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GREAT OUTDOORS (of3)
Introducing the first collection of art books with detachable prints to decorate your walls. Everything you need to create your own private gallery at home! A collection of landscapes and representations of nature from the tropical paradise of Le Douanier Rousseau's jungle to Monet's water lilies.
Each book contains a curated selection of twenty-one high-quality reproductions that can be easily removed from the book, framed in a standard-size frame, and displayed in the home. Step-by-step tips for grouping the works to create a harmonious gallery add an interior designer's touch to the ensemble. Graphic, colorful, or abstract; paintings, engravings, or drawings--each work of art is explained on the back of the print. Interesting details about the style of painting, the particular work of art, and biographical information about the artist are accompanied by a "frameable fact" that helps you understand the context of that particular work in the history of art. In addition, suggestions for where you can go to see additional examples of the artists' works allow the reader to expand his or her experience and learning.
Artists include Hokusai, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gustav Klimt, Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, and Edward Hopper.
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NATURALMENTE URBANO
Tras perder la audición de un oído al paso de una ambulancia, Gabi Martínez se preguntó cómo afecta el entorno urbano a nuestra salud. Este libro reflexiona sobre la necesidad de transformación de las ciudades ante un modelo urbano ya caduco y nos cuenta cómo se creó la idea de la supermanzana, uno de los conceptos urbanísticos más revolucionarios de las últimas décadas: su acogida, su implantación y las polémicas que generó. Una auténtica oportunidad de futuro para llevar una vida más sana en la ciudad. Esta es su historia. Y sus posibilidades.
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CITY LIGHTS (B) (OF3)
Introducing the first collection of art books with detachable prints to decorate your walls. Everything you need to create your own private gallery at home! Nightscapes that range from a fireworks display in Rome by Jacob Philipp Hackert to the Louvre from across a Parisian bridge by Maximilien Luce to a moonlit New York streetlamp by Georgia O'Keeffe.
Each book contains a curated selection of twenty-one high-quality reproductions that can be easily removed from the book, framed in a standard-size frame, and displayed in the home. Step-by-step tips for grouping the works to create a harmonious gallery add an interior designer's touch to the ensemble. Graphic, colorful, or abstract; paintings, engravings, or drawings--each work of art is explained on the back of the print. Interesting details about the style of painting, the particular work of art, and biographical information about the artist are accompanied by a "frameable fact" that helps you understand the context of that particular work in the history of art. In addition, suggestions for where you can go to see additional examples of the artists' works allow the reader to expand his or her experience and learning.
Artists include Edward Hopper, William Turner, Camille Pissarro, Paul Klee, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, Giorgio de Chirico, Georgia O'Keeffe, René Magritte, and Wassily Kandinsky.
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INTO THE CLOUDS (OF3)
Introducing the first collection of art books with detachable prints to decorate your walls. Everything you need to create your own private gallery at home! Plays on light and color from Japanese woodblock prints to Rothko's white cloud on a brilliant orange background.
Each book contains a curated selection of twenty-one high-quality reproductions that can be easily removed from the book, framed in a standard-size frame, and displayed in the home. Step-by-step tips for grouping the works to create a harmonious gallery add an interior designer's touch to the ensemble. Graphic, colorful, or abstract; paintings, engravings, or drawings--each work of art is explained on the back of the print. Interesting details about the style of painting, the particular work of art, and biographical information about the artist are accompanied by a "frameable fact" that helps you understand the context of that particular work in the history of art. In addition, suggestions for where you can go to see additional examples of the artists' works allow the reader to expand his or her experience and learning.
Artists include John Constable, Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Edgar Degas, Nicolas de Staël, Hermione Carline, Eugène Delacroix, René Magritte, Helen White, and Mark Rothko.
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THE COUNTRY HOUSE. PAST, PRESENT (OF3)
From The Crown to Downton Abbey, the country house speaks to our fantasies of rustic splendour, style, and escape. Featuring three hundred photos from the National Trust, this lavish book draws back the curtain on the finest and most important historic homes in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, revealing these great houses' intriguing pasts, grand interiors, and vi-brant reinventions for the enjoyment of modern-day visitors, residents, and armchair travellers. Locations include Knole, Cragside, Castle Howard, Chatsworth, Polesden Lacey, Petworth, Castle Bodiam, Blenheim, Longleat, and dozens more. Illuminating essays by country house expert Jeremy Musson, legendary British author and historian David Cannadine, and contributing writers and scholars provide unique insight into centuries of life in a historic home. This is a rich visual resource for lovers of sumptuous interiors on a human scale, as well as grand exterior architecture and gorgeous landscapes. For Anglophiles, royals watchers, and lovers of the country house lifestyle, architecture, and interior design, this is a magnificent new look at landmark British country houses, the treasures they contain, and how they speak to our fantasies of rustic splendour and escape today.
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BUILDING BEAUTIFUL (OF3)
New homes, featuring interiors, gardens, and furniture from London-based architect John Simpson, famed designer of the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace and one of the world’s leading practitioners of New Classicism.
Inviting, perfect in proportion, exquisite in detail—such are a few of the ways to describe homes designed by John Simpson. Well known for his work with the British royal family at Buckingham and Kensington palaces and for his buildings at Eton College in the U.K. and at the University of Notre Dame in the U.S., he is perhaps most brilliant at the level of the house and home. Building Beautiful is an invitation to enter the work of this master designer, as one might visit with a treasured friend.
From a dream made real within a Venetian palazzo—a former seventeenth-century near-ruin, brought back to glorious, fancifully detailed life—to an English countryside cottage with a thatched roof, the featured homes are expressions of Simpson’s unerring eye and extraordinary sense of beauty. Here we find drama in contrasts of scale and the seductive effects of light, where a cozy reading nook opens to an expansive living room with a double-height ceiling that nevertheless feels not overly large but rather just right. This is Simpson’s subtle art—a mastery of scale, balance, and a pervading sense of elegance.
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AN EAMES PRIMER (OF3)
An in-depth look at Charles and Ray Eames's prolific legacy—one that has placed them among the most important American designers of the twentieth century and at the forefront of modernism.
Charles and Ray Eames's expansive and monumental career in furniture design ran from 1941 to 1978. This comprehensive and illustrated text serves as a guidebook to their most important pieces and themes.
As beloved figures in design, art, and architecture who emerged from the optimism of the 1950s, the couple’s egalitarian and humanistic furniture designs made them household names. Most famous for their chairs, they also created seminal works of architecture and film. Written by their grandson, Eames Demetrios, An Eames Primer is an easy-to-read and informational book to the world's most famous and influential furniture designers.
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NOVOGRATZ DESING FIX
Design darlings Cortney and Robert Novogratz tackle a long list of design dilemmas and offer scores of smart tips on how to solve them.
Well known to their fans through their several reality TV shows (HGTV and Bravo), various home decor lines (with Amazon, WayFair, and now Home Goods), and their impressive social media following, designers Robert and Cortney Novogratz are beloved for their laid-back, chic, and family-friendly approach to home design.
The couple has done it all: with over fifteen years of experience building and decorating houses for themselves and their exacting clients, they have faced every possible design challenge. In this volume, they offer up in-depth advice and tips for a multitude of design and decorating situations using over a dozen projects as examples: how to restore an old home and bring it back to life; how to turn a generic rental into a personality-filled space; how to use bold color to transform your home; how to decorate for small spaces; how to create spaces for kids, from bedrooms to playrooms; how to incorporate art in your home; and how to turn your house into an attractive Airbnb rental, among many other design-dilemma topics.
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EL MUNDO SEGUN YVES SAINT LAURENT
Las frases célebres del legendario diseñador Yves Saint Laurent sobre alta costura, mujer, estilo y elegancia, en un precioso formato.
Fundada por Yves Saint Laurent y Pierre Bergé en 1962, poco después de que el joven modista dejara su puesto al frente de Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent se convirtió en una de las casas de alta costura más exitosas e influyentes de París.
Con Le Smoking, el primer traje de esmoquin para mujer, de 1966, Saint Laurent también presentó creaciones icónicas inspiradas en el arte, desde vestidos de Mondrian hasta preciosos bordados de Van Gogh y la famosa colección Ballets Rusos.
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PEQUEÑO LIBRO DE CHANEL POR LAGERFELD
Una guía cuidadosamente ilustrada de los años que Lagerfeld trabajó en Chanel, desde su alta costura elaborada con gran exquisitez a los impresionantes e irreverentes desfiles que han hecho de Chanel la marca más ilustre del mundo. * La Casa Chanel no es sinónimo de un diseñador emblemático, sino de dos. Primero fue Gabrielle y luego Karl. * Sin embargo, Karl Lagerfeld no se limitó a continuar el legado de Gabrielle Chanel, sino que lo reinventó. Los productos icónicos de la Casa Chanel -el vestidito negro, el traje de tweed, la bisutería y la fragancia- se actualizaron con ingenio para la mujer moderna, mientras que los deseados accesorios estampados con el logotipo de la doble "C", reconocibles al instante, se convirtieron en símbolos universales de una elegancia lúdica. "Los jóvenes creadores que quieren seguir mis pasos, tienen que correr".
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PEQUEÑO LIBRO DE VERSACE
Con más de 100 imágenes de momentos inolvidables sobre la alfombra roja, piezas clave e impresionantes desfiles, esta es una fabulosa colección de todo lo relacionado con Versace. La historia de la icónica casa de moda, desde su creación por Gianni Versace hasta su estatus de culto actual bajo el liderazgo de Donatella. Versace siempre ha estado a la vanguardia de la moda. Con un pie firmemente asentado en la cultura popular, la marca ha estado presente en algunos de los momentos más inolvidables de la modernidad. Desde el vestido imperdible de Elisabeth Hurley hasta la armadura en oro de Lil Nas X en la Gala del Met, y de la portada de Lady Diana en Harper's Bazaar hasta el vestido verde de Jennifer López, Versace refleja pasión, sensualidad y provocación. "No te dejes llevar por las tendencias. No permitas que la moda te posea; decide lo que eres, lo que quieres expresar con tu forma de vestir".
