BELLAS ARTES

Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and God into visionary masterpieces that changed art history forever. Famed biographer Giorgio Vasari considered him the pinnacle of Renaissance achievement. His peers called him simply “Il Divino” (“the divine one”).This book provides the essential introduction to Michelangelo with all the awe-inspiring masterpieces and none of the queues and crowds. With vivid illustration and accessible texts, we explore the artist’s extraordinary figuration and celebrated style of terribilità (momentous grandeur), which allowed human and biblical drama to exist in compelling scale and fervor.

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.

Un inventario imprescindible de la moda: 78 prendas esenciales del vestuario contemporáneo, 60 creaciones icónicas y 22 estilos emblemáticos. * Vestirse no es un gesto anodino. Las prendas que vestimos, segunda piel aceptada o no, nos relacionan con el mundo. Nos protegen, nos embellecen, nos serenan. Cuentan quiénes somos y nos transforman o nos camuflan. * Nuestros vestidos dibujan nuestros paisajes íntimos, pero también relatan nuestra historia social, política, cultural y económica. Eso es la moda. Un fenómeno. Una industria. Una norma. Una autoridad. Pero hemos olvidado su historia. La moda es así de ambivalente: es efímera y duradera a un tiempo. Algunas prendas trascienden su época; otras, nacidas en pasarelas y casas de alta costura, son mitos inalterables que narran el imaginario de sus creadores y expresan sueños y mandamientos.

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".

Este magnífico libro es la guía visual definitiva de todas las prendas que se han llevado a lo largo de la historia: desde la extravagancia del antiguo Egipto hasta los diseños contemporáneos más innovadores, pasando por las míticas casas de alta costura francesa. Un deslumbrante compendio de prendas y tendencias para entender cómo la moda es el reflejo de cada época y cada lugar. Esta edición en gran formato está totalmente actualizada y es una exhaustiva guía visual de las prendas que se han llevado a lo largo del tiempo.

Warm, inviting, embracing the indoor-outdoor lifestyle with a touch of the exotic, tropical modern homes are a dream of paradise realized. Contemporary tropical residential architecture has risen from a geographically specific homegrown aesthetic to a source of inspiration for the world's great modern architects and designers. Set in exotic locales, with pools, lush foliage, colorful gardens, these homes define a way of life. Frequently elegant and uncluttered, the houses serve as models of smart and beautiful design with lots of ideas for homeowners who do not necessarily live in a tropical or subtropical climate, but who wish to have something of that appeal and sensitivity in their own home. This book presents some of the most innovative interpretations of the genre from the past five years by internationally recognized architects and interior decorators, such as Tadao Ando, as well the work of young up-and-comers of great talent, including German-born, Bali-based Alexis Dornier, and Mexico's Roof Arquitectos. Selected residences span the globe, from the southern United States, the Caribbean, and tropical regions of Latin America, to Southeast Asia, northern Australasia, and Africa. Modern Tropical explores the exotic material, color, cultural, environmental, and aesthetic choices of some of contemporary architecture's most beautiful residential properties. Each house is introduced with breathtaking interior and exterior photography and orientation plans, giving readers an in-depth glimpse of the rapidly evolving symbiosis between nature and shelter, indoor and outdoor, and rustic and polished, in a definitive examination of tropical modern living.