizzata da una grande tensione internazionale e dalla presenza di decisivi nodi della politica e dell’economia.
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Il racconto del filo
Ricamo e cucito nell’arte contemporanea
a cura di Francesca Pasini e Giorgio Verzotti
Skira, Milano 2003, 196 pagine, 143 ill.colori, 24 x 28cm, ISBN 9788884915856
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Mostra Mart 30 maggio - 7 settembre 2003
Il volume, che accompagna l’originale rassegna del Mart, intende indagare questo linguaggio ormai autonomo, proponendo una selezione di quegli artisti e artiste che nell’ultimo decennio, e in tutto il mondo, hanno scelto ago e filo per disegnare le loro immagini, avvicinando autori appartenenti ad aree geografiche, culturali e geopolitiche profondamente diverse: l’Europa, i paesi dell’est, il Giappone, gli Stati Uniti, l’America del centro-sud, i paesi arabi.
Figura centrale e cuore pulsante della rassegna è Alighiero Boetti (scomparso nel 1994), grande esponente dell’Arte Povera che per primo usò il ricamo come un linguaggio costante: ricordiamo i famosi arazzi commissionati alle donne afghane, ricorrendo allo “scambio di mano”. Boetti è presente con sette importanti lavori inaugurali del suo uso del ricamo.
Complessivamente sono 32 gli artisti selezionati (dei quali oltre la metà presenta un’opera creata appositamente per l’occasione), con molti nomi ormai affermati in campo internazionale: da Rosemarie Trockel, che dalla metà degli anni Ottanta ha determinato una svolta importante nello sviluppo figurativo degli ultimi due decenni, dando voce a percezioni fino ad allora chiuse nell’esperienza privata delle donne, a Tracey Emin, la provocatoria artista inglese che, già nella prima tappa di Sensation alla National Gallery di Londra, nel ’97, aveva fatto parlare di sé, rivendicando il diritto di raccontare amori e sessualità; da Mona Hatoun – nata e vissuta a Beirut e poi a Londra, a causa della guerra civile in Libano – che tessendo la kefieh con i capelli femminili (presente a Rovereto accanto ad altre) evidenzia il ruolo delle donne nell’arte e nella protesta politica, a Francesco Vezzoli, Mike Kelley, Eva Marisaldi.
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David Hockney 82 ritratti e 1 natura morta
con un testo di Tim Barringer e un’intervista di Edith Devaney
Skira, Milano 2017, 176 pagine, 270 ill. a colori, 24 x 31.5cm, cartonato, ISBN 9788857236094
euro 15,00
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“Credo di avere trovato qualcosa che potrei continuare a fare per sempre,
perché le persone sono davvero affascinanti, assolutamente misteriose.”
David Hockney OMCHRA è forse l’artista più noto e versatile della scena britannica attuale. Questo libro, riccamente illustrato, esplora il suo rapporto con la ritrattistica, concentrandosi sulla straordinaria serie di 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life [82 ritratti e 1 natura morta] che ha dipinto negli anni più recenti a Los Angeles.
Per un breve periodo, nel 2013, Hockney smette di dipingere, ma dopo avere lasciato lo Yorkshire per tornare in California riprende i materiali acrilici e i colori intensi. Vibranti, saturi di vita, questi ritratti palesano l’osservazione attenta dell’artista e segnano un ritorno alla forma vivida, in technicolor. I soggetti sono amici, familiari, personalità della scena artistica, tra cui John Baldessari, Celia Birtwell, Larry Gagosian, Barry Humphries e lord Rothschild.
Il racconto esaustivo e affascinante che Tim Barringer fa della ritrattistica di Hockney culmina nella sua interpretazione di quest’ultima serie. Edith Devaney dialoga con l’artista sulle opere che lui descrive come “pose di 24 ore”, in riferimento al tempo richiesto da ogni ritratto. La descrizione delle fasi intermedie di numerosi dipinti permette al lettore una comprensione eccezionale, unica e approfondita della tecnica di Hockney.
Tim Barringer è Paul Mellon Professor di Storia dell’Arte presso la Yale University. È co-autore di David Hockney: A Bigger Picture (RA Publications, 2012).
Edith Devaney è Curator of Contemporary Projects della Royal Academy of Arts di Londra.
