Книги издательства Thames&Hudson
Название: Bulgari
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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Copious photographs and archival pictures trace the development of the Bulgari style, a distinctive look that has captivated royalty, movie stars and others for more than a century. This has sparked countless imitations by other jewelers, copies that can never rival the glamour and flair of the Bulgari originals. The book showcases a range of Bulgari’s stunning innovations, such as its easy-to-wear everyday jewels made with precious gems, its trademark watches and unique Vintage Collection. It also describes the creative inspiration that led the firm to its famous juxtaposition of unusual materials, from mixing semiprecious stones with priceless diamonds and mounting ancient coins in gold jewelry to incorporating substances – such as steel and white porcelain – that had never before been used in couture jewelry. This elegant volume will delight anyone in the field of fashion and jewelry design, as well as the many enthusiastic collectors of Bulgari jewels.
Название: Camouflage
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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Camouflage has become a global cult in today’s fashion and design world. Its fascinating story tells of the interplay between military developments and the worlds of art, design and popular culture on the other. The animal kingdom provides examples of all the essential principles of camouflage: the chameleon, whose colours change to merge with its setting; the zebra, whose vivid stripes disrupt its outline and make it more difficult for predators to sight from a distance; the stick insect that pretends to be what it’s not. New creativity in the military art of disguise was spurred in the First World War by the threats of aerial reconnaissance and long-range enemy fire. By the 1970s, disruptive pattern uniforms were worn by soldiers of most nations, and had become as much a way of identifying allegiance as of protecting from detection. Today, as modern advances in imaging techniques make straightforward visual deception redundant, scientists are developing super high-tech solutions. But camouflage has flourished in peace as well as in war. Artists and designers have explored the themes and extremes of camouflage and optical illusion, while camouflage patterns in clothing and accessories have filtered from the street to the catwalk and back again. This wonderfully stylish and appealing book accompanies a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. Together they are a dazzling revelation of camouflage’s power in nature, war and design.
Название: Christian Lacroix on Fashion
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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Fashion is a fascinating story that never ends, and Christian Lacroix is the most seductive of storytellers. Lacroix is one of the most inventive and admired fashion designers in the world. He is also incredibly well-versed in fashion history, and he brings that expertise to bear in this delightful imaginary museum of historic and contemporary fashion. Each featured piece – whether from costume collections of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs or the House of Lacroix – is distinguished by its cut, its detail, its colour and its texture, and the pieces are juxtaposed and photographed in a way that emphasizes their relationships across the centuries.
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2000
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Is colour just a physiological phenomenon? Does it have an effect on feelings? This vividly written book, the sequel to the award-winning Colour and Culture, is ultimately informed by the conviction that the meaning of colour lies in the particular historical context in which it is experienced and interpreted. John Gage explores the mysteries of themes as diverse as the optical mixing techniques implicit in mosaic, colour-languages in Latin America at the time of the Spanish Conquest and the ideas of Goethe and Runge, Blake and Turner. For students and lecturers in the history of art and culture, for artists and designers, and for psychologists and scientists with a special interest in the subject, John Gage has produced a compelling study of the meaning of colour through the ages.
