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Chess Design
Romain Morandi
Editions Norma, 2022
ISBN 9782376660668
Romain Morandi
Editions Norma, 2022
Published to accompany an exhibition at the A. Guillemain & R. Morandi Gallery in Paris, in November 2022, Chess Design presents an exceptional documentation on chess games made by artists, designers, architects, and craftsmen: chessboards themselves, but also artist's drawings, execution plans and photographs of archives. By presenting nearly 300 of these chessboards chronologically, the author offers a new perspective on the history of art and its evolution. Art Nouveau, Secession, Surrealism, Fluxus, Pop Art, most of the great movements that are born and follow one another in the Fine Arts find an echo with these chessboards and the 16 pieces that animate them. These chess games also reflect the evolution of techniques and materials used during this period: wood, glass, ceramics will give way, from the 1950s, to steel, plastic and composite materials.
At the border between the plastic arts and the decorative arts, these chessboards are made by big names in the art scene, design or architecture – Alexandre Rodtchenko, Jean-Michel Frank, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, or, more recently, Yoko Ono, Robert Filliou, Yayo Kusama, Victor Vasarely, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry or Damian Hirst – as by anonymous people. The synthesis offered by the author constitutes a valuable and innovative historian's work, supported by iconography that is both rich and mostly unpublished.
English - 304 Pages - 24 x 31 cm - 2.1 KgISBN 9782376660668
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Outside Classical Antiquity, Mystery and Creativity in the Native Apulian Pottery, First Millennium BC
Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Jacques Chamay
Slatkine, 2022
ISBN 9782051028783
Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Jacques Chamay
Slatkine, 2022
In ancient Apulia (Puglia in Italian), the Iapygians, the indigenous people who lived on the fringes of the Greek cities, produced a rich pottery that stood apart from that of the colonists. Still relatively little studied and almost unknown outside a narrow circle of specialists, this pottery is astonishingly original. It is characterized by specifi c forms of enigmatic purpose – horned handles, zoomorphic heads with hallucinatory stares, solitary hands, spindly fi gures and polychromy - which plunge us into an unknown world, without savagery, yet very close to nature. Intended to accompany the dead in their tombs, the vases and figurines express a surprising vitality that testifies to a faith in the afterlife.
Although rigorous from an archaeological point of view, this book calls for a preface highlighting the unexpected modernity of this ancient art. The task was undertaken by a member of Picasso’s inner circle. The works presented here form part of a private collection, undoubtedly the most diverse of its kind and most complete on the subject.
ISBN 9782051028783
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Icônes du mobilier moderne
Dominic Bradbury
Editions de la Martinière, 2022
ISBN 9791040110408
Dominic Bradbury
Editions de la Martinière, 2022
L'époque du milieu des années 1940 au début des années 1970 est pour le mobilier et la décoration intérieure l’une des plus prolifiques, novatrices et passionnantes. Optimisme de l’après-guerre, formes nouvelles de logement, innovations dans les méthodes de fabrication et l’emploi des matériaux : tout concourt au dynamisme de la création pour la maison. Du fauteuil à la chaise longue, en passant par le meuble de rangement et la table de chevet, cet ouvrage complet et richement illustré offre un vaste panorama du mobilier moderne de cette période, réunissant des centaines de meubles réalisés par des créateurs et des créatrices du monde entier, célèbres ou méconnus. Tous les collectionneurs et amateurs de ce design intemporel trouveront en Icônes du mobilier moderne un ouvrage de référence.
Français - 400 Pages - 24 x 28 cm - 2.8 KgISBN 9791040110408
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Erté: Romain de Tirtoff 1892-1990
Fontanka, 2017
Anniversary edition celebrating the life and work of Romain de Tirtoff, better known as Erté, whose illustrations for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue made him one of the most sought-after artists of the 20th century.
Romain de Tirtoff (1892–1990), who changed his name to Erté (‘R’ and ‘T’ in French) when he left his native St Petersburg for Paris in 1912, became one of the most sought-after artists of the 20th century. His illustrations for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue remain classics of the genre, proving that mass art can be genuine art. His work as stage, costume and fashion designer in Europe and America combined an eye for fashion and elegance with a sense of theatricality. In the early days Erté worked closely with the couturier Paul Poiret; he then took his remarkable talent to the stage, producing numerous designs for the revues and shows that were so popular at the time, as well as to film with his work for MGM. Mata Hari, Lillian Gish, Anna Pavlova and George Balanchine were just some of those whose costumes were designed by Erté. Even when his fame dipped, Erté remained true to his life’s work, continuing to create his wonderfully refined and delicate drawings, including the popular Alphabet series.