Venezia, Ca’ Pesaro
24 giugno – 22 ottobre 2017
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Guido Scarabottolo Smarrimenti
Guido Scarabottolo, Marco Santagata
Edizioni ETS, Pisa 2016, 80 pagine, 12x19 cm., ISBN 9788846745224
euro 10,00
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Mostra Palazzo Blu, Pisa 26 maggio / 10 settembre 2016
In mostra un nucleo di disegni realizzato nel 2016 da Guido Scarabottolo (1947, Sesto San Giovanni ), uno dei più grandi grafici e ilustratori italiani, che ha scelto di concentrare la propria interpretazione figurativa sulla prima terzina del Poema dantesco. Ed è appunto al tema della terzina che fa riferimento il titolo della mostra, “Smarrimenti”. L'esposizione fa parte del programma dell'iniziativa “Dante posticipato”, incontri, mostre ed eventi per i 751 anni dalla nascita di Dante Alighieri.
«tutti a inchiostro per timbri o matita su una bella carta siciliana che non viene più fabbricata. Fatti di getto, con grandi pennelli cinesi o matite da boscaiolo, strumenti raccolti nel tempo e conservati per occasioni come questa, quando c’è bisogno di un aiuto dalle cose»
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The French Ribbon
Pointed Leaf Press, New York 2014, 340 pages, Hardcover, 21,10 x 26,60 cm., ISBN: 978-1-938461-20-0
euro 50,00
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A unique sourcebook celebrating France’s deep-rooted tradition of ribbon-making.
Introducing The French Ribbon, a unique sourcebook celebrating France’s deep-rooted tradition of ribbon-making—from the time when ribbons were an essential and often functional fashion accessory used to express individuality and style in everyday life, from weddings to times of mourning. Following the closure of one of the oldest factories in the industrial town of Saint-Etienne, France, an incredible cache of old salesmen’s sample books, cards, and packaging surfaced to be photographed for posterity. Over 600 of these documents are now included – ribbons made from cotton, silk, satin, velvet, metallic threads, and innovative synthetic materials. The French Ribbon is a must-have book for every person interested in fashion, design, craft, art and the history of textiles.
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Natalia Goncharova
Edited by Matthew Gale and Natalia Sidlina
With contributions by Timo Huusko, Evgenia Iliukhina, Evgenia Petrova, Jane Pritchard, Ludovica Segrebondi, Zelfita Tregulova and Katy Wan
Tate Publ. , London 2019, 224 pages, approx 180 colour ill., 26.5 x 21 cm., ISBN 978-1849766296
euro 35,00
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This beautifully illustrated paperback book accompanies the first exhibition in the UK to cover the entire spectrum of Natalia Goncharova’s artistic practice.
Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962), a key figure of the modernist art movement, gained international fame for her trailblazing experiments in painting and design. Early in her career, she established herself as a leader of the Russian avant-garde with a major show in Moscow in 1913. In France, Goncharova’s talents were noticed by Sergei Diaghilev; soon, she was designing costumes and backdrops for Ballets Russes performances in major cities throughout Europe.
Goncharova’s artistic output traces, influences, and transcends the art movements of the 20th century. She paraded through the streets of Moscow displaying futurist body art, yet worked on religious murals; she participated in avant-garde cinema and created stage designs; she even illustrated socialist newspapers. This book, along with the exhibition it accompanies, explores her diverse sources and influences, from Russian folk art and textile designs to the latest trends in modernism and beyond. Insightful essays and lavish illustrations bring Goncharova’s work to a new audience.
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Bloom Issue 05 Gathering a horti-culture view
Lidewwil Edelkoort, Anthon Beeke
Edelkoort Edition , Paris December 2000, 144 pages, 23x 28,5 cm., ISBN 9782913464100
euro 140,00
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The first trend magazine for flowers and plants and how they relate to fashion, interioris and other industries
Bloom Magazine was created in 1998 in response to the ever-growing lifestyles inspired by trends in flowers, plants and gardening. Bloom is the first magazine of its kind to analyse the major trends in horticulture with informative and inspirational photography and texts, and their relation to the fashion, interior and industrial design, architecture, packaging, cosmetics, and food industries. It speaks to all levels of the industry, from hybrid creators to growers, buyers, distributors, retailers and florists. It is also destined for a much wider public as well as students and professionals; all those keen on photography, horticulture and contemporary creation
Bloom is produced in collaboration with several highly talented artists, stylists, designers and photographers. We enjoy sharing and promoting the work of the new talents we discover. Lending horticulture a new voice through the creativity of these contemporary artists, we wish to stimulate all our readers’ senses and imagination. We choose to publish an advertising-free magazine, allowing our readers to be fully immersed in our captivating stories.
