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TASCHEN
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The MIT Press
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$30.04
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5Continents
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Museum of Vancouver
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{"id":7234914418825,"title":"All We Want Is More: The Tobias Wong Project","handle":"all-we-want-is-more-the-tobias-wong-project","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll We Want Is More: The Tobias Wong Project\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is an invitation to revisit Wong’s artistic contribution with fresh eyes. Recent social, environmental and technological events have transformed the way we see the world and inevitably the way we see Tobias Wong’s work. 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Skira Paris
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Phaidon Press
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Valentina Grande’s thoughtful texts highlight crucial moments within the movement’s history and in the lives of principal figures such as Klee, Kandinsky, Albers, and Mies van der Rohe. The perfect introduction to a radical but highly influential chapter in the history of design, this novel shows how the Bauhaus school broke down barriers and built up ideals that are still applied today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSize: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e17,0 x 24,0 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages: 128\u003c\/p\u003e"}

Rizzoli
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Regular price
$90.11
{"id":7223592190089,"title":"Venini: The Art of Glass","handle":"venini-the-art-of-glass","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOn Venini’s 100th anniversary, this book celebrates the excellence of Italian high artistic glass craftsmanship and the vases that made history.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom Venice to the world, this special book recounts the prolific and original manufacture of Venini, the glass art company founded 100 years ago in Murano, Venice, by the visionary genius of Paolo Venini and Giacomo Cappellin. Over the course of a century, Venini has pursued the goal of innovation in keeping with tradition: the brand has transformed the ancient art of glassmaking by “intersecting” it with the modern visions of artists and designers. It has gained international fame and become the obsession of collectors all over the world. 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Birkhäuser
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$82.60
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Merrell Publishers
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$67.58
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Yale University Press
In-Stock
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