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Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Allegra Hicks: An Eye for Design examines textile, interior, and fashion designer Allegra Hicks' approach to design and luxury. The book retraces the genesis of her patterns over the past decades of her work. Season by season, Hicks presents her original textile and pattern designs alongside beautiful photography of interiors, landscapes, and unexpected points of nature. Essays on design, color,…

Скачать книгу (размер 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 196) Аннотация: «Now available in paperback, The Green House vividly illustrates the emerging collaboration between stylish architecture, interior design, and environmental responsibility. This groundbreaking book features more than thirty-five residences in fifteen countries — and nearly every conceivable natural environment — designed by a combination of star architects and lesser-known practitioners, all of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Timeless Elegance is a rare insight into the work of one of America's pre-eminent designers, David Easton, a master of both interior design and architecture. The versatility of his talent is displayed with examples of his work that range from a forty-five-room Georgian style house in Charlottesville, Virginia, to a Mediterranean stucco house in Mexico to a modern house in Aspen, Colorado. For…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: «More Is More, the exquisite second volume about Tony Duquette, delves into the creative process and personal life of this great American designer renowned for his fantastical artwork, sculpture, jewelry, gardens, film sets, and interiors. Using «The Enchanted Vision»--a three-day lecture delivered by Duquette at UCLA in the early 1970s--as its springboard, More Is More conveys through lavish…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Venice, with her winding canals and magnificent palaces, has enchanted artists, poets, aristocrats, and visitors for centuries. Turn the pages of this beautifully produced collection of photographs, and it's easy to see why. For the past two hundred years, Venice has remained practically unchanged, a testament to the glorious, singular design of La Serenissima. In stunning full-color photographs,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 372) Аннотация: Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 encompasses seven decades of extraordinary images by Richard Avedon, the most influential fashion photographer of the 20th century. This comprehensive volume offers a definitive survey, from Avedon's groundbreaking early photographs for Harper's Bazaar through his constantly inventive contributions to Vogue, Egoiste, and The New Yorker. Each carefully selected image…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Star Wars Visions collects a wealth of art — hand-picked by George Lucas — produced by a variety of artists, illustrators, designers and cartoonists, working across all genres and styles to celebrate their favourite characters, themes, worlds and moments from the Star Wars Universe. The full list of contributors is to be released incrimentally over the 6 months leading up to publication, with…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Threadless.com is the phenomenally successful T-shirt company with more than 4 million tees sold since it began in 2000. It pioneered the online business model of crowd-sourced or community-driven design, in which people submit designs that are voted on by the site's 1 million users and printed. Over the past 10 years, the company has amassed a vast archive of very cool, very hip, and often very…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Drawing on 20 years of experience in the beauty business and 14 seasons of judging on America’s Next Top Model, photographer Nigel Barker has discov­ered the formula for revealing inner beauty that will have readers looking great and feeling even better. Casting aside conventional rules (be tall! be skinny! have flawless skin!) Nigel shares the elements that, when added together, equal true…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A revised edition of a retrospective on the Venice Biennale grand prize-winning artist incorporates the last ten years of his career including his retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim in 1997, in a lavishly illustrated portrait that traces his early years, the creation of his famous combines, his work with new technologies, and the establishm

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Art in Time picks up where Dan Nadel's previous book, Art Out of Time, left off in the celebration of unknown comics art, but this time Nadel focuses on the lesser known works by giants of the industry, like H.G. Peter (the artist for Wonder Woman), Sam Glanzman (artist for Our Army at War), John Stanley (writer and artist for Little Lulu), Harry Lucey (one of the artists behind Archie), Jesse…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: On September 7, 2010, the 80th birthday of jazz legend Sonny Rollins, Saxophone Colossus will appear in celebration of his incredibly prolific career. This intimate appreciation in pictures and words combines the images of John Abbott, who as Rollins' photographer of choice for the past twenty years has captured the saxophonist at home and at work, and the essays of Bob Blumenthal, a jazz critic…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: Telling Stories, based on the Rockwell collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, is the first book to chart the connections between Rockwell's iconic images of American life and the movies. Rockwell, the quintessential American mythmaker of the twentieth century, was a storyteller on a par with the great Hollywood directors of his day. Within his art, the fantasies and foibles of ordinary…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintentionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.» --Richard Avedon, 1974 The preeminent stars and artists of the performing arts from the second half of the 20th century offered their greatest gifts—and, sometimes, their inner lives—to Richard Avedon. More…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Pop Touched Me: The Art of Rob Pruitt charts the highs and lows of art star Rob Pruitt's career — how he courted controversy as he rose to fame in the early 90s alongside his then-partner Jack Early and later secured his own place in the art world with shows including Cocaine Buffet, 101 Art Ideas You Can Do Yourself and Pandas and Bamboo. As one of today's most provocative artists, Pruitt's work…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «With more than 140 of her best images reproduced in stunning tritone, including many never published before and others not seen since they appeared in the pages of the legendary Harper's Bazaar of the 1950s, Lillian Bassman: Women offers a retrospective view of an extraordinary career in photography. At 91 and still hard at work, Bassman is a beloved figure in the pantheon of fashion…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 788 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 744) Аннотация: Star Trek 365 is the definitive, comprehensive and authorised guide to Star Trek: The Original Series, Gene Roddenberry's landmark, groundbreaking television programme that first aired from 1966-69 and went on to become an international phenomenon. A cornerstone of popular and sci-fi culture for more than four decades, the show first catapulted William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy to fame and has,…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Tangled is the 50th animated feature produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. This gorgeous 3-D film offers a lighthearted twist on Rapunzel, the beloved fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm, complete with a daring heroine and, of course, seventy feet of golden hair. Featuring the stunning concept art behind the newest Disney masterpiece from sketches and character designs to storyboards and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Prominent Italian-born interior designer Alessandra Branca explores her design sense and provides invaluable guidance to anyone who wants a home that is beautiful, original and livable. For Alessandra Branca, living means living comfortably. She learned early on that beauty is meant to intermingle with everyday life and to this day her interior designs, while abiding by classical principles,…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A smart and stylish fashion and beauty guide filled with tips and tricks for navigating trends and developing personal style. This little book is the perfect complement to any wardrobe. A smart and stylish fashion and beauty guide from the creators of the popular website WhoWhatWear.com. Now, the creators share their tricks of the trade in the book that translates high fashion in a low-fuss,…