Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Glass
Author: Czechoslovak Glass Review
Author: Hi Sklo Lo Sklo
Author: Mark HillBeránek & Škrdlovice
Author: Robert Bevan JonesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780955286599
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
The Architects' Journal
Author: Design & Applied Arts Index
Author: AA Files
Author: Sklo Union
Author: Marcus NewhallPublisher: Young Writers
ISBN: 9780956062307
Category : Pressed glass
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Legend of Bohemian Glass
Author: Antonín LanghamerPublisher: Tigris
ISBN: 8086062112
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In this book, Antonín Langhamer brings to life the whole depth and breadth of Czech glass achievement. The book covers its entire history, not only artistic, but technical, economic and commercial. His exhaustive glossary at the back is more than just a place to look up terms, but an illuminating narrative on every aspect of glass, from ancient times to the present. The work is illustrated with lush photographs created by outstanding photographers who specialise in capturing the breathtaking beauty unique to glass. In Langhamer's narratives on early times, readers will find fascinating parallels with the behaviour of modern people, nations and industries. Despite its early origins, Bohemian glass took considerable time to reach prominence. Beginning in obscurity, Bohemian glassmakers produced wares that for a long time were good, but not exceptional. Bohemia's history has been turbulent, and readers can draw inspiration from the ingenuity and persistence of those glassmakers who succeeded against overwhelming odds. While World War II was raging, in the midst of shortages of every imaginable material and fuel, a Czech entrepreneur built himself a little glass furnace. Raw materials were hard to come by, so he made do by re-melting crushed bottles. This book is full of many stories of human valour and weakness, the development of technical and artistic marvels, legal harassment, sex discrimination, industrial espionage, and the triumph of ambition over adversity. But it also tells of ordinary people doing their ordinary work throughout their ordinary lives, and thereby achieving something magnificent. Glass affects everyone's life, and everyone's life, in some small way, affects the evolution of glass. Readers will never see glass in the same way again.
The Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-1939
Author: Anne-Marie EricssonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300070055
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Udgivet i forbindelse med udstilling på Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts fra 21.november 1996-2. marts 1997