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Presents designers and their creations from the fashion department at Cairo's Helwan University.

Gabriela Koschatzky-Elias writes absorbingly on the life and work of Fritz Maierhofer, one of the most important contemporary Austrian jewellery artists.

The first presentation and a superlative representation of the drawings by well-known contemporary Norwegian artist. Bjorn Ransve.

Helfried Kodre is a pioneering Austrian exponent of contemporary art jewellery. Part of the "Art Jewellery" series, this book centres on the second phase of Kodre's career from 1990. It also traces his development as an artist from the 1960s. It also features colour illustrations and essays written by experts in the field.

REFLEKTOR 2 presents a broad cross-section of the best student work done in 2009 in design-related discipline.sText in English and German.

The first presentation of Bjorn Ransve's painterly oeuvre - and at the same time a catalogue of this important Norwegian artist's works that meets the highest aesthetic standards.

Unites solo and group interviews with five women artists, who for various reasons no longer live and work in their native countries. This work exposes section by section layers, which - viewed as a whole - reveal what is special about each artist's work as well as the links between them.

Born in Switzerland in 1972, Magaro seems unwilling to distinguish between inanimate matter and animate living beings in his work. This title presents his works from 2005 to 2009.

'Just Must' was the theme of a jewellery exhibition in Tallinn in 2008, initiated and organised by the Estonian professor of jewellery Kadri Malk. This book documents individual solutions to this subject presented by fifty-eight artists from eighteen countries.

Petra Zimmermann is one of the most ambitious artists in contemporary jewellery. The book provides the first overview of her fascinating and exciting creative jewellery works with sumptuous images and scholarly articles.

Michael Glancy is one of the most significant representatives of studio glass in the United States. The publication presents his recent works, which are hailed for their graceful complexity, startling originality and beautiful craftsmanship by combining a variety of glass machining techniques and the electroform process.

An impressive collection of 109 African dolls from the second half of the twentieth century. The author describes in detail the ritual, spiritual and healing importance of every object.

Following the character of the collection this publication displays the wide scope of the international Art Nouveau movement with works of first-class artists and examples from nearly all material genres.

Ulla and Martin Kaufmann have developed their aesthetic agenda together. The techniques used by gold and silversmiths are the focal point of their work and represent the basic thematic focus of their tableware, jewellery and cutlery. It rests on their exploratory approach to materials and the diverse possibilities it provides for expression.

Numerous color illustrations showcase this group of works by Doerthe Fuchs in all its beauty. A cocoon is a casing that contains something unknown. Be enchanted by the jewelry created by this artist.

Presents a cross-section of the top end-of-year performances in the following design-related disciplines: photography, the graphic arts, object and space design as well as camera training. This yearbook features a selection of accompanying texts that deals with design, assignments and aims as well as the trend towards interdisciplinary approaches.

The first comprehensive survey of this delightful subject, sure to become a standard reference work. Includes more than 45 manufacturers.

A catalogue of works presenting 1587 pieces by world-famous ceramicists.

With large-format colour illustrations and knowledgeable articles, this book offers a comprehensive view of the current state of international photography - a treasure house of discoveries.

This publication illuminates the various aspects of the work of the German glass artist Florian Lechner, comprising architecture, sculptural objects and performances.

Hidden treasures meet highlights of the collections of the GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts Leipzig.

Published to mark the occasion of the donation of the private Swiss Graber collections to the Kunsthaus Zug, and the resultant exhibition, included are a number of previously unpublished works by the three internationally renowned Swiss artists.

Dispeller of Obstacles is the first in a new series that will include video, audio, photos, and commentaries to support practice and is the heart essence of the accomplished 9th-century master Padmasambhava. This hidden treasure is a revelation with a rich history that is explained in the book. In addition to the root text and classical commentaries by Chokgyur Lingpa and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, the treasure-revealers themselves, there are also explanations by modern-day masters such as Tulku Urgyen and Orgyen Topgyal Rinpoches. This extensive cycle contains teachings and practices for the preliminaries up to and including Dzogchen. Linking to a fresh treasure has the power to imbue us with hot and juicy blessings that invigorate our being and generate devotion and joy. Just as we prefer to have fresh food, these treasure teachings are endowed with a very special quality that has not been interpolated by anyone else, but has come directly from Padmasambhava by means of one of his disciples appearing as a present-day incarnation. The teaching is then spread to people for their immediate practice.

This publication, accompanying the 17th Silver Triennial International, presents the current trends in the silversmithing scene.

A book with Japanese binding about the extraordinary jewellery works by Ulo Florack, which display humour, wit and critical powers of observation.

A reflective book about international contemporary art jewellery that aims to open up new points of view about what art jewellery is or can be.

A lavishly illustrated overview of developments and trends especially in German in studio pottery since the mid-20th century.

The publication is dedicated to the constructive side of the development of fashion, whereby the theme of Out of Order is combined with the concept of dissonance as a creative formula.

This publication presents the unique work of Elisabeth Jesus Defner- jewelery in a previously unknown style: a unity of man, nature and cosmos.

Light weight, coupled with hardness and elasticity, makes much of the imaginable possible. (Georg Dobler) Steel, the Cinderella of common metals, freshly interpreted.