Книги издательства Arnoldsche

The high artistic quality of Czech glass became known in the West only in the 1970s. The artists drew attention to themselves mainly because they explored the sculptural potential of glass and claimed to create art works in their own right. As a resu...

Du Paquier, an independently operating Viennese porcelain factory, was established in 1718, only eight years after Meissen. Although its heyday was brief, lasting only twenty-five years, Du Paquier produced porcelain of great beauty, notable for an e...

263 illustrations. Anton Pössenbacher (1842–1920), cabinet-maker to the Bavarian court in Munich, was head of one of the largest late 19th-century German makers of luxury furnishings. His furniture, especially those for King Ludwig II of Bavaria (18...

Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth und Max Slevogt, three early 20th-century artists who did not view themselves primarily as landscape painters. On the contrary, they saw themselves as figurative painters who only engaged sporadically in landscape painti...

Gijs Bakker (b. 1942), Dutch jewellery and product designer, has figured prominently in the front rank of international auteur jewellery for forty years. He has been setting trends in both form and design since the 1960s. Unsurprisingly, what is know...

The jewellery firm Süddeutsche Gold- und Haar-Bijouterie, founded in 1907 by Heinrich Henkel and Florentin Grosse, experienced its first successes with costume jewellery made of bronze, aluminium, wood, bakelite and galalite. Renamed Henkel&thin...

450 colour plates and more than 1000 illustrations of marks. The more than 3500 items in this unique private collection of cutlery, illustrated with 450 large colour plates, present the expert and the amateur with an outstanding survey of changing s...

450 Farbtafeln sowie über 1000 Markenabbildungen. Der über 3500 Teile umfassende Gesamtbestand dieser einzigartigen privaten Bestecksammlung wird auf 450 großformatigen Farbtafeln originalgetreu präsentiert und bietet einen einmaligen Überblick über...

Jewellery sets off beauty and reveals wealth. Moreover, jewellery had a magical function in traditional societies because it attracted blessings and warded off evil. Women were given most of their jewellery when they married. They wore it until their...

English This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of Jugendstil around 1900 in Bavaria's leading industrial city. More than two hundred and fifty objects from all areas of the decorative and applied arts illustrate the i...

Dieses Markenlexikon, das sowohl über Porzellan- als auch über Keramikmarken Auskunft gibt, ist meiner Meinung nach momentan das allumfassendste als auch detaillierteste Werk in diesem Fachgebiet. Die Aufteilung des Lexikons in vier übersichtliche In...

New edition of this seminal 1953 study of lighting for the modern era Showcasing mid-century modern design that is as relevant now as ever More than 250 original images show the design trends of important manufacturers from America, Scandinavia, Ge...

The very first comprehensive work on Louis-Philippe furniture, this book surveys the most important furniture types, stylistic features, woods, mounts and fittings and cloth upholstery. Establishes definitive diagnostic criteria for precisely disting...

Das Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Köln besitzt eine umfangreiche Sammlung mitteleuropäischer Möbel aus vier Jahrhunderten. Diese besticht durch eine weitgehend vollständige Dokumentation der wichtigsten Möbeltypen und der maßgebenden künstlerischen ...

Volume 1:  288 pages, 325 illustrations. Volume 2:  416 pages, 900 illustrations in colour and 342 signatures. The Japanese belt accessories for men known as netsuke aroused great interest in Europe already at the end of the 19th century. Today the...