Customer Reviews (5)

Great coffee table book
Not only will you enjoy using this book for reference, but it is a lovely book you and guests will want to look through over and over.

Interesting
The book combines the strikingly beautiful world of pottery with the history of the early days of the Malibu area.The rise and fall of the family pottery business was a sign of the times as the country fought through the depression.The color pictures are wonderful and the family black and white bring life to that era.This is a very entertaining coffee table or study book.

Wonderful on many levels
A fabulous book for artists, history buffs, and others. Beautifully tells and illustrates the brief but engaging history of the Malibu Potteries. Along with full color examples of the designs, finished tiles and installations, the book takes the reader back to the time and place through personal stories and archival photographs. Each time I pick up this book it inspires me. Highly recommended!

Beautiful
A wonderful book of color pictures of the tiles made at the Malibu Potteries.The book provides a history of the pottery, bios of many of the employees and fabulous pictures of malibu tile installtions.

I love thecolorful tile designs, but there are also Aztecian terra cotta designs thatare inspirational as well.It's all here.

Highly recommended for tilemakers and historians.

Fantastic background on a beautiful art.
This book is a must have reference for all potters, interior designers, tile makers and setters, graphic artists and color lovers. Malibu Potteries is a group of people that never should have passed on by.Thisbook covers it all with beautiful pictures of the some of their work, alongwith the information on how it came together.I wish....to go back in timeand somehow stop the fire! ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Thin in content and in size
I expected an informative reference book but instead found a skinny coffee table book.It contains very few, albeit lovely, photographs averaging about one photo per page.The wording, like the book, is lovely but lacks substance.If you are looking for a small attractive coffee table book this will do but for information go to another source.Miller's American Art Pottery by David Rago would be a superior choice. ... Read more

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690 photographs, 18 color plates. trade softcover. ... Read more

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Focusing on all aspects of ceramics and pottery, this book provides information about dealers, auction houses, contemporary craftsmen and manufacturers, private collections open to the public, publications and specialist associations. ... Read more

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93 pages, b/w and color photographs, price list stapled inside back cover ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pottery is the ceramic ware made by potters. Major types of pottery include earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain. The places where such wares are made are called potteries. Pottery is one of the oldest human technologies and art-forms, and remains a major industry today. Ceramic art covers the art of pottery, whether in items made for use or purely for decoration. Pottery is made by forming a clay body into objects of a required shape and heating them to high temperatures in a kiln to induce reactions that lead to permanent changes, including increasing their strength and hardening and setting their shape. ... Read more