ISBN: 9781906257286
English - 123 pages - 21 × 26 cm - 0,6 kg
Fontanka, 2017
Anniversary edition celebrating the life and work of Romain de Tirtoff, better known as Erté, whose illustrations for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue made him one of the most sought-after artists of the 20th century.
Romain de Tirtoff (1892–1990), who changed his name to Erté (‘R’ and ‘T’ in French) when he left his native St Petersburg for Paris in 1912, became one of the most sought-after artists of the 20th century. His illustrations for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue remain classics of the genre, proving that mass art can be genuine art. His work as stage, costume and fashion designer in Europe and America combined an eye for fashion and elegance with a sense of theatricality. In the early days Erté worked closely with the couturier Paul Poiret; he then took his remarkable talent to the stage, producing numerous designs for the revues and shows that were so popular at the time, as well as to film with his work for MGM. Mata Hari, Lillian Gish, Anna Pavlova and George Balanchine were just some of those whose costumes were designed by Erté. Even when his fame dipped, Erté remained true to his life’s work, continuing to create his wonderfully refined and delicate drawings, including the popular Alphabet series.
ISBN: 9781906257286
English - 123 pages - 21 × 26 cm - 0,6 kg
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Céramiques chinoises d'exportation pour L'Asie du Sud-Est
Collection de l'Ambassadeur et Madame Charles Müller
Monique Crick
5 Continents, 2010
La Chine connaît, dès l'Antiquité, un commerce maritime florissant. La collection de l'Ambassadeur et Mme Charles Müller, initiée lors de leur séjour en Indonésie de 197o à 1973, comprend près de trois cents céramiques chinoises d'exportation pour l'Asie du Sud-Est, datant du Ier au XVIIe siècle, dont un assortiment rare de porcelaines dites Swatow. Cet ensemble exceptionnel, légué à la Fondation Baur, met en exergue l'évolution et le rayonnement de la céramique chinoise, des grès solides du Ier siècle de notre ère aux porcelaines translucides et grès céladon des périodes Song et Yuan (Xie-XIVe siècles), jusqu'aux bleu et blanc des dynasties Yuan et Ming (XIVe-XVIIe siècles). L'introduction approfondie portant sur le commerce maritime et les routes céramiques en mer de Chine des origines à l'arrivée des Européens, ainsi que les essais en ouverture de chapitre et les notices détaillées, replacent cette remarquable collection dans son contexte historique et artistique. Ce livre, richement illustré, est un outil indispensable pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la céramique chinoise et à sa diffusion.
ISBN: 9788874394623
Français - 415 pages - 27,8 x 21,6 cm - 2,3 kg
Collection de l'Ambassadeur et Madame Charles Müller
Monique Crick
5 Continents, 2010
La Chine connaît, dès l'Antiquité, un commerce maritime florissant. La collection de l'Ambassadeur et Mme Charles Müller, initiée lors de leur séjour en Indonésie de 197o à 1973, comprend près de trois cents céramiques chinoises d'exportation pour l'Asie du Sud-Est, datant du Ier au XVIIe siècle, dont un assortiment rare de porcelaines dites Swatow. Cet ensemble exceptionnel, légué à la Fondation Baur, met en exergue l'évolution et le rayonnement de la céramique chinoise, des grès solides du Ier siècle de notre ère aux porcelaines translucides et grès céladon des périodes Song et Yuan (Xie-XIVe siècles), jusqu'aux bleu et blanc des dynasties Yuan et Ming (XIVe-XVIIe siècles). L'introduction approfondie portant sur le commerce maritime et les routes céramiques en mer de Chine des origines à l'arrivée des Européens, ainsi que les essais en ouverture de chapitre et les notices détaillées, replacent cette remarquable collection dans son contexte historique et artistique. Ce livre, richement illustré, est un outil indispensable pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la céramique chinoise et à sa diffusion.
ISBN: 9788874394623
Français - 415 pages - 27,8 x 21,6 cm - 2,3 kg
