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During his production years, Gustav Stickley made photographs of
much of his work. Some were used in his Craftsman magazine, and
some were used in a series of catalogs. Many of Stickley's glass
negatives are now in the collection of the Winterthur Museum in
Delaware, and are reprinted here for the first time. Many have
never before been published, and those that were published by
Stickley, now benefit from high quality modern printing. Whenever
possible dimensions and catalog references are given, making this
an important compilation of Stickley's work. A foreword by Leslie
Greene Bowman, Director and C.E.O. of Winterthur Museum, Garden
& Library, further enriches the work. A driving force in the
American Arts & Crafts Movement, Gustav Stickley produced
furniture inspired by a vision of craftsmanship and comfortable
functionality. Its high quality makes it a standard of the period.
Today pieces from his Craftsman Studio are cherished antiques. This
new volume of his photographic archives will be a welcomed addition
to the literature.
South Beach, at Miami, Florida, has it all: sand, sun, surf,
beautiful people, stylish fashions, architecture from the height of
American Art Deco to the most modern renderings of steel and glass.
The visitor is drawn in a hundred directions at once, trying not to
stare, but hoping to take it all in and to hold onto the
impressions this place is bound to make.This book captures the
sights of the city. The photographer's eye finds the details. Deco
colors wash buildings as sun and shadow accentuate their bold
designs. Deep blue, cloudless skies rise over the bright beach and
sparkling sea, as bathers bask in the sun. Over 100 wonderful color
photographs are reminders of the days spent in this fantastic
place, taking the reader to the beach, among the trendy shops and
hotels, along the tree lined streets with Deco-styled homes. In
nearly every direction there is a something to catch the eye. This
will be a time capsule of your South Beach experience!
Sandpainting has it origin in the religious tradition and practice
of the Navajo people. It forms a central part of their religious
chants, being a place where Earth People and Holy People come into
harmony, giving healing and protection. Sandpainting is understood
as being very powerful, and for many years it was deemed unwise and
even dangerous not to erase the paintings when the ritual was
completed. In the course of the twentieth century this attitude has
modified allowing for many representations to be made, while still
not violating the religious traditions. Sandpainting thus have come
to be an internationally appreciated and collected art form. In
this newly revised and expanded volume, over 400 sandpaintings are
illustrated in full color. They range from the most traditional to
the new forms that are being developed today. The sandpaintings are
organized by artist, making this an important reference for
collectors.
Collectors will cherish this full-color exploration of the tobacco
tin. Over 1000 tobacco tins are illustrated in full color,
revealing the designer's and the lithographer's art. The tobacco
industry in America was at the forefront of modern advertising and
among the first to try to instill brand identification and loyalty
in their customers. Consequently many of these tins are eye
catching and beautiful. This is one of the reasons they are such
popular collectibles. This book is the first full color reference
on tobacco tins, featuring clear photography and the highest
quality reproduction. In addition, it contains advertising and
other ephemera which help to give an overview of the industry's
attempts to reach its customers. The size of the tin is given, as
is the manufacturer when known. An up-to-date price guide is
included.
Around the turn of the 20th century it became fashionable for homes
to include decorative panels of stained glass in their windows and
doors. They ranged from small eyelid windows or transoms over a
doorway to massive walls of double-hung windows. In any size they
introduced a warm glow of color to the interiors and an artistic
flare to the architecture. Today stained glass is being
rediscovered. Antique windows and doors are sought after by
collectors and decorators, and contemporary glass artists are
reviving the craft. This book demonstrates the wide range of glass
that is available in the market. For the artisan it gives a context
to their work and provides them with ideas and techniques to expand
their repertoire. Over 500 color pictures show the artistry and
craftsmanship of antique windows and doors from England, Europe and
the United States, and make this an invaluable resource for
designers, architects, home restorers and collectors alike.
Dimensions and information about the historical context and the
artists who produced the glass are provided, along with current
prices.
Stained glass has long been a part of domestic architecture, but in
the late 1800s its popularity soared. In part, this was due to new
manufacturing techniques and distribution networks, but also it
caught the imagination of Victorian, Art Nouveau, and Arts and
Crafts designers around the world. Here over 350 examples of
architectural stained glass span several countries and many years.
The styles range from Victorian intricacy to the geometry of the
Prairie School. This second edition includes etched glass and
beveled constructions, in addition to leaded windows. Each piece is
illustrated in color, with dimensions and current market values.
Today, stained glass, both old and new, is again finding its way
into the home. It makes a delightful accent in a transom or a
glorious complete wall. This book will help readers understand and
appreciate many varieties of old stained glass, and will inspire
new work by artists.
