The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany Book by Martin, Alice Cooney, Nancy & Lars

The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany By: Paul Doros Photography by David Schlegel Foreword by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen Louis Comfort Tiffany considered his Favrile glass, produc...

Mamma Milano Lessons from the Motherland By: J.J. Martin Embrace female empowerment with J.J. Martin, founder of world–renowned Milanese lifestyle brand La DoubleJ...

David Monn The Art of Celebrating By: David Monn Imagine seeing the world through event planner David Monn’s eyes for just one minute of your life. Imagine walking into a room and k...

Tropical Light The Art of A. E. Backus By: Natasha Kuzmanovic Winner of the 2016 Florida Book Award Gold Medal for Visual Arts Surpassing all potential rivals, artist A. E. Backus (1906–1990) developed a masterful aesthetic for portraying Florida’s lush tropical landscape, and his works became the definitive images of the state. Displaying a Backus painting quickly became a mark of distinction for a certain set of affluent Floridians. Defining his own artistic roots as “part Cracker [a hardy, early Florida pioneer] and part Monet,” Backus’s primary subject matter was tropical nature as defined by light, which he rendered using complementary colors. His avant‑garde use of a palette knife to create entire compositions produced paintings that combined a sensitive observation of nature with gestural paint application. So skillful was Backus at depicting the light and atmosphere of a particular locale that the season and exact time of day, to the hour, can be identified in most of his works. Backus excelled at capturing the essence of traditional Florida: rustic fishing camps, magnificent beaches, tidal rivers fringed with palms and mangroves, and the abrupt changes in the weather that characterize Florida’s tropical light to both natives and visitors. Besides his exceptional artistic talent, Backus also possessed an extraordinary humanitarian spirit. He drew no lines of distinction between young and old, rich and poor, black and white, and his studio door in Fort Pierce was open to all. He developed enduring friendships with black musicians, artists, and authors, including Zora Neale Hurston, one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance. The circle of African‑American artists known as the Highwaymen...

The Gardens of Bunny Mellon By: Linda Jane Holden Photography by Roger Foley Introduction by Sir Peter Crane Rachel Lambert Mellon was born an heir to a great fortune—her grandfathe...

The English Country House By: James Peill Foreword by Julian Fellowes Photographs by James Fennell “I am sure that this book will give great pleasure to any who open its covers.”　—Julian Fellowes, from the Foreword Stately, grand, and a testament to the generations who have cared for them, the 10 English country houses featured in this volume are architecturally distinctive and filled with evocative family memorabilia, from commissioned portraits to monogrammed heirloom dinner services to the bells that once summoned the downstairs staff. Like the fictional Downton Abbey, these real homes are still in the hands of descendants of the original owners. From Kentchurch Court, which has been the seat of the Scudamore family for nearly 1,000 years, to a delightful Gothic house...

Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall, an Artist's Country Estate. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to accompany...

A Shrine for Tibet: The Alice S. Kandell Collection. Collection of Tibetan Sacred Art Marylin Rhie, Robert Thurman, John Bigelow Taylor (Photographer). Marylin M...

'Provoking, vital, engrossing, gorgeously produced... My art book of the year.' - Financial Times With more than 480 illustrations, this is the most comprehensive publication to date...

The Story Of The Lamp and the Candle by F. W. Robins. Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1939. Blue cloth binding, many black and white illustrations, shelf wear, exlib,...

Le Patrimoine Industriel des Etats-Unis (The Industrial Heritage of The United-States), French book by Louis Bergeron and Maria Teresa Maiullari-Pontois, 2000. Since the creation of ...

Le Patrimoine Industriel des Etats-Unis (The Industrial Heritage of The United States), French book by Louis Bergeron and Maria Teresa Maiullari-Pontois, 2000. Since the creation of ...