Rittners School of Floral Design
RITTNERS SCHOOL OF FLORAL DESIGN CATALOG
The floral designer is an artist who uses flowers as a media for interior decoration, weddings, funerals and fashion. If you are interested in flowers, flower arrangement or floral design, our school catalog describes workshop courses suitable for the artist, entrepreneur or hobbyist. If you want to learn a cultural pursuit that can be used commercially or for a career, you will find this catalog valuable.
San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum
CLASSICAL CHINESE WOOD FURNITURE
Features Chinese furniture from the late Ming and early Quing Dynasties, the golden age of Chinese furniture production, which emerged from a craft and grew into an art form. Curated and essay by Sandra Lok Fu Chin, an Asian art history scholar. The preface is written by Weldon Smith, director of the museum. The introduction is by Lark Mason. 18 color plates, 3 black and white photographs, 9 woodblock illustrations.
San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum
THE ARTS & CRAFTS STUDIO OF DIRK VAN ERP
The distinctive metalwork of this Bay Area studio. Winner of an "Awards of Excellence" in the 19th Annual Design Competition of The American Federation of the Arts (January, 1990). 61 duotone photographs.
San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum
WHO'D A THOUGHT IT: IMPROVISATION IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN QUILTMAKING
Introduction written by Robert Farris Thompson, a leading African-American scholar. The title essay explores the creativity at work in the African-American quiltmaker's art, and finds the distinctive quality of improvisation to be the crucial link to Black music and African aesthetic traditions in general. 22 black and white photographs; 42 color.