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Vallorz Cieli
52 dipinti di Paolo Vallorz
Jean Clair
Electa, Milano 1998, 96 pagine, 22 x 29 cm., cop.rigida con sovracoperta, ISBN 9788843565603
euro 25,00
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Mostra Milano Galleria Appiani Arte Trentadue 1998
Vallorz ha avuto una vita intensa e avventurosa, segnata però da una profonda coerenza: quella di un pittore che non dipinge per rappresentare, ma per «entrare» lui stesso nella realtà che esprime, per appropriarsene quasi: un volto, una donna, un albero, un cielo (e sono straordinarie le sue ultime stagioni di grandi alberi e cieli dipinti).
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Sovereign Carpets
Unknown Masterpieces from European Collections
Edited by: Edoardo Concaro, Alberto Levi
Skira, Milano 1999, 240 pages, 230 col.illustrations, 21 x 28cm, English, ISBN 9788881186303
euro 43,00
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The book illustrates the extraordinary and very ancient art of rugs with a relevant selection of Oriental rugs—from the oldest to the ones produced in the late nineteenth century—belonging to European private collections, besides a set of rugs coming from the Russian ethnographic museum of St. Petersburg.
The fruit of long research within the rich private artistic patrimony, the catalogue assembles two hundred Oriental rugs from the 15th to the 19th century, coming from Persia, Anatolia, the Caucasus, central Asia, Tibet, Turkestan
and China.
The pieces featured in the volume cover vast chronological and geographical sections of the fascinating world of carpets; the aim of the book is both eclectic and simple: to present very beautiful rugs belonging to private collectors and to give —through brief introductory chapters—an overview of the main carpet-weaving areas of the world.
A series of maps and a glossary of technical terms are designed to help the non professional reader.
There are several titles avaiable on carpets, but the peculiarity of this book is to illustrate many precious pieces from private collections, never shown to the public before.
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Book of Plants
Anne Geene
Uitgeverij de Hef Publishers, Rotterdam 2021, 560 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, hb, Dutch/English, ISBN 978-90-6906-053-8
euro 69,00
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With this herbagraphic work Geene continues building an oeuvre that is an expression of the remarkable beauty of the unremarkable. Her quest for specimens with various types of formations and deformations gives the Book of Plants a teratological dimension.
In Anne Geene’s work, the photograph itself is rarely the focus. Taken out of their context the pictures are often no more than a registration of an inconspicuous fact. Geene’s art is all about collection, about the image in relation to other images and the ability to create new images by merging and arranging them. The result may redefine “farfetched”, adding a novel, creative and positive connotation.
The Book of Plants takes you on an expedition through the microcosm of leaf, bud and flower toward branch, stem and trunk, falling in that macrocosm of grass, herb, shrub, bush and tree. A world with an immeasurable variation in colour, shape and size. Starring a superior life form, an “organic machine” that accompanies us in silence.
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YSL Lexicon
An ABC of the Fashion, Life, and Inspirations of Yves Saint Laurent
Edited by Martina Mondadori and Stephan Janson
Foreword by Madison Cox
Contributions by Claude Arnaud, Hamish Bowles, Amy Fine Collins, Madison Cox, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, Caroline Issa, Caroline Loeb, Umberto Pasti , Marian McEvoy, Elie Top, Diane von Fürstenberg
Rizzoli, New York 2022, 288 pages, Hardcover, 21x29 cm., ISBN: 978-0-8478-6712-7
euro 59,00
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The world’s leading authorities on fashion and design celebrate the 60th anniversary of YSL’s first runway presentation with a lexicon that includes many images from the designer’s extraordinary archives.
Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008) is credited with reviving French haute couture in the 1960s, with making ready-to-wear reputable, and with using non-European cultural references. In addition to the kaleidoscope of images in this book, a coterie of tastemakers have supplied listings that encompass YSL’s style inspirations (C is for Costumes, as exem-plified by the Russian theme of the famed autumn-winter 1976–77 collection; T is for Tuxedo, which the designer initially referenced with his 1965 “Le Smoking”) and important facets of his life (J is for Jardin Majorelle, the garden of the couturier’s para-disiacal retreat in Marrakech; R is for Rive Gauche, the bohemian, chic neighborhood of Paris where the YSL boutique is situated and also the name of the house’s famous perfume launched in 1970). This distillation and celebration of the designer’s life reveals the inner world of a twentieth-century master.
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L’art Populaire Ukrainien
Céramique, Verrerie, Ouvrages en bois et en métaux, Peinture décorative, Broderie, Tissus, Tapis
Lessia Dantchenko
Prés. Y. Gaponov. Photos Ferdinand Kouzioumov.
Editions d’Art Aurora, Léningrad 1982, in-8°, 32 p. de texte + 233 ill. en noir et en couleur sur planches,
euro 45,00
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Vintage art book focusing on Ukrainian folk art in French language. The book starts with a short introduction followed by 233 color (mostly) and black and white photographs of finest examples of Ukrainian folk art including ceramics, glass, wood carving, metalware, folk painting, weaving, embroidery and tapestries. Beautiful vivid photographs that will make a great source of information for those interested in Ukrainian culture, looking for inspiration or simply wall art to frame.
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Safari Living Tanzania
Photographs by Javed Jafferji, Written by Gemma Pitcher
Gallery Publications, Zanzibar 2003, 224 pages, 28x24 cm., ISBN 978-9987667185
euro 25,00
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Safari Living explores Tanzania’s design heritage, showcasing the diverse style of the country’s luxury safaris lodges and revealing how the culture and dramatic beauty of Tanzania have contributed to its finest living spaces. The book provides an historical context for the coming of the safari tradition in the last two centuries, together with a look at some of the experiences available to safari visitors - from polo in the shadow of Kilimanjaro to a dawn balloon safari over the Serengeti.
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Die Stoffe der Wiener Werkstätte 1910-1932
Angela Völker
Verlag Christian Brandstätter, Wien 2004, 288 Seiten mit 415 Abbildungen, davon 306 in Farbe
euro 140,00
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Herausgegeben vom Österreichischen Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Wien
The textile patterns and prints of the Wiener Werkstätte were among the most popular and successful designs of the early twentieth century, reflecting both the tastes of Viennese high society and the general trend towards artistic abstraction. Textiles of the Wiener Werkstätte, 1910-1932 presents selections from the original gouache drawings, pattern books and about 20,000 actual samples now in the collection of the Museum for Applied Arts in Vienna - a truly remarkable archive of most of the over 1,800 recorded fabric designs. These range from the early rounded naturalistic motifs of Art Nouveau to the later angular geometric designs associated with Art Deco. Angela Völker ’s text gives succinct accounts of a range of topics, including the designs by Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann for Backhausen and Sohne prior to the foundation of the textile department in about 1910, methods of production, sales policy, customers and end use. A wealth of reproductions, many in colour, are supplemented by an exhaustive catalogue and artist biographies, as well as contemporary photographs of the textiles’ uses in fashion and interior decoration, including exhibition pavilions and the Wiener Werkstätte’s own showrooms. For designers, decorators or anyone simply in search of visual inspiration, this book is a goldmine and an amazing tribute to a period of astonishing creativity.
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Hilma af Klint Geometric Series and Other Works 1917-1920
Catalogue Raisonné Volume V
Edited by Kurt Almqvist and Daniel Birbaum
Bokförlaget Stolpe, Stockholm 2021, 208 pages, 126 Illustrations, 24 x 31 cm., ISBN 978-9189069268
euro 52,00
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During the last years of the 1910s, Hilma af Klint created several series of small paintings in which she systematically explored an abstract idiom with the help of ruler and compasses. The triangles, squares, circles, and ellipses that appear here in constantly new constellations express a spiritual dynamic, according to af Klint’s notebooks from these years. Hilma af Klint considered this work a kind of research, and she used ‘spiritual scientific’ methods – a term borrowed from anthroposophy – in order to understand the evolution and development of mankind. In her studies of living beings, she gained insight into an abstract world of geometrical conditions and guidelines.
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