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PEQUEÑO LIBRO DE VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
Diseñadora, rebelde, revolucionaria. Vivienne Westwood fue punk en la moda y en la política, y encontró formas únicas de subvertir la tradición, transgredir los límites y desafiar el statu quo. Este libro celebra la vida y la marca de una leyenda del estilo, desde su dominio de la sastrería y la corsetería hasta su interpretación creativa del tartán y el Harris Tweed. Con un texto cuidado y atractivo, acompañado de exquisitas imágenes de sus colecciones, desfiles y diseños, este fabuloso libro rinde homenaje a una agitadora y activista cuyo legado será recordado para siempre. El impacto de Westwood se percibe a través de su influencia en otros nombres del mundo de la moda como Alexander McQueen, John Galliano y Marc Jacobs. Numerosos graduados de las escuelas de moda de todo el mundo continúan citándola como inspiración fundamental para sus colecciones. «Tienes una vida más interesante si llevas ropa impresionante». Vivienne Westwood
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PEQUEÑO LIBRO DE BALMAIN
Desde 1945, la casa Balmain recibe la atención de la crítica y los amantes de la moda gracias a sus impresionantes detalles y su inconfundible estilo maximalista. Marca imprescindible del lujo y el glamur más explosivo, Balmain reina con el apoyo de una envidiable clientela de superestrellas, como el clan Kardashian y Beyoncé, y su inconfundible canto a la opulencia. Con magníficas fotografías y un texto de cuidada redacción, este libro explica la historia de la emblemática firma, desde los inicios junto a Christian Dior hasta la llegada del inimitable Olivier Rousteing, cuya extravagante estética y poderosa influencia han llevado a Balmain hacia una modernidad única. Rousteing se ha convertido en el mayor activo de Balmain. Es un diseñador de moda con talento y un don para el marketing en las redes sociales, que cuenta con el apoyo de famosos y con campañas que ofrecen una amplia variedad de colaboraciones. Con su personalidad abierta y encantadora, su voluntad de afrontar los retos y su compromiso con la igualdad, encarna lo que significa ser un miembro versátil en la comunidad mundial de la moda en el nuevo milenio. «Al principio no podía creer en lo que se convertiría Balmain hoy». Olivier Rousteing, 2019
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PEQUEÑO LIBRO DE CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN
Entre los diseñadores de calzado de lujo, hay uno cuyas creaciones se reconocen al instante: Christian Louboutin. Sus distintivas suelas rojas están por todas partes, desde la gran pantalla y la pasarela hasta las calles de todo el mundo. Desde su infancia en París hasta la inauguración de su primera tienda en 1992, desde la alfombra roja hasta el dominio absoluto del mercado de calzado de lujo, este libro relata la historia del diseñador de calzado más famoso del planeta. mágenes de sus creaciones pasadas y presentes se acompañan de un texto fascinante, que describe el ascenso meteórico del rey en el diseño de zapatos. «Una mujer puede llevar un bolso, pero es el zapato el que lleva a la mujer». Christian Louboutin
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PEQUEÑO LIBRO DE BURBERRY
Sofisticada, sencilla y británica por excelencia, la casa Burberry es conocida en todo el mundo por sus diseños clásicos. Fundada en Inglaterra hace más de 160 años, y aún hoy con sede en Londres, es una de las marcas más cotizadas del mundo. Desde las gabardinas tradicionales hasta los diseños más experimentales para la alfombra roja, Burberry es apreciada por su extraordinaria capacidad para combinar tradición e innovación. l encanto de las «chicas Burberry», como Cara Delevingne, Kate Moss y Naomi Campbell, personifica precisamente lo que Burberry representa: aspiración, elegancia y gracia. Con una exquisita selección de más de 100 fotografías, que incluyen desde diseños acabados hasta detalles en primer plano y cuidados estilismos, este libro cuenta la historia de la marca Burberry desde sus humildes comienzos en 1856 hasta su actual estatus de lujo.
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ADOBE HOUSES (OF3)
Adobe residences from the Spanish and Mexican eras were the original California houses. Architects, designers, builders, and homeowners today, as in the past, look to their simple, utilitarian features—such as plain, whitewashed walls, beamed ceilings, and intimate open-air courtyards—and try to emulate their forms to capture the charm of a romanticized past. Leading architects of style movements such as the Spanish Colonial Revival traveled to California and studied its extensive eighteenth and nineteenth century adobes firsthand as the foundation of their education in California architecture.
Made of earth and organic matter, such as straw, adobe is among the oldest of building materials and has been used throughout the world. From the 1770s to the present, adobe buildings such as churches, forts (presidios), mills, residences, warehouses, and stores have been a most important and informative part of California’s architectural heritage.
Adobe Houses presents twenty-three homes, made from adobe, showing interiors and gardens from these often quiet masterworks, ranging from Casa Boronda of 1817 in Monterey to Casa del Oso, a contemporary manifestation, built in Santa Barbara in 2000 that reveals the intriguing range of possibilities available to us when building in this traditional form today.
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VALODE & PISTRE ARCHITECTS (OF3)
This monograph details thirty-four major architectural works from Valode and Pistre, including commercial, retail, industrial, and cultural projects. Founded in 1980 by its current directors Denis Valode and Jean Pistre, Valode and Pistre Architects is a highly sought-after architecture and design firm based in Paris. Their predominantly large-scale projects are distinguished by their high degree of diversity from the Contemporary Art Museum of Bordeaux to the L Oreal factory and more recently the T1 Tower La Defense in Paris. Their innovative designs for the Beaugrenelle Center on the Front of the Seine won the Global Award for Excellence in 2015 for its approach to urban development. The book features works such as the Renault Technocentre near Paris, Las Mercedes business park in Madrid, and a group of hotel towers in Beijing. The book also looks at future projects that were recently awarded to Valode and Pistre a new Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center and three stations of the Grand Paris Express transit line.
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THE WORLD OF MADELEINE CASTAING (OF3)
The inimitable style of renowned French interior designer Madeleine Castaing, chronicled in-depth for the first time. While many were drumming to the beat of modernism in the early- and mid-twentieth century, French antiquaire and decorator Madeleine Castaing created her own look that was a unique blend of neoclassicism, Proustian romanticism, and pure wit. Her distinctive aesthetic vision has inspired tastemakers on both sides of the Atlantic, and her devotees--both then and now--are legion. Ocelot carpeting, opaline blue, "coolie" lampshades, and an eclectic mix of neoclassical furnishings ranging from English Regency to Napoleon III all formed part of the vocabulary of "le style Castaing." This lavishly illustrated volume--the first on her work--explores in-depth the elements of her style, and examines how she crafted interiors so emotive that visitors felt that they had stepped into a Balzac novel or a Proustian recollection. Her entire life and career are chronicled, from her early years in Montparnasse, the epicenter of artistic activity in Paris, to her incomparable country house Leves and her legendary shop on rue Jacob in Paris.
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THE NEW SHINGLED HOUSE (OF3)
The architectural style of the classic American summer, the shingled house can suggest the beach, the countryside, the mountains, and even the city. AD100 architects Ike Kligerman Barkley, one of the most successful firms practicing in a traditional style today, presents 14 houses that celebrate the simple wood shingle's infinite flexibility--ranging from richly historic to sculptural and experimental. The New Shingled House includes examples throughout the fabled seaside resorts of New England--Martha's Vineyard, Block Island, and the Hamptons--as well as houses in California's Bay Area and Point Loma, on a pristine mountain lake in South Carolina, and a Scandinavian influenced family residence in Connecticut. All are characterized by a sense of graciousness and generosity that makes them unique spaces for the owners and enviable spaces for readers. The versatility of the shingle style allows the designers to explore formal ideas and to respond to client preferences and taste. The houses thus achieve the architects' fundamental goal: when their clients enter their new house for the first time, they should feel as though they have always lived there. This stunning visual presentation features new photography by noted interiors photographer William Waldron, who has captured the graciousness and generosity of the elegant interiors and welcoming porches and terraces that make these houses so inviting and timeless.
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VOGUE. POSTCARDS FROM HOME (OF3)
Vogue gathers a stylish collection of at-home, intimate portraits photographed by today's fashion icons, designers, models, and artists, each documenting their creative lives under lockdown.
Vogue: Postcards from Home is a beautiful and unforgettable collection of self-rendered images from a bevy of celebrities, photographers, filmmakers, actors, creative directors, performance artists, fashion designers, and models. Kendall Jenner, Virgil Abloh, Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Karen Elson, Florence Pugh, Maurizio Cattelan, Billy Porter,
Donatella Versace, Gisele Bündchen, Cindy Sherman, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Kim Kardashian West are among those who share a glimpse of their lives under lockdown. From singer Lizzo meditating at home, to actress Florence Pugh
honing her cooking skills, to Miuccia Prada contemplating Prada's next collection in her garden--these snapshots reflect a moment in history when the world turned upside down but creativity flourished. This unique record of a moment is a must-have for devotees of fashion, art, culture, and photography, and reaches across a readership of all ages. A portion of the proceeds will go to A Common Thread, Vogue's new fundraising initiative to provide assistance to the fashion industry during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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50 COSAS QUE HAY QUE SOBRE ARQUITECTURA
¿Cuál es la diferencia entre una columna dórica y una jónica? ¿Cuál es la función de un arbotante? ¿Cuáles son los principios rectores de la arquitectura moderna? ¿En qué se diferencia la restauración de la conservación?
Desde las raíces más tempranas de la arquitectura en la Grecia antigua, pasando por el desarrollo revolucionario de finales del siglo XX, hasta las tendencias más recientes de la arquitectura ecológica, esta guía esencial explica los conceptos e ideas fundamentales sobre arquitectura y brinda una nueva y fundada comprensión de la disciplina y su profundo impacto en el mundo en que vivimos.
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CALATRAVA (BA-ARCH)
Con su trabajo visionario, el valenciano Santiago Calatrava (Benimámet, 1951) ha conseguido el reconocimiento internacional como arquitecto, ingeniero estructural, escultor y artista. Famoso tanto por sus puentes como por sus edificios, en su obra destacan las estructuras de aires neofuturistas, que combinan hábiles soluciones de ingeniería con un impacto visual asombroso. Desde el Complejo Deportivo Olímpico de Atenas 2004 y el reciente Museo del Mañana de Río de Janeiro hasta los puentes de la Paz, en Calgary; del Alamillo, en Sevilla, y de la Mujer, en Buenos Aires, los proyectos de Calatrava inciden especialmente en la relación entre el movimiento y el equilibrio. Con fuentes de inspiración tan diferentes como los diseños espaciales de la NASA o los estudios de anatomía de Leonardo Da Vinci, las obras del arquitecto español fascinan por la sensación de ligereza, agilidad y aerodinamismo que transmiten mientras mantienen una elegante relación con su entorno. Esta monografía concisa explora la singular estética de Calatrava a partir de proyectos clave de su carrera, desde sus primeros éxitos hasta sus creaciones más recientes. A través de edificios dedicados a la cultura, la ciencia o la fe, descubrimos la manera en la que integra las formas orgánicas y los movimientos humanos con una fluidez futurista que mira al mañana.
