PUBLICATIONS
Making Form: Contemporary British Fine Metalwork by Kenneth Quickenden and Lee Hewett
Birmingham City University. £5 e-book. This publication critically explores the revival of British fine metalwork by designer-makers since roughly the 1970s. It demonstrates many strengths: the increase in that period in the number of practitioners, the creative use of a wider range of metals, the supplementing of [Read More]
Bradbury’s Book of Hallmarks (ed.) Sheffield Assay Office
ISBN 9781872212098. 36th Edition. £25.00 for the special edition and £15.00 for the standard edition (plus £3.00 postage and packing per book). Discounts are available on orders over 100 copies. A donation from the sale of each book will go to Mary Parsons Charity for retired silversmiths. [Read More]
Australian Gold and silversmiths Marks by Jolyon Warwick James.
Hardback, 297 x 210 mm, 88 pages, ISBN 978-0-646-99639-4. £45 (Silver Society members £ 35), Air Mail postage ex Australia £25. Available from jolyonwjames@gmail.com From the records of the Sydney Hall Mark Co and the Commonwealth of Australia Hall Mark Co, 1923 to 1928. It is not [Read More]
Georg Jensen: Scandinavian Design for Living. Alison Fisher (ed.)
Yale University Press, 2018. £40. ISBN 978-0300232998. A beautifully illustrated look at how Georg Jensen pushed the boundaries of modern domestic design. In 1904 Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866-1935) founded one of the world’s most celebrated design companies.
The Museum and the Factory; The V&A, Elkington and the Electrical Revolution by Alistair Grant and Angus Patterson
ISBN 9781848222915, 160pp, hardback, £30.00 The book reveals a great untold story of enterprise and innovation based on the relationship between the Victoria and Albert Museum and Elkington & Co. Elkington played a crucial role in shaping and building the V&A’s permanent collection from its foundations in [Read More]
The Goldsmiths of Dublin, Six Centuries of Achievement by Douglas Bennett
ISBN 9780950548869, 106pp, full colour, hardback, €25.00 available from Four Courts Press, 7 Malpas Street, Dublin 8, Ireland. info@fourcourtspress. The history of Dublin’s goldsmiths is described in this important book, which charts the history of the Dublin Company of Goldsmiths from the Middle Ages to the present. [Read More]