Название: The Complete Pompeii
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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Pompeii is the best known and probably the most important archaeological site in the world. This is the most up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive account for the general reader of its rise, splendour and fall. The drama of Pompeii's end has been handed down by Roman writers, its paintings and mosaics have astonished visitors since their discovery, and its houses and public buildings still present a vivid picture of life, disaster and death in a Roman town. • The dramatic story of Pompeii’s destruction and burial • Lavish illustrations, covering monumental architecture and inscriptions, houses, shops, graffiti, wall-paintings and mosaics. • The changing nature of excavation and research since Pompeii was unearthed • Pompeii’s development – the latest findings • Vivid evidence on the daily lives and deaths of the people • The internal politics of Pompeii • Architecture, decoration and objects of daily life • Religion in Pompeian life, from the Roman gods to the exotic cult of Isis • Economic Life, from production, through shopping and eating, to long-distance trade • Features range from theatre to water supply • Comprehensive tables of information
Название: Costume Jewelery for Haute Couture
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2006
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This sumptuously illustrated book surveys the exquisite range of costume jewelry produced by haute couture fashion houses, an often neglected subject. 'Costume Jewelry for Haute Couture' is for anyone with an interest in this most creative and accessible decorative art. It showcases the extraordinary diversity and exceptional craftsmanship of the jewelry in hundreds of beautifully reproduced pieces from such fashion houses as Chanel, Courrèges, Yves St Laurent and Lanvin. The story begins in antiquity, but the main focus is on costume jewelry’s heyday, which ran from the 1920s to the 1990s. The main stages in its development are placed in historical, social and cultural contexts, and in terms of their format and styles.The book also focuses on jewelry making and the partnerships between great couturiers, costume jewelers and craftsmen. The spectacular photographs include hundreds specially taken for this volume, as well as many original photographs of the jewelry being worn.
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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Dior is the most prestigious and internationally celebrated of all the great couture houses. Christian Dior’s successors – Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré and John Galliano – have remained faithful to Dior's vision while at the same time reinterpreting it in their own new and distinctive ways. This massive, luxurious book traces the history of the House of Dior through the constantly changing contours of its haute couture. It is also a history of fashion since 1947, of its dreams and realities, its big events and main protagonists, its stars and clients, its models and journalists, its indispensable seamstresses and all who work their magic behind the scenes. A feast of contemporary photographs by the most outstanding fashion photographers of their time, including Richard Avedon, Henry Clarke, Nick Knight, Willy Maywald, Irving Penn and many others, is complemented by Laziz Hamani’s studio portraits of 150 exceptional designs selected from the 120 shows presented by Dior over its sixty year history.
Название: The Earth from the Air — 365 New Days
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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The Earth from the Air photography project has become a dazzling international success. Yann Arthus-Bertrand's photographs are regularly exhibited in cities across the world and stand as the ongoing visual record of the planet we all inhabit. This book is the latest in a series of highly successful titles published in association with this project, which includes the worldwide bestseller The Earth from the Air. Through twelve chapters with thoughtful introductions by several noted authors, The Earth from the Air – 365 New Days addresses the present and future health of the planet: agriculture, biodiversity, sustainable development, energy, foests, fresh water seas and oceans and global warming. At once inspiring and trancendentally beautiful, The Earth from the Air – 365 New Days offers a valuable new erspective on our spectacular but fragile environment.
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2005
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The ecological approach to building is the great untold story in the architectural history of the past century. This book is essential reading for architects and students. As an urgent wake-up call on the state of our built environment, it will be of interest to everyone who cares about the future of our planet. In the past, many of the key tenets of the ecological philosophy — sustainability, energy efficiency, harmonious relationship with the environment – appeared to stand contrast to the sweep of science-led ‘progress’ that characterized the modern movement. Today, however, past visionaries are vindicated and yesterday’s eccentricities are today’s legal requirements: every architect has an obligation to the environment as well as to his or her client. After an introduction to the terminology of ecological architecture — including terms such as ‘green’ and ‘sustainable’, Part one identifies recurring themes in ecological architecture. Part two features twenty-five case studies each focusing on a specific architect, movement or topic. Some of the names are familiar in this context — Rasem Badran, Hassan Fathy — but there are also plenty of surprises — Le Corbusier, Buckminster Fuller, Rudolf Schindler. Part three looks to the future as ecological architecture struggles to deal with global urbanization.
Название: English Style
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 1984
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Like English literature and English manners, the English style of decorating has been copied and admired for generations around the world. It is a style that can be found in a simple cottage with gabled roof and stucco walls, or in a grand country house filled with antique furniture and family heirlooms. It may be reflected in an elegant town house with gleaming brass Art Deco appointments, a Victorian terrace house with original William Morris wallpaper, a minimalist London flat or an attic studio furnished with graphic severity. Suzanne Slesin and Stafford Cliff have joined forces to provide a singularly beautiful and evocative look at the English ways of decorating. Presenting more than 600 never-before-published colour photographs, English Style achieves a consistent beauty while examining a myriad of styles. There are chapters on classic English homes; city houses; flats and studios; conversions; country houses; collecting and English style abroad. The result is a rich and provocative book whose every detail demonstrates the endurance of tradition and vitality of invention that are both major elements in English interior design today.