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ANDO (BA-ARCH) (ES)
Este libro de TASCHEN ofrece la introducción perfecta a la obra de Tadao Ando y explora el híbrido de tradición, modernidad y función de unos edificios que fascinan a arquitectos, diseñadores y diseñadores de moda, entre otros. A través de obras clave como viviendas particulares, iglesias, museos, complejos de apartamentos y espacios culturales, analizamos una estética única, monumental y acogedora, basada tanto en la tradicional serenidad japonesa como en los vocabularios decididamente modernos de la Bauhaus y Le Corbusier.
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COMO LEER CASAS
Cómo leer casas es una guía práctica que le enseñará a reconocer y a apreciar la diversidad de la arquitectura doméstica según su ubicación, su estilo y la pericia tecnológica de la época, desde los entramados de madera de las casas de estilo Tudor hasta ejemplos de vivienda realmente singulares. Muy práctica por su cómodo formato de bolsillo, pero lo suficientemente exhaustiva como para proporcionarle las respuestas a todas sus dudas, esta manejable guía:
· Ayuda a comprender el vocabulario arquitectónico, ayudándose de ejemplos reales ilustrados que le ayudarán a identificar los diferentes estilos de casas y su contexto histórico.
· Mejora el resultado de la apreciación que pueda obtener de sus visitas a casas históricas y le aporta los conocimientos básicos para explorar arquitectónicamente su entorno.
· Analiza los principales estilos arquitectónicos, así como los materiales y los elementos de una vivienda, mediante bellas ilustraciones, fotografías de ejemplos clásicos y las explicaciones de un experto.
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ARQUITECTURA PARA DUMMIES
¿Cuándo un edificio es solo una construcción y cuándo es arte? ¿Qué hace que nos emocionemos con la magnificencia del Taj Mahal, las pirámides de Giza o un rascacielos de Nueva York? ¿Qué secretos ocultan la cuidada sobriedad de Le Corbusier, la trascendencia espiritual de Miguel Ángel o la racionalidad clásica de Calícrates? Con un lenguaje alejado de tecnicismos, en esta guía encontrarás lo esencial de la arquitectura de todo el mundo para que puedas disfrutar todavía más esa apasionante faceta de la actividad humana.
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HADID (BA-ARCH) (GB)
Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some even said her audacious, futuristic designs were unbuildable.
During the latter years of her life, Hadid’s daring visions became a reality, bringing a unique new architectural language to cities and structures as varied as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, hailed by The New York Times as “the most important new building in America since the Cold War”; the MAXXI Museum in Rome; the Guangzhou Opera House in China; and the London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre.
At the time of her unexpected death in 2016, Hadid was firmly established among the elite of world architecture, recognized as the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, but above all as a giver of new forms, the first great architect of the noughties.
From her early sharply angled buildings to later more fluid architecture that made floors, ceilings, walls, and furniture part of an overall design, this essential introduction presents key examples of Hadid’s pioneering practice. She was an artist, as much as an architect, who fought to break the old rules and crafted her own 21st-century universe.
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JOANA BIARNES. MODA A PIE DE CALLE
Los reportajes de moda que realizó Joana Biarnés, la primera fotoperiodista española, que muestran la evolución de la moda y de la sociedad en una época de cambios trascendentales, desde el final de la década de 1950 hasta principios de la de 1970.
Pionera en la fotografía de moda, contó con la colaboración destacada de la periodista Rosana Ferrero. Joana se ocupaba del estilismo, de elegir a las modelos y las temáticas de muchos de sus reportajes y editoriales, y consiguió a menudo marcar tendencia. De esta forma, se convirtió en la cronista regular y sistemática de la evolución radical que se produjo en la indumentaria, del clasicismo de la alta costura a la informalidad del prêt-à-porter.
Biarnés trató la moda con la misma proximidad y sinceridad con que abordaba el resto de los temas que documentaba. En un ámbito dado a la fantasía y la sofisticación, Joana situó a menudo las modelos en la calle, con naturalidad, sin buscar escenarios fastuosos o extravagantes y captó como nadie en cada imagen la esencia de su tiempo.
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BREUER. ARNT COBBERS (BA-ART) (GB)
In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining “form-givers of the 20th century.” Today, Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. As a Bauhaus pioneer, even his earliest work was marked by a material restraint; the balance of texture, color, and shape; and a symbiosis of local and global, big and small, rough and smooth.In this essential introductory monograph, we survey Breuer’s complete career through some of his most influential projects and ideas, from his landmark tubular furniture to the MoMA Research House to his innovation of “binuclear” housing, splitting living and sleeping areas into separate wings. Along the way, we follow Hungarian-born Breuer’s journey to international acclaim, with featured projects from Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and across the United States contributing to his global status as a modernist maestro.
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SAARINEN (BA-ART) (GB)
The creator of the ubiquitous Knoll “Tulip” chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) was one of the 20th century’s most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility across architecture and design.Among Saarinen’s greatest accomplishments are Washington D.C.’s Dulles International Airport, the very sculptural and fluid TWA terminal at JFK Airport in New York, and the 630 ft. (192 m) high Gateway Arch of St. Louis, Missouri, each of them defining structures of postwar America. Catenary curves were present in many of his structural designs. During his long association with Knoll, Saarinen’s other famous furniture pieces included the “Grasshopper” lounge chair and the “Womb” settee.
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MODA TRANSGRESORA
Descubra la moda que se atrevió a ser diferente, que comprometió reputaciones y puso carreras en peligro. Esto es lo que sucede cuando se desafía la tradición. 50 momentos imprescindibles que asombraron al mundo y cambiaron para siempre la moda convencional con una narración de las fascinantes historias que se esconden detrás de la creación, la acogida y el legado de cada una de las piezas seleccionadas. Desde las impresionantes chaquetas globo a las camisetas protesta, los pantalones Bumster y los vestidos de imperdibles, este libro hace un repaso de la moda más vanguardista a través de fascinantes diseñadores, atrevidas campañas publicitarias, alta costura surrealista y prendas radicales. Se examina paso a paso la historia de la moda moderna a través de las piezas que se apartaron del canon y se presentan aquellos momentos que cuestionaron conscientemente los límites, que desafiaron las normas establecidas y que causaron un terremoto que aún retumba en la actualidad. "Se puede ver hasta el advenimiento de una revolución en la ropa. En las prendas se puede ver y sentir todo".
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BAUHAUS (BA-ARCH) (GB)
In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology to be applied across painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre, and installation.
As much an intense personal community as a publicly minded collective, the Bauhaus was first founded by Walter Gropius (1883–1969), and counted Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl, Marianne Brandt and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe among its members. Between its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, the school fostered charismatic and creative exchange between teachers and students, all varied in their artistic styles and preferences, but united in their idealism and their interest in a “total” work of art across different practices and media.
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ANDO (BA-ARCH) (GB) (INT)
In this essential TASCHEN introduction to Tadao Ando we explore the hybrid of tradition, modernism, and function that allows his buildings to enchant architects, designers, fashion designers, and beyond. Through key projects including private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces, we explore a uniquely monumental yet comforting aesthetic that draws as much on the calm restraint of Japanese tradition as the compelling modernist vocabularies of Bauhaus and Le Corbusier.
With featured projects in Japan, France, Italy, Spain, and the United States, we see not only Ando’s global reach but also his refined sensitivity for the environs: the play of light through windows, and, in particular, the interaction of buildings with water. From the mesmerizing Church of the Light in Osaka to the luminous Punta della Dogana Contemporary Art Center in Venice, this is a radiant tour through a distinctly contemporary form as much as a timeless appeal of light, elements, and equilibrium.
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (BA-ART) (ING)
Acclaimed as the “father of skyscrapers,” the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and applied his idealism to structures across the continent, from suburban homes to churches, offices, skyscrapers, and the celebrated Guggenheim Museum.
Wright’s work is distinguished by its harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture, and which found its paradigm at Fallingwater, a house in rural Pennsylvania, cited by the American Institute of Architects as “the best all-time work of American architecture.” Wright also made a particular mark with his use of industrial materials, and by the simple L or T plan of his Prairie House which became a model for rural architecture across America. Wright was also often involved in many of the interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass, paying particular attention to the balance between individual needs and community activity.
Exploring Wright’s aspirations to augment American society through architecture, this book offers a concise introduction to his at once technological and Romantic response to the practical challenges of middle-class Americans.
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NEUTRA (BA-ARCH) (GB)
In the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892–1970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek building surfaces, vast glass panel walls allow panoramic views over mountains, gardens, palm trees, and pools.
Neutra moved to the United States from his native Vienna in 1923 and settled in Los Angeles. He displayed his affinity with architectural settings early on with the Lovell House, set on a landscaped hill with views of the Pacific Ocean and Santa Monica Mountains. Later projects such as the Kaufmann House and Nesbitt House would continue this blend of art, landscape, and living comfort, with Neutra’s clients often receiving detailed questionnaires to define their precise needs.
This richly illustrated architect introduction presents the defining projects of Neutra’s career. As crisp structures nestle amid natural wonders, we celebrate a particularly holistic brand of modernism which incorporated the ragged lines and changing colors of nature as much as the pared down geometries of the International Style.
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CHATEAU DE HAROUE
A dazzling tour of Château de Haroué, the epitome of opulent French style and one of today’s must-see examples of vibrant eighteenth-century architecture and design.
Located in a remote village in the Lorraine region of northeastern France, the estate of Château de Haroué is an unrivaled treasure of Gallic culture and heritage. Built between 1720 and 1729 for Marc de Beauvau, Prince de Beauvau-Craon, constable of Lorraine and viceroy of Tuscany, his descendents have inhabited the castle and kept it going in high style ever since.
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PERSPECTIVA FACIL. LAS BASES DEL DIBUJO
La perspectiva es fácil, pero son sorprendentemente pocos los artistas conocedores de las sencillas leyes que la rigen. El propósito de este libro es aclarar esas leyes.
