Книги жанра Thames&Hudson
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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Hybrid Interiors presents twenty-five imaginative interiors where styles, cultures, trends and end uses are mixed and matched. These spaces – from Amsterdam to Rome, from Berlin to Beijing – provide settings for a dialogue between contemporary design and historic preservation, living space and working space, and classic style and popular culture. The idiosyncratic experiments on the pages of this book provide a rich source of inspiration to those seeking to break away from the overworked catalogue of formulas used in the field of interior design. This is a vibrant showcase of exuberant interiors that fly in the face of received design opinion – packed with inspiration and ideas for creating unorthodox and surprising environments that play the game of opposites.
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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Recent exhibitions on the Golden Age of Danish painting and the ‘rediscovery’ of Vilhelm Hammershøi have whetted a growing interest in and taste for Danish painting of the nineteenth century. Yet surprisingly, there have been few studies of this vital school of art. That deficit is now corrected with this landmark study of Danish art. Between 1790 and 1910, Danish painters developed a national school of art that matched the artistic centres of France, Germany and Britain. The range of outstanding works created by Nicolai Abildgaard, Jens Juel, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Christen Købke, P. S. Krøyer and Vilhelm Hammershøi reflect and refract the great stylistic tendencies of European art of the nineteenth century, including Classicism, Romanticism, Impressionism and Symbolism. Illustrated with over two hundred key works of art drawn from the leading Danish collections, In Another Light is the only book available in English that surveys Danish painting across the nineteenth century. Written by a major scholar in the field, and featuring all the icons of the Danish Golden Age, this is an essential addition to all art libraries.
Название: Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2006
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A beautiful, elegiac collection of sixty polaroid photographs by the late, great Soviet film director, Andrei Tarkovsky Composed of sixty luminous polaroids taken by Andrey Tarkovsky in Russia and Italy between 1979 and 1984, this beautifully produced series of cameos from the director’s life reveals him to be a master of the still as much as of the moving image. The photos in the first section, taken in Russia, have the radiant melancholy of lengthening shadows and trees looming through misty dawns near Tarkovsky’s country dacha, together with portraits of his wife, son and dog, loaded with nostalgia by quotations from his later diaries. Those taken in Italy portray exquisite still lifes and glimmering ruins. The book concludes with photographs from Tarkovsky’s personal collection. Tarkovsky is here revealed as realizing the utmost potential of a fleeting, disposable medium: his images seem to capture eternity in a moment.
Название: The Interior Design Course: Principles, Practices and Techniques for the Aspiring Designer
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2006
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All the principles, practices and techniques you need to realise your interior design goal. • Discover how design has evolved over the centuries, and learn how to think visually and develop your own personal style • Organized into units to reflect the courses of top design colleges, the book is filled with practical advice on all aspects of interior design, from the initial idea to adding the finishing touches • Step-by-step tutorials guide you through the entire design process, with advice on finding inspiration, planning the space, choosing colour schemes and working with textiles • A gallery of finished examples by interior designers and students will inspire you in your own designs, and provides a valuable insight into the work of the professional designer
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 1999
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The impact of Japan on Western art was as immediate and almost as cataclysmic as the influence of the West on Japanese life. After Commodore Perry opened Japan’s door to the outside world in 1858, a wealth of visual information from the superb Japanese traditions of ceramics, metalwork, architecture, print-making and painting reached the West and brought with it electrifying new ideas of composition, colour and design. One has only to see a celebrated painting by Monet, Degas or Van Gogh, a print by Lautrec or Vallotton, an Art Nouveau glass vase or a lacquered hair comb side by side with its Japanese source to see how these ideas have inspired European artists. Japanese conventions of symbolism underlie the use of decorative motifs in European Symbolism and Art Nouveau, and the Zen idea of spontaneity is the ultimate source of both the apparently capricious shapes of Art Nouveau ware and the development of an abstract ‘calligraphy’ in Abstract Expressionism.
