Book Description
The natural world has been a muse for artists throughout the ages, and jewelry designers have always shared that inspiration, their fascination with flora and fauna coming through in their work. Now, Jeweled Garden traces the evolution of garden-inspired jewelry from the 19th century to the present day in beautiful photographs and an absorbing text.
From Louis Comfort Tiffany's delicate realist creations of the Victorian Age to Cartier's 2006 Caresse d'orchides necklace encrusted with precious stones, the tradition's most beautiful pieces by master jewelers are represented. Featuring pieces from turn-of-the-last-century Art Nouveau, 1920s Art Deco, 1950s and 60s jet-set, and 1970s individualism, from Fabergé, Lalique, Tiffany, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, and even from fashion houses such as Chanel and Christian Dior, this gorgeous volume will delight jewelry aficionados and gardening enthusiasts alike.
Customer Reviews:
A visual ravishment!.......2007-08-09
A superb book! A visual ravishment!
The book is well researched and wide ranging in its study of flora based jewellery!
Focusing not only on the great jewellery houses but also on historical pieces, it makes for interesting reading for anyone who appreciate fine workmanship but also the history of jewels!
Great Jewelry Books.......2007-05-31
A "Must-have" for jewelry collectors, designers ..... Excellent pictures!!!! Great details!!! With lots of great masterpieces! 100% +++++ satisfaction in owning it!!!
Book Description
In conjunction with the Statehood Quarters Program already underway, Whitman is pleased to offer a new 5-page album that will hold one quarter of your choice (Philadelphia, Denver, or San Francisco Mints) for each of the Statehood quarters released.
Customer Reviews:
Too hard for kids to use!.......2007-09-21
I bought this book for my 7 year old. The one I own is not user friendly. I wanted to purchase a different version hoping it would have an easy way to insert the coins so my son could 'do it by himself'. It is so hard for him to do, that he has to pound them in with his fist. It's very irritating & exactly the opposite of what I was seeking.
Statehood Quarter Album.......2007-08-23
The individual pages came loose from the binding after very little handling on our part. I tried, with moderate success, to glue them back on, but you can see the glue and it is unknown if it will hold a week, a month or a year.
I chose not to try and send it back, because returning items typically involves too much hassle.
We are currently in need of 2 Presidential Gold Dollar books, but we may need to find a different vendor to achieve a more solid product.
perfect size`.......2007-07-03
I HAVE BOUGHT MANY BOOKS FOR MY GRANDCHILDREN. I LIKE THIS ONE BEST.
Great product for state quarter enjoyment without fuss.......2007-06-08
This is a TERRIFIC product for the casual collector, for anyone who simply wants to assemble good specimens of lightly circulated state quarters and admire them in a handy format. Only one spot per state is provided, which is exactly what I wanted, since I don't care about the mint marks and don't want to collect one of each. The plastic inserts are extremely handy and easy to use. I am putting the coins in "backwards", with the unique reverse of each coin face up over the name of the state, leaving the obverse (front) -- the George Washington profile -- upside down on the back of each sheet. Inspired by this terrific product, I have also ordered the "Presidential Dollars 2007 Album", ISBN-10 0794821839, available on Amazon and produced by Whitman. Happy collecting!
Great Value.......2007-04-07
I purchased three of these albums for my children. Completely Satisfied! One little hint before you start...slip those plastic films into the bottom opening of each page first, then, put the coins on each holes. My younger one did it the other way and found it hard to stick those coins from the bottom of the holes.
Customer Reviews:
A fantastic book!.......2000-03-22
At long last, an authoritative book on garden ornament in America! Barbara Israel delivers a beautiful tome with scholarly punch in her Antique Garden Ornament: Two Centuries of American Taste. Many books exist on gardens and landscape history, but none addresses the issue of the statues, fountains, and furniture used within them with such depth and clarity as Ms. Israel. In addition to the chapters themselves, the catalogue of objects in the back of the book and the list of makers provide a greatly needed reference for this growing field. I highly recommend this book.
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The Country House Garden: From the Archives of Country Life: 1897-1939 (Country Life)
Brent Elliott
Manufacturer: Mitchell Beazley
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Antiques from the Garden.......2001-04-12
This book is a history of antiques and architecture used in gardens since early times. Lots of great pics and very, very interesting to read and learn.
Book Description
We are all familiar with the idea of collecting antiques for the home, but there are also a huge variety of antiques available for your garden. A well-positioned statue, sundial, bench, or bird bath can transform an outdoor living space, and this practical book concentrates on a wide assortment of factory-made items from the 19th century onwards. Here are the most important makers, along with identifications of their marks and guidance on the key points to look for or avoid.
