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Contemporary silver : commissioning, designing, collection / B. Seymour Rabonovitch and Helen Clifford.

Contemporary silver : commissioning, designing, collection / B. Seymour Rabonovitch and Helen Clifford.
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ISBN 1858941040 :
Name Rabonovitch, B. Seymour
Title Contemporary silver : commissioning, designing, collection / B. Seymour Rabonovitch and Helen Clifford.
Published London : Merrell Holberton, 2000.
Description 160 p. : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm.
Notes Includes index.
Note Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction -- Patronage - How to commission silver today -- Historical Background - Servers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Silver Design in Britan and America - 1950-2000 -- Looking at the Collection -- The Collection - British Silversmiths - American Silversmiths -- Information
Summary "Taking as their brief the design of a simple fish server or cake slice, the British and American silversmiths whose work is represented in the collection of Benton Seymour Rabinovitch have produced a range of variations on a single theme. From the minimal simplicity of the purely functional to the lavish ostentation of the truly baroque, these pieces utilize elements of sea life, Scandinavian design, Florida Art Deco, eighteenth-century Rococo and totemic, timeless symbols of the natural world to forceful effect. Whether entirely abstract or startlingly representative, what these pieces have in common is the immense technical mastery that has gone into their design and construction - as well as the fact that, no matter how fantastic their appearance, they are all meant for practical use." "Each piece in the collection is illustrated in colour with a specially commissioned photograph and accompanied by an account of the work's conception. Personal accounts of the artists' guiding aesthetic and technical principles provide a long-needed, unique and authoritative window into current design practice both in Britain and the United States." "The authors provide a step-by-step guide to commissioning one's own pieces, as well as a design-historical context to the last fifty years of the craft. Designers and makers, curators and collectors, craft writers and historians, as well as anyone interested in the beautiful, will find in the volume a fund of information and inspiration."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects Silverware
Silverwork -- Collectors and collecting
Silverwork -- History
Silverwork -- Design
Silverwork -- History -- 20th century
Silverwork
Added Names Clifford, Helen
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