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Bookends can be standout design elements, too. “An ornamented bookend paired with a curated stack of books can serve as a beautiful décor element,” says Karen Anderson, an in-house designer ...
Heavy bookends—made of wood, bronze, marble, and even large geodes—have been used in libraries, stores, and homes for centuries; the simple sheetmetal bookend (originally patented in 1877 by William Stebbins Barnard) [1] uses the weight of the books standing on its foot to clamp the bookend's tall brace against the last book's back; in ...
Retaining its rights, he sold half the patent rights, and later used part of the proceeds to open the Art Metal Works in Newark, N.J. [8] Soon the company was producing a variety of high-quality Lamps, Book ends, Art Statues and other decorative items, prized today for their detail in the collector marketplace. [9] [10] [11] [12]
The first Rookwood Pottery was located in a renovated school house on Eastern Avenue which had been purchased by Maria's father at a sheriff's sale in March 1880. Storer named it Rookwood, after her father's country estate near the city in Walnut Hills. [2] The first ware came from the kiln on Thanksgiving Day of that year.
Decorative tiles were at that time becoming quite fashionable and they were in high demand. The site of the proposed factory had many advantages—it was close to Clifton Junction railway station , it was adjacent to Fletcher's Canal and there was abundant coal nearby in the local Wet Earth Colliery , a short distance away along the same canal.
In a two-page article on the history of C. Jeré for the November 2010 issue of Elle Decor, Mitchell Owens wrote that, after launching in 1964, C. Jeré sculptures were "distributed by Raymor, a cutting edge studio in New York City, and retailed at Gump's in San Francisco and other high quality emporiums…Under Freiler's meticulous direction ...