Books published by Arnoldsche

An extensive history of the Austrian ceramics firm with an exhaustive index of artists as well as a complete overview of marks.

This book addresses the question of what air is and approaches the answer from two angles. First, through a scientific explanation of its chemical and physical elements, their properties and the effect they have on our immediate environment. Second, how air is dealt with in art, architecture and design.

Presentation of around 400 pieces from 1963-2005 by Anton Cepka, one of the most important jewellery artists of the twentieth century, with the aim of bringing his kinetic jewellery to a wider audience for the first time.

Offers an insight into an abstract and deep world; jewellery, objects and words come together in the personality of Tanel Veenre.

Overview of over 25 years of vessel design by Thomas Bohle, emphasising how progressive ceramics can be, including radiographs of the works allowing glimpses into the interior of the sculptures.

Using examples from the Austrian Bollmann Collection, approaches and developments of contemporary jewellery are presented, and there is a particular focus on the work of jewellery artist Fritz Maierhofer. Foreword by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein.

Academically researched reference work in two volumes, catalogue of the Gotha inventory of around 700 single-sheet woodcut prints from 1480 to 1599.

Robert Smit tells a story about an empty house and the people who lived in it. He tells his story with his jewellery, inviting the reader to one of the most extraordinary encounters with this art form ever to have appeared in print.

This is the first complete survey of Japanese export porcelain from the Meiji era to be published in English - a benchmark standard work for specialists and an insider tip for lovers of porcelain and anyone interested in Art Nouveau and Japan.

Over 500 fascinating illustrations and outstanding articles by noted authors, experts on Africa, scientists, and journalists from Africa, North America and Europe, make this publication a 'must' for all interested in southern Africa and for African art collectors.

A long-awaited survey of more than fifty years of art jewelery from the Padua School covering its work from 1950 to the present. Works by master goldsmiths Mario Pintin, Francesco Pavan and Giampaolo Babetto and other artists together add up to the distictive, typically Paduan look in art jewelery.

With contemporary advertising and sales catalogues as its sources, this book represents an exhaustive study of the Ikora and Myra lines in glass produced between the 1920s and 1950s by the Wurttembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG (WMF) at Geislingen/Steige.