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tableware
Collectors Encyclopedia of Russel Wright: Identification & Values (Collectors Encyclopedia of Russel Wright)
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Ann Kerr (Author)
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Collector Books (Editor)
In addition to the dinnerware collectibles, this book also features the furniture, housewares, lamps, wood, metal works, fabrics, and numerous other items sought by collectors and dealers. Hundreds of photos, including vintage catalogs and advertisements, and revised values for all items to reflect today's ever-changing market. AUTHORBIO: Ann Kerr was an avid Russel Wright collector and researchers of his works for many years. She was able to finish writing her third edition of the Collector's Encyclopedia of Russel Wright before she passed away in 2001. REVIEW: This book is more than just an identification and vaule guide. Along with many of the features often seen in a collector's guide, the encyclopedia also contains several essays about the life and work of this innovative industrial designer.
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tableware
Cutlery
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Marco Ferreri (Editor)
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Edizioni Corraini (Editor)
Edited by Marco Ferreri.
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tableware
Modern Retro Table Style: Living With Mid-Century Tableware
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madeleine Marsh (Author)
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Thomas Stewart (Photographer)
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Ryland Peters & Small Ltd (Editor)
Explore the stylish tableware that graced the dinner tables and sideboards, the kitchen cupboards and cocktail cabinets of the '50s, '60s, and '70s.
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tableware
Russel Wright's Menu Cookbook: A Guide to Easier Entertaining
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Ann Wright (Author)
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Mindy Heiferling (Author)
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Gibbs Smith, Publisher (Editor)
Russel Wright is known as a pioneer in mid-century modern design and lifestyle marketing, from his well-known and highly collectible china, flatware and furniture, to his book, Guide to Easier Living. As a single working father with a young daughter to raise, he found the task of organizing daily menus daunting, and quickly grew tired eating the same meal each night. He combined his love of food with a collection of recipes gathered from travel and friends and his nearly-obsessive organizational skills to create a menu cookbook that was simple to use and could help anyone create interesting, balanced, fuss-free meals. When Annie Wright, Russel's daughter, showed them to friend and caterer Mindy Heiferling, they decided the menus deserved to be shared with the public. < BR> Russel Wright's Menu Cookbook: A Guide to Easier Entertaining contains fifteen menus with 65 recipes, each easy to prepare, beautiful in presentation, and always delicious. More than a simple cookbook, this guide offers tips on getting organized, ways to use modern "convenience" foods (like Thai red curry paste or store-bought sorbet), how to set a stylish table, and how to make entertaining a pleasure rather than an ordeal. The menus have a timeless yet modern appeal-from a "Mid-summer Americana Cookout" to a "Green and White Cocktail Party"-this cookbook provides an uncomplicated and creative way to approach everyday mealtimes or unique celebrations.< BR> Mindy Heiferling is a New York City-based chef, food writer and recipe developer. Her articles and recipes have appeared in The Best American Recipes: 1999, Martha Stewart Living, Saveur, and Food & Wine, among others. This is her second book. < BR> Annie Wright is a chef and caterer, and has taught at the New York Restaurant School. She holds degrees in Nutrition and Hotel & Restaurant Management, and is currently a partner in Russel Wright Studios, LLC. She is also a co-founder and board member of Manitoga, The Russel Wright Design Center in Garrison, New York. < BR>
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chairs & stools
Vintage Bar Ware: Identification & Value Guide
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Stephen Visakay (Author)
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Collector Books (Editor)
Vintage Bar Ware gives identification and values of cocktail shakers, stemware, ice buckets, serving trays, recipe books, paper collectibles, cocktail picks, swizzle sticks, and more. There's also a section of classic cocktail recipes, special chapters on the bar ware manufacturers and the guest star designers, as well as tips in caring for and finding bar ware at bargain prices. Over 300 color pictures. 2000 values. AUTHORBIO: Hailed as one of America's top 100 collectors by Art Antiques Magazine, Stephen Visakay has canvassed the world for cocktail shakers and vintage bar ware for over 25 years. He invites all of us to share in his knowledge - and his passion - for these fascinating and unique relics of our past in his book Vintage Bar Ware. Visakay's vast collection has been featured in seven museum exhibitions, and his collection totals over 1,800 pieces. REVIEW: This book gives a look back at the spirit of a more graceful time in our nation's history, a time of elegance and glamour. The aesthetic value of cocktail cultural artifacts is receiving a wide recognition, not only as beautiful objects to use and enjoy in one's home, but as the documents and artifacts of history.
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chairs & stools
New Chairs: Innovations in Design, Technology, and Materials
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Mel Byars (Author)
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Chronicle Books (Editor)
The most collectible of furniture, chairs are a visual symbol of their period. New Chairs offers more than 70 examples of contemporary chair design worldwide, perfect for the postmodern, high-tech, high-concept age. Chairs by top-tier designers such as Tom Dixon, the Campana Brothers, Frank Gehry, and Massimo Vignelli sit side-by-side with those of up-and-comers who are contributing fresh and edgy designs to the field. Chairs of new and reprocessed materials, chairs that knock-down or stack in imaginative ways, chairs impossible to imagine before computer-aided design, even chairs that push the traditional concept of utility are all present. Inflatable, sculptural, and illuminated chairs apply imaginative dimensions to this ubiquitous object. New Chairs includes concept drawings, prototypes, manufacturing details, and insights into the creative process in the designers' own words, all accompanied by color photos of each piece making this the most complete survey to date of contemporary chair design.
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dining tables
The Cantilever Chair
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Axel Bruchhauser (Author)
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Edition L (Editor)
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dinnerware
Cantilever Tables
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Peter Smithson (Author)
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Karl Unglaub (Photographer)
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Walther Konig (Editor)
The beginnings of Modern architecture in the 20th century was embodied by the cantilevered armchair, a chair that offered a new, more comfortable way of sitting. The cantilevered table came next, and it is equally emblematic of the Modern ethos. Formed by moving the legs from the corners of a table further inside--or by doing away with the legs altogether and replacing them with a central base--the cantilever table allowed tabletops to be shaped independently, with open, free forms. Architects and artists like El Lissitsky, Jean Prouv , Charlotte Perriand, Alexander Calder, Alvar Aalto, Ellsworth Kelly, and Marcel Duchamp took part in the evolution of the cantilever table, moving this piece of furniture away from its conventional, rectangular existence. This curiously-shaped publication offers an overview of the history of freeform, organic shapes, how they can be used, and how they relate to architecture.
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dinnerware
Eva Zeisel
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Lucie Young (Author)
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Marisa Bartolucci (Editor)
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Raul Cabra (Editor)
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Chronicle Books (Editor)
Continuing to put great classic and contemporary design within everyone s grasp, Chronicle Books proudly delivers the next four installments of the popular Compact Design Portfolio. Written by top design critics, these books cover modern masters whose work ranges from the cozily domestic to the aggressively avant-garde: Eva Zeisel, whose elegantly democratic housewares span a 70-year career; Ingo Maurer, who raises lamp and lighting design to a high art form; Gaetano Pesce, whose rejection of traditional good taste brought about revolutionary furniture design; and George Nelson, the impresario behind the Marshmallow sofa and other Herman Miller classics. Follow-ing the introductory essay, a visual gallery exhibits selections of the designers best work in photographs and sketches. Presented in an irresistible small format, this series encapsulates the life, work, and influence of the great designers of our time.
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