We are an authorized, direct-from-the-publisher retailer of NEW books. Our titles are ON HAND and available for immediate shipping. Table of Contents Over 300 illustrations from contemporary sales catalogues and several thousand objects represent the complete range of Ikora Metal articles made by the Neue Kunstgewerbliche Abteilung (NKA) for WMF AG in the 1920s and 1930s (except lamps and jewelery, which will be presented in further volumes of this series) as well as a selection of 1950s and 1960s Ikora Metalware. A comprehensive section showing a selection of metal objects reproduced in colour, an introduction to the subject in terms of art and economic history as well as a precise description of the elaborate finishing techniques applied to metal surfaces, an extensive appendix with a glossary and reproductions of trade-mark symbols make this book an indispensable handbook for scholars, art dealers and curators of public and private collections.
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