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Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Spray-on dresses, growable suits and self-cleaning shirts may soon become everyday items. This visionary exploration of where fashion and clothing are headed provides the first guide to the astonishing ways in which contemporary science and technology are shaping what we wear. Fashioning the Future examines the work of those scientific researchers and fashion designers, such as Issey Miyake,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Here is the key book on the key materials in art, design and shaping the environment in the 21st century. Building on the cult success of «Techno Textiles», this book, newly available in paperback, features developments over the past decade. Highlighting advanced textiles in production and available to the designer, artist, architect and consumer today, it will be required reading for…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Epoque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the exquisitely comfortable suit…

Скачать книгу (размер 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 100) Аннотация: The Majesty of the Tsars: Treasures from the Kremlin is the companion volume to the Guggenheim's Russia, published to coincide with the major exhibition in New York. This dazzling book focuses on Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the Tsars still lived in Moscow, illustrating rare and beautiful clothing and jewelry worn by the Russian royal family, elaborate adornments for horses, an…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Explores the vast and complex phenomenon embodied by the word 'Russia' through the lens of the masterworks of Russian art from the 12th century, as well as art from the world-class collections amassed by Russian tsars and merchants from the 18th until the 20th centuries. This a comprehensive source on the history of Russian art, in English.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: House Plus is an all-in-one lifestyle, architecture and design guide to extending your home, whether a terraced house in the city, a detached cottage in the suburbs or a farmhouse in the country. It will be the one essential source for anyone who has outgrown their house but dreads the idea of moving.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Prior to the Revolution of 1917, Russia had one of the greatest traditions of private art collecting in the world. The first great collections were created by the aristocracy, and then by the newly rich industrialists and businessmen in the 19th century. Finally came the 'Merchant Princes', who were among the first and most important collectors of Impressionist and Modern Art. After 1917, all…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: In Face to Face Paul Ardenne sharpens our awareness of what it means to be photographed — to be taken hostage by the photographic image. He explores questions of authenticity, value, and the capacity for a portrait to create an illusion. The portraits, by the greatest names in photography, have been meaningfully juxtaposed to demonstrate the diversity of photographic styles.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A World of Belts is the fifth book in the series devoted to ethnic jewelery and body ornamentation from the Ghysels collection. Over 40 years in the making, this remarkable collection is made up of over 5,000 extraordinary pieces, each one selected carefully for its value, significance, and innate beauty. This original book documents one of the premier collections of ethnic belts from around in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: This richly illustrated book examines the houses designed by Alvaro Siza, one of the masters of contemporary architecture. The 28 villas represent an important aspect of Siza's career, where his distinctive ideas on home design translate into a wider conversation on living today and modern architecture. Each construction is narrated by Alvaro Siza through his short poetic writings, a technical…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Graffiti art is constantly changing. Fresh coats of paint and newly pasted posters appear overnight in cities across the world. New artists, new ideas and new tactics displace faded images in a perpetual process of renewal and metamorphosis. From Stockholm to Tokyo, Barcelona to Los Angeles, Melbourne to Milan, wall spaces are a breeding ground for graphic and typographic forms as artists unleash…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Jock Sturges: Notes gives fans of his unforgettable images a glimpse behind the scenes of his working process, opening up his studio and notes to the viewer for the very first time. A selection of preparatory studies, shot as Polaroids, accompanies the finished works included here--offering visual testimony to the complex process and inspiration that underlies each of the gorgeous images his…

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: Paul Gauguin's exotic paintings continue to entrance hundreds of thousands of museum-goers in retrospectives like Paul Gauguin and the South Pacific: The Edward McCormick Blair Collection (opens at the Chicago Art Institute September 6-June 11, 2004). The Little Book of Gauguin is a portable, exceptionally well-organized guide to Gauguin's dramatic personal life and to the radical style changes…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: René Herbst's enduring furniture designs provide fundamental lessons for today's interior designers. A staunch modernist, Herbst was a founding member and later president of the Union des artistes modernes (UAM) in France, which sought to make domestic comfort accessible to all, regardless of class. The diversity of his work is testament to his prolific and creative output, and his design is…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Tom Ford has become one of fashion's great icons. In the past decade, he transformed Gucci into one of the sexiest fashion brands in the world. His designs have increased sales at Gucci tenfold and have helped build that brand into the luxury goods conglomerate that it is today. Ford brought a hard-edged style synonymous with 21st-century glamour to his clothes, and Hollywood sat up and took…

Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: Examining what it is that makes fashion illustration the choice of the moment of art directors and style magazines, this book follows the renaissance predicted by the author's 2000 book, Fashion Illustration Now. Borrelli's introduction describes the contemporary mood among these artists and in particular shows how the maturing of the digital age has had a surprising — and astonishingly creative…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: For this book of cats in costume, Susan Herbert turns from masterpieces of fine art to masterpieces of theater. Painting in her familiar and highly popular style, this imaginative artist presents an irresistible array of well-known characters in the great Shakespearean plays, from the tragic Romeo and Juliet to the mischievous Titania, from the beautiful Cleopatra to the roguish Falstaff. In…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Venice, a mosaic of over 100 islands, many connected by the 400 bridges which span its famous canals, is possibly the most romantic city in the world. It began as a village in the marshes and grew into a formidable sea power, dubbed the Queen of the Adriatic. Now its fading glories — the canals and palaces, monuments and churches — battle with the elements, yet remain breathtakingly beautiful.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Usually portrayed as a period dominated by the extraordinary achievements of great men, Margaret L. King recasts the Renaissance as a more complex cultural movement rooted in a unique urban society that was itself the product of many factors and interactions, such as commerce, papal and imperial ambitions, artistic patronage, scientific discovery, aristocratic and popular violence, legal…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 220) Аннотация: Many of the key achievements in art of the last 125 years have been worked out on paper. From pictorial investigations that expanded the possibilities of vision to the invention of entirely new kinds of media, drawing has been the perfect laboratory for avant-garde experimentation. «Drawing from the Modern» traces such groundbreaking innovation through the unparalleled holdings of the drawings…