Isbn: 9781857592375 - matchsafes (cooper hewitt national design museum, smithsonian institution) (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The collections of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, in New York comprise a unique history of design. The department of Applied Arts and Industrial design is home to more than 30,000 three-dimensional objects, well over 4,000 of which comprise a rare and extraordinary collection of matchsafes. A selection of the most significant and unusual of these items forms the subject of Matchsafes (Vesta cases). These were designed to keep friction matches safe and dry at a time when they were as vital for lighting kitchen stoves as they were for lighting gentlemen's cigars. In this book, Deborah Sampson Shinn history of these compact metal containers in America, Britain, Europe, and Japan from the 1850s up to the 1910s, when cheap matchbooks and petrol lighters heralded the matchsafe's decline.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 112 p. 100 colour illustrations.

Zustand: Good. Paperback, numerous (full page) colour illustrations (including photographs), square (circa 23x23cm).

Zustand: Good. Marks/light scratches to cover & scuffs to edges. Some marks/scratches to textblock edges. Marks on first page & nick/scuff over previous price causes ink transfer marks on several pages after. Ink marks on some pages otherwise content very good.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 112 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Summary:Matchsafes (or Vesta cases) were designed to keep matches dry at a time when they were as vital for lighting stoves as for lighting gentlemen's cigars. This title presents a selection of the most unusual matchsafes in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt.…