Close out August with these new books

Now that vacations are over and school has started again, we hope you have time to enjoy these great new additions to our collection.  We continue to receive beautiful, informative, and fun new publications in all of the visual arts.  Take a look!

Reference

Graphis Photography Annual 2016

Standard Catalogue of World Coins, 2001—date, 11^th ed., 2017

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

C.F.A. Voysey: Arts & Crafts Designer  by Karen Livingstone

Ed Ruscha and the Great American West, exhibit catalog of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Karel Appel; A Gesture of Color, exhibit catalog of the Phillips Collection

Please Touch: Sculpture for a City [about City Garden here in STL!]

Architecture / Landscape Design / Urban Planning

Backyard Blueprints; Design, Furniture and Plants for a Small Garden  by David Stevens

Churches; An Architectural Guide  by Simon Bradley

Contemporary Designers’ Own Gardens  by Barbara Baker

Heaven is a Garden; Designing Serene Outdoor Spaces  by Jan Johnsen

Northamptonshire [The Buildings of England]  by Bruce Bailey/Nikolaus Pevsner

Suffolk West [The Buildings of England]  by James Bettley/Nikolaus Pevsner

Somerset: South and West [The Buildings of England]  by Julian Orbach/Nikolaus Pevsner

Photography

Dream of Venice Architecture

How to take Great Photographs  by Robert Hull

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

House Rules; An Architect’s Guide to Modern Life  by Deborah Berke

World War I in 40 Posters  by Ann P. Linder

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Arne & Carlos: 30 Slippers to Knit and Felt

Beginner’s Guide to Knitting in the Round  by Kristin Omdahl

Cross-stitch to Calm; Stitch and De-stress with 40 Simple Patterns  by Leah Lintz

Drawing Perspective  by Matthew Brehm

Learn Drawing Quickly  by Sharon Finmark

Source for Central's entrance gates discovered

Original Chapel Gates in Prato

Central Library's Front Gates

This bureau has recently discovered the original on which Central Library’s beautiful front entrance gates are modeled.  Maso di Bartolomeo, one of the most respected bronze artists in Renaissance Italy, designed the grilles that form the entrance gate to the “Cappella della Cintola” (Chapel of the Virgin’s Girdle, or Belt) in the Cathedral of Prato, Italy.  Master artisans created and installed this grille between 1438 and 1443.  If you look closely, you can see a buckle holding together the belt-like strands that encircle the graceful quatrefoil design. 

When Central Library was renovated (2010-2012), this motif was used on the glass wall of the Carnegie Room and signs on the building's third floor.