Книги автора Pietro
Название: New Bars, Cafes and Pubs in Italy
Жанр: L'Archivolto
Год: 2008
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Long considered either of marginal importance or the domain of specialised firms, the design of bars, cafes and gathering places has recently proved to be an unexpectedly fertile outlet for new expression in ambience design, spawning entirely novel entertainment venues of high-octane visual appeal. Often theme-based, the new ambiences have pushed back the traditional frontiers of the discotheque format, giving rise to inspired combinations of materials and colour, jazzed-up reworkings of past styles, futuristic and high-tech scenarios that rehearse urban living and the townscape, in which architecture reveals its playful underside.
Название: Spas Made in Italy
Жанр: L'Archivolto
Год: 2010
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An acronym for the Roman saying salus par aquam, today the term 'spa' is still used for places where certain water-based therapies are carried out, but has come to include a range of treatments associated with physical and psychological wellbeing. The recent proliferation of spas has entailed a complete rethink of the architectural features associated with such places, by which the new interior designs borrow numerous semantic cues from the ancient cults of community bathing, interpreting them to create arenas of multi-sensory experience, with increasing emphasis on narrative features that provide settings for the new rituals of body care.