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Antique Garden Ornaments
John P. S. Davis
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Lincoln Cents Collectors Folder Starting 1975
Customer Reviews:
A GOOD START FOR COIN COLLECTING.......2000-04-16
I was given this book by my dad when I was little...it got me interested in coin collecting and is inexpensive! I would recommend it as a gift for kids or adults...it makes a fun hobby!
Excellent first book for the aspiring coin collector.......2000-04-03
This folder is an excellent starting point for any new coin collector. The folder has a nice lock-in feature preventing the coins from falling out. The recent dates ensure that the folder can be filled without too much difficulty from simply rooting through pocket change regularly. Highly recommended for young people who wish to start a coin collection.
Amazon.com
Leigh and Leslie Keno are twins with a single passion--the pursuit of American antiques. One (Leigh) is an antiques dealer in New York. The other (Leslie) is a director at Sotheby's, New York. Together with Joan Barzilay Freund--a New York-based freelance writer who specializes in American antiques--they tell tales of the hunt.
Some of the stories come from the twins' childhood in upstate New York (they started keeping antiques dealer diaries when they were 12); one riveting anecdote is set more recently in the auction room of Sotheby's, circa January 1999. But all of the treasure-hunting episodes are imbued with the drama and thrill of the chase as well as the bliss of aesthetic appreciation.
It doesn't matter whether you, yourself, have swapped bids in tense auction rooms for million-dollar furnishings, or traipsed through small-town flea markets in search of sleepers, or gained the bulk of your antiquing know-how while firmly planted in your easy chair watching the Antiques Roadshow. Because the Keno twins know their stuff and they evoke the rich details of antiques, such as the creamy surfaces of 18th-century ceramics and the plum-pudding mahogany sheen to the rare secretary bookshelf. The passion that drives them is evident on every page of the book, and that emotion is the hook that allows them to so effectively share their fascination with the reader. To read their stories is to enter their world, and while the color photographs are certainly appreciated, the prose does a fine job by itself to portray the lure of the Seymour table and the Canton ginger jar. Along the way, the life stories and distinctive personalities of the twins come through, too. By time you finish the final chapter, you will have learned a lot about American antiques, and even more about the happy souls of two brothers pursuing their craft. --Stephanie Gold
Product Description
Leigh & Leslie Keno are familiar to millions through their appearances on "Antiques Roadshow". They have devoted their lives to the field of antique American furniture & have had a passion for discovering unexpected rarities. Here, they describe more than a dozen of their most extraordinary discoveries, demonstrating that even today rare & precious antiques can be found anywhere. They take you behind the scenes of the world of antiques, revealing the secrets of their trade. They also share their love & appreciation of fine craftsmanship & beauty. This book will inspire you to take a second look at your own neglected family heirlooms & dust-covered relics. Lavishly designed & filled with full-color photos. Bibliography. Glossary.
Customer Reviews:
THESE TWO BIZARRE FOPS REALLY KNOW FURNITURE.......2007-03-01
Honestly these two guys make my skin crawl, but they really know their furniture, they are like encyclopedias of knowledge, not quite the great Albert Sack, but getting there. This is a very interesting book on some amazing furniture, and the stories are amazing. These guys really have an eye for a treasure I must admit, but i cant help shaking the image of them on their show, they are just really odd, like some old money WASP, from Newport or Long Island, I have a feeling in thirty years they will have their own Grey Garden.
Disappointing read.......2007-01-23
I looked forward to this book but found it sorely lacking.
My biggest gripe is that the brothers jump in a few pages from their modest upbringing to b ig shot dealers wheeling and dealing million(s) dollars items, There is no discussion of how this jump was made, or how they could manage to finance the huge purchase prices they describe. Further the books deals in antiques that only the top .00001 percent of the population could actually buy. Nor is there anything about the business end of things, like how one becomes a top line dealer.
Instead of focusing on real tips and experiences acquiring items that a serious (middle class) collector could hope to acquire, they focus on items that most millionaires would find expensive.
Don't expect this book to have any relevancy to you.
Keno Brother's a rare treat.......2006-07-05
I bought a cassette tape of Hidden treasures from Amazon.com for $17.95.
