Topic: Seguso Vetri D'Arte book available

[ardy]

Hope this is not another false dawn. Saw this whilst looking for a book.

Seguso Vetri D'Arte: Complete Catalogue Since 1933 by Marc Heiremans

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/marc+heiremans/seguso+vetri+d27arte/3713517/

[TxSilver]

Fingers crossed, but not real hopeful since Amazon doesn't have the book yet. Thanks, ardy.

[ardy]

Hi Anita - you could be right but here are the book details note dec 2010 date. I would think they are correct but Amazon not having it is a worry. Although it seems to be available in many book stores in the US.

Book details

Published
31/12/2010

Publisher
Arnoldsche

ISBN
9783897901629

[ardy]

BTW I ordered the Murano Glass 1910-1970: Theme and Variations by Marc Heiremans. Will see if that arrives OK, it was 20% cheaper than anywhere else I could find it. The SVDA book is 65 pounds + shipping which is reasonable in Australia ie $US106 +$13 shipping.

regards

[kane_u_pain]

I have just checked their website and it is not listed. It would seem it is not released yet. I might give the aussie office a call on Monday and see if we can get an update.

[TxSilver]

I just checked the store availability for Waterstones at http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayStockAvailability.do?sku=3713517. There is no rank for the stores, so I doubt that the book came in. Rats! I ordered one. I hope they don't charge until they send.

[Wayne]

Hi all, I contacted Marc via his website in August last year after seeing his Seguso book listed as available on a website (I forget which one) to see if it was actually available.  This was his response at the time:

"No, the information is incorrect. The book will be released only in 2013 in conjunction with a travelling exhibition throughout Europe."

[TxSilver]

I guess that means the book won't be widely available. I am giving up on it. The book has been dangled like a carrot for years. There must be something wrong with it that they plan a release, then don't release it several times now. I was able to cancel my order at Waterstone, so no problem. But I sure wish we had a good VdA book.

[Pinkspoons]

The problem might be with the publisher rather than with the quality of the book - Arnoldsche also mucked about with a series of three books on WMF. Volumes 1 & 2 were published, and are both excellent texts, but Vol. 3 vanished into the ether after a few promised-but-unfulfilled release dates.

 

If, for some reason, it does only get sold through venues hosting the exhibition, it might become available through the individual venue websites. I've managed to get a few exhibition-only books from various galleries' online shops when I've not had chance to visit them in person.

[ardy]

Maybe we should write to Marc Heiremans and suggest he use another publisher?

EDIT: Just wrote to Arnoldsche and copied Marc Heiremans -

I was looking at the Waterstones book site http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/marc+heiremans/seguso+vetri+d27arte/3713517/ and they claim this book was published in Dec 2010, Is this true? Many of us in the Murano glass society http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/board,6.0.html are waiting on this book and have been waiting for several years.

We would appreciate a definitive statement from you on whether you plan to release this book?

Thank you