Books

Item Description

Anyone interested in style will enjoy these 4 books on the bedside or the coffee table.

1. FASHION (A Fashion History of the 20th Century) by Taschen, hardback

“An inspirational sourcebook for designers and enthusiasts alike.”
–i-D Magazine, London

Clothes define people: A fashion history of the 20th century. A person’s clothing, whether it’s a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential key to his or her culture, class, personality, or even religion.

2. Art of Turquoise by Mary Emmerling, hardback

Turquoise and silver is an icon of the American Southwest. For generations, people have ogled these gemstones in pawn shops, jewelry shops and antiques stores, looking for a special piece of Native American jewelry that speaks to their heart. Southwest jewelry is now valued and collected around the world.

Photographs of collectible pieces reveal what the attraction is about. Whether in shades of pale aqua or deeper aquamarine, blue or jade green, Mary Emmerling reveals that the collector's hunt is about color. And beyond jewelry, the color turquoise appears throughout the Southwest in architecture and decoration. After all, it's the color of calm.

3. Carry Me! 1950s Lucite Handbags by Janice Berkson, hardback

This book celebrates some of the most fantastic and desirable handbags of the 1950s and 60s.

4. Shanghai Style (ICONS) by Tschen, paperback

Once a fishing town nestled on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta on the east cost of China, Shanghai is now the country's largest city and one of the world's busiest ports. The city has been the cultural and economic center of eastern Asia for over a century and has become synonymous with all that is modern in China. This book adventures through Shanghai, giving readers a cross-section of the city's loveliest and most exceptional interiors, such as a penthouse loft in a converted hardware factory with a rooftop greenhouse, controversial writer/superstar Mian Mian's conceptual "art apartment," the painstakingly restored "dream house" of a French archaeologist in the French Concession, and the sprawling, flamboyant apartment of art world diva Pearl Lam.

Item Special Note

Brand new. Some of these books may be marked down from retail value due to slight cover imperfections, as they were displayed in the store. However, still great condition.