Decorative Arts

A Collector's Journey: Charles Lang Freer and Egypt

This exceptional book documents Freer's experiences in Egypt, where he accrued one of the finest collections of Asian art at the turn of the 19th century.
Edition: softcover | Price: £19.95 / $29.95 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 297 9

Three Centuries of Tradition: The Renaissance of Custom Sporting Arms in America

This book illustrates some of the most artistic examples of sporting arms made between the 17th and 20th century.
Edition: hardcover | Price: £45.00 / $65 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 289 4

Classical Tradition in Anatolian Carpets

This stunning title illustrates an outstanding collection of Anatolian carpets dating from the 14th to the 20th century.
Edition: softcover | Price: £14.95 / $29.95 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 283 2

Landscape Wallcoverings: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

This fascinating title documents changing attitudes toward the natural landscape in Europe and the USA through wallpapers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Edition: softcover | Price: £12.95 / $19.95 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 239 9

Matchsafes: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Matchsafes were designed to keep matches dry at a time when they were as vital for lighting stoves as for lighting gentlemen's cigars. Deborah Shinn traces the fascinating history of these cases, from the 1850s to the 1910s.
Edition: softcover | Price: £12.95 / $19.95 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 237 5

Goa and the Great Mughal

This fascinating book, published to accompany the exhibition at the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in June 2004, shows exquisite pieces from the collection illustrated in full colour and accompanied by a series of essays by acknowledged specialists.
Edition: cloth | Price: £35.00 / $6 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 345 7

Orsay Architecture

This stunning series introduces the reader to the richness of the great Orsay collection.
Edition: softcover | Price: £12.95 / $24.95 | ISBN: 978 2 86656 344 8

A Swedish Legacy: Decorative Arts 1700-1960, Nationalmuseum Stockholm

The Nationalmuseum's collection of decorative art contains Swedish and foreign pieces from the Middle Ages up to the modern day.
Edition: hardcover | Price: £19.95 / $35 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 159 0

Textiles For This World and Beyond: Treasures from Insular Southeast Asia

Fascinating, ground-breaking research on the use of cloth and its meaning in society,
Edition: softcover | Price: £19.95 / $29.95 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 376 1

Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages

Presents Tiffany's works in a wide variety of media: glass, metalwork, pottery, enamels, furniture, decorative architecture and painting.
Edition: hardcover | Price: £35.00 / $49.95 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 384 6