Contemporary Silver: Commissioning, Designing, Collecting

London: Merrell, 2000. Sqaure large quarto in dark grey color illus dust jacket; 160 pages: illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm; bibliographical references and index. Fine in near fine(+) mildly sunned jacket. (See photos). in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781858941042

Contents: Introduction -- Patronage -- Historical background -- Silver design in Britain and America -- Looking at the collection -- The collection -- Information. "The art of the silversmith is at the cutting edge of modern design. Faced with the design of a simple domestic object, the silversmiths featured in this volume have produced an astonishing range -- from the minimal simplicity of the purely functional to the lavish ostentation of the truly baroque. These pieces utilize elements of sealife, Scandinavian design, Florida Art Deco, eighteenth-century Rococo, and totemic, timeless symbols of the natural world to forceful effect."— Publisher. // Silverwork. Silver servers -- Collectors and collecting. Silver servers -- Design. Silverwork.