Dibuja un ladrillo, un libro o una caja. ¿Sabes por qué lo has dibujado de esa manera?
En este manual paso a paso, el artista Ernest R. Norling nos acerca de forma sencilla y eficaz a los conceptos fundamentales de las leyes de la perspectiva. Con su método en veinte pasos, y a través de más de doscientas cincuenta ilustraciones claras y precisas, Norling desentraña las bases del dibujo que nos permitirán crear a mano alzada todo tipo de paisajes y edificios sin caer en representaciones rígidas y mecánicas.
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COMING HOME TO NATURE. THE FRENCH ART
The call of the wild has never looked as stylish as in these homes nestled in the French countryside, crafted by families pursuing a new form of country living.
A manor next to an elegant seventeenth-century castle in a picturesque village, a restored four-hundred-year-old windmill, or a ruin in the Barbizon forest transformed into a contemporary timber house—our trio of authors saw the potential in these rural homes and took the leap into a life rhythmed by nature. But how did these urban dwellers step away from the glamour of Paris, and why haven’t they looked back?
A calmer life enriched by its surroundings, with more space at home, a burgeoning garden, and a relaxed ambiance is a seductive combination. But a country house is different from a cozy apartment, just steps from modern conveniences. In their search for a deeper experience, they embarked on a long-term project that required planning and effort, but it brought unexpected joy along with the challenges.
Life in the countryside takes adjustment and there is much to be learned—from furnishing and organizing your home to getting the most from nature and your garden, and from dressing to suit your new setting to hosting relaxed soirées where you’ll linger over dinner with your guests. This is the art of countryfication. Alongside portraits of similar-minded individuals and families who have adopted country living, this book provides insight, practical advice, and recipes that celebrate life in the countryside, all while retaining a Parisian flair.
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MAGICAL ROOMS. ELEMENTS OF INTERIOR DESI
Known for her witty and whimsical interiors with a bohemian flair, Brooklyn-based designer Fawn Galli shows us how to create magical rooms ourselves without breaking the bank.
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TORD BOONTJE. ENCHANTED WORLD
This highly anticipated follow-up volume presents the exquisite designs of Tord Boontje, one of the most creative and romantic industrial designers working today.
Tord Boontje: Enchanted World is a comprehensive visual document of the designer’s most recent work. As an artist and a craftsman, Boontje incorporates an artisanal sensibility into contemporary industrial design, drawing upon a rich graphic tradition to create objects of exceptional beauty and delicacy.
Featured here are some of his latest works, many undertaken after Boontje stepped down as Head of Design Products at the Royal College of Art in 2013 (a position he assumed after Ron Arad in 2009). Now, solely focused on his own design studio in London, Boontje showcases many of his designs, including the wispy Icarus Lamp, an armoire constructed entirely of pressed-metal fig “leaves” for Meta, a portable Bluetooth speaker for Yamaha hidden under a curtain of horsehair, and many other romantic explorations that have made Boontje’s output stand out in the world of design. Combining developing technologies and traditional approaches, his pieces are prized for their originality, delicacy, and intricate detail. This book is a must for design lovers, providing readers with a window into how Boontje crafts his unique objects, from studio prototype to retail. Indeed, the book is conceived as a work of total design, using special printing effects and beautiful marginalia on almost every page in the form of Boontje’s sensitive and romantic detailed hand-drawn illustrations that have served as the inspiration for many of the objects featured here.
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DESIGNING HOLLYWOOD HOMES
Designer extraordinaire Stephen Shadley began his working life as a scenic artist at 20th Century Fox. Throughout a celebrated career (landing a coveted spot on the AD100), his work has been marked continually by the glamour of Hollywood as well as by a kind of visual storytelling that is richly informed by the world of the movie screen and by the artifice and allure of film s great cinematographers. Notable for their expression of an exquisite sense of style, his designed homes including the interiors for a classic Beverly Hills abode for Diane Keaton, an apartment for Robert Altman in the legendary Pythian building on New York s Upper West Side, as well as a luxurious contemporary home for Jennifer Aniston are all expressions of a masterful sense of scale and an appreciation for understated beauty and refined materials that are ultimately warm, inviting, and serene. The book features numerous beautifully designed homes of Hollywood royalty, primarily in Southern California, though with notable projects in New York and beyond, as well as three greenrooms, which Shadley designed for the Oscars and the Emmy Awards.
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DAR FORMA A LO COTIDIANO
“Las cuestiones de la conciencia de la forma, la belleza y la armonía no me interesan tanto a nivel abstracto como en la medida que afectan a la vida cotidiana y en relación con el arte de vivir. La vida cotidiana, si nos fijamos en las teorías orientales del arte, es un aspecto central del camino del artista.” Como en el arte o en el diseño, carecer de forma implica dispersión y pérdida de referencias, quedar expuesto a los fenómenos externos sin ritmo ni control. Dar forma a lo cotidiano es una invitación a poner en valor nuestra realidad tangible y manejable, a trabajar la atención plena sobre las cuestiones básicas que rigen nuestra cotidianidad ―la alimentación, el amor, los medios de comunicación, la vestimenta y nuestras posesiones― y conectar con ellas de forma consciente, limitando sus contornos y encontrando su lugar en la red que conforma nuestro fundamento vital.
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DISEÑO DE PROCESOS CREATIVOS
Trabajar en equipo es algo enormemente gratificante, pero también enormemente complejo. Tras muchos años de experiencia en la facilitación de procesos de creación en grupo, el autor ha sintetizado en este libro una eficaz metodología que sirve de guía para evitar los habituales puntos ciegos, errores, desequilibrios y amenazas que pueden obstruir el proceso y bloquear al equipo.
¿Qué debemos saber para co-crear con eficacia y disfrute? ¿Qué figuras o fases de ideación en equipo se dan en un proyecto? ¿Cómo evitar problemas habituales como las actitudes muy críticas, el recelo hacia las nuevas ideas, el conformismo o la falta de motivación del equipo?
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BHABHA SOBRE LA ARQUITECTURA
La teoría poscolonial ha influido muy significativamente en la historiografía actual y en la evolución de la crítica arquitectónica contemporánea en particular. Este volumen estudia la contribución de Homi K. Bhabha al discurso y el proyecto de arquitectura. Sus conceptos y sus frecuentes analogías con la arquitectura hacen que su obra resulte atractiva para los arquitectos y los profesionales de otras disciplinas creativas. Centrado en la publicación más aplaudida de Bhabha, El lugar de la cultura, el presente libro explica de manera sencilla parte de la terminología que Bhabha emplea en sus escritos traducción, ambivalencia, hibridez y Tercer Espacio, junto con lo performativo y lo pedagógico.
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BENJAMIN SOBRE LA ARQUITECTURA
En el casi medio siglo transcurrido desde la edición completa en alemán de su Libro de los Pasajes, Walter Benjamin se ha convertido en una referencia clave en muchos ámbitos de la crítica. Benjamin elaboró una síntesis única y provocativa de la estetica, política y filosofía. Este volumen de la colección "Pensadores sobre la arquitectura" evalúa la importancia de sus escritos para la teoría y el ejercicio profesional de la arquitectura.
A partir del entrelazamiento de vida y obra en los escritos de Benjamin sobre varias ciudades europeas, este libro examina sus contribución a la crítica cultural en relación con obras de Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier y Sigfried Giedion, y sitúa la obra de Benjamin dentro de algunas manifestaciones más recientes de la arquitectura y el urbanismo.
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ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER
From the bestselling author of Skyscrapers, the behind-the-scenes story of the most extraordinary building in the world: One World Trade Center.
The new World Trade Center represents one of the most complex collaborations in human history. Nearly every state in the nation, a dozen countries around the world, and more than 25,000 workers helped raise the tower, which consumed ninety million pounds of steel, one million square feet of glass, and enough concrete to pave a sidewalk from New York to Chicago.
With more than seventy interviews with the people most intimately involved, and unprecedented access to the building site, suppliers, and archives, Duprè unfurls the definitive story of fourteen years of conflict and controversy-and its triumphant resolution.
This fascinating, oversize book delivers new insight into the 1,776-foot-tall engineering marvel, from design and excavation through the final placement of its spire. It offers: Access to the minds of world-class architects, engineers, ironworkers, and other tradespeople Panoramas of New York from One World Observatory-1,268 feet above the earth Dramatic cutaways that show the building's advanced structural technologies A time-lapse montage showing the evolution of the sixteen-acre site Chronologies tracking design, construction, and financial milestones, with rare historic photographs
It also features extensive tour of the entire Trade Center, including in-depth chapters on Two, Three, Four, and Seven World Trade Center; the National September 11 Memorial & Museum; Liberty Park; St. Nicholas National Shrine; and the soaring Transportation Hub.
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INTRODUCCION A LA HISTORIA DE LA A.R 2
Este libro recoge con una visión general y unitaria, el devenir de la arquitectura occidental a través del tiempo, desde sus orígenes remotos hasta nuestra misma contemporaneidad.
No es ni pretende ser una historia convencional de la arquitectura, sino una introducción a su estudio que desvele sus claves y permita acceder a su realidad tanto al profesional como al aficionado, y especialmente a quien se acerca a la arquitectura por primera vez.
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CABINET OF CURIOSITIES (40TH) (INT)CABIN
The Wunderkammer, or “cabinet of curiosities,” saw collectors gathering objects from many strands of artistic, scientific, and intellectual endeavor, in an ambitious attempt to encompass all of humankind’s knowledge in a single room.
From the Grand Duke Francesco I de’ Medici and Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to Archduke Ferdinand II of Habsburg, these aristocratic virtuosos acquired, selected, and displayed the objects in real-life catalogues that represented the entire world―spanning architecture, interior design, painting, sculpture, gemology, geology, botany, biology and taxonomy, astrology, alchemy, anthropology, ethnography, and history.
Marvel at the unicorn horns (narwhal tusks), gems, rare coral growths, Murano glasswork, paintings and peculiar mechanical automata. Browse through illustrations of exotic and mythical creatures and discover the famed “Coburg ivories,” an astounding collection of crafted artifacts. These collections are nothing short of a journey through time, from the Renaissance and Age of Discovery, the Mannerist and Baroque periods, up to the present day. Although many of these cabinets of curiosities no longer exist, others have been meticulously reconstructed, and new ones born.
