Buchhandlung Walther König

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Thing of Mine I have Loved Best: Meaningful Jewels

This book studies forty-six pieces of European jewelry - pendants, reliquaries, amulets, and talismans - from the eighth to the eighteenth century. The title "The thing of mine I have loved the be ...

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 ...

The Silver Caesars

The twelve silver-gilt cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze - magnificent examples of 16th-century European goldsmithing in size, design, and quality of execution - feature figures and scenes from ...

Jewelry of Ideas: Susan Grant Lewin Collection

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' ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics

The brightly colored tin-enameled earthenware called maiolica was among the major accomplishments of decorative arts in 16th-century Italy. This in-depth look at the history of maiolica, told thro ...

The Holiday Train Show

This engaging book provides a behindthescenes glimpse of the seasonal magic of The New York Botanical Garden's annual Holiday Train Show.

Tools: Extending Our Reach

"Tools" celebrates the richness of the human imagination through a surprising range of juxtaposed and seemingly disparate objects. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name that celebrates the f ...

Ennion: Master of Roman Glass

Among glass craftsmen active in the first century A.D., the most famous and gifted was Ennion, who came from the coastal city of Sidon in modern Lebanon. This publication examines the most innovat ...

European Clocks and Watches: Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925

Themes of the American West have been enduringly popular, and The American West in Bronze features sixty-five iconic bronzes that display a range of subjects, from portrayals of the noble Indian t ...