Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes

Название: Collecting Antique Meerschaum Pipes
ISBN: 0764307657 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764307652
Издательство: Schiffer
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Описание: Collecting Antique Meerschaum Pipes: Miniature to Majestic Sculpture, 1850-1925 is an illustrated guide to the smoking utensils made of a mineral that has been used since at least the early 1700s and which is, today, still a popular material. In the last decade, a surge in interest in tobacco collectibles has already spawned many books on cigarette lighters, cigar-box labels, and snuff boxes and bottles. This book now comes at a time when antique meerschaums are taking center stage, and collecting them is like buying blue-chip stocks. Ben Rapaport is one of the few internationally recognized authorities on the subject of antique pipes, and in this, his second book published by Schiffer, he has created a powerful and convincing tour de force in word and picture that evidences why so many pipe collectors have a fervent passion for these exceptional works of art. Ranging from very diminutive and expressive cigarette holders to massive sculptured pipes, these instruments were produced by many talented, skilled, and unknown craftsmen working in a cottage industry trade 150 years ago. The caliber of their handiwork and the myriad imaginative meerschaums they produced cannot be duplicated anywhere in the world today. Now, this volume is a permanent record of their unrivaled genius.

Название: A Guide to Collecting Affordable Antique Furniture
ISBN: 1908126337 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781908126337
Издательство: ACC-distribution titles
Цена: 21950.00 T
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Описание: Everyone needs furniture for practical reasons. So when there is so much reasonably priced new furniture available today, why bother looking at antique or vintage furniture? There are actually three very good reasons: quality, style, and thinking green! The hunt for antique furniture is actually half the fun and this guide will tell you how to go about buying items that will become part of your home. The author has included useful checklists and tips on topics such as the type of wood used in old furniture, the antiques of the future you can buy today, antique hunting hotspots and more. Special chapters cover the furniture 'top 10' with descriptions of what to look for, images of popular styles and periods as well as investment pieces that provide a stunning focal point to your home. A final chapter with an international diary of antique events rounds out this useful guide.

Автор: Pipes, Alan
Название: Foundations of Art and Design
ISBN: 1856695786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781856695787
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
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Описание: Guides artists and designers through the fundamentals of their fields. This book covers the elements that can fill a blank page - points and lines, shapes, textures and colours - to create a sense of space, time and motion. It reveals how to develop balance, scale and proportion, contrast and emphasis and rhythm to achieve a successful whole.

Название: Stuff: The M(Group) Guide to Collecting, Decorating with, and Learning about Wonderful and Unusual Things
ISBN: 0983388989 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780983388982
Издательство: ACC-distribution titles
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Цена: 55000.00 T
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Описание: Explore the interiors, collections, and fascinations of the brilliant design duo Carey Maloney and Hermes Mallea of M(Group) in the one-of-a-kind monograph on their work, 'Stuff: The M(Group) guide to collecting, decorating with, and learning about wonderful and unusual things'. A treasure trove of design eclecticism, Stuff brings you inside their world of beautifully orchestrated, transformative, and bold city and country interiors. Enter 'Stuff' to become versed in subjects that span their diverse and sometimes esoteric interests: from Australian Aboriginal art to Chinese scholar's rocks, ancient Greek marbles to twentieth-century anatomical medical models, Pre-Columbian Aztec pottery to Maoist revolutionary ceramics, each subject is accompanied by anecdotes as insightful and witty as the spaces they love to create. Moving the monograph into the twenty-first century with digital recognition technology that allows readers to delve further into the collecting topics with links to the world's leading museums and art and antiques dealers, 'Stuff' offers an opportunity to learn in-depth about some of the world's greatest areas of collecting, and to find out about new areas of collecting you might not know existed. 'Stuff' is elegant, fun, full of fascinating and erudite information, and shows how great collections of wonderful, worldclass art are created, displayed, and integrated into day-to-day life - with wit and tongue firmly in cheek.

Автор: Jean Rebeyrolles
Название: Collectible Pipes
ISBN: 2080108840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782080108845
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
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Цена: 10950.00 T
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Описание: This volume features pipes from all over the world, carved and molded in a vast array of forms, and a wide selection of out of the ordinary examples.

Автор: Alan Pipes
Название: Drawing For Designers (pb)
ISBN: 1856695336 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781856695336
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
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Цена: 21950.00 T
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Описание: A comprehensive guide to drawing for product/industrial designers and students. Covering both manual and computer drawing methods, it follows the design process: from initial concept sketches; through presentation drawings and visualizations; general arrangement and detail drafting; and to fully dimensioned production drawings.