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Piet Swimberghe: Quiet Living: Unique Country Interiors

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: A brand new interiors book, by Piet Swimberghe and Jan Velinde, showcasing one of the most popular styles in Europe. 'Quiet Living' features country-style interiors, from city homes as well as sprawling country houses, exploring the current trend for a rural approach to interior design.

Robinson Paul Carter: 20th Century Pewter

Скачать книгу (размер 1 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 220) Аннотация: '20th Century Pewter' traces the development of styles from Art Nouveau to Modernism highlighting the important factories and workshops in this seminal period of design. It is the first book to delineate the artists and manufacturers working in this versatile material. The book includes company histories, biographical information, marks / monograms and over 350 original photographs and sketches…

Dirix Emmanuelle: Unravel: Knitwear in Fashion

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The changing status of knitwear in high fashion is a fascinating history in which the threads of socio-cultural revolutions and fashion design are closley knit together. By unravelling its ups and downs, in different places and eras, this book starts to shed a light on the origins of our current perspective on knitwear. Due to knitwear's associations with hobby culture, femininity and crafts, it…

Balade David: Designing Celtic Ornament

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Drawing on the immense popularity and the timeless appeal of Celtic ornaments, author David Balade, an acclaimed artist who created many drawings and paintings in the Celtic style, has chosen the most interesting, diverse and typical patterns and motifs of Celtic art for this beautifully designed practical and historical sourcebook. Starting with an illustrated introduction to the Celts and the…

She-Reen Wong: Trippen

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: 'Brands A to Z: Trippen' tells the captivating tale of the quirky, award-winning German brand. This book will offer an insight to Trippen's history, along with exclusive interviews and an overview of the shoemaker's most successful products and ad campaigns.

Cadringher Gabriele: Ocean Liner Posters

Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: Ocean Liner Posters tells the story of shipping companies and their ships through the art they produced — their posters. For a century, ocean liners were the only way to travel from one continent to another. Millions of passengers travelled on transatlantic routes: millionaires, occupying luxurious suites with dream decors, signed by the best artists of the time, and emigrants in search of a…

Favre Thierry: Railway Posters

Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: Tells the story of train travel through the posters of American and European railway companies.

Tsareva Elena: Turkmen Carpets: Masterpieces of Steppe Art, from 16th to 19th Centuries. The Hoffmeister Collection

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The Hoffmeister Collection is one of the best and most extensive private collections of antique and historic Turkmen knotted carpets in Western Europe and America. It competes alongside important collections from Western museums as well as those in Russia and Turkmenistan. With almost 200 objects — among which are distinguished carpets and bags — artistic excellence and historical significance…

Verbist Muriel: Living in Brussels

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Engaging portraits of around 20 Brussels interiors and their inhabitants. The book offers an inside view of the merchant houses, apartments and lofts of various creative people from a fabric designer to a dealer in designer furniture, a theatre director, etc. The interiors often represent a mix of various styles from the antique to the contemporary: old-style elements from days gone-by such as…

Lulof Patricia S.: Etruscans: Eminent Women — Powerful Men

Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: The Etruscans have been appealing to the imagination of a wide audience and architects for centuries. Their culture's wealth, religion and nature are fascinating and amazing and have dominated Italy for almost a thousand years. Women held a special position and there is no other culture in ancient times in which women were deemed to be on an equal footing with men as with the Etruscans. The…

Brown Jonathan: The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: • Includes works by Ribera, Murillo, Goya, Pacheco, Carducho, Herrera the Elder, Herrera Barnuevo, Carreño de Miranda and Maella, from both public and private collections • Accompanies a major exhibition at The Frick Collection in New York, from the 5th October 2010 to the 9th January 2011 This elegantly designed, fully illustrated volume presents exquisite drawings by Spanish artists over…

Bosoni Giampiero: Franco Albini

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: • Minimum Design: An indispensable compendium on important designers of the modern era • An ideal and accessible introduction suitable for students and lovers of design today Published in the same style as the successful Minimum Architects series, the Minimum Designers series includes books about the major figures in the field of design, creators of objects that have become a part of our daily…

Mees Gregory: Interiors: Inspiration and Materials

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «Covers all traditional and innovative materials used for floors, walls and ceilings. Provides expert advice on all applications and advantages as well as disadvantages of each material presented. Inspirational sourcebook with more than 1,500 illustrated examples. Interiors: Inspiration & Materials is the perfect book for anyone who wants to transform their house into a personal place reflecting…

Coliva Anna: Lucas Cranach: A Different Renaissance

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: • Gives a broad overview of European Renaissance through the great master Lucas Cranach, and a critical analysis of Lucas Cranach's works by important international experts • The exhibition Lucas Cranach: L'Altro Rinascimento will be showing at the Galleria Borghese, Rome from October 2010 to January 2011 Lucas Cranach: A Different Renaissance provides a new critical approach to the works of…

Mark Cleary: 200 Houses

Скачать книгу (размер 3 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 600) Аннотация: Featured in this massive 800-page collection of residential architecture are houses as diverse in range and style as the countries in which they are located. From country estates to beachfront holiday retreats, lakeside houses to hip urban dwellings, the one thing all these houses share is quality design. Accompanied by floor plans, text and lush full-colour photography, 200 Houses is not only a…

Beth Browne: 21st Century Architecture: Apartment Living

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Whether prompted by an uncertain global economy, a decrease in the average family size or a growing desire to tread more lightly on the land and share limited resources, more people are choosing apartment living than ever before. This trend, combined with a greater-than-ever range of construction and finishing materials, has led to a plethora of exciting new apartment builds and remodels…

Irace Fulvio: Gio Ponti: Minimum Design

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: Gio Ponti (Milano 1891-1979) was founder of 'Domus', Europe's most influential architecture and design magazine. Artistic director of Richard-Ginori, the ceramics manufacturer. Ponti's style was dominated by an exultant sense of the aesthetic both in his objects and his numerous buildings. Published in the same style of the successful Minimum Architects series, the Minimum Designers series…

Dawn F. Rooney: Khmer Ceramics: Beauty and Meaning

Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: This book focuses on two aspects of Khmer ceramics — their beauty and their meaning — and looks at them through the extraordinary private collection of Yothin Tharahirunchot. This book aims to explore the meaning of Khmer ceramics within the context of their function and to call attention to their aesthetics. The largest and most complete in the world, the collection of Yothin Tharahirunchot,…

Soriano Kathleen: Compton Verney

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: • Guide to the collections of an award-winning British art gallery • Compton Verney's collections focus on areas currently under-represented by British museum and galleries • Features the largest selection of British Folk Art in the UK Compton Verney, a Grade-I listed mansion house in Warwickshire, UK, was re-designed by Robert Adam in the 1760s and is set in parkland landscaped by Lancelot…

Courts and Courtly Arts in Renaissance Italy: Arts, Culture and Politics, 1395-1530

Скачать книгу (размер 2 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 444) Аннотация: Italian Renaissance art is closely intertwined with the development of courts and court culture in much of the Italian territory. The patronage of the ruling families of the small Italian city-states greatly favoured the flourishing of the figurative arts, in architecture, but also in music, literature, and theatre. The initial essay on the political geography of Renaissance Italy is particularly…