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ARQUITECTURA MODULAR
Muchos arquitectos se han acercado a la Industrialización a lo largo de la historia de la arquitectura contemporánea. Hoy en día, los avances tecnológicos en materiales más resistentes y ligeros hacen por fin posible que la arquitectura industrializada de alto nivel, con plena libertad creativa, sea una realidad.
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COMO COMBINAR COLORES
A través de sencillas fichas, el diseñador gráfico y profesor de diseño japonés Haruyoshi Nagumo nos proporciona todo lo necesario para comprender cada color ―características, historia, significados y usos―, entender cómo se comporta con otros colores y aprender a crear esquemas cromáticos que provoquen los efectos y sensaciones que buscamos en cada uno de nuestros proyectos. Una valiosa guía de color para escoger, usar y combinar colores básicos, acromáticos, dorados, plateados y fluorescentes.
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LIVING IN MOROCCO. (40TH ED.) (IEP)
Las mil y una noches en el Marruecos actual
Aunque se encuentra justo al otro lado del Mediterráneo, a un tiro de piedra del sur de España, Marruecos parece estar mucho más lejos.
Con sus paisajes desérticos y de montaña, sus zocos laberínticos, su deliciosa gastronomía, sus exquisitos textiles y alfombras, sus mosaicos vibrantes, olores fragantes, música fascinante y gente acogedora, es un destino seductor, tentador y exótico. Barbara y René Stoeltie ahondan un poco más en el mito de Marruecos y nos ofrecen una ecléctica selección de casas que despliega las maravillas del interiorismo marroquí: desde piscinas de baldosas color turquesa y jardines lujosos hasta muebles de madera tallada y fuentes de jade y mármol.
Con impresionantes e inspiradoras fotografías en más de 500 páginas, recorrer estos espacios de exóticos cuentos de hadas (mientras, a ser posible, saborea una humeante taza de delicioso té de menta) le transportará al instante bien lejos.
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COMPLEJIDAD Y CONTRADICCION EN ARQUITECT
Aparecido por primera vez en 1966, Complejidad y contradicción en la arquitectura es uno de los textos de teoría de la arquitectura más importantes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y uno de los primeros en cuestionar de una forma global y contundente las ideas y los preceptos del movimiento moderno. A partir del estudio y de la evidencia de cientos de obras de la historia de la arquitectura, en este implacable alegato Venturi desmitificó algunos de los presupuestos asumidos por la arquitectura moderna al poner en tela de juicio ciertas nociones del racionalismo ?como la simplificación, la coherencia o la tabla rasa respecto a la tradición? e introducir otros conceptos, hasta entonces insólitos, como la complejidad y la contradicción.
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LIVING IN JAPAN (40) (INT)
So rich and unique is traditional Japanese architecture that it’s nearly impossible to improve upon. Yet contemporary Japanese designers and architects keep finding fresh approaches to refurbish and take inspiration from the ways of old. Whether it’s a pristinely preserved traditional house or a sleek modern apartment, the best Japanese homes share a love of cleverly designed spaces and warm materials like wood, brick, and bamboo.
From a thatched roof farmhouse occupied by a Zen priest to Tadao Ando’s experimental 4x4 House, from Shigeru Ban’s conceptual Shutter House to a beautiful domestic homage to bamboo, this elegant compendium traverses the multifaceted landscape of Japanese living today.
Enriched by 170 brand new, unpublished photographs, this edition takes you on breathtaking journey through the Land of the Rising Sun―complete with a list of addresses, should you wish to undertake this journey to Japan’s most fascinating inns and homes yourself. An insightful glossary of key terms, such as tatami, shoji, and noren, will also help you come to grips with all elements of Japan’s unique aesthetic of Eastern minimalism.
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ART RECORD COVERS (40 INT)
Since the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Futurist manifesto L’Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel Duchamp’s 1925 double-sided discs Rotoreliefs, the 20th century saw ever more fertile exchange between sounds and shapes, marks and melodies, and different fields of composition and performance.
In Francesco Spampinato’s unique anthology of artists’ record covers, we discover the rhythm of this particular cultural history. The book presents 450 covers and records by visual artists from the 1950s through to today, exploring how modernism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, postmodernism, and various forms of contemporary art practice have all informed this collateral field of visual production and supported the mass distribution of music with defining imagery that swiftly and suggestively evokes an aural encounter.
Along the way, we find Jean-Michel Basquiat’s urban hieroglyphs for his own Tartown record label, Banksy’s stenciled graffiti for Blur, and a skewered Salvador Dalí butterfly on Jackie Gleason’s Lonesome Echo. There are insightful analyses and fact sheets alongside the covers listing the artist, performer, album name, label, year of release, and information on the original artwork. Interviews with Tauba Auerbach, Shepard Fairey, Kim Gordon, Christian Marclay, Albert Oehlen, and Raymond Pettibon add personal accounts on the collaborative relationship between artists and musicians.
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ISLAND FOLLIES
A celebration of Henry Melich’s wonderfully whimsical and romantic island escapes, which continue to inspire the work of designers today.
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THE COLOURFUL PAST
Interior designer Edward Bulmer breathes new life into centuries-old houses with a sympathy that is rooted in a deep understanding of the past, transforming them into comfortable homes designed for modern living.
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CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE (40) (INT)
The works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are monuments of transience. Gigantic in scale, they are always temporary, created to exist only for a limited time and to leave unique, unrepeatable impressions. “From the smallest of the Packages made in Paris in the early 1960s, to the delicate pattern of hundreds of branches embraced by a translucent fabric veil... in Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s works there is nothing abstract, nothing imagined; it is all there―corporeal and tangible.” (Lorenza Giovanelli)
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A HOME FOR ALL SEASONS. GRACIOUS LIVING
Tastemaker and designer Danielle Rollins invites readers to join her at home for a primer on living and entertaining in style.
Danielle Rollins is renowned for her elegant touch. In her second book, she welcomes readers into her world and shows them how to create gorgeous style at home in rooms tailor-made for gatherings, get-togethers, cocktail hours, dinner parties, and intimate suppers.
Traveling room by room through the house, Rollins shares practical advice and design inspiration. Drawing on her background as an expert hostess and noted designer, Rollins delivers a live-your-best-life guide rooted in the function and design essentials that keep a house beautifully humming: the primacy of a useful floor plan in creating spaces people actually live in and use; the necessity of organization for beautiful, stress-free table settings and entertaining; and creating vivid and happy color schemes that flow seamlessly from room to room. The book will also include more than a dozen entertaining occasions and tablescapes, including Easter brunch in the garden, a fried-chicken buffet supper, and a candlelit Christmas Eve dinner in the living room. With tips for a gracious life, from organizing your china pantry to setting a memorable table, this book is a celebration of the power of opening up your front door and inviting people in.
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GAUDI. LA OBRA COMPLETA (E) (40)
Antoni Gaudí fusionó orientalismo, formas naturales y materiales nuevos en una estética modernista única que colocó a Barcelona en el mapa global de la arquitectura. A través de nuevas fotografías, planos y dibujos realizados por el propio Gaudí, así como un extenso apéndice de todas sus obras que incluye mobiliario y proyectos inacabados, este...
La vida de Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) fue compleja y contradictoria. En su juventud se unió al movimiento nacionalista catalán y fue crítico con la Iglesia; hacia el final de su vida se dedicó por completo a la construcción de un espectacular templo: la Sagrada Familia. De joven, Gaudí llevaba una vida social glamurosa digna de un dandi. En el momento de su muerte, atropellado por un tranvía en las calles de Barcelona, iba tan mal vestido que los transeúntes creyeron que se trataba de un vagabundo.
La incomparable arquitectura de Gaudí es una muestra de la complejidad de sus múltiples facetas. De las brillantes superficies y las formas orgánicas de la Casa Batlló a la matriz hispanoárabe de la Casa Vicens, su estilo modernista único muestra influencias del orientalismo, las formas naturales, los nuevos materiales y la fe religiosa. Aún hoy, su estética es reconocida en todo el mundo.
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DOWNTOWN CHIC
Robert and Cortney Novogratz, starts of the hit Bravo series 9 BY DESIGN, have been renovating and designing unique and hip homes for families for over ten years. Describing their signature style as a sophisticated but bohemian mix of high and low, new and old, they offer their realistic advice on how to create original, warm interiors with ease.
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TREE HOUSES. 40TH ED. (INT)
From romantic to contemporary, from famed architects to little-known craftsmen, you’ll scale the heights to visit all manner of treetop structures, from a teahouse, restaurant, hotel, and children’s playhouse to simple perches from which to contemplate life, enjoy the view, and discover that tree houses take as many forms as the imagination can offer. With an abundance of gorgeous photographs and illustrations, this is an ode to alternative living, where playful imagination meets eco-sensitive finesse.
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PRINCIPIOS UNIVERSALES DEL DISEÑO DE INT
* Profusamente ilustrado y de fácil consulta, combina explicaciones claras de cada tema con ejemplos visuales de su aplicación práctica.
* Con conceptos y ejemplos, podrá aprender a tomar decisiones de diseño más informadas y, en última instancia, mejores.
*Principios que se pueden consultar fácil y rápidamente, con una descripción completa de cada uno y ejemplos y directrices para su puesta en práctica, gráficos y notas al margen, así como referencias cruzadas de principios relacionados.
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LIVING IN PROVENCE (40) (INT)
Visite una tierra de plazas adoquinadas, cerámica rústica y campos de lavanda, y descubra el encanto rural que sedujo a artistas de la talla de van Gogh y Picasso con esta monografía dedicada a las casas e interiores de la Provenza, ya sean espléndidos castillos o retiros campestres, a través de textos reveladores y preciosas fotografías.
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LIVING IN TUSCANY (40) (INT)
Adéntrese en algunas de las viviendas más bonitas de la Toscana. Grandes casas patricias y ermitas rurales abren sus puertas para revelar la cerámica de los Medici, salones bañados por el sol y coloridos suelos de baldosas. Con detalladas explicaciones y magníficas fotografías, este volumen nos ofrece una hermosa imagen del estilo de vida toscano.
