Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible to build. Yet, during the latter years of her life, Hadid's daring vi...
Discover the completely unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize.
Philippe Starck defines him as a "mystic in a count...
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A small, unspoiled town on the outskirts of Paris, Argenteuil became a hub of artistic activity during one of the most exciting periods in art history-the decade of the 1870s, when true impressionism was born. Drawn to Argen...
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This book is not just a collection of articles on authentic, restored houses, it is primarily the of the passion of men and women who, one day in love with a ruin in Tuscany: a pieve, or parish church, with origins in the fi...
In this volume, US design guru John Saladino reveals the secrets that made him one of the world's most respected interior designers. He reveals the inspiration behind his design philosophy with its mastery of color, light and scale. Showing how lessons...
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You can't fit more horse than this on 448 pages of large-format photographs. 18 breeds from different cultures and all corners of the earth are celebrated in magnificent pictures. The beholder is plunged into the world of ho...
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This lavishly illustrated and beautifully designed book celebrates the colourful lives and dazzling work of the great twentieth-century fashion illustrators, as chosen by one of today's leading fashion artists, David Downton...
Nineteenth-century Europe was fascinated by the Orient. Napoleon's Egyptian campaign of 1798 initiated this phenomenon, and its history included the Greek uprising against the Turks in 1821 and the French taking of Algiers in 1830. Artists of the perio...
Путеводитель по гастрономическим специалитетам Тосканы снабжает маршрутами для туров дегустации вин и типичных продуктов региона. Вина, масла, мясо, окорока, сыры, дичь составляют великолепный репертуар снеди, которую предлагает Тоскана в разные времен...
An in-depth analysis of the works of 110 of the world's most important artists, from the early Renaissance to the present, features more than four hundred illustrations and a text that explains how each developed his or her own style and techniques.
This publication takes a new look at how works of sculpture were created, the circumstances of their discovery, and the historical and political background. Ranging from works of antiquity through the middle ages and the renaissance, to the present day...