Essential Art Deco by Ghislaine Wood

$10.00 NZD

Category: Antiques | Reading Level: very good

This work captures the essence of the style which swept across the globe in the 1920s and 1930s, altering the skylines of cities from Shanghai to Rio and adding an exotic, vibrant edge to everything from cinema and fashion to ocean liners and automobiles.

Threadlines Pakistan by Feliccia Yacopino

$18.00 NZD

Category: Antiques | Reading Level: very good

Ancient Gold Jewellery - Altes Museum - A Selection from the Permanent Exhibition by gertrud Platz-Horster

$10.00 NZD

Category: Antiques | Reading Level: very good

Ancient Gold Jewelry - At the Dallas Museum of Art by Barbara Deppert-Lippitz

$12.00 NZD

Category: Antiques | Reading Level: very good

Bedazzled - 5000 Years of Jewelry - The Walters Art Museum by Sabine Albersmeier

$8.00 NZD

Category: Antiques | Reading Level: very good

This brand new and exquisitely illustrated book introduces one of the great collections of jewellery, with examples of 50 key items of jewellery dating from the 1st century BC to the turn of the twentieth century. Specific terminology, when used, is always explained; each text clearly states why a parti cular object is important, and the jewellery selected shows an enormous range of periods, regions, artistic and stylist development, and materials. Signature items featured in this volume include a magnificent pair of gold bracelets discovered inside a tomb in Olbia, Ukraine, and dating to the Hellenistic Period of the 1st-century BC; a pair of gold and semi-precious stone-inlaid eagle fibulae, dating from 6th-century Visigothic Spain; a cameo and gold-mounted brooch depicting Ellen Walters, made in Italy by the Saulini family around 1862; a gold Iris Corsage ornament by Tiffany & Co., and a wonderful corsage ornament of pansy blossoms executed in a combination of cast glass and plique-a-jour enamel by Rene Lalique, dating from 1904. ...Show more

Christie's Art and Crafts Style by Michael Jeffery

$20.00 NZD

Category: Antiques | Reading Level: very good

The successful proliferation of Arts and Crafts stemmed not only from the beauty of the objects themselves, but also fropm the exploitation of the contemporary fashion for lecture tours, exhibitions and societies, and the power of the written word.

To Have and to Hold - An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting by Philipp Blom

$12.00 NZD

Category: Antiques | Reading Level: very good

History of Collectors and Collecting. From amassing sacred relics to collecting celebrity memorabilia, the impulse to hoard has gripped humankind down the centuries. But what drives people to possess objects they do not use? To Have and to Hold is a captivating tour of collectors and their treasures fro m medieval times to the present, including a Tsar's display of teeth, a cabinet containing unicorn horns, the macabre art of embalmer Dr Ruysch, the fabled mansion of Randolph Hearts, and then men who stockpile food wrappers and plastic cups. Blom's eccentrics, visionaries and fanatics all provide an engrossing insight into why a pastime becomes an all-consuming passion. ...Show more

A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain by Painton Cowen

$18.00 NZD

Category: Art | Reading Level: very good

Faberge's Eggs - The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire by Tony Faber

$20.00 NZD

Category: Antiques | Reading Level: very good

This is the story of Faberge's Imperial Easter eggs - of their maker, of the tsars who commissioned them, of the middlemen who sold them and of the collectors who fell in love with them. It's a story of meticulous craftsmanship and unimaginable wealth, of lucky escapes and mysterious disappearances, and ultimately of greed, tragedy and devotion. Moreover, it is a story that mirrors the history of twentieth-century Russia - a satisfying arc that sees eggs made for the tsars, sold by Stalin, bought by Americans and now, finally, returned to post-communist Russia. There is also an intriguing element of mystery surrounding the masterpieces. Of the fifty 'Tsar Imperial' eggs known to have been made, eight are currently unaccounted for. Two others have only come to light in recent years - one had been in a private London collection since 1927; the other was sitting in a Russian mineral museum, thought to be a table-lamp. The fate of the remaining eggs provides endless scope for speculation and forgeries. ...Show more

Ancient Mosaics by Roger Ling

$20.00 NZD

Category: Antiques | Reading Level: very good

Using thousands and sometimes millions of pieces of colored stone or glass to create elaborate patterns or scenes is a painstaking and expensive way to decorate a surface. Yet the art of mosaic enjoyed spectacular success in the Graeco-Roman world, where its practitioners created some of the most beauti ful artworks in history. This handsomely illustrated and elegantly written book traces the evolution of mosaic from the Hellenistic period to the early Christian era, with particular emphasis on the Roman Empire, and examines its regional variations from Britain to North Africa and from the Levant to the Spanish seaboard. The eminent classical scholar Roger Ling explains how mosaics were first made in the fifth century B.C. with the use of inset pebbles to provide durable pavements. He shows how mosaic became one of the hallmarks of luxury in Roman times, when such masterpieces of imperial floor decoration as the black-and-white silhouette pavements of Ostia and the colorful figure compositions of Piazza Armerina in Sicily were created. From pavements, mosaic graduated to walls and ceilings, where it culminated in the soaring blue and gold work of early Christian churches in Rome, Constantinople, and Ravenna. Ling examines the wide range of styles and subject matter employed by mosaicists, whether geometric patterns or figurative scenes of mythology, agriculture, and hunting, and explores what mosaics reveal about domestic and imperial tastes and aspirations. Such topics as techniques and materials, the relationship of mosaic to other forms of interior decoration, and the influence of ancient mosaics in more recent times are also discussed in detail. Illuminating, attractive, and affordable, this book makes a major contribution to classical scholarship and will also appeal strongly to art historians, artists, designers, and general readers. ...Show more

New Zealand Antique Bottles Price Guide by Jim Aldridge; Christine Aldridge

$10.00 NZD

Category: Antiques | Reading Level: very good

Early Japanese Porcelain - Arita Porcelain in the Dresden Collection by Friedrich Reichel

$12.00 NZD

Category: Antiques | Reading Level: good