Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Albert Pinto is among the most celebrated interior designers at work today. Here he turns his eye to the wonders of the East and a series of interiors inspired by the colors and textures of Morocco, Byzantium, India, and beyond.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: New Classicism provides an in-depth look at a form of design that appeared lost forever with the rise of modernism in architecture. But now, with an intense revival of interest in classical design, and with the demise in popularity of the subsequent postmodernism, new vigor has infused traditional forms and motifs. Focusing on thirty-four projects by the best classically oriented firms in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Following on the runaway success of This is New York, Universe is thrilled to reissue two more titles from M. Sasek's beloved children's travel series: This is London and This is Paris. Like This is New York and This is San Francisco, This is London and This is Paris are facsimile editions of Sasek's original titles. His brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously preserved and remain…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 705 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1120) Аннотация: »Dostoevskij era uno di quei rari geni che avanzano d'opera in opera, per una sorta di progressione continua, fin che la morte non li venga bruscamente a interrompere. Nessun ripiegamento in quella sua focosa vecchiaia, non più che in quella di Rembrandt o di Beethoven, al quale mi piace paragonarlo; un sicuro e violento approfondirsi del suo pensiero» (André Gide). Fëdor M.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Classic English Interiors is a sumptuous showcase for a distinctive style that is now as popular in Manhattan as in the country houses of England. Written by The Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, the book is divided into two parts. The first half reveals the private and the public side of Blenheim Palace, her ancestral home, explores the country houses of Oxfordshire from which Lady Henrietta…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: This beautifully illustrated guide from top interior designer Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill reveals the best of architectural and furnishing detail from England and America's most enduring decorating styles of the last 400 years. A companion volume to her «2001 Classic Design Styles», this book focuses on architectural details from seven distinct historical eras and identifies the vital…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 024 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 202) Аннотация: Questi racconti tesi, asciutti, drammatici, percorsi da una vena sottile di umorismo narrano, in prima persona, alcuni episodi vissuti dall'autore in un angolo sperduto della provincia russa a contatto con un'umanità primitiva e superstiziosa. Essi sono la trasposizione letteraria della durissima «prova iniziatica» subita dal giovane Bulgakov, appena uscito dalla facoltà di medicina e…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Paris based Alberto Pinto is one of the world's most acclaimed interior designers. He creates rooms of unimaginable grandeur, in practically every traditional style. He is the preeminent master of unabashed wealth and opulence. No expense is spared to create the most lavish interiors conceivable for Pinto's clientele. He completely outfitted Mauritzio Gucci's 250 ft yacht and furnished the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Henri Matisse's work, with its unmistakable grace and mastery of brilliant color, continues to command enormous popular interest, inspiring a new blockbuster exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2003. Hand-held in size, this compact collection manages to be affordable and comprehensive guide to the artist's work. Included are all genres and periods of his work–from the early…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In Classic Design Styles well-known author and interior designer, Lady Hennrietta Spencer Churchill turns her attention to the history of American and European classic interior design traditions including: Victorian, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Federal Style, Queen Anne, Georgian, Colonial, Empire, and Arts & Crafts. Opening the doors of private homes she decorated in America and Europe,…
Скачать книгу (размер 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 116) Аннотация: Painting in the Netherlands during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries offers a compelling visual record of the tastes and values of a prosperous society mindful of its obligation to personal and public standards. This richly illustrated volume examines twenty-six paintings by master artists from this Golden Age of Dutch art and features essays by leading scholars who explore the various…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: One of the few truly visionary architects of large-scale commissions working today, Thom Mayne's influential firm Morphosis, founded in the early 1970s, has maintained an avant-garde presence among contemporary architecture firms, even as it has garnered high-profile, big-budget commissions from around the world. Since Rizzoli published Volume I of the Morphosis series in 1989, the Los…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Nella felice stagione creativa di Boldino, nellautunno del 1830, Puskin sperimenta nei Racconti di Belkin un'inedita formula narrativa che sara la base della letteratura russa futura. Antitesi ironica e brillante delle Piccole tragedie, i racconti esplorano tutte le potenzialita dei generi letterari allepoca in voga: la Signorina contadina e una scherzosa parodia del racconto sentimentale, II…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: Il romanzo che diede a Bulgakov celebrità in vita, prima della fama universale postuma raggiunta con «Il maestro e Margherita». Tutto ruota attorno alle vicende dei tre fratelli Turbin (Aleksej, Nikolka ed Elena) nella tempestosa Kiev del convulso inverno 1919-1920. La città è nelle mani dell'avventuriero Simon Petljura ma si trova anche nella morsa di un duplice accerchiamento,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: From master event planner and floral couturier Preston Bailey comes a new book celebrating his latest ideas in floral design. A working carousel composed entirely of flowers. A dazzling floor of orchids underfoot. A Renaissance painting adorned with fresh blooms. At the heart of Preston Bailey's spectacular world-renowned events are the flowers — verdant, lavish, unforgettable. From spectacular…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: A meditation on escaping the chaos of modern life and rediscovering the luxury of solitude. Winner of the Prix M?dicis for nonfiction, The Consolations of the Forest is a Thoreau-esque quest to find solace, taken to the extreme. No stranger to inhospitable places, Sylvain Tesson exiles himself to a wooden cabin on Siberia’s Lake Baikal, a full day’s hike from any «neighbor,» with his thoughts,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The first book to celebrate one of the iconic brands of American streetwear. An originator of West Coast street and skate style, Fuct was a cult Los Angeles brand that went on to become one of the most influential American streetwear labels, influencing not only the style but also the graphic and referential approach of countless artists and companies. Driven by the provocative vision of its…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 456) Аннотация: Elegant rusticity meets unpretentious luxury in the work of this award-winning architecture firm. Howard Backen, principal of the architecture firm Backen, Gillam & Kroeger, is at the center of a popular movement in home design that emphasizes elegant simplicity and embraces the rustic charm of natural materials. This volume, the first on his work and that of the firm, is an artful exploration of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 388) Аннотация: This extravagant volume is the magnum opus of today's most celebrated interiors photographer. One of Francois Halard's first assignments, to photograph Yves Saint Laurent's legendary Paris apartment when he was in his early twenties, cemented his reputation as one of the most original eyes of our era. His unique photographic sensibility--old-world elegant and bohemian, accessible and personal--is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Over his sixty-year career, photographer Richard Avedon was renowned for his distinctive, transformative eye. Women were often his subject, through his commercial fashion work for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, and in his portraiture of both the famous and the unknown. What might have been pictured as prosaic or unattractive through another photographer's lens was presented by Avedon as…