Leslie and Leigh Keno take turns reading their chapters that they wrote for their book themselves. They do a great job and I greatly enjoyed hearing their story told in their own voices. I found them deeply engaging and I loved hearing their story of roaming the rural hills near their home in Mohawk NY, as they rode tautem on a small motor bike looking for long lost treaures near their home; in the form of old barn hinges, or digging through garbage dumps that were over a hundred years old. And their mom who'd see them leave and say, "their go the twins go, off in their own little world." And they do seem to go off in their own world a lot of the time.
Leslie Keno went to an interview at the Mather House admissions building that he was applying to the University there, and ended up crawling around on the floor examining the undersides and legs of furnature. A little later he got a tap on the shoulder as it was time for the interview, and he remembered the concerned looks of parents as he walked by. He didn't say it, but I wondered if he was embarrassed?
Later on in another chapter describing a highly stylized pier table complete with womanly head and upper torso figures that supported the top of the table--I think it was Leslie that time too--Even though he and his brother made a real effort to carefully pronouce each word and keep the pacing even; Leslie almost but not quite stumbled over the word bosom. Yes Leslie, it is a bosom and some call them breasts too. But I thought it was sweet that he almost flubbed. Leigh on the other hand had no trouble telling about an almost sensual moment he had as he was running his hands over a seat cushion(yes, I said a seat cushion), then turned it over to check the underside for the age of the piece.
If you think that this book is a primer for how to be a antique dealer you would be mistaken, and you'd also be mistaken if you thought this would be a dry uninteresting book. Instead what we have here is a very honest look at how two young men grew-up in a very loving, and supporting family. And how their interest in antiques was nutured. It really is interesting seeing how these two brothers evolved into the top notch antique dealers, and appraisers that they are today.
The only thing that disapointed me was; I would have liked to have heard more about their youth.
I highly recommend the book on cassette or in book form. Right now I'm wondering what I missed not having the actual book? Probably a whole lot more pictures. Okay! I'm ordering the book right now!
The new Sacks.......2006-03-04
In a phrase, these are high class pickers with an art of gold.
Not bad, not bad at all!.......2005-05-15
I too, was a recruit from the Antiques Road Show- they are the only reason I am interested in the show (they get so dang happy over a good find) and therefore the ONLY reason I grabbed this book.
I am interested a little in antiques but MORE interested in a good "discovery" or score at a yard sale.... I found this book had it all - it is very well written and kept my interest the entire "read".
The brothers take turns between chapters and keep your interests in them completely equally.
I was also impressed just how their parents influenced them in such an "uncool" hobby, that ultimately led to their popularity and provided them both with success.
Many parents could take a few tips about being involved in their kids hobbies, and lives. They not only were into antiques, but dirtbikes and fishing! Just well rounded kids, and that comes from one place- attention from home.
Any how- I am off my soapbox. I do reccomend this book because it is INTERESTING, it keeps your attention and both get to show their own personalities.
I read it and shared it... have found the same response: surprise that it was INTERESTING! That we wanted to finish it. I am so glad these guys are on TV, I really appreciate the knowledge they are willing to share with us. That is why I like them; their lovely antiques packed minds!
Some brains are very attractive!
Product Description
Since making her first doll in 1989, artist Nancy Wiley has earned recognition and accolades both within and outside of the doll field. Her stylized and imaginative figures have been featured in magazines such as Mary Engelbreit s Home Companion, In Style and George, as well as all the major doll-collecting publications. A Dollmaker s Art showcases 85 of Ms. Wiley s dolls in full-color photos, organized by theme and presented with insightful commentaries from the artist, and includes a step-by-step photo essay that demonstrates the development of one doll from start to finish. The collection includes several never-before-seen pieces created for debut at the artist s upcoming one-woman show, to be held at the Muscatine Art Center in Iowa from August 15 December 19, 2004. Author Louise Fecher, longtime writer and researcher in the field of contemporary artist dolls, extensively interviewed Ms. Wiley s family, friends, colleagues and critics to create an engaging biographical profile that traces the evolution of this dynamic artist.
Customer Reviews:
A masterful delight for any doll maker.......2007-05-31
Nancy Wiley is tops in her field. Her creativity is awe inspiring. You can't help but exercise your imagination when thumbing through this book. The incredible color pictures and the journey into her mind is invaluable material for want to be doll makers. Don't want to make dolls? This book is still a great exercise in opening your mind to the world of true creativity. I have been eyeing this book for two years. I couldn't find it in the library so I am thrilled that Amazon offered it.
Beautiful Book.......2007-03-28
This book is beautiful. Everyone one who loves artists' dolls should get this.
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