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Decorative Arts/Textiles/Design History

All titles added within the past twelve months.

Addis, Bill. Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering and Construction. London: Phaidon Press, 2007. 608 pp.; 300 color ills.; 500 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780714841465)

Alfoldy, Sandra, and Janice Helland. Craft, Space and Interior Design, 1855–2005. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2008. 244 pp.; 48 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754657064)

Allen, Gloria Seaman. A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery, 1738–1860. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2007. 384 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780938420989)

Appelbaum, Barbara. Conservation Treatment Methodology. London: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007. 486 pp. Paper £19.99 (9780750682749)

Aynsley, Jeremy, and Charlotte Grant, eds. Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior Since the Renaissance. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 304 pp.; 260 color ills. Cloth $85.00 (9781851774920)

Bennett, Shelley M., and Carolyn Sargentson, eds. French Art of the Eighteenth Century at the Huntington. San Marino, Calif. and New Haven: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in association with Yale University Press, 2008. 560 pp.; 250 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. Cloth $125.00 (9780300135947)

Blakesley, Rosalind. The Arts and Crafts Movement. London: Phaidon Press, 2006. 272 pp.; 250 color ills. Cloth $69.95 (9780714838496)

Bohan, Peter, and Philip Hammerslough. Early Connecticut Silver, 1700–1840. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2008. 316 pp.; 648 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780819568489)

Bowe, Stephen, and Peter Richmond. Selling Shaker: The Promotion of Shaker Design in the Twentieth Century. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2007. 320 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (1846310091)

Bowers, John. Introduction to Two-Dimensional Design: Understanding Form and Function. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 128 pp.; few color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9780471292241)

Breward, Christopher, David Gilbert, and Jenny Lister, eds. Swinging Sixties. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 128 pp.; 70 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9781851774845)

Callahan, Ashley, ed. Decorative Arts in Georgia: Historic Sites, Historic Contexts. Athens, Ga.: 2008. 160 pp.; 49 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780915977666)

Campbell, Thomas P., ed. Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 592 pp.; 175 color ills.; 169 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300124071)

Coles, Alex, ed. Design and Art. Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press and Whitechapel, 2007. 208 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $22.95 (9780262532891)

Crawford, Alan. C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer, and Romantic Socialist. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. 512 pp. Paper $45.00 (9780300109399)

Cushing, Stanley, and David B. Dearinger. Acquired Tastes: 200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum. Exh. cat. Boston: Boston Athenaeum, 2007. 388 pp.; 164 color ills.; 71 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 ( 0934552738)

Detweiler, Susan Gray. American Presidential China: The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Intro. David L. Barquist. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2008. 91 pp.; 94 color ills.; 6 b/w ills. Cloth $24.95 (9780300135930)

Edwards, Clive. Encyclopedia of Furnishing Textiles, Floorcoverings and Home Furnishing Practices 1200–1950. Aldershot, UK: Lund Humphries, 2007. 256 pp.; 12 color ills.; 141 b/w ills. Cloth $150.00 (9780754632568)

Evendon, Helen. Moving Foward: New Directions in Transport Design. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007. 128 pp. Paper $35.00 (9781851774913)

Fawcett-Tang, Roger. New Typographic Design. Intro. David Jury. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 192 pp.; 500 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9780300117752)

Ferrall, Victor. Writing Wood: Essays and Other Scribblings. Exh. cat. Beloit, Wisc.: Beloit College Press, 2007. 87 pp.; many color ills. Paper (9781884941115)

Fields, Jill. An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 392 pp.; 71 b/w ills. Paper $21.95 (9780520252615)

FitzGerald, Desmond, Knight of Glin, and James Peill. Irish Furniture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 352 pp.; 400 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $125.00 (9780300117158)

Fukasawa, Naoto, ed. Naoto Fukasawa. London: Phaidon Press, 2007. 240 pp.; 300 color ills. Cloth $69.95 (9780714845869)

George-Warren, Holly, and Michelle Freedman. How the West Was Worn: A History of Western Wear. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 240 pp.; 245 ills. Paper $24.95 (9780810992566)

Gombrich, Ernst. The Story of Art: Pocket Edition. New York: Phaidon Press, 2006. 1064 pp.; 335 color ills.; 56 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0714847038)

Gras, Catherine, and Géraldine Petit. Formes et transparences: Les plus belles pièces de la collection de verrerie du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. Exh. cat. Dijon: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, 2008. 79 pp.; Many color ills. Paper €15.00 (2915128332)

Gura, Judith. The Abrams Guide to Period Styles for Interiors. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007. 424 pp.; 350 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (0810959143 )

Johnston, Lucy. Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. 224 pp.; 450 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781851774401)

Koda, Harold, and Andrew Bolton. Poiret. Exh. cat. New York and New Haven and London: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2007. 224 pp.; 195 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300120295)

