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The Ideal Home - The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft 1900-1920

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Published by the American Craft Museum, 1993 in New York, it was published alongside the namesake exhibition at the museum. Gorgeous book encompassing all facets of American arts and crafts at the beginning of the twentieth-century. First of the eight volumes on a grand illustrated survey of crafts in America. Sumptuously illustrated with black-and-white and coloured reproduced illustrations. The book presents glass, ceramics, textiles, jewellery, silver, and iron in their full glory. The book also touches upon the topic of subsequent development in the twentieth-century, most immediately the stirrings of Modernism. Abundantly referenced, a must-have for connoisseurs of American crafts. Dimensions: 23cm x 30cm x 3cm Condition: Very Good, sunning at spine
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11.82 in (30 cm)Width: 9.06 in (23 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Period:
    1990-1999
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1993
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    London, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2102336655142
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