Название: Euro Deco
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2005
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A wide-ranging compilation of Art Deco graphics from six European countries, Euro Deco assembles a wealth of alluring and sophisticated design from an extraordinary period of creative vitality and political turmoil. An essential reference for graphic artists, designers and anyone with an interest in advertising or art history, this book features original artefacts from the 1920s to the 1940s, including samples of design and illustration from posters, packaging, magazines, advertisements and many other sources. With sections featuring more than 2,000 samples of graphic ephemera from France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy and the Netherlands, Euro Deco offers inspiration for the designer and an engaging and original portarait of the time and places in which these works were created.
Название: FamilyLifeStyle: Home
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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Far more than just an interiors book, Family Lifestyle HOME is a bible for living with children in domestic environments that are as effortlessly stylish as they are educational, as comfortable with the hurly burly of family life during the day as they are elegant for evening entertainment. The first in a new series that celebrates how parents can live, entertain and travel in style just as much with children as before having children, Family Lifestyle HOME is fresh, fun and friendly. • Breathes real life into interiors and lifestyle for a new generation of parents and their children • Modern home-owners want the best of both worlds: stylish contemporary living alongside the rich and unpredictable mêlée of family life • Explores the different areas of the house and how they can be made flexible to allow a range of fulfilling activities when children are and aren’t around
Название: Fashion Illustration Now
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2000
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The work of nearly thirty of the world's top up-to-the-minute illustrators is organized into three different styles. The sensualists — for example, François Berthoud — adhere to a fluid, fine-arts tradition. Others, such as Jean-Philippe Delhomme, focus on characters: smoky-eyed gamines and sophisticated 50s-style divas. And here, for the first time in any survey, is the computer-generated work of the leading technocrats, among whom are Graham Rounthwaite and Jason Brooks. As well as work drawn from artists’ collections and from international fashion and style magazines, Fashion Illustration Now includes scores of specially commissioned illustrations. With biographical and contact information for each artist, this is a guide for media and fashion industry professionals, an inspirational sourcebook for students and a must-have for anyone interested in fashion now.
Название: Freight Train Graffiti
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2006
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One of the largest and most exciting segments of the graffiti world has been left largely unexplored until now. Freight Train Graffiti is the first comprehensive insight into a subset of the graffiti world that has become the focal point for many graffiti artists today. This book takes us on a fascinating visual journey through the freight train graffiti landscape, with stories, ideas and thoughts from over one hundred of the most influential and prolific freight train artists, many of whom have consented to interviews for the first time, and over 800 stunning illustrations of their work. This is primarily an American tale, closely linked to the New York subways and the construction of the United States itself, but one that will inspire anyone who has ever been interested in graffiti.
Название: Gay Life and Culture: A World History
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2006
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This is the only book to provide a complete overview of the long history out of which today’s rich and varied gay culture has emerged. Historians from nine countries consider the evidence for same-sex relationships throughout the centuries, charting shifting attitudes towards homosexuality and the gradual emergence of a concept of self-identity. For thousands of years, men and women have felt a desire for emotional and physical intimacy with those of their own sex. Their story, for many years forgotten, erased, ignored or rewritten, has in recent years become the focus of an extraordinary outpouring of research. Completely new avenues of inquiry have opened up and old assumptions have been challenged. Gay Life and Culture draws upon these findings to present a lively and thought-provoking account of what, until recently, could have been termed a ‘secret history’. From ancient Greece and Rome right up to the present day with its issues of gay rights, AIDS and civil partnerships, this book also considers same-sex relationships in non-Western cultures, through history and across the globe. From homoerotic Persian poetry to tales of cross-dressing women in 18th-century Italy, from the wild, hedonistic delights of between-the-wars Berlin to concepts of a third gender in Asia and Native North America – all are discussed and recounted from memoirs, letters, archives, and works of art and literature.
