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The breathtaking 500 Teapots launched a bestselling series - and it remains hugely popular. Now comes a gorgeous follow-up that documents the continued vitality of the form and of a new group of top international artists. Ranging from classically beautiful to wonderfully witty to wildly imaginative and ultramodern, these teapots will inspire ceramicists, collectors, crafters and enthusiasts.

From a closed hutch and bedside table to cupboards, curios and a waterfall chest of drawers, these 500 outstanding contemporary cabinets showcase the art and craft of fine furniture making. These newly made works celebrate shape, joinery, detailing, colour, or the subtle combination of all those qualities. Above all, each piece testifies to the design and technical skills of its creator and has that most precious element of all: imagination. Artists include Michael Cullen, Reagan Furqueron, Michael Gloor and Jenna Goldberg, among others.

This definitive collection features a decade's worth of memorable ceramic pieces selected from the prestigious and bestselling "500" series. Juried by a roster of acclaimed artists, including such talents as Cynthia Consentino, Beth Cavener Stichter, Richard Notkin and Sergei Isupov, each piece captures the power of ceramics at the start of a new century. Ceramicists and art enthusiasts alike will treasure the wealth of knowledge offered in this lavishly illustrated keepsake volume as the experts describe what makes a particular vase, teapot, sculpture, or bowl stand out.

This book is a perfect union of form and function, and as such has proven to be endlessly adaptable to aesthetic and technological innovation. The books selected to be included in this follow-up volume to the popular 500 Handmade Books, represent the unlimited creative possibilities for interpreting an enduring form - books as objects and books as sculptural pieces. Along with more traditional, richly embellished books, other featured works push the boundaries such as books that unfurl, scroll and flip, created not only with lush, handmade papers, but also with more improbable materials like metal, fabric, wood and glass.

This breathtaking entry in the highly successful "500 Ceramics" series ventures into the hottest area of modern ceramics: image transfer on clay. Juried by the renowned artist and teacher Paul Andrew Wandless, it showcases a visually intriguing collection of contemporary work in this rapidly evolving field. The featured pieces include silkscreen; newspaper, tissue and digital ink transfer; stencils and more, printed on everything from earthenware and porcelain to stoneware and vitreous china.

Paper craft is a dynamic medium that's in the midst of a renaissance. This entry in the very popular 500 Series reveals the creative work of today's most gifted and original artists and the limitless potential of the craft. Juried by Gene McHugh, an award-winning arts writer and well-established expert in the field, the book presents a broad range of techniques, forms and aesthetic approaches, with magnificent examples of origami, kirigami, cutting, quilling, papier-mache and casting.

Features projects that all have one criterion in common: their close association with nature.