Susan P Weber

William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain (Victoria & Albert Museum: Exhibition Catalogues)

The most versatile British designer of the 18th century, William Kent (16851748) created a style for a new nation and monarchy. The scope of his achievements encompasses architecture, palatial interiors, elaborate gardens, and exquisite furniture. Among his creative innovations are bold combination...

The American Circus (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture)

The circus is a source of nostalgia for Americans of all ages, either from memories of attending P. T. Barnum's "Greatest Show on Earth," or through the colorful evocations in many movies, television programs, and books. Interest in the circus phenomenon is unflagging, yet there have been few public...

History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000 (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture)

Spanning six centuries of global design, this far-reaching survey is the first to offer an account of the vast history of decorative arts and design produced in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and the Islamic world, from 1400 to the present. Meticulously documented and ...

Christmas in Santa Fe

A celebration of Santa Fe’s unique holiday traditions. Christmas in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico is full of enchantment, a rich cultural feast of Spanish, Anglo and Pueblo traditions. Susan Topp Weber chronicles the best of what the region has to offer during the long holiday season and combine...

Nativities of the Southwest

As a companion volume to Nativities of the World, this book features a collection of photos of one-of-a-kind nativities from the American Southwest, including many made by native Pueblo, Navajo and Tohono O'odham artists and artisans, as well as others based in the traditions of the other two domina...

Nativities of the World

Nativities from around the world in a dazzling variety of styles Nearly one hundred nativities from all over the world―most of which have never before appeared in any book―are collected here. Artisans from locales as diverse as the Czech Republic, Guyana, Burkina Faso, and Bangladesh are represente...

Scent of an Alpha

Cheryl is married and living a dull life on a farm. She goes into town and meets a vacationing man who is straight of a storybook: handsome, debonair and very interested in her. She begins a torrid affair with this alpha male that she cannot resist...but soon he plots to kill her husband, wanting to...

Seal Island School

The Seal Island Seven

The Vermont Experience: In Words and Photographs