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Angels of Anarchy Rare women's artist & surrealism hard cover book by Patricia Allmer c 2009 An archive of twentieth century avant-garde Surrealist international women artist from the 1920's through the 1950's The hard cover book is 225 pages with 141 paintings, photographs & illustrations of beautiful full color plates. Plus 50 smaller illustrations Features works by Frida Kahlo & Leonora Carrington. Includes works by lesser known female artists Emmy Bridgwater & Valentine Penrose...

High Style Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Softcover by Jan Glier Reeder. 256 pages 358 illustrations New York Book Show Awards Special Trade, General Award, Winner (2011) Independent Publishers Book Awards, Silver Medal (2011) Costume Society of America Millia Davenport Publication Award, Runner-Up (2011) Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010 - 256 pages Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 5-Aug. 15, 2010, and at the Brooklyn Museum, May 7-Aug. 1, 2010. High Style is the first comprehensive publication on the Brooklyn Museum's remarkable collection of costumes and accessories. This lavishly illustrated volume presents more than two hundred examples drawn from its nearly twenty-four thousand women's and men's garments, accessories, hats, and shoes. Brooklyn's collection was founded in 1903 to provide inspiration for Americas growing fashion industry. Through its Department of Industrial Design, Design Lab, and Department of Costumes and Textiles, the Brooklyn Museum became one of the most important centers for the study of fashion. As a result, the holdings are rich in clothing by American designers and the great French couturiers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The museum is also fortunate to have assembled what is considered the definitive group of works by the great couturier Charles James. Organized in chapters that represent the collection's strengths, High Style presents Brooklyn's masterworks and provides brief histories of how they were collected. Included are historical costumes from the 1760s to the 1890s; sumptuous gowns by Charles Frederick Worth; custom designs by the important French nineteenth-century couture houses; examples from the early twentieth-century houses, including those of Lanvin, Chanel, and Poiret; iconic Surrealist- based designs by Schiaparelli; the incomparable sculpted ball gowns of James of the 1940s and 1950s; ensembles from postwar phenomenon Dior, his successor, Saint Laurent, and Givenchy. American designers of the 1920s to the 1980s are well represented. Among the women are Valentina, McCardell, Cashin, and Maxwell; among the men, Mainbocher, Norell, Beene, and Halston. Augmenting this survey is a unique selection of regional costumes and historic French fashion...

David Webb's A Walk in the Woods Artful Animals Soft Cover Pamphlet Exhibition Book c 2022 The soft cover brochure book was from a 2022 David Webb exhibition featuring an archive ...

Cartier L' Album Rare hard cover illustrated photography French book c 2003 The hard bound book is designed with a satin cloth exterior cover binding The unique book is comprised of...

Very Rare 1965 Harper's Bazaar "Ireland on the Move", August issue, 70 pages, in color and black/white On Cover: Ireland on the Move" - photographed by David Montgomery Features: Ha...

Maharaja's Jewels Table Book by Katherine Prior, Assouline. The stories of Indian princes and their jewelry and precious stones are brought together in this illustrated narrative tracing the rise and fall of India's leading royal houses through the dramatic fortunes of their crown jewels. Traditionally, precious metals and jewels have been, for Indians rich and poor, a repository of wealth and a status symbol. For the reigning families, jewels also had symbolic and religious significance. Also here are the original drawings by great European jewelers of the pieces they designed for their exotic and demanding clients. The text is both lively and scholarly, drawing from descriptions of such travelers as Marco Polo and Tavernier as well as Sanskrit dramatists extolling the riches of India. The core of this lavishly photographed book is the encounter between Indian princely magnificence and the best of European Jewellery designers in the 20th century when many of the Maharaja's travelled to Europe with trunks filled with traditional Indian jewels and unset stones...

Rock and Royalty Gianni Versace Hardcover Large Coffee Table Book.Abbeville Press, 1999 - Celebrities - 288 pages EnglishFashion's late king here offers a parade of couture featuring...

Chanel Coffee Table Book about Jacques Helleu, the creative image director for the house for many decades. Many images of famed campaigns and ...

Set of two Bulgari catalogues, jewelry and watches. Collection of 2013. Hardcover black cloth catalogues of one of the most famous Luxury Jewellery maker in the world. Sotirio Bulgar...

1992 VOGUE Magazine - December issue, “Rock Fame Fashion” Special", 214 pages, full colour Cover: Christy Turlington & Bono photographed by Andrew Macpherson Features: On the roa...

BRITISH VOGUE Magazine, 1st October 1975, Number 13, Whole Number 2120, Volume 132, 190 pages, Anna Andersen by Eric Boman on the cover Features: Photographs by Bary Lategan, Tosca...

Resonances de Cartier: High Jewelry & Precious Objects hardcover book c 2017 A wonderful archive featuring an array of exquisite Cartier's precious jewelry designs The hardcover boo...