Collection: Reference

Modern Ceramic Products (MCP) was one of the most productive and experimental companies in Australia from the 1940s to the 1960s. This book is brimming with detail and anecdotes that animate a fascinating company story and dynamic era

THE SECOND HALI ANNUAL, focusing on Asian Art, draws together and explores key themes across a range of media in an accessible and strongly visual style.

Western-style furniture was a relatively late arrival in Asia, where climates and lifestyles were markedly different. Colonial incursions and histry brought about profound changes, and furniture design in Asia blossomed into a major decorative art.

Michael Clark Rockefeller's ethnographic notes and photographs made among the Asmat people during two expeditions in 1961, documented by a pictorial and descriptive catalogue of the objects he collected.

Considers the urban Italian house as a crucible for the development of Renaissance art and culture. Illuminating the vitality of the domestic sphere and evoking the spaces in which everyday lives were led, it presents an entirely fresh approach.

An impressive range of ideas & objects from paintings and textiles to kitchen utensils, popular prints, jewellery, and everyday dress to reveal how the upper and middle classes made a crucial contribution to the visual arts in 15th & 16th century Italy