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MASSIMO LISTRI. WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL L
From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library in New York, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and like no other space, the collection of knowledge, learning, and imagination offers a sense of infinite possibility. It’s the unrivaled realm of discovery, where every faded manuscript or mighty clothbound tome might reveal a provocative new idea, a far-flung fantasy, an ancient belief, a religious conviction, or a whole new way of being in the world.In this new photographic journey, Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest libraries to reveal their architectural, historical, and imaginative wonder. Through great wooden doors, up spiraling staircases, and along exquisite, shelf-lined corridors, he leads us through outstanding private, public, educational, and monastic libraries, dating as far back as 766. Between them, these medieval, classical, baroque, rococo, and 19th-century institutions hold some of the most precious records of human thought and deed, inscribed and printed in manuscripts, volumes, papyrus scrolls, and incunabula. In each, Listri’s poised images capture the library’s unique atmosphere, as much as their most prized holdings and design details.Featured libraries include the papal collections of the Vatican Apostolic Library and the Trinity College Library, home to the Book of Kells and Book of Durrow. With meticulous descriptions accompanying each featured library, we learn not only of the libraries’ astonishing holdings—from which highlights are illustrated—but also of their often lively, turbulent, or controversial pasts. Like the Franciscan monastery in Lima, Peru, with its horde of archival Inquisition documents.At once a bibliophile beauty pageant, an ode to knowledge, and an evocation of the particular magic of print, Massimo Listri. The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries is above all a cultural-historical pilgrimage to the heart of our halls of learning, to the stories they tell, as much as those they gather in printed matter along polished shelves.
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DISEÑO. LA HISTORIA VISUAL DEFINITIVA
Con más de 1200 imágenes, este libro es una mirada excepcional a los principales movimientos, mostrando cómo comenzaron y explicando su filosofía y estilo, desde 1850 hasta la actualidad.
Organizado cronológicamente, este libro rastrea la evolución del diseño, desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad, desde las primeras sillas, cerámica y accesorios para el hogar hasta automóviles, diseño gráfico y artículos de diseño.
Descubre a todos los diseñadores, fabricantes y objetos clave, conoce cómo y por qué surgieron y se hicieron populares.
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THE ADIDAS ARCHIVE. THE FOOTWEAR (40TH)
More than 100 years ago the brothers Adolf ("Adi") and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and star-studded collabs later, this book presents a visual review of the adidas shoe through almost 200 models.To further develop and tailor his products to athletes’ specific needs, Dassler asked them to return their worn footwear when no longer needed, with all the shoes eventually ending up in his attic (to this day, many athletes return their shoes to adidas, often as a thank you after winning a title or breaking a world record). This collection now makes up the "adidas archive", one of the largest, if not the largest archive of any sports goods manufacturer in the world—which photographers Christian Habermeier and Sebastian Jäger have been visually documenting in extreme detail for years.Shot using the highest reproduction techniques, these images reveal the fine details as much as the stains, the tears, the repair tape, the grass smudges, the faded autographs. It’s all here, unmanipulated and captured in extremely high resolution—and with it comes to light the personal stories of each individual wearer. We encounter the shoes worn by West Germany’s football team during its “miraculous” 1954 World Cup win and those worn by Kathrine Switzer when she ran the Boston Marathon in 1967, before women were officially allowed to compete; custom models for stars from Madonna to Lionel Messi; collabs with the likes of Pharrell Williams, Raf Simons, Stella McCartneyor Yohji Yamamoto; as well as the brand’s trailblazing techniques and materials.Accompanied by expert texts, each picture tells us the why and the how, but also conveys the driving force behind adidas. What we discover goes beyond mere design; in the end, these are just shoes, worn out by their users who have loved them—but they are also first-hand witnesses of our sports, design, and culture history, from the beginnings of the Dassler brothers and the founding of adidas until today.
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DISEÑO GRAFICO DIGITAL
En la era de la imagen, el perfil de diseñador gráfico se ha convertido en uno de los más demandados entre los profesionales generadores de contenidos digitales.En estos tiempos digitales, el diseñador gráfico debe explorar las posibilidades creativas de cada medio y optimizar la composición gráfica para lograr una mejor comunicación visual.
Aunque la mayoría de los proyectos de diseño gráfico se elaboran con herramientas digitales y programas de diseño, ello no implica necesariamente que estén bien preparados para su correcta difusión en pantallas digitales.A las competencias específicas del diseño gráfico tradicional es preciso añadir la creación de diseños optimizados para su difusión final en los nuevos medios y dispositivos digitales (sitios Web, redes sociales, smartphones, tablets, soportes publicitarios online, canales de marketing, etc.).Este libro aúna los conocimientos básicos de diseño gráfico tradicional con contenidos específicos para diseñar en la nueva era digital, como el uso de tipografía digital, el tratamiento informático del color, las técnicas de vectorización, la optimización de imágenes para la Web, el cálculo de la resolución más adecuada para cada medio, entre otros temas.Incluye, además, numerosos ejemplos a toda página de proyectos profesionales de diseño gráfico digital aplicados, con colaboraciones de renombrados diseñadores y de estudios de diseño gráfico de todo el mundo.
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LIVING IN BALI (40TH ED.) (IEP)
Casas balinesas en armonía con la naturaleza
Apreciada por los viajeros por su exuberancia, su paisaje tropical y el encanto de sus gentes, la isla de Bali es uno de los lugares más espléndidos de la Tierra. Espiritualidad y naturaleza forman parte integral de la vida cotidiana de los balineses, y uno puede entender fácilmente por qué la arquitectura tradicional de la isla encierra ese aire de paz inspirado en el entorno con el que, en ocasiones, incluso llega a fundirse.
En las viviendas balinesas, por ejemplo, las paredes no son obligatorias, hay madera por doquier, dominan los tonos terrosos y abundan las techumbres vegetales. Ya se abran a maravillosos paisajes verdes, a montañas majestuosas o a costas bellísimas, las casas de la isla transmiten sensaciones que invitan al descanso y a la contemplación. Esta selección de viviendas del sudeste asiático incluye imágenes impresionantes y se presenta en un formato compacto que le permitirá llevarse a cualquier parte un trozo del paraíso.
Viendo estos espléndidos ejemplos de una forma de vivir sencilla y elegante, uno se pregunta cómo es posible que no sean muchísimos más los que corran a instalarse en Bali.
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LIVING IN MEXICO (40) (INT)
South of the border, rich colors and woven textiles form a unique design aesthetic, crafted by the union of local Aztec and Mayan cultures and Spanish influences. Bold pigments and vivid patterns come together in simple and rustic spaces, resulting in a way of living that is both invigorating and homely; an authentic Mexican style.
The dynamic writer and photographer duo Barbara and René Stoeltie have struck gold again―this time with a truly breathtaking look at Mexico’s most remarkable abodes. Traveling far and wide, from Costa Careyes to the Yucatán Peninsula, this photographic journey will surprise, delight, and inspire you.
From the home of Constructivist architect Luis Barragán, a restored 16th-century hacienda, to a traditional Mayan thatched-roof dwelling, the contrast of styles within the pages of this book are testament to the country’s vibrantly diverse palette of textures and hues. With many new images, some never published before, prepare to be transported to the heart of lush and eclectic Mexico.
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SCANDINAVIAN DESIGN (40TH ANNIVERSARY E)
Scandinavia is world famous for its inimitable, democratic designs which bridge the gap between crafts and industrial production, organic forms and everyday functionality. This all-you-need guide includes a detailed look at Scandinavian furniture, glass, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, metalware, and industrial design from 1900 to the present day, with in depth entries on 125 designers and design led companies.
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DIOR LINDBERGH 40TH ED. (INT)
Peter Lindbergh photographed Dior’s most exceptional muses, Marion Cotillard and Charlize Theron among them, and signed campaigns for Lady Dior and J'Adore with his inimitable style. Throughout his career, the photographer was one of the house’s closest collaborators. This final book was an original cocreation that was close to the artist’s heart―and to ours.
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LIVING IN ASIA. 40TH ED. (INT)
Zen, soothing, mystical, meditative—words cannot do justice to Asia’s most beautiful interiors. Whether it’s a gilded Tibetan monastery, a plantation in Sri Lanka, or a private villa in Thailand, each of the havens featured in this book are remarkable not only in aesthetic, but also in spirit.
This showcase features about 40 exceptional locations across Tibet, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Highlights include traditional Burmese stilt houses; the breathtaking Shiv Niwas Palace in India, visited by James Bond in Octopussy; Cambodian temples; a rice barge-turned houseboat in Thailand; the “Blue Mansion”, an magnificient, indigo-painted courtyard house featured in the film Indochine; a breathtaking garden designed by Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa; and many, many more.
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SCANDINAVIAN DESIGN 40TH ED. (E)
Scandinavia is world famous for its inimitable, democratic designs which bridge the gap between crafts and industrial production, organic forms and everyday functionality. This all-you-need guide includes a detailed look at Scandinavian furniture, glass, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, metalware, and industrial design from 1900 to the present day, with in-depth entries on 125 designers and design-led companies.
Featured designers and designer-led companies include Verner Panton, Arne Jacobsen, Alvar Aalto, Timo Sarpaneva, Hans Wegner, Tapio Wirkkala, Stig Lindberg, Finn Juhl, Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Arnold Madsen, Barbro Nilsson, Fritz Hansen, Artek, Le Klint, Gustavsberg, Iittala, Fiskars, Orrefors, Royal Copenhagen, Holmegaard, Arabia, Marimekko, and Georg Jensen.
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BARBIE. CELEBRACION DE UN ICONO
La obra más completa sobre la muñeca más famosa del mundo.
La primera historia oficial de un icono amado en todo el mundo: Barbie, mucho más que una muñeca.
Barbie es Moda. Barbie es Arte. Barbie es el símbolo de la mujer emancipada de todas las culturas y países, cada vez más inclusiva y atenta a cuestiones sociales y globales, en consonancia con su lema: "Se lo que quieras ser", que resuena cada vez más actual. Nacida en 1959, hace 65 años, pero siempre joven y moderna gracias a sus múltiples cambios de estilo y de fisonomía, Barbie es una criatura caleidoscópica y un verdadero icono pop: creadora de tendencias, top model y musa inspiradora de innumerables artistas. Este libro te ofrece la obra completa sobre la muñeca más famosa del mundo.
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PENSAR CON TIPOS. UNA GUIA CLAVE
Profundamente revisada y ampliada, esta segunda edición de Pensar con tipos nos proporciona docenas de nuevas fuentes, ejemplos, ejercicios, ideas y consejos, además de una revisión y actualización exhaustiva de cada detalle. Con treinta y dos páginas nuevas respecto a la edición anterior, el nuevo contenido aporta, entre otras cosas, una amplia gama de familias tipográficas y un espacio para los trabajos de las diseñadoras, así como de otros colectivos históricamente silenciados.
