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Designer Nina Farmer has made a name for herself with her classically beautiful interiors. From reimagining century-old homes to more modern dwellings, Farmer has a way of creating looks that celebrate the past and simultaneously live squarely—and stylishly—in the present. In these pages, Farmer introduces readers to the design solutions she has found for creating that special combination: a carefully curated mix of the classic and the contemporary that looks like it was collected over time rather than created all at once.

The first book to feature the interior design of the stylish, award-winning firm RRP / Rees Roberts + Partners, led by Interior Design–hall of fame inductee Lucien Rees-Roberts. As Pilar Viladas writes in her introduction, “Rees-Roberts does not have a signature style. Instead, the interiors designed by his New York firm … have style, period, and lots of it.” Well-known for his subtle use of color, texture, and fabric, Rees-Roberts’s designs capture the essence of modern living. Descended from generations of painters, his love for art is an important source for his inspiration and indelibly marks the work. Functionally elegant designs are characterized by a deference to art as well as to light and the views provided by natural surroundings. Each designed home reflects the owner’s character as well as the needs of everyday life, incorporating custom furniture and unusual antiques. The book, bound in sumptuous cloth and wrapped in a jacket with French folds, reflects the firm’s ever-present attention to detail.

Banksy es el artista vivo más famoso del mundo, pero nadie conoce su identidad. Durante más de veinte años, sus pinturas irónicamente políticas y de humor negro han aparecido misteriosamente en las paredes urbanas de todo el mundo generando titulares y controversia. Los críticos de arte lo desprecian, pero el público (y el mercado del arte) lo aman. Con este libro, generosamente ilustrado, la artista y crítica Carol Diehl es la primera autora en sondear las profundidades del misterio de Banksy. A través de la exploración de sus pinturas, instalaciones, escritos y la película "Exit Through the Gift Shop (Pase por la tienda de recuerdos antes de salir)", nominada a los Oscar a la mejor película documental, Diehl demuestra inequívocamente que Banksy es más que pintura en la pared.

Cine y humor de la mano del podcast cultural con la comunidad más sólida de España. El primer libro de Todopoderosos. Todos tenemos películas supuestamente malas que no podemos dejar de ver una y otra vez. Cintas denostadas por público y crítica que, por diversos motivos, se nos han quedado pegadas, se han ganado un lugar en nuestro corazón. Armados de argumentos, referencias y sentido del humor, Juan Gómez- Jurado, Rodrigo Cortés, Javier Cansado y Arturo González-Campos defienden en este libro este tipo de películas. A través de joyas desconocidas, placeres culpables, obras nostálgicas y bodrios divertidísimos, nos invitan a reconectar con el cine más allá de puntuaciones y tendencias efímeras para vivirlo como lo que es: una experiencia intelectual pero, sobre todo, emocional.

La primera obra consagrada a la fructífera relación entre el espionaje y el cine, las series de televisión o incluso los dibujos animados, desde la película Protea, dirigida por Victorin Jasset en 1913, a los trabajos de Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Kathryn Bigelow, Brian de Palma, John Huston o Laura Poitras. Organizado por orden alfabético, este libro ofrece además entrevistas en exclusiva con realizadores como Olivier Assayas, Arnaud Desplechin y Éric Rochant, o con la actriz y chica Bond Léa Seydoux, así como textos perfectamente documentados sobre la historia que ha entrelazado al cine con el espionaje. Se muestran los resortes de la geopolítica mundial a través de James Bond, Jason Bourne, Argo, Misión Imposible, Shiri… o de series como Homeland, The Spy o Le Bureau des légendes [Oficina de infiltrados].

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.