Out of a long and rich tradition of pottery making among the Pueblo
Indians of the American Southwest there has grown a new and
exciting form. In 1964, Helen Cordero of Cochiti created a clay
image of her grandfather, Santiago Quintana, with five children
clinging to him. With this piece the storyteller was born. Almost
at once storytellers caught the attention of the public. Beginning
at Cochiti and continuing in the other pueblos, the storyteller
became a favorite form of pottery. Now the form is even beginning
to be used by others outside of the pueblos. The storytellers have
come to include not only male figures, but females, turtles, frogs,
and coyotes. In this new book, the reader will find the most
extensive collection of storytellers ever gathered in print. Over
400 pieces by nearly 150 artists are shown in full color, and
organized by pueblo. In addition to storytellers, nativities and
other figurative pottery are represented.
The magic of the Hawaiian Islands has captivated the hearts and
imaginations of visitors for over 200 years. The infectious Aloha
Spirit is something they take home with them not only as memories,
but in tangible reminders of their trips: a shirt, a carved perfume
bottle, a figurine. At the least these mementos hold cherished
spots in their homes, but for those who are truly smitten, they
have become the centerpieces of a complete design motif based
around the Hawaiian experience.
A master scroll sawyer presents this easy-to-understand
step-by-step guide for creating cutout pictures, flat or in relief.
Learn how to cut out a pair of wolves under a moonlit, mountainous
landscape from a drawing and discover many other traceable cutout
options in the Patterns section. With these designs and two or more
colors of wood, you can create a work of art to hang up in your
home or give as a gift. Intended for advanced scrollers, the reader
can find all he or she needs to know about this wonderful craft,
including details about taping, cutting, and swapping the cutouts
to make the colors stand out. For every project you get two works
of art! Color photographs demonstrate the tools needed and
illustrate each step, and a section of cutout patterns gives the
reader plenty of scroll saw ideas. This revised and expanded second
edition contains 16 new patterns.
Relive an era when the kitchen was kitsch -- melamine bowls were
pink and purple, cocktail shakers and party glasses sported fun
themes, iced tea was served in sweaty spun aluminum of futuristic
metallic shades, and wall clocks kept time in bright plastic frames
shaped to evoke the jet age. This wonderful collector's guide helps
to date and value items manufactured for the kitchen in the
mid-20th century. items range from ever popular cocktail
accessories to serving ware, pitchers and glassware, cannisters,
spice racks, trivets, ashtrays, rotary wall phones, chalkware
ornaments, and salt and pepper shakers. Here is a nostalgic trip
back in time, to mom's eat-in kitchen where family and neighbors
gathered for cards, gossip, and good eats.
From the years of slavery through the years of civil rights, images
of black people have taken many forms. Some of these images were
positive and some negative and stereotypical. Together they help us
see and measure the history of racial attitudes in America, and
make up the growing field of what is called Black Collectibles.
These collectibles help to chronicle an important aspect of
American history. Hundreds of these items are gathered together for
Images in Black: 300 Years of Black Collectibles, and are
illustrated in full color. The text helps the reader understand the
history, and the price guide makes the volume useful for evaluating
the market in black collectibles.
Royal Bayreuth porcelain's whimsical shapes and elegant tableware
have delighted collectors for decades. Produced in Tettau, Bavaria,
for over 200 years, Royal Bayreuth found the global market early
and today there are collectors worldwide. With over 500 beautiful
and detailed color photographs, the book is visual feast,
displaying the Strawberry, Tomato, and Lobster lines, as well as
other figural pottery motifs. Also well-represented are the
Tapestry lines and scenics in various forms of table and boudoir
pieces. Each photo has a concise caption and a current value.
From its founding in 1837 Hathaway Shirts has been the bellweather
for quality and style. Ironically for their 120 years or so they
did little or no advertising to the general public, promoting their
product mainly to the trade or through small newspaper ads or
signage at the stores. Then on September 22, 1951, in the New
Yorker magazine, an advertisement ran that changed all that. The
eloquent Baron George Wrangell appeared handsomely dressed in a
Hathaway shirt wearing an eyepatch, with the slogan "The man in the
Hathaway shirt." Rarely has a symbol become so identified with a
product. This new book traces the history of the Hathaway Shirt,
beginning with the early years and concentrating on the styles
portrayed in nearly 50 years of advertising. Drawing upon company
archives, it is a nearly complete chronology of the evolution of
men's shirt fashions in the last half of the twentieth century. For
designers this will be a valuable reference. For collectors of
vintage clothing, there is the added aid of a guide to current
prices. This colorful book is a wonderful addition to the library
of fashion history.