Convertido en un referente indiscutible, la obra se dirige a los lectores y escritores, diseñadores y editores, profesores y estudiantes cuyo trabajo esté relacionado con la impredecible vida de la palabra escrita, así como a todos aquellos interesados en las cuestiones culturales y teóricas que alimentan el diseño tipográfico.
La obra se divide en tres secciones: letra, texto y maqueta. Partiendo de la unidad básica que es la letra, aborda después las particularidades de la organización de las palabras en cuerpos de texto coherentes y sistemas flexibles. Los proyectos de muestra y los ejercicios prácticos que se incluyen, explican no solo cómo se estructura la tipografía, sino por qué se hace así, con la intención de desvelar las bases funcionales y culturales que residen tras las convenciones del diseño.
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JOVENES ARQUITECTOS
113 arquitectos que determinarán el estilo de nuestras ciudades durante los próximos 30 años. Tendencias docentes, teóricas y estéticas del ejercicio profesional de la arquitectura en todo el mundo. Con este libro podrá valorar lo buenas que son en realidad estas jóvenes estrellas. Son profesionales para quienes las antiguas categorías ya no son válidas, y para los que la modernidad ya no es la ortodoxia. Debido a que el papel que desempeñan los arquitectos en las ciudades está en continuo cambio, esta hornada de jóvenes arquitectos ejerce trabajos muy variados, de ahí que entre ellos haya escritores, críticos, comisarios de exposiciones, diseñadores de moda, programadores informáticos, promotores inmobiliarios y constructores. La obra de cada arquitecto, escogida y descrita desde una perspectiva crítica, se examina en detalle para revelar los enfoques que cristalizarán en los próximos años y décadas.
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MANUAL DE DIBUJO ARQUITECTONICO
El Manual de dibujo arquitectónico es el libro que dio fama internacional a Francis D. K. Ching y sus conocidos métodos de dibujo. Esta nueva edición, la cuarta desde que se publicara por primera vez en español en 1976, amplía y complementa la edición anterior incorporando nuevas ilustraciones y nuevos contenidos que hacen referencia al dibujo con herramientas digitales. Se mantiene, sin embargo, el magnífico planteamiento del original que catapultó a la fama a Ching y convirtió este libro en el manual de dibujo arquitectónico por excelencia. Organizado en diez capítulos, el libro expone las herramientas, directrices y técnicas tradicionales de la expresión gráfica en arquitectura así como las claves de la representación visual mediante recursos digitales. El estudiante de arquitectura y diseño encontrará en estas páginas desde los procedimientos básicos para dibujar plantas, secciones y alzados, o los sistemas de representación más frecuentes (el diédrico, la axonometría y la perspectiva), hasta los métodos y convenciones para representar materiales o texturas de suelo, dibujar sombras y valores tonales, o incorporar elementos contextuales como figuras humanas, coches, árboles o mobiliario. En definitiva, un clásico del dibujo técnico arquitectónico que recoge de forma sistemática las técnicas y convenciones que todo arquitecto debe conocer para representar gráficamente ideas y soluciones arquitectónicas.
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THE NEW FARM
Recent generations of farmers have reinvented the family farm and its traditions, embracing organic practices and sustainability and, along with them, a bold new use of modern architecture. The New Farm profiles sixteen contemporary farms around the globe, accompanied by plans and colorful images that highlight the connections among family, food, design, terrain, and heritage.
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FROM PALM BEACH TO SHANGRI LA
Beauty and elegance mingle with extravagance in the Palm Beach style of architect Marion Sims Wyeth, a kind of home design that takes the standard fixtures of paradise palm trees, ebullient fountains, glistening pools and gardens, views of the sea and mixes them with a dash of the exotic a Moorish-style balcony or doorway, Venetian archways, fanciful courtyards in the Spanish style, and spiralling staircases in stone and iron. Featured here are the legendary abodes of Marjorie Merriweather Post and Doris Duke Mar-a-Lago and Shangri La, respectively as well as the less well known but equally spectacular Hogarcito and La Claridad, to name but a few. For those unfamiliar with these dream palaces, intimate homes of repose and reflection, for the enjoyment of life and the living of it, the book serves at once as a revelation and an inspiration.
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PLANOS DE GRANDES CIUDADES. CARTOGRAFIA
Conozca el desarrollo de distintas ciudades a lo largo del tiempo a través de una progresión de estilos cartográficos para obtener una visión sorprendente de nuestra propia evolución humana como seres sociales colectivos. Al reunir planos de varias culturas dispares, incluidas las de Asia Oriental y Oriente Medio, sigue el desarrollo de la urbe desde los centros europeos hasta las ciudades coloniales, y desde las capitales del Viejo Mundo, construidas orgánicamente, hasta las metrópolis del Nuevo Mundo, planificadas de una forma rígida. Cada plano va acompañado de una descripción que lo ubica en su contexto histórico, político, social y económico. Al igual que todos los aspectos de la sociedad humana, los planos de las ciudades han cambiado y evolucionado a lo largo del tiempo. Partiendo de los inicios de la Edad Moderna, este libro rastrea la conjunción de la planificación urbana y la cartografía hasta mediados del siglo xx. Al reunir planos de varias culturas dispares, incluidas las de Asia Oriental y Oriente Medio, sigue el desarrollo de la urbe desde los centros europeos hasta las ciudades coloniales, y desde las capitales del Viejo Mundo, construidas orgánicamente, hasta las metrópolis del Nuevo Mundo, planificadas de una forma rígida.
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HENRY HOWARD
Few nineteenth-century architects ventured far from the pattern-book styles of their time. One architect not constrained by tradition was the Irish-born American Henry Howard, who started as a carpenter and stair builder in 1836 New York and arrived in New Orleans the following year, soon establishing a reputation for distinctive designs that blended American and European trends. His career gained momentum as he went on to design an extraordinarily diverse portfolio of magnificent residences and civic buildings in New Orleans and its environs.
Henry Howard is a lavishly produced clothbound volume featuring hundreds of contemporary and archival images and a comprehensive analysis of his built work. The first book to examine the forty-year career of the architect, Henry Howard establishes a clear lineage of his aesthetic contributions to the urban and rural environments of the South.
Princeton Architectural Press co-publishes Henry Howard with The Historic New Orleans Collection: a museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to the study and preservation of the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South.
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LA IMPRESION COMO ARTE
Este libro pretende ser tanto una fuente de aliento como una exploración de la vida y la obra de los artistas que sienten fascinación por el proceso de la impresión artística y por el desarrollo de sus imágenes personales a través de la creación de impresiones originales. Los testimonios de destacados artistas invitan a explorar infinitas posibilidades de los diversos métodos de trabajo. Los capítulos se distribuyen según las distintas técnicas de impresión. A las completas explicaciones de cada uno de los medios les sigue un detallado análisis de los métodos disponibles, ilustrados con fotos paso a paso. Al final se incluye una completa sección de información útil con una lista de proveedores, talleres y estudios.
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COLECCION PERSONAL
Relojes mecánicos, cronógrafos, de buceo y de cuarzo: un recorrido por la historia de la relojería a través de 90 modelos emblemáticos. * Desde los primeros relojes de pulsera hasta los relojes de cuarzo, todos tienen un interés histórico, mecánico o meramente estético. * Un viaje a través de las épocas y las diferentes complicaciones de la relojería. Siglos, incluso milenios, de innovación técnica han llevado a la creación de los relojes tal y como los conocemos hoy. Complejos y estéticos, son obra de artesanos muy cualificados y con un saber hacer excepcional. Pero ¿qué sentido tienen los relojes mecánicos en la era de los smartwatches? ¿Por qué nos fascinan? Tal vez sea porque, junto con la ropa, son los objetos más íntimos de nuestras vidas. Quizá también sea porque algunos han protagonizado extraordinarias aventuras humanas. Acaso porque otros nunca habrían visto la luz sin la perseverancia y la imaginación de grandes personalidades. ¿Somos realmente los dueños de un reloj o nos limitamos a transmitírselo a las generaciones venideras? Pese a las cicatrices que el tiempo les haya dejado, la mayoría de los modelos que figuran en este libro nos sobrevivirán. De hecho, la mayoría de ellos son relojes antiguos, con pátina, oxidados, imperfectos, simplemente vividos.
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VAUX-LE-VICOMTE
This comprehensive monograph is an exclusive look inside the château that inspired the design of Versailles and today continues to enchant visitors and film directors alike.
Vaux-le-Vicomte’s rich history began in 1641 when infamous French finance minister Nicolas Fouquet, the original owner, surrounded himself with the most skilled and talented artisans of the time: the architect Louis Le Vau, the painter Charles Le Brun, and the garden designer André Le Nôtre, to create a perfect harmony between architecture and landscape. The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte and its spectacular gardens fascinated Louis XIV and were the inspiration for Versailles. Classified as a historical monument since 1875 under the impetus of the owner at the time, the castle of Vaux-le-Vicomte quickly became a model of the artistic genius of the seventeenth century.
This volume traces the château’s history from the seventeenth century through the Belle Époque, World War I, and its public opening in 1968. Exclusive photography and archival documents offer unprecedented access to the château, furnishings, and gardens, and illuminate the extraordinary secrets of court life and centuries of celebrations that include the enchanting candlelit tours held today.
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SYNAGOGUES. MARVELS OF JUDAISM
This visually striking compendium illustrates the architectural and historical evolution of over 60 iconic synagogues worldwide. Beginning with the foremost archaeological sites in the Holy Land, it extends to the Jewish sanctuaries of Europe, North Africa, Russia, the Caucasus, Israel, and the New World, from the most ancient to the most innovative creations around the globe. Masterpieces such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Beth Sholom Synagogue in Pennsylvania, the Grand Synagogue in Paris, New York’s Temple Emanu-El, and Dresden’s Neue Synagogue are all featured in magnificent detail. In a series of compelling essays, prominent scholars Lidia Chakovskaya, Steven Fine, Max Fineblum, Mohammad Gharipour, Samuel D. Gruber, Sergey R. Kravtsov, Michael Levin, and Edward van Voolen explore the diverse architectural styles that reflect the synagogue’s rich, complex, and often tragic history. Noted Judaic studies authority Aaron Hughes provides the introduction, highlighting the synagogue’s history and liturgical furnishings from silver menorahs and textiles to carved wooden cabinets and lanterns of eternal light. This gorgeously illustrated volume will appeal to those with an appreciation for art and architecture as well as lovers of Jewish history.
