Antique Decorating

Antiques Price Guide 2008 (Antiques Price Guide)

Book Description
From acclaimed antiques and collectibles expert Judith Miller comes Antiques Price Guide 2008. With the latest prices, market trends, and tips on where and how to buy and sell everything from furniture, glass, textiles, and jewelry, to pottery, porcelain, silver, and tribal art, this book is the essential handbook for buyers, sellers, and collectors. AUTHOR BIO: Judith Miller began collecting antiques in the 1960s, and has written more than 100 books on antiques and interiors. She is a widely sought after lecturer on antiques and collectibles and is highly regarded by collectors and dealers alike. She contributes a monthly column on collecting to the financial times.

Antiques Roadshow Collectibles: The Complete Guide to Collecting 20th Century Glassware,...

From Publishers Weekly
This lavishly illustrated and enthusiastically written guide to modern collectibles is another success by Prisant (Antiques Roadshow Primer), capturing on the printed page the excitement of the top-rated PBS television series Antiques Roadshow. An excellent introductory essay, "Collecting 101," is a helpful look at the field of collecting itself that includes some tips that even the most experienced collector should remember ("Work on self-discipline"). But this is clearly a book for the novice, and Prisant makes it clear that this is not a definitive work but "a brief overview of the types of collectibles that are brought most often to Antiques Roadshow." Her selection is impeccable, and she provides highly informative chapters on ceramics, advertising, glass, sports collectibles, toys, fashion and textiles, dolls and doll accessories, wristwatches, photography, entertainment memorabilia and furniture. The true beauty of this volume is the hundreds of photographs of the collectibles themselves, everything from Picasso-designed pottery and Miriam Haskell necklaces to a Lou Gehrig-signed baseball and one of Mr. Spock's outfits from Star Trek. Even the more experienced collector will be surprised at the range of artifacts produced in the 20th century.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
Thanks to Antiques Roadshow, the highest rated, long running prime-time series on PBS®, with millions of viewers a week, we are a nation seeking fortune in our attics. And thanks to Antiques Roadshow Primer, with 572,000 copies in print, we are highly antiques-literate. But there's another audience out there, too, showing up ever more frequently on Antiques Roadshow--those obsessive, bitten-by-the-bug collectors. Bring on the Maltese Falcon posters!

Celebrating the collectible--that 20th-century object that brings with it less monetary value than passion, nostalgia, quirky appeal, and just plain pleasure--Antiques Roadshow Collectibles focuses on 12 major areas that inspire both the thrill of the chase and the thrill of discovery: furniture, photographs, posters and illustration art, costume jewelry and wristwatches, dolls, toys, advertising memorabilia, sports, glass and pottery, and more. A guide to value rather than price, it is packed with a wealth of information that will help turn any interested flea market fiend into a first-class collector. From the innovative design of Bertoia chairs to the high-quality crafting of costume jewely to the surprising variety of PEZ dispensers, here are 416 pages brimming with information. Bound into the book is a 32-page full-color section, while hundreds of black-and-white photographs illustrate every chapter. There are Antiques Roadshow discoveries, tips from experts and appraisers, the steps to becoming a focused collector--even how to use pieces without compromising their value. After all, isn't it more fun to eat off the Fiestaware?

Antiques Source Book 2004-2005 (Antiques Source Book)

Book Description
Following the success of the first four editions of this ground-breaking guide, this year's edition continues the high quality, full-color format. Each item is accompanied by a color photograph, measurements and a price, and there is a special section on importing antiques to the United States. This is an excellent reference source for identifying and valuing your own antiques and collectables.

About The Author
Martin Miller has been involved in the antiques business since the 1970s. In 1979 the first edition of Miller's Antiques Price Guide was published and became the bible of the antiques trade. He lives in London, England.

Antiques Sourcebook 2004-2005: The Definitive Guide to Retail Prices for Antiques and...

Apartment Therapy Presents: Real Homes, Real People, Hundreds of Design Solutions

Product Review
"These 40 case studies will encourage you to use your intuition by providing elegant examples of people who have solved these interior design challenges for themselves on various budgets." —Rob Forbes, founder, Design Within Reach

Product Description
From the Web site that attracts more than 3 million unique visitors a month, this groundbreaking book features 40 homes decorated by real people. Over 400 photos show details of all sorts of abodes from a tiny rental in Brooklyn to a condo in San Diego to a ranch-style in Miami. Each home profile includes floor plans, detailed resource lists, and "how I did it" explanations from the renters and owners who created fresh and entirely original interiors. Edited and written by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, Apartment Therapy founder and frequent makeover expert on HGTV, this bible of accessible design ideas is the ultimate home decor book for the DIY-savvy.

Art and Antiques April 2000

Product Description
Design Special Issue Designing with Art & Antiques Portuguese Furniture Shopping Charleston Showcasing Wood Masterworks

Art Deco an Illustrated Guide to the Decorativ (A Quintet Book)

Art Deco Jewelry: Jakob Gengel, Idar-Oberstein Germany

Product Description
A geometric language of forms, influenced by Cubism and the aesthetic of the machine, coloured plastic and chromium are synonymous with the Art D,co costume jewellery which was so popular in 1920s and 1930s Europe. Formerly classified by specialists as 'French jewellery', these Art D,co jewellery objects were actually made at the Jakob Bengel Chain and Bijouterie Wares Factory, founded in Idar-Oberstein in 1873! The jewellery produced by Bengel between 1931 and 1938 is distinguished by that of other makers by extraordinarily powerful innovation and a high degree of individuality. A mix of materials consisting of the coloured plastic Galalith and chromium-plated metal is handled with a playfully light touch. Bengel jewellery was exported world-wide. More than two hundred and fifty pieces of Bengel jewellery are superbly reproduced and described in this monograph on the firm. In addition, the book surveys over one hundred and thirty years of Bengel history and gives insights into sample books that ha

Asian Accents: Stunning Decorating and Entertaining Ideas

About The Author
Lisa Kim-Tribolati, an avid cook, has worked for Vogue Singapore, and currently lives in Singapore. Martyne Kupciunas is a designer who has lived and traveled throughout Asia. Her designs have been featured in magazines, books, and on television.

At Home with Decorating

Product Description
This book describes the requirements of good, simple, tasteful decorating at home that can be ingeniously met with minimum expense. The author has illustrated her book with hundreds of her own drawings. They picture familiar home objects both correctly and incorrectly placed, and both artful and artless furniture arrangements, so that the reader can see at a glance how decorating principles correctly applied can transform an awkward room into a porportional, graceful surrounding that complements human pleasures and wants to be lived in.

Axel Vervoordt: Timeless Interiors

September 07 Town & Country
"A new book by Armelle Baron and Christian Sarramon, Axel Vervoordt: Timeless Interiors (Flammarion; $75), reveals him to be a virtuoso of light and an alchemist with color--and a very good decorator, to boot."

ELLE DÉCOR October 2007
examines the Belgian dealer-decorator's influential patrician rooms, everywhere from a medieval chateau to a Tuscan farmhouse."

A-Z of Antiques and Collectibles

Book Description
Written by world-renowned antiques authority Judith Miller, this encyclopedia offers over 3,000 alphabetical entries that define: styles, periods, designers, makers and factories; materials and techniques; and what a piece is, how it was used, and when it was most fashionable. Whether your interest lies in Tiffany lamps, teddy bears, Greek pottery, or Gothic Revival style, this is a must-have for anyone interested in antiques and collecting, from the experienced collector to those new to the subject.