Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Each picture in this book could stand alone as a work of art — a testament to Sweden's innate sense of style. Period by period, house by house, breathtaking images and elegantly authoritative text focus on those special features of the traditional Swedish room that have made it one of the major influences on decorating today.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Van Gogh was inspired by the beauty and colours of nature. He brought this passion to life in some of the most vibrant depictions of the natural world ever put to canvas. This book takes a look at this side of the artist's life and work. It offers insight into the artist's unique vision with the help of his most beautiful paintings and excerpts from his own writings. We see that flowers such as…
Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: Part of the Sticker Art Shapes series, this book offers children a chance to get to know six of Arcimboldo’s paintings on a truly interactive level. Young readers see a finished painting on one page, and on the opposite page, they recreate it with reusable stickers. Arcimboldo’s lively portraits, made of painted fruits, vegetables, and flowers, provide children with a unique understanding of…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: What is a Treevipus? A fantastic creature with the head of a trunkfish, the body of a weevil and the tail of a platypus, of course! Here, a host of creatures presented in humorous pictures and informative captions take on new names, and a hilarious new identity when their heads, bodies and legs are swapped around as the pages are flipped. Tony Meeuwissen's witty interchangeable text and…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: This book is an antidote to the sterility of the modern age. It's about capturing the romance of the past, but it doesn't advocate throwing away your washing machine and living in an old fashioned way. This is primarily an inspirational source book. As the featured interiors are often laced with fakery, Barbara explains how to recreate the tricks the designers used: she shows why a room looks…
Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: This sticker book invites children to take a look at the works of art of the Impressionist painter, Claude Monet. It should encourage an interactive approach to art appreciation. The book contains 45 full-color reproductions of Monet's paintings, specially chosen to appeal to children. The 20 color stickers are reusable. Carole Armstrong is the author of All My Own Work and My Sticker Art…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: The British Library Diary 2008 is illustrated with works from the Topographical Collection of George III, now held by the British Library. The collection of some 50,000 items, dating back from 1824 to around 1588, includes printed maps and topographical drawings, watercolours and prints. There are works by leading 18th-century watercolourists, among them Paul Sandby, William Pars, Samuel…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The harder gardeners work, the more problems seem to multiply. But if we let them, plants can do much of the hard work for us. This remarkable book, first published in 1997 and now revised and reillustrated, shows how plants can be combined into self-governing communities to create naturalistic low maintenance gardens. The universal principles of 'matrix' gardens are explained, and illustrated…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: In this fully revised edition of a classic design and style sourcebook, Robin Williams shows you how to make beautiful gardens in which every element fits harmoniously into a whole. With a wealth of examples and plans, including three-dimensional sketches, he sets out the general principles of garden design and guides you through the process of assessing the plot, finding a style and choosing…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Whether they are scientific enigmas, paranormal phenomena, mischievous hoaxes or inspired land art, the scale, beauty and mathematical and symbolic complexity of crop circles continues to astound. Throughout the summer months every year, in fields of oilseed rape, barley and wheat, a rash of ever more elaborate circles and designs appears. Lucy Pringle has been photographing and researching crop…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: This engaging draw from your imagination book holds many adventures for young readers: a dragon to fight, a mystery ship sailing to shore, a splendid archway to step through. The starting point for each adventure is an intriguing image from a painting in London's National Gallery. With the help of paints, crayons, pencils, felt-tip pens, scraps of paper, and, above all, imagination, budding…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Cracow, for 700 years the ancient capital of Poland, is its most historic and architecturally ornate city and one of Europe's architectural gems. Its oldest quarter is on UNESCO's list of the world's 12 most precious monuments. Cracow tells the story of the city from its Silver Age in the 14th century through its Golden Age in the 15th and 16th centuries, up to the present day. Photographs show…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In Search of Paradise is a survey of the great gardens of the world, presented through photographic images and the descriptions of the garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse. Here you will find the oases of the Middle East, the gardens of Chinese scholars, Japanese sages and Renaissance humanists, French baroque gardens, the English landscape garden of Capability Brown and his followers.…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The 29 landscape designs selected for this book have changed the way we look at designed outdoor spaces. They are examples of the ways in which 20th-century landscape designers have attempted to create a new style to reflect the modern age. All the landscapes still exist in some form and most can be visited. They range from Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater to Brenda Colville's Eggborough Power…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This lavishly illustrated book tells the epic 300-year story of St Petersburg through its architecture, landscapes, literature and art, from the city's origins and its earliest buildings through to the present day. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the historic centre of St Petersburg is being restored with the help of the World Monuments Fund. The book showcases the surviving monuments of St…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: William Morris, designer, poet, socialist – nature lover. This volume focuses on Morris's vision of the garden, uncovering the principles which had such a profound effect on garden designers such as Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson. Guided by Morris and the plants which appear in his work, this book endorses gardening with indigenous plants, giving information, both historical and practical,…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Generally agreed to be one of the most important contributors to Art Nouveau, the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha was trained, celebrated and lived most of his life in Paris. His unforgettably iconic images of Sarah Bernhardt and others embody the spirit of the fin de siècle. But underneath his successful career as an artist and poster designer lay a passionate Slav nationalist whose most…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Italian monumental sculpture of the 19th and early 20th centuries is among the most remarkable ever made, and remains surprisingly unknown. Its emotional charge is caught in this collection of specially taken photographs, while the scholarly texts analyse the iconographic, cultural and art historical background to the works.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This text distills the chief characteristics of Swedish interior design — a look that embraces the cool colours and modest proportions of Gustavian interiors and the unpretentious charm of country nostalgia. Five practical chapters show readers how to adapt and recreate this style themselves.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: 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 colour, light and scale. Showing how lessons from the classical world can be implemented in contemporary design, he talks through the design principles that guide him and explains how he…