Author: Jan Van Trigt ; Alain Gruber
Title: Cutlery : From Gothic to Art Deco - The J. Hollander Collection
Description: Gent, Pandora/Snoeck-Ducaju & Zn, 2003 Bound in a yellow cloth with title in gold and gilt spine, originale dust jacket illustrated in color, 305 x 255 x 35 mm, 298pp, illustrated in color. **Fine condition. **not used! ISBN 9789053252239. ¶ The J. Hollander collection. The history of tableware and cutlery, illustrated with 600 colour plates and hunderds of silver marks. As new !! Synopsis : Our eating culture is dramatically different from that of bygone ages. Eating french fries or hamburgers with plastic forks is a far cry from state dinners in the XVIIIth century with their two dozen courses.The Design Museum Ghent presents the history of cutlery in its various aspects, historical, functional, decorative, with approx. 1,000 pieces from a private collection, reputed the most important worldwide. Materials range from gold and silver to ivory and steel. Several full table settings will also be shown: guests are awaited from the renaissance, baroque, rococo, art nouveau and art deco periods.The publication (in English with a separate 16pp leaflet in Dutch listing all the exhibits) shows in about 500 full colour plates the highlights of the collection. The technical pages illustrate the various silver marks and blad markings.

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