Author: Charles Hope Carpenter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556602443
Category : Silverwork
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gorham Silver
Author: Charles Hope Carpenter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556602443
Category : Silverwork
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556602443
Category : Silverwork
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gorham Silver
Author: Elizabeth A. Williams
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847862526
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A survey of America's preeminent maker of fine silver and its legacy of exceptional design and innovation in the decorative arts. Established in 1831, the Gorham Manufacturing Company adeptly coupled art and industry, rising to become an industry leader of stylistic and technological achievement in America and around the world. It produced public presentation pieces and one-of-a-kind showstoppers for important occasions, as well as tableware for everyday use. Its works trace a narrative arc not only of great design but also of American ambitions. In this volume, insightful essays are accompanied by gorgeous new photography of splendid silver pieces along with a wealth of archival images, design drawings, casting patterns, and company records that reveal a rich heritage of a giant in decorative arts and silver manufacturing. Produced in collaboration with the RISD Museum, which has the world's most significant collection of Gorham silver, this major new book casts new light on more than 120 years of grand aesthetic styles in silver, innovative industrial practices, and American social and cultural norms.
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847862526
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A survey of America's preeminent maker of fine silver and its legacy of exceptional design and innovation in the decorative arts. Established in 1831, the Gorham Manufacturing Company adeptly coupled art and industry, rising to become an industry leader of stylistic and technological achievement in America and around the world. It produced public presentation pieces and one-of-a-kind showstoppers for important occasions, as well as tableware for everyday use. Its works trace a narrative arc not only of great design but also of American ambitions. In this volume, insightful essays are accompanied by gorgeous new photography of splendid silver pieces along with a wealth of archival images, design drawings, casting patterns, and company records that reveal a rich heritage of a giant in decorative arts and silver manufacturing. Produced in collaboration with the RISD Museum, which has the world's most significant collection of Gorham silver, this major new book casts new light on more than 120 years of grand aesthetic styles in silver, innovative industrial practices, and American social and cultural norms.
The Silver Coin #1
Author: Chip Zdarsky
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Eisner-winning artist MICHAEL WALSH (Star Wars, Black Hammer/Justice League) teams with an all-star lineup of collaboratorsÑCHIP ZDARSKY (STILLWATER), KELLY THOMPSON (Sabrina the Teenage Witch), ED BRISSON (Old Man Logan), and JEFF LEMIRE (GIDEON FALLS)Ñon a new horror anthology miniseries for mature readers. Each issue will tell a tale of terror in a shared supernatural world. The story starts in 1978 with a failing rock band whose fortune suddenly changes when they find the mysterious Silver Coin. Little do they know that fame comes with a cost, and a curse is always hungry.
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Eisner-winning artist MICHAEL WALSH (Star Wars, Black Hammer/Justice League) teams with an all-star lineup of collaboratorsÑCHIP ZDARSKY (STILLWATER), KELLY THOMPSON (Sabrina the Teenage Witch), ED BRISSON (Old Man Logan), and JEFF LEMIRE (GIDEON FALLS)Ñon a new horror anthology miniseries for mature readers. Each issue will tell a tale of terror in a shared supernatural world. The story starts in 1978 with a failing rock band whose fortune suddenly changes when they find the mysterious Silver Coin. Little do they know that fame comes with a cost, and a curse is always hungry.
Sterling Silver Holloware: Tea and Coffee Services, Pitchers
Author: Dorothy T. Rainwater
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Gorham Silver, 1831-1981
Author: Charles Hope Carpenter (Jr.)
Publisher: Dodd Mead
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher: Dodd Mead
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Silver in America
Author: Charles L. Venable
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This volume explores the history and development of the American silver industry. It chronicles the work of firms such as Tiffany, Gorham, Meridan Britannia, and Reed and Barton, along with that of makers such as Whiting, Wendt, Wood and Hughs, Scheibler, and Gale.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This volume explores the history and development of the American silver industry. It chronicles the work of firms such as Tiffany, Gorham, Meridan Britannia, and Reed and Barton, along with that of makers such as Whiting, Wendt, Wood and Hughs, Scheibler, and Gale.
Magnificent Tiffany Silver
Author: John Loring
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
"Through a lively, anecdotal text - enriched with never-before-published information - and more than 300 illustrations, Tiffany & Co. design director John Loring illuminates hundreds of lavish silver objects as well as the world in which they were made and presented. We encounter royalty and business titans, sports champions and cultural luminaries, and the country's social elite, who were the primary patrons of the prestigious firm of silversmiths.".
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
"Through a lively, anecdotal text - enriched with never-before-published information - and more than 300 illustrations, Tiffany & Co. design director John Loring illuminates hundreds of lavish silver objects as well as the world in which they were made and presented. We encounter royalty and business titans, sports champions and cultural luminaries, and the country's social elite, who were the primary patrons of the prestigious firm of silversmiths.".
Modernism in American Silver
Author: Jewel Stern
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300109276
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A lavishly illustrated catalogue that is the first to explore the role of modernism in 20th- century American silver design
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300109276
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A lavishly illustrated catalogue that is the first to explore the role of modernism in 20th- century American silver design
Scribner's Monthly
Author: Josiah Gilbert Holland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The Book of Old Silver: English, American, Foreign
Author: Seymour B. Weyler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists' marks
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists' marks
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description