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170 Years of the Guns that Tamed the West and Made All Men Equal!The Peacemaker. The Ol' Thumb-Buster. The Hawg Laig.No firearm in the world is more immediately recognizable than the 1873 Colt Single Action Army Revolver. Yet Colt's famed six-shooter was only one of hundreds of models of single action revolvers that fought wars, tamed a wild continent and bought the long arm of the law to a new world. Single Action Six Guns is packed with fascinating facts about all makes and models: Colt, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Ruger, Freedom Arms, John Linebaugh, United States Fire Arms, and many more...Hundreds of full-color photosUp-to-the-minute reloading data for today's hottest cowboy action guns
From chairs to chests, ceramics to glass, and teddy bears to silverware, learn the tips expert Judith Miller uses to tell a genuine antique from a fake. An international antiques expert, Miller shows how to inspect hundreds of objects and provides all the tools, techniques and tricks to spot a bona fide antique. AUTHOR BIO: Judith Miller is the widely acclaimed antiques and collectibles expert. She has written more than 100 books on antiques and interiors, including her annual Antiques Price Guide and Collectibles Price Guide. She contributes a monthly column on collecting to the financial times.
With more highly skilled luthiers at work than ever before, ours is a golden age of the electric guitar. Presenting superbly crafted electric guitars as fine art, this beautifully photographed book gives 125 master luthiers from 15 countries the spotlight--artisans who have custom-built instruments for the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Steve Miller, Billy F. Gibbons, George Benson, Kirk Hammett, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. From the invention of the electric guitar in the 1930s to its development in the 1960s to present-day innovations, Electrified is a lovingly detailed look at these beautifully produced instruments . . . and the talented people who make them.Robert Shaw's engaging and informative text offers richly detailed portraits of these modern master builders and is complemented by more than 250 color photos of their jaw-dropping work, many of them reproduced full-page. All but a handful of the guitars in the book have been built within the last five years, so it offers a spectacular overview of the current state of the art. Electrified is a must-have for every guitarist.Among the contemporary master builders profiled in the book are: --The Benedek brothers of Budapest, Hungary, who taught themselves how to craft every part of a guitar because they could not afford the rare and expensive American instruments they coveted while growing up behind the Iron Curtain. --John Bolin, who has collaborated with Billy F. Gibbons of ZZ Top on more than 200 unique (and often outrageous-looking) guitars and basses and has also custom-built more than 120 instruments for Steve Miller. --Michael DeTemple, a former professional guitar, banjo, and mandolin player whose Spirit Series guitars bring classic '50s designs to unprecedented levels of technical and sonic refinement. --Roger Giffin, who worked on guitars for Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, Mark Knopfler, and other British rock stars before coming to the US to head Gibson's first custom shop and now hand builds his own elegant designs in Oregon. --William Jeffrey Jones, a Missouri sculptor who hand carves figural and ornamental designs into his guitars' bodies and headstocks, which he shapes from local woods such as walnut, maple, and sassafras. --John Page, the founding foreman of the legendary Fender Custom Shop, who is now creating functional art-furniture as well as what he describes as the instruments " I always wanted to build." --Claudia and Claudio Pagelli, a Swiss husband/wife team who recently built an extravagantly over-the-top guitar decorated with 60,000 Swarovski diamond crystals. --Larry Robinson, one of the leading inlay artists in the world, whose remarkable work, done entirely by hand, has graced instruments by dozens of top luthiers and guitar companies, including Martin, Fender, and Fujigen. --Juha Ruokangas of Finland, who uses local materials like moose shinbone and Arctic birch in his meticulously crafted instruments and speaks for all independent builders when he describes his work as "purely a labor of love."--Ulrich Teuffel, a former industrial designer from Germany who has completely redefined the visual and sonic possibilities of the electric guitar and whose headless "birdfish" model also dispenses with a conventional body. --James Trussart, a Paris native and former professional fiddler whose "Rustomatic" finishes are created by leaving the stamped metal bodies of his guitars outside his southern California shop to corrode.
