Author: Benton Seymour Rabinovitch; Helen Clifford
Title: Contemporary Silver: Commissioning, Designing, Collecting
Description: Merrell. 2000. Hard Cover with dustjacket. Good. l The art of the silversmith is at the cutting edge of modern design. Faced with the design of a simple domestic object, the silversmiths featured in this volume have produced an astonishing range -- from the minimal simplicity of the purely functional to the lavish ostentation of the truly baroque. These pieces utilize elements of sealife, Scandinavian design, Florida Art Deco, eighteenth-century Rococo, and totemic, timeless symbols of the natural world to forceful effect

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