Buchhandlung Walther König

Liebes: A Dark, A Light, A Bright

The first major publication devoted to weaver and designer Dorothy Liebes, reinstating her as one of the most influential American designers of the twentieth century.

Funk You Too! Ceramic Sculpture

"Funk You Too!" verknüpft erstmals die historische Funk-Art mit aktueller Töpferkunst, vor allem mit Blick auf den auch heute lebendigen Witz absurder Keramiken. Die Gründergeneration der Funk- ...

Woven Histories: Textiles & Modern Abstraction

Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke, Woven Histories offers a fresh and authoritative look at textiles - particularly weaving - as a major force in the evolution of a ...

Threads of Power: Lace Textilmuseum St. Gallen

"Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen" offers a look at one of the world's finest collections of historical lace. It traces the development of European lace from its emergence i ...

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield

Nineteenth-century stoneware by enslaved and free potters living in Edgefield, South Carolina, highlights the central role of Black artists in the region's long-standing pottery traditions.

Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts

How Walt Disney and the Disney Studios wove the aesthetics of French decorative arts into the fairy-tale worlds of beloved animated films, from Cinderella to Beauty and the Beast and beyond.

Gifts from the Fire: American Ceramics, 1880-1950

Modern Gothic: Kimbel and Cabus

Anton Kimbel (1822-1895) und Joseph Cabus (1824-1898) zählen zu den progressivsten Reformern des Möbeldesigns ihrer Zeit. Der Band erzählt eine klassische Erfolgsgeschichte des amerikanischen T ...

Jewelry Stories

Beautiful Creatures: Jewelry Inspired by the Animal Kingdom

Creatures from the animal kingdom represented in exquisite jewelry by renowned masters Cartier, Bulgari, Tiffany & Co., JAR, Belperron, David Webb, Schlumberger, Boucheron, and many other brillian ...

De Amaral: To Weave a Rock

Die Künstlerin Olga de Amaral (geboren 1932) aus Bogotá, Kolumbien, ist eine der bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten der lateinamerikanischen Kunstszene und der internationalen Craftsbewegung. Ausgeh ...

Albers: Camino Real

The first in-depth study of a monumental wall hanging - rediscovered after many years - by renowned Bauhaus artist Anni Albers, who was influential in elevating textiles from craft to fine art.

Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery 1850-1915

Colourful, wildly imaginative, and technically innovative, majolica was functional and aesthetic ceramic ware. Its subject matter reflects a range of 19th-century preoccupations, from botany and z ...

Diamonds: The Collection of Benjamin Zucker

Accompanying an exhibition at Les Enluminures, New York, this lavish catalogue presents an extraordinary collection of diamonds from the king of gems, Benjamin Zucker, one of New York's leading de ...

Jewelry: The Body Transformed

More than 200 examples of exceptional jewelry and ornaments, created across the globe from antiquity to the present, are shown alongside paintings and sculptures of bejeweled bodies to demonstrate ...

Portable Art. A Project by Celia Forner

Celia Forner has collaborated with 15 contemporary artists to create objects which defy a conventional definition of jewellery, sitting somewhere between sculpture and wearable art. These artists' ...

Jewelry of Ideas: Susan Grant Lewin Collection

Chihuly. Forms in Nature

Illuminated by Dale Chihuly's mesmerizing glass sculptures, this beautiful book presents the artist's most recent nature-inspired work.

Jazz Age

An exhilarating look at Art Deco design in 1920s America, using jazz as its unifying metaphor.

Global by Design

The exhibition focuses on Chinese ceramics from the late 16th to the 18th century, a period during which porcelain became a global luxury. "Global by Design" features 60 highlights from this impor ...

Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity

Ideals of character and beauty, and conceptions of self and society, were in flux during Late Antiquity, a period of extensive dramatic cultural upheaval for the Roman world, as the extraordinary ...

Gouthiere: Virtuoso Gilder at the French Court.

The Frick Collection is organizing the first exhibition to focus on Pierre Gouthière (1732-1813), the great French bronze chaser and gilder who worked for Louis XV and Louis XVI. The exhibition w ...

Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse

The textile and fashion industries globally produce millions of tons of solid waste every year through the many processes used - from yarn production, weaving, knitting, dyeing, and finishing, to ...