The movement to buy locally, which has gained momentum in the areas
of produce and food, is now spreading to arts and crafts. Through
the work of over seventy contemporary furniture makers, the role of
place in the creative process is explored and celebrated. Whether
in terms of materials, inspiration, or the interaction with
customers, these artists are rooted in their surroundings. What
springs from these roots is usually unique, often edgy, and always
beautiful furniture and accessories. Over 150 examples of their
work are shown in full color, with ample detail photographs so the
reader gets an intimate look at the skill and artistic instincts of
these makers. Essays by furniture makers and leaders in the craft
world amplify the visual feast and help the reader understand the
vision, motivation, and inspiration that give impetus to the
artists and inform their work.
From the earliest days of the Americans colonies the apothecary has
been a central place in community life. It was there that people
went for the herbs and medicines that could heal their illnesses
and soothe their aches and pains. In some ways it still is. In the
first comprehensive, full-color treatment of the subject, this new
book looks at the antiques and collectibles that have grown out of
the apothecaries, pharmacies, and drug stores of America. From
apothecary jars to patent medicines, mortar and pestle to leech
jar, the tools and products of the stores are illustrated in full
color. In addition, the soda fountain, an important part of any
drugstore, is covered with its dispensers, dishes, and furniture.
For anyone who has ever had an ice cream soda at one of these
counters, the images in this book should bring back fond memories.
Thousands of items are illustrated in Drugstore and Soda Fountain
Antiques in full color, with informative captions and text. A price
guide is included.
Despite the critical and popular success of the author's first
volume, Country Store Collectibles, it was clear there were many
more country store antiques than could be covered in one book. In
this completely new volume are hundreds of items, gathered from
some of the best collections in the country, and presented in
beautiful full color. Also included are period photos of actual
country and general stores that have never been published before.
Concise captions and an accurate price guide make the book
invaluable to collectors. The images themselves will awaken
memories in those who spent their younger years in such places, and
give a new appreciation to those who did not have the opportunity.
This wonderful new book will be a welcome addition to the libraries
of collectors and historians alike.
For the nearly all of their first fifty years of existence, Camel
Cigarettes sat at the top of the marketplace. But a shift in
consumer tastes toward filter cigarettes, begining in the late
1950s, led to a slow erosion of Camel's market share. To stem this
loss, R.J. Reynolds began one of the most clever and effective
campaigns in advertising history. On its 75th anniversary in 1988 a
suave, new character appeared in the Camel Advertising: Joe Camel.
This began the most recent chapter in a tradition of fine
advertising started by R.J. Reynolds himself. This book documents
the Camel advertising from 1964 to 1995. In addition to traditional
posters and signs, these years saw the introduction of hundreds of
premiums and merchandise bearing the Camel logos that have found
their way into collections of tobacco memorabilia around the world.
Each piece is illustrated in full color and current values are
given to help the collector.
Although advertising has a history that goes back thousands of
years, it is the Americans who have made it into an art form.
Advertisements were put on everything from pocket mirrors to memo
pads, the sides of barns to the sides of carriages and buses. A
history of advertising printed in the 1880s even show and
advertisement on a tombstone. With the advent of color lithography
in the late 1800s, some of the most beautiful and highly
collectible items were created. Tin signs with colorful, strong
images, often embossed, were made for stores, and often found their
way into homes. Paper advertising in calendars, trade cards, and
posters reached new levels of artistry in the latter years of the
19th century. This new book explores advertising in all its media,
tin, paper, celluloid, and enamel. In full color it portrays the
creativity of its makers, while at the same time bringing to life
the styles of the past 120 years. Included are signs, three
dimensional designs, smalls, and novelties. With some tin signs
bringing in excess of $100,000 (a Campbell Soup sign included in
this book), it is clear that this is an active and exciting area
for collectors. At the same time, it is a good field for the new
collector, who can find many pieces of advertising for under $50.
Both ends of the spectrum are nicely covered in Antique
advertising: America for Sale, making it an important book for all
collectors.
The Arts & Crafts Movement began as a response to the
Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, first in England and
then in the United States. It idealized the craftsman and embraced
simple, strong designs executed by hand. The art, metalwork,
pottery, textiles, and furniture of the Arts & Crafts Movement
are enormously popular in today's antique market, and the designs
are inspiring a whole new wave of creativity. This new book
explores the Movement on both sides of the Atlantic. It focuses on
furniture, which Gustav Stickley called the "clearest concrete
expression of the Craftsman idea," and also includes large
representations of all the decorative arts. It covers a broad range
of items, from the rarest to the common. All of the pieces have
been on the market and are accessible to collectors at various
levels. The pieces are illustrated in over 500 full-color
photographs. Each is carefully described and an estimate of its
current value is given. Many English and nearly all American
manufacturers are represented, as are the hundreds of forms that
evolved during this period of design. This new addition to the
literature on Arts and Crafts will be of great interest to
collectors and dealers alike, helping them to appreciate and
evaluate their cherished treasures.
