ARQUITECTURA Y DISEÑO

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.

Londres, una de las ciudades más visitadas del mundo, es también una de las más variadas desde un punto de vista arquitectónico. Desde su reconstrucción tras el Gran Incendio de 1666, en el que un tercio de la ciudad fue destruido, Londres se ha convertido en un gran centro comercial, financiero y cultural. Cómo leer Londres está compuesto por una serie de capítulos que recorren los diferentes estilos arquitectónicos, cada uno de los cuales presenta tanto sus edificios más emblemáticos como otros ejemplos menos conocidos aunque igualmente significativos. Desde el diseño georgiano de la Spencer House hasta el impresionante edificio de acero y vidrio de The Shard, el presente libro nos descubre la incomparable historia arquitectónica de Londres. Es hora de recorrer las aceras de la ciudad de la mano de esta guía imprescindible, y dejarse seducir por esta urbe cosmopolita.

De Azzedine Alaa, Cristóbal Balenciaga o Coco Chanel a Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent o Vivienne Westwood, los grandes creadores de moda del último siglo, aquellos que conforman la colección permanente del Museo del Fashion Institute of Technology de Nueva York, reciben su particular homenaje en esta nueva edición de Fashion Designers A–Z. En la introducción, Valerie Steele, la directora y conservadora principal, escribe sobre el auge del museo de la moda y la aparición de la exposición de prendas como un fenómeno popular y polemico. Suzy Menkes, toda una autoridad internacional de la moda, contribuye con un prefacio, los textos de los conservadores del museo repasan la historia de cada firma y prenda incluida, y retratos dibujados por el artista Robert Nippoldt rinden homenaje a sus creadores.

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.

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.

Desde hace casi dos décadas, Sneaker Freaker ha liderado la escena mundial de las zapatillas de deporte. Con más de 650 páginas rediseñadas, fotografías recientes, detalles históricos pormenorizados y una minuciosidad obsesiva propia de un otaku, esta monumental antología es una oda a las zapatillas deportivas. Reúne lo mejor de la revista... En 2002, Simon“Woody”Wood le daba vueltas a la fórmula para conseguir zapatillas gratis. Dos semanas más tarde, era el orgulloso propietario de Sneaker Freaker y su vida no volvió a ser la misma. Desde sus primeros pasos como un fanzine de estilo punk hasta la primorosa edición en papel y la presencia en Internet de la actualidad, esta publicación ferozmente independiente ha recogido todas las zapatillas de deporte colaborativas, personalizadas, de edición limitada, retro, Quickstrike, Hyperstrike y Tier Zero lanzadas en los últimos 15 años.