“There are those who spend lifetimes in houses that have nothing to do with who they really are. They may be perfectly designed, yet if they fail to reflect the personalities of the people who live in them, the very essence of intimacy is missing and this absence is disturbingly visible.”—From “a window inside”One of the most influential designers working in America today, Rose Tarlow knows that creating a truly beautiful room is as much an emotional matter as it is one of color, light, fabric, and furniture. In The Private House, she offers insights into the mind of a master designer—as well as a glimpse into some of the extraordinary homes she’s decorated.Drawing upon her wealth of experience as an antiquaire and a designer, Ms. Tarlow discusses and illustrates simple principles of creative design that are appropriate to any home. Always arrange your comfortable, upholstered furniture first, she writes; pay special attention to how light affects your spaces; and use carpets as background only, never as the focus of a room. With chapters on lighting, fabrics, color, and intimate spaces, Ms. Tarlow encourages readers to plan and decorate each area of their house with elegance and personal style, covering all the essential elements of design—including the emotional ones. The result should be a house that welcomes family and friends, one that enhances our quality of life.
Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity. It is indeed widely believed that a largely pagan aristocracy remained a powerful and active force well into the fifth century, sponsoring pagan literary circles, patronage of the classics, and propaganda for the old cults in art and literature. The main focus of much modern scholarship on the end of paganism in the West has been on its supposed stubborn resistance to Christianity. The dismantling of this romantic myth is one of the main goals of Alan Cameron's book. Actually, the book argues, Western paganism petered out much earlier and more rapidly than hitherto assumed. The subject of this book is not the conversion of the last pagans but rather the duration, nature, and consequences of their survival. By re-examining the abundant textual evidence, both Christian (Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, Paulinus, Prudentius) and "pagan" (Claudian, Macrobius, and Ammianus Marcellinus), as well as the visual evidence (ivory diptychs, illuminated manuscripts, silverware), Cameron shows that most of the activities and artifacts previously identified as hallmarks of a pagan revival were in fact just as important to the life of cultivated Christians. Far from being a subversive activity designed to rally pagans, the acceptance of classical literature, learning, and art by most elite Christians may actually have helped the last reluctant pagans to finally abandon the old cults and adopt Christianity. The culmination of decades of research, The Last Pagans of Rome will overturn many long-held assumptions about pagan and Christian culture in the late antique West.
Tracing the history of costume jewelry from ancient times to the present day, and explaining how changing fashions, social developments, and the discovery of new materials have influenced and inspired designers, DK Collector's Guide: Costume Jewelry is exciting, comprehensive, and easy to use. Written by world-renowned antiques expert Judith Miller, the book offers more than 1,500 collectible pieces in catalog-style, including special sections on 25 major designers such as Joseff of Hollywood, Tiffany & Co, Chanel, Schiaparelli and Dior, and offers priceless tips on what to look for when buying costume jewelry.
These remarkable chess sets span civilizations, chronicling the game and its design beginning with the earliest known pieces and coming up to the surprising present. Considering chess through the perspectives of art and history, the engaging text touches upon the influences of local cultures and available materials, as well as the battles, rulers, and political factions that often inspired thematic sets. In addition to classic sets produced by Wedgwood, Meissen, and Murano, Chess Masterpieces includes the first ever comparison of two sets created by Fabergé (only one of which was previously known to exist), and extensive examples of 20th- and 21st-century sets crafted by artists such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí, and Damien Hirst.
Frommer's Turkey, 6th Edition explores the highlights of a country that is an amazing and diverse treasure trove of architectural styles and ancient ruins. You'll learn how to navigate the chaotic bustle of Istanbul, buy a rug and get the best deal, find the best undiscovered ruins, and learn the ins and outs of getting a Turkish bath.Insider tips on bargaining at bazaars and seeking out hidden beaches.Readers also get language and etiquette tips, exact prices and directions, logistical advice, detailed two-color maps, and much more.
From the Star-Spangled Banner flag to Dorothy's Ruby Slippers, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History is home to some fascinating objects. In fact, one of the most fascinating of these, and one of the most popular, is itself a home. On the museum's third floor sits a five-story dollhouse donated to the museum by Faith Bradford, a Washington D.C. librarian, who spent more than a half-century accumulating and constructing the 1,354 miniatures that fill its 23 intricately detailed rooms. When Bradford donated them to the museum in 1951, she wrote a lengthy manuscript describing the lives of its residents: Mr. and Mrs. Peter Doll and their ten children, two visiting grandparents, twenty pets, and household staff. Bradford cataloged the Dolls' tastes, habits, and preferences in neatly typed household inventories, which she then bound, along with photographs and fabric samples, in a scrapbook. She even sent museum curators holiday cards written by the Dolls. In America's Doll House, Smithsonian Institution curator William L. Bird, Jr. weaves this visual material and back-story into the rich tapestry of Faith Bradford's miniature world. Featuring vibrant photography that brings every narrative detail to life, America's Doll House is both an incisive portrait of a sentimental pastime and a celebration of Bradford's remarkable and painstaking accomplishment.
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