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2006
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Graffiti Woman celebrates the rise of female graffiti and street artists, showcasing the work of over 125 women, from those at the top of the game, such as New York’s Lady Pink and Amsterdam’s Mickey, to a galaxy of rising stars. Accompanied by lively quotes from the artists themselves, and introduced by renowned American artist Swoon and author Nancy Macdonald, this book is a must-have for anyone who has ever felt drawn to the galleries of the street.
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2004
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Graffiti World is the ultimate graffiti book offering a unique insight into the very essence of graffiti and its creative explosion in almost every corner of the globe. With over 2,000 pictures from more than 180 international artists, no other book is remotely so comprehensive or up to date. Nicholas Ganz combines his own first-hand experiences with quotes from the artists themselves to offer a true insider’s perspective to the key trends and style developments that have made graffiti what it is today: a global phenomenon.
Название: Henri Cartier-Bresson in India
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2008
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Henri Cartier-Bresson’s record of his lifelong fascination with India contains the very best of his photographs of that country, images shaped by an eye and a mind legendary for their empathy and ability to get to the heart of the matter. The first pictures were taken in 1947 at the time of Independence; the last when the photographer was well into his eighties. Cartier-Bresson’s talent, his famous ‘mantle of invisibility’ and his good connections with such figures as Nehru and the Mountbattens allow him to portray all the contradictions and variety of India. Much space is given to his famous reportages, such as the astonishing sequence on the death and cremation of Gandhi, and the refugee camps that formed following the Partition. Time after time, Cartier-Bresson captures the essence of each event. But above all, his skill selects the apparently ordinary faces and scenes that define the spirit of a country.
Название: Henri Matisse: Drawings 1936
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2005
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The drawings that Matisse produced in the mid-1930s were those he valued as amongst his very greatest achievements. And finely reproduced as they are here, they astonish, delight and seduce everyone who sees them by their verve, their audacity and their voluptuousness. Made in pen and ink, admitting of no correction, devoid of shading or hatching they are, as Matisse said of them, ‘the most direct expression of my emotion.’ These portraits and drawings of models reclining in and against profusely patterned textiles and ornamented backgrounds, are miracles of pure line, of fluid arabesques seemingly spontaneous and free, yet rationally controlled to embody the height of exoticism and sensuality. The naked and clothed models, mirrors, reflections of sprawling limbs and of the artist himself or his own hand drawing, spread in waves across the whiteness of the paper to beguile us and take our breath away at Matisse’s sheer virtuosity in making a simple line evoke the complexities of space and form.
Название: Hip Hotels: Atlas (Compact)
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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As the world gets smaller and our travel options get broader, our lives get busier and our holidays ever more precious. We want to be certain of making a decision we will not regret. More than that – we want experiences that will stay with us for the rest of our lives. Enter Herbert Ypma, perennial traveller and arbiter of hotel cool. With HIP HOTELS ATLAS, Ypma presents a global range of truly unforgettable experiences. Covering six continents, this book opens up a world of opportunities. You may be tempted by a classic Italian palazzo with its own black-sand beach, a magnificent mud kasbah in a lush oasis, an authentic Japanese inn with a traditional Zen ambience, a contemporary Tasmanian pavilion overlooking idyllic turquoise waters, a rugged log cabin in the heart of the American Wild West, or a laid-back but überstylish Brazilian beach shack. The eighty varied and Highly Individual Places in this seductive collection will have you packing your bags and planning your escape. Every one of the hotels featured is a dream come true. All combine fabulous design, incredible architecture and heartstopping locations. From Alpine farmhouse to fantasy ice palace, Moorish mansion to modernist concrete bunker, these unique destinations offer emotive style in a spectacular setting.
