Welcome to Potterton Books website the one stop source for reference books on Architecture, Antiques, Interior Design and the Decorative Arts. POTTERTON BOOKS : METALWARE French Bronzes in the Wallace collection by Robert Wenley 2003. 112pp, 67 colour, 84 b&w illus. Unique guide to an international outstanding collection French Bronzes. Unique introduction in Englsih to French bronze statuettes, c. 1570-1815. Much new information on individual bronzes is featured within the book as well as superb, specially commissioned colour photographs. Price:  £14.95 Fire and Light in the home pre 1820 280pp, 601 b&w illus. Fire and light provides a treasury of information on the vast array of highly collectable, decorative and interesting paraphernalia intended to be used in lighting the home. John Caspall has traced the developments in this field with meticulous care begining with the advent of fire, tinder boxes, flints and steels and related fire making appliances, through to the early 19th century when inventions such as the chemical match relegated such everyday items to history and the collector. Price:  £35.00 Domestic Metalwork 1640-1820 1994. 464pp, 1000 b&w and 27 colour illus. When English Domestic Brass was first published in 1975 it was the only substantial book on the subject and was rapidly recognised as the stard work. This revised and enlarged edition of the book has been extended to include European items, as well as objects in iron, steel and copper, although brass remains the principal subject. Price:  £45.00 The English Candlestick: 500 years in the development of the English base-metal candlestick 1425-1925 by Eloy Koldeweij 2001. 256pp., 300 colour illus. A definitive and beautifully produced history of the English base metal candlestick aimed at the general reader as well as collectors, dealers, and decorators. The book includes fascinating information on the use of candlesticks and candles over 500 years, their form and construction, metals, makers and marketing. A detailed catalogue of a variety of sticks in copper, brass and bronze, paktong, iron, steel and pewter from an unrivalled private collection is illustrated with specially commissioned photographs. Price:  £35.00 The Paris Salons 1895-1914. Volume V: Objets D' Art & Metalware 566pp, 39 colour, 2,000 b&w illus. An encyclopaedic look at the grear studies in Art Nouveau. Categrised by artist, 2,000 black and white photographs assembled from original salons catalogues illustrate the enormous talent and imagination which artist-craftmen of the day displayed. Metalware, in the context of this volume, covers the works of both the sculptor and the metalworker, at the time when the growing prosperity of the bourgeoisie came to be reflected in the quality of objets d' art Price:  £49.50 POTTERTON BOOKS : METALWARE Buy Online - the best way to buy.