The country store played a central role in the lives of most
Americans during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Sometimes known as "The General Store" or a "Mom and Pop," they
were emporiums of civilization. In the small towns, the prairies,
and frontiers of America, country stores were the places where
people could get the things they could not produce themselves:
tools, gadgets, cloth and clothing, shoes, food,
medicines...hundreds of items produced in the growing American
factories. In Country Store Collectibles the stores, their
fixtures, products, and advertising are chronicled in beautiful
full color photographs. Nearly 600 items are illustrated from
collections across America. Also included are historical
photographs of the stores themselves and the people who worked in
them. A complete current price guide is included to make this an
invaluable book for the collector of country store memorabilia,
advertising, kitchen collectibles, and Americana in general.
The Arts & Crafts Movement had a profound effect on twentieth
century design. It was a precursor to the minimalism of the day,
yet imbued with a quiet eloquence based in careful, exquisite
design. The natural materials, the subtlely organic forms began to
shape living spaces across the country. In California, whose
population was swelling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
so-called "Mission Furniture" seemed perfectly at home amidst the
Spanish influenced architecture of the past and the bungalows that
were beginning to line the streets. This new book is a survey of
the influence of the Arts & Crafts Movement in the home. Drawn
from an exhibit at the California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica,
it covers everything from furniture to pottery, from lighting to
books. Each item is illustrated in its setting, giving it a
decorative context. In addition the items appear in individual full
color photographs, showing its detail. Among the interesting
collections is a group of chairs that virtually shows the evolution
of the mission style. This book will delight and inform.
The charm of milk glass has captured the hearts of thousands of
collectors around the world. Though its name implies a milky
whiteness, milk glass is now a term that encompasses opaque glass
in a whole range of colors, from white to an almost solid black.
This new book explores the world of milk glass in over 575
beautiful color photos. It contains items from the major
manufacturers, ranging from hens on nests to miniature bank
buildings and from plates to pigs, with examples of most of the
colors and forms. Manufactured from the 19th to the late 20th
century, they demonstrate the continuing popularity of milk
glass.\nDesigned for the new as well as the more experienced
collector , the book is organized by manufacturers, with a brief
history of each followed by a selection of their products. Current
values are included for each piece. This book will delight and
inform.
From the bronze age to the present, molten metal has been poured
into molds to create an infinite variety of forms and to serve a
variety of functions. This marriage of form and function is what
has made figurative cast iron so popular among collectors. This
beautiful new book will give the reader insight into the creativity
of the designers of cast iron which allowed the mundane objects of
life to become interesting works of art and fancy. From doorstops
to doorknockers, still banks to lawn sprinklers, bottle openers to
bookends, their functionally was hidden in the forms of animals,
flowers, buildings, people, and more. Figurative Cast Iron: A
Collector's Guide documents this practical art with over 900
beautiful full-color photographs. A price guide will help make this
book useful as well as pleasurable.
From its earliest days in the mid-1800s, baseball has had a warm
place in the heart of American men and women. So it was natural for
them to keep mementos of the game. Programs, team pictures,
pennants, uniforms, and baseballs were commonly a part of the fan's
collection. Seeing the public's fascination with the sport,
companies began t use the baseball theme in their advertising.
Trade cards, endorsements, and novelty items included the images of
America's heroes beside the prominent name of the product being
sold. Some of the finest baseball treasures are illustrated here in
full color, reflecting the artistry of the nineteenth and early
twentieth century. There are images of the heroes of the game,
legendary names like Kelly, Ward, Cobb, Ruth, Gehrig, Robinson, and
Mays. Here is a large selection of ephemera, uniforms, autographs,
advertising, souvenirs, equipment, and much more to interest
today's collector. Antiques from the Negro Leagues are also
included, with a number of rare team photos. For the baseball lover
or the collector of sports memorabilia, this will be a delightful,
indispensable book.
Thoreau once described Cape Cod as "the bared and bended arm of
Massachusetts ...boxing with northeast storms." It still stands
vigilant, but today it is better known for its beauty than its
pugilism! Some residents continue to wrest their livings from the
sea, of course, but for millions of people the Cape is a
sun-drenched oasis, surrounded by the beauties of the ocean and
bay, and filled with charming vistas of sand and surf, quaint
villages, living history, and natural sanctuaries.This book
captures many of those places. The wonderful color photographs are
reminders of days spent in her towns and on her shores, taking the
reader out Route 6A to Provincetown, and back Route 28 to Falmouth.
For the adventurous or the merely curious, it encourages them to
turn onto a side road or get out of the car and follow one of the
many foot paths that crisscross the Cape. There are discoveries
awaiting around every turn.For whatever reason, this book will be a
cherished memento of your days on Cape Cod.
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