Lawrence, David, and Ann Wilson. The Cathedral of Saint Fin Barre at Cork: William Burgess in Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 272 pp.; many color ills. Cloth €55.00 (9781846820236)

Livingstone, Joan, and John Ploof, eds. The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production. Chicago: School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press, 2007. 408 pp.; 134 color ills.; 98 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780262122900)

Long, Christopher. Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 240 pp.; 42 color ills.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300121025)

Mack, John. The Art of Small Things. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 218 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $24.95 (9780674026933)

Khan Majlis, Brigitte. The Art of Indonesian Textiles: The E.M. Bakwin Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. Intro. Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007. 112 pp.; 121 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (9780300119466)

McDermott, Catherine. Design: The Key Concepts. New York: Routledge, 2007. 264 pp. Paper $26.95 (9780415320160)

McWilliams, Mary, and David J. Roxburgh. Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, c. 1600–1900. Exh. cat. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2007. 108 pp.; 61 color ills. Paper $25.00 (9780300126327)

Mears, Patricia. Madame Grès: Sphinx of Fashion. Exh. cat. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with Fashion Institute of Technology, 2008. 184 pp.; 90 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300136920)

Monnas, Lisa. Merchants, Princes and Painters: Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings, 1300–1550. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 352 pp.; 150 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300111170)

Morgan, Luke. Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 312 pp.; 54 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780812239638)

O'Neill, Alistair. London: After a Fashion. London: Reaktion Books, 2007. 240 pp.; 99 ills. Paper $24.95 (9781861893154)

Pese, Claus. Art Nouveau from Nuremberg: Crafts between Art and Industrial Culture. New York and Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2007. 312 pp.; 290 color ills.; 360 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9783897902367)

Picón, Carlos, Joan R. Mertens, Seán Hemingway, Christopher S. Lightfoot, and Elizabeth J. Milleker. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007. 520 pp.; 621 color ills.; 22 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300120318)

Remington, R. Roger, and Robert S. P. Fripp. Design and Science: The Life and Work of Will Burtin. Aldershot, UK: Lund Humphries, 2007. 160 pp.; 56 color ills.; 53 b/w ills. Cloth $70.00 (9780853319689)

Ribeiro, Aileen. Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. 352 pp. Hardback $65.00 (9780300109993)

Rothschild, Deborah, ed. Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy. Exh. cat. Williamstown and Berkeley: Williams College Museum of Art in association with University of California Press, 2007. 244 pp.; 70 color ills.; 145 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780520252400)

Rowe, Ann Pollard, Laura M. Miller, and Lynn A. Meisch. Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. 359 pp.; 8 color ills.; 222 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780292714687)

Safford, Frances Gruber. American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: I. Early Colonial Period; The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles. New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2007. 464 pp.; 159 color ills.; 162 b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (9780300116472)

Schoeser, Mary. Silk. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 256 pp.; 258 color ills.; 7 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300117417)

Schroder, Timothy. Renaissance Silver from the Schroder Collection. Exh. cat. London: The Wallace Collection, 2007. 240 pp.; 75 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780900785962)

Singer, Margo. Textile Surface Decoration: Silk and Velvet. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 112 pp.; 100 color ills. Paper $26.50 (9780812220001)

Speel, Erika. Painted Enamels: An Illustrated Survey 1500–1920. Aldershot, U.K.: Lund Humphries, 2008. 256 pp.; 30 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth £85.00 (9780853319351)

Styles, John. The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. 448 pp.; 150 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300121193)

Styles, John, and Amanda Vickery, eds. Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830. New Haven and London: Yale Center for British Art and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2007. 368 pp.; 58 color ills.; 26 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300116595)

Troy, Virginia Gardner. The Modernist Textile: Europe and America 1890–1940. Burlington, Vt.: Lund Humphries, 2006. 192 pp.; 80 color ills.; 35 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0853319006)

Via, Marie, and Marjorie B. Searl. Head, Heart and Hand: Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters. Exh. cat. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2007. 168 pp.; 95 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9781878822444)

Widman, Dag, Karin Winter, and Nina Stritzler-Levine, eds. Bruno Mathsson: Architect and Designer. New York: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, 2007. 224 pp.; 120 color ills.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300121919)

Wilke, Christopher, ed. Modernism: Designing a New World. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 448 pp.; 400 color ills. Cloth $85.00 (9781851774746)

Wilson, Gillian, Charissa Bremer-David, and Jeffrey Weaver. French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes: Baroque and the Régence; Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. 464 pp.; 105 color ills.; 432 b/w ills. Cloth $125.00 (9780892368747)

Yoshinaga, Masayuki, and Katsuhiko Ishikawa. Gothic and Lolita. London: Phaidon Press, 2007. 272 pp.; 270 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9780714847856)