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JULIA MORGAN
Julia Morgan was truly a pioneer of her time—among other accomplishments, she was the first woman architect to be licensed in California, in 1904. Through her remarkable life and legacy, this book celebrates the Beaux-Arts architecture of California. Focusing on Morgan’s most famous project in the state, Hearst Castle, to which she devoted more than 30 years of her life, this volume also examines, for the first time, Morgan’s fabulous early buildings in the style. Morgan designed more than 700 buildings across California, many of which are designated landmarks today. Deepening the reader’s understanding of California archi-tecture, this book also places into context Morgan’s ambitions, her influences and inspirations, as well as her daily practice and challenges as a woman shaping an extraordinarily prolific and highly successful career in a man’s world.
To better understand the Beaux-Arts training Morgan underwent in Paris, the reader is taken through the challenging, highly arduous Ecole des Beaux-Arts curriculum, which Morgan completed, a lone woman among men. Also explored, in detail, is the story of how the studio and kilns of California Faience, a Berkeley ceramic artisan’s shop, became the supplier of tens of thousands of tiles designed by Morgan and overseen by Hearst himself to decorate their architectural master-piece overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
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WONDERLAND. ADVENTURES IN DECORATING
Interior decorator Summer Thornton believes in designing with the wildest abandon: her world is one of nickel tubs, marble fireplaces, whimsical textiles, surprising patterns, and secret gardens. Often described as maximalist with a modern, fresh sensibility, Thornton manages to achieve highly polished, sophisticated interiors that indulge in a lighthearted, almost irreverent sense of whimsy. In her first book, she will inspire readers to follow their creative impulses and make their own rules.
Let yourself be transported with the dreamy, fantastical homes arranged by theme in Wonderland. “Fearless Romantic” features Thornton’s own gorgeous city house. “In Here Comes the Sun,” peek into an over-the-top tropical vacation home that’s centered on citrus. Look for her to misbehave a bit in “Good to be Bad.” If refinement is more your cup of tea, the polished settings in “The New Formal” are fit for a queen. Plus take a deep dive into the most colorful technicolor homes she’s ever designed in “Super Saturated.”
With outstanding photography from A-list photog-raphers including Thomas Loof, Bjorn Wallander, Annie Schlechter, and Melanie Acevedo, and styling by AD contributor Mieke ten Have, Wonderlandis a celebration of personal expression and fearless escapism.
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PACIFIC NATURAL
Both practical and inspiring, the first book from Jenni Kayne--the creator of the eponymous lifestyle brand--offers ideas and tips for entertaining and living well throughout the year.
Jenni Kayne embodies an effortless aesthetic, where natural beauty is found in every detail. Pacific Natural illustrates Jenni's conscious way of living through personal anecdotes and tips with Jenni's home state of California serving as the backdrop. Organized by season, this entertaining book is your guide to creating special moments with family and friends. Each chapter includes tabletop ideas, simple crafts, tips for keeping a stocked kitchen and pantry, what to plant in your garden, and healthy, delicious recipes. From an apple harvest dinner and at-home herb drying in the fall, cocktail parties andDIY gift ideas in the winter, flower arranging in the spring and a beach picnic in the summer, Jenni shares her philosophy for creating traditions and living mindfully all year long.
A thoughtful hands-on approach for stylish and balanced living, Pacific Natural shows us how to make the most of the time we spend together, treating life's details with creativity and care.
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CHARLOTTE MOSS. FLOWERS
Renowned interior designer and tastemaker Charlotte Moss celebrates flowers and offers endless inspiration in their use as glorious additions to decorating, entertaining, and everyday living.
Charlotte Moss encourages readers to bring the garden indoors--with ideas for arranging flowers, selecting containers, and placing blossoms around the house. An inviting cluster of blooms on a guest room's bedside table, lavish floral displays for parties and holidays, single stems adding life to any corner of a room--Moss has been photographing her flower arrangements for over a decade. This book is a celebration of her artistry and a testament to flowers as part of day-to-day life.
From Moss's grander displays in the city to her more informal and breezy creations at her home in the country, as well as in the refined interiors of her clients, the visual result is a chronicle of the myriad ways flowers provide inspiration--indoors and out. Readers will be further motivated as Moss describes the contributions of past tastemakers: Gloria Vanderbilt for her ingenious use of floral patterns in her licensed products, Pauline de Rothschild for her fantastic tablescapes, Bunny Mellon for her profusive use of topiaries, Constance Spry for the use of inventive containers and for her groundbreaking artistry, and Lady Bird Johnson for her embrace of the simple, exquisite wildflower. With nature as her muse, Moss implores us to create the backdrop for a life well lived, imbuing every day with flair, beauty, and elegance.
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FERNANDO ROMERO ENTERPRISE
This book will represent one of the most effective and extravagant visions of architecture, one that links the new generations and the old world.
In the past few years, Mexico has brought to light a new generation of architects whose extraordinary vision and productivity has positioned the country among the most creative design cultures of the world. Under his own firm FR-EE, since 2000 Fernando Romero has designed and created a number of projects which represent a new vision of Mexican and world architecture. Romero's approach to architecture is innovative and an inspirational tool for empowering future generations.
The volume will focus on three themes that intertwine throughout the content of the book. On-site photographs (mainly aerial views) highlight the different places where FR-EE works, from urban centers to the desert. The location is what drives FR-EE's creative work, while the practice strives to investigate the dynamic forces of each site and client. Inspirational photographs give the reader a vision of how Romero's perspective shifts between different focuses of references, and reimagines them in new symbolic visions of the world (from monuments to colors, from natural elements to animals). The images include renderings, photographs, diagrams, plans, and sections. The projects are presented in situ and through architectural drawings, so as to explain the projects' concepts and contents.
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THE ONE DAY BOX. A LIFE-CHANGING LOVE
British interior designer Flora Soames founded her eponymous firm in 2009 and launched an acclaimed collection of fabrics and wallpapers in 2019. Informed by her background in art and furniture, her style exudes the traditional charm of English country homes while incorporating modern, original touches that are comfortable and design-led. This embrace of old and new—along with Soames’s passion for collecting, heritage, color, and pattern—has resulted in an impressive portfolio of projects in the UK and beyond.
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EMBODIYING PASOLINI
Longtime creative collaborators Tilda Swinton and Olivier Saillard present an illustrated tribute to the costumes of legendary Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s iconic films.
Retracing Pier Paolo Pasolini’s entire cinematography—which continues to fascinate audiences almost half a century after his passing—Embodying Pasolini explores the costumes that brought his films to life. From The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), The Canterbury Tales (1972), and Arabian Nights (1974) to Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), Pasolini’s movies are known for their provocative flair—making them staples of art cinema’s golden age. Styled by Danilo Donati, the costumes—garments, coats, and hats—enlivened the films with their rich textures, volume, color, and embellishments.
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EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTIONS
French artist, designer, and talented antique hunter Marin Montagut celebrates the joy of collecting everything from textiles to barware to architectural details, taking readers inside a dozen private homes, flea markets, and unusual ateliers to discover the most whimsical treasure troves in France. From a film prop house’s array of leather sporting goods and playing cards to a travel buff’s vintage maps and globes, and from a sculpture studio’s Grecian plaster casts to an amateur designer’s spiral staircase models, and from Montagut’s own wonder wall assemblages to a cook’s haven filled with porcelain dessert molds and copper pots—objects, when presented together as a series, create unforgettable interiors that radiate charm. Inspiration comes in repetition: wooden zigzag rulers with engraved numbers aligned on a wall in a herringbone pattern create an artful space. The spare wooden forms of capipotes—devotional statues used in religious processions, their eyes turned heavenward in ecstasy—and silver ex-votos can be the point of departure for the theme of an entire room. Montagut’s mood boards for each chapter provide endless ideas for the home.
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A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 DINNERS
In ten chapters—each an important moment in food history, from Ancient Rome to Al-Andalus in Spain, from the Ethiopian Empire to nineteenth-century New York City—the authors pair menus with immersive retellings of historic culinary breakthroughs, and present the ingredients and modern techniques adapted for today’s kitchens to allow cooks of all abilities to entertain with dishes that were created and enjoyed hundreds of years ago but remain relevant to today’s food tastes and values.
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MIRROR MIRROR
The world’s most important contemporary designers showcase their work within the historic setting of Chatsworth House to shine light and spark conversation on the intriguing juxtaposition of the old and the new, the past and the future, and the evolution of design histories and practices.
Chatsworth is an extraordinary environment to experience design: a repository for great works of fine and decorative art commissioned by generations of the Cavendish family for over four centuries. Expanding on the eponymous 2023 exhibition at Chatsworth, Mirror Mirror features the works of sixteen contemporary artists through captivating in-situ photography with accompanying artist biographies and essays that unearth how historic artifacts and environments inform and inspire modern artists' practices today. This diverse group of artists includes Michael Anastassiades, Ini Archibong, Wendell Castle, Andile Dyalvane, Ndidi Ekubia, Najla El Zein, Formafantasma, Joris Laarman, Max Lamb, Fernando Laposse, Jae Sae Jung Oh, Samuel Ross, Chris Schanck, Ettore Sottsass, Faye Toogood, and Joseph Walsh. From lithe, LED lighting structures illuminating the halls of the Chatsworth library to a seating sculpture hand-carved in Iranian travertine in the grand estate’s formal Rose Garden, these modern works create unexpected and timeless connections with the house’s architecture, interiors, furniture, and ceramics.
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HISTORIA CRITICA DE LA ARQUITECTURA
Desde su primera edición en 1980, la Historia crítica de la arquitectura moderna de Kenneth Frampton se ha convertido en un clásico imprescindible dentro de la bibliografía académica sobre historia de la arquitectura moderna. En esta quinta edición ampliamente revisada y actualizada, el autor ha añadido una nueva y extensa sección que explora al detalle la evolución del Movimiento Moderno en la arquitectura en todo el mundo a finales del siglo xx y principios del xxi. En ella, se examinan las diversas formas en que los arquitectos no solo responden a los contextos geográficos, climáticos, materiales y culturales, sino que siguen también distintas líneas de enfoque en relación a la topografía, la morfología, la sostenibilidad y la forma cívica.
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