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Dreamy estates from the island of Menorca come alive in this lively collection of images presented by Spanish tastemaker Susana Gallardo. This exquisite volume showcases the signature bohemian-chic interiors and architecture of the Spanish island of Menorca—offering a glimpse into the vacation retreats of the artists, creatives, and other sun-seeking spirits who escape to this paradisiacal place. Author Susana Gallardo accompanies readers through the gates of Menorca’s most breathtaking private homes into a world of Mediterranean sophistication. From an Art Deco palace in the heart of Mahón, the island’s capital, to charming fincasin the interior countryside and spectacular beach villas, these houses radiate Spanish style and spotlight the island’s breezy lifestyle. With an eye for the Mediterranean light, Karel Balas beautifully captures the vibrancy of these lush locales in his photographs—making this book inspirational for island and sunbelt lovers everywhere.

Una selección de las series que han marcado un hito y han cambiado el panorama audiovisual de los últimos años. Y con ellas algunas de las curiosidades más sosrprendentes de un género que parece augurar una larga y saludable vida.

Evens has long been considered one of the country’s leading contemporary architects who aspires to create the complete living environment, in the same vein as Gil Schafer, Bobby McAlpine, Ray Booth, and Stanley Dixon. His inspiration is drawn from classical traditions and informed by contemporary indoor-outdoor life—in this case the indoor-outdoor life of California.

A valuable insight into the works and mind of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Author Philip Jodidio explores long anticipated completed buildings, new projects, and a future outlook of the studio Shigeru Ban after TASCHEN has followed his career from the beginning. This monograph is a journey through the years and evolution of an architect who made a name for himself with true architectural marvels that cannot be surpassed in innovation, elegance, and sensibility. Next to early buildings deploying paper tubes as structural elements, as well as houses that challenge as fundamental an idea as walls, like the Curtain Wall House in Tokyo and the Wall-Less House in Nagano’s countryside, we see plenty of recent versatile projects. View a two-story penthouse on top of a 140-year-old New York City landmark cast-iron house, the Swatch/Omega Campus in Switzerland, and the Seine Musicale, a concert hall inserted into an overall master plan conceived by Jean Nouvel for the island Île Seguin in France.

Sky-high, ornate, and the pinnacle of glamour, both restrictive and liberating, art object and deeply ordinary, shoes tell the story of shifting attitudes toward desire, power, and wealth throughout history. Lace up for a journey through the most enviable shoe closet from the permanent collection at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology— and four centuries of fashion’s hardest working accessory.Featuring designs from the likes of Salvatore Ferragamo, Christian Louboutin, Manolo Blahník, and Roger Vivier, Shoes A–Z. The Collection of The Museum at FIT celebrates fashion’s most revolutionary and coveted labels with more than 400 styles selected from the Museum’s pristinely preserved collection. Texts from Daphne Guinness, Valerie Steele, Colleen Hill, and The Museum’s expert team of curators explore the unique legacy of each of the featured designers and the lasting cultural impact of the shoe. Also featured are custom illustrations by Robert Nippoldt. Exclusive access to original sketches, advertisements, and photographs from the designers’ private archives further illuminate the genius behind the functional, sculptural delights we cannot live without. Also available as Collector’s Edition of 1,000 numbered copies, including three prints by Manolo Blahník created exclusively for this edition with a hallmark stamp.

De una incomparable familiaridad con el legado clásico y moderno del cine, del estudio exhaustivo de sus películas y de los rasgos de estilo de sus cineastas, nace el Paulino Viota teórico, ese sabio que ha plantado en artículos, libros, conferencias y cursos la fructífera semilla de su apasionamiento, marcando a varias generaciones de cinéfilos mediante la finura del análisis, la argumentación audaz y la iluminación arrebatadora. Fue, como bien se ha dicho, la opción elegida para seguir siendo creativo, para hacer cine de otra manera, cuando su carrera de cineasta se vio desgraciadamente truncada. En "Simetrías. Los cinco actos en las películas de John Ford", catorce títulos del director de Fort Apache o The Searchers son desmenuzados para hacer comparecer a su cineasta-constructor, demiurgo tras las apariencias que apuntala la narración y gestiona su memoria esa guía afectiva del espectador atento a partir de cinco actos, unidades de sentido de raigambre mítica relacionadas entre sí por simetrías y correspondencias que explican la pregnancia del cine fordiano. Así, Paulino Viota, con una clarividencia que se impone a la hybris, nos faculta a comprender y sentir la parte sumergida que sustenta la punta visible de ese imponente iceberg llamado John Ford; y mientras, el lector, en justa proporción, celebra el trabajo minucioso y callado, la tramoya de diagramas y esquemas que el analista ha ido desarrollando durante años para poder arribar a sus emocionantes conclusiones, aquí donadas con la generosidad que todos conocemos y admiramos en él.