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  • Wiener Werkstatte 1903-1932

    R600

    The Vienna Workshop and the “total work of art” – Founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Fritz Waemdorfer, the Wiener Werkstatte (“Vienna Workshop”) was a collective of architects and craftsmen which aimed at fusing architecture and interior design into a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. Experimenting with various materials (gold, precious stones, and papier mache, for example), the artists of the Wiener Werkstatte created buildings and objects which combined classical elegance with streamlined functionality. Though the workshop lasted only thirty years, its influence is still strong today.

  • As We Like It: Jewellery and Tableware 1988-2008

    R815

    Since the Goldsmithing and Watch-making School in Pforzheim was founded in 1988, it has earned a deserved reputation as being state-of-the-art in training future makers of jewelry and tableware.

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    Cartier Time Art: Mechanics of Passion

    R450

    This book chronicles Cartier’s constant quest for excellence in the manufacture of complicated watches. Whether historic pieces in the Cartier Collection or contemporary fine watch-making creations, Cartier interprets complications in its own inimitable way, and always with a sense of design.

  • Craft South Africa

    R265

    Craft South Africa is a celebration of South Africa’s extraordinary wealth of handmade objects and the people who craft them. From elegant traditional water-storage pots made in rural areas to sophisticated silver jewellery fashioned in urban studios, from headdresses that have adorned Zulu maidens for over a century to contemporary tapestries that explore new materials…