Название: The Jeweled Garden
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2006
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'The Jeweled Garden' traces the inspiration and evolution of two centuries of garden-inspired jewelry. The great 19th-century French jewelers, Boucheron, Chaumet, and later Lalique, excelled in adapting flowers, trees, and fruits into wonderfully imaginative – and highly collectible – bracelets, brooches and necklaces. The legendary 20th-century firms Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari and Belperron also created memorable jewels emulating nature, as did American jewelers such as Seaman Schepps, Oscar Heyman & Brothers, David Webb and Verdura. Their ingenuity has in turn inspired the designs of our own time, including Mughal-influenced pieces by Joel Arthur Rosenthal, Stefan Hemmerle’s playful ferns and mushrooms, and Jacqueline Karachi-Langane’s cascading orchid necklace for Cartier. The 375 stunning illustrations make this a collector's piece in itself.
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2004
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In a career that spanned nearly seven decades, Josef Sudek, one of the masters of twentieth-century photography, created his own solitary world of shadow and light, of theme and variation. The more than one hundred images in this monograph convey the spirit of Prague as well as the spirit of Sudek. Essay by Anna Faroua.
Название: London in Store
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2005
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Following the same format as the cult hit Paris in Store, this quirky look at 100 of London’s offbeat shops and shop windows is a delightful record of a disappearing world, a refreshing counterpoint to the increasingly globalized, world of 21st-century shops and shopping experiences. This snapshot of authentic, non-corporate London Features a wide range of businesses, from the mainstream – Agent Provocateur and Lamborghini – to the defiantly idiosyncratic, for example taxidermists ‘Get Stuffed’ and Miss Hughes’s sweetie stall at Spitalfields Market.
Название: The Magic of M: C. Escher
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2006
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No artist ever worked harder to render the visions of his mind’s eye than M.C. Escher. A superb draughtsman, he set himself the challenge of portraying other-worldly transformations of space within the familiar boundaries set by a sheet of paper. The resulting images have become the favourite artworks of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. This powerfully original artist has long deserved a book that does justice to his visual invention: this is it. Escher’s works are arranged to form a cinematic journey of discovery, brilliantly interweaving his better-known prints with numerous unpublished working drawings and sketches (including 12 full-colour fold-outs), the artist’s eloquent words, and observations by Escher expert J.L. Locher. As beautiful and rigorous as an Escher work itself, The Magic of M.C. Escher is destined to become the classic study of a great maverick who so memorably linked the world of image-making with geometry and paradox.
Название: The Modern Garden
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2001
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The story of the modern garden has – until now – received little or no attention in the vast canon of garden literature. Jane Brown, one of the world’s foremost garden historians and chroniclers of twentieth-century culture, has been captivated by the secret story of the modern garden for more than a decade, mining its little-known history for revolutionary ideas and rediscovering long-lost masterpieces. Accompanying the accessible and wide-ranging text are rich and surprising illustrations and rarely seen historical photographs, as well as stunning contemporary photographs of eleven classic modern gardens. With today’s ecological concerns and green design, the lessons of the modern garden for the twenty-first century are eminently useful. This exceptional publication weaves a rich tapestry of ideas and ideals, animated by the designers and people who dreamed them.
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 1999
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When Crown Prince Gustaf returned from Versailles in 1771 to ascend the throne of Sweden, he was determined to give his country a leading place in Europe culturally as well as politically. He fostered the international movement of Neoclassicism, which in Sweden took on a freshness distinctive to the country, alongside the influences of France, England and Germany. Neoclassicism in the North presents twenty houses and apartments in marvellously evocative, specially commissioned photographs, alongside plans and original drawings. From royal salons with exquisite Pompeian ornament to modest spatter-painted Biedermeier halls, the beautiful Neoclassical houses of Sweden are of unique value today not only because of their superb craftsmanship but also as a stimulus to contemporary decorators.
Название: The New English Dandy
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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Fusing classical principles with today’s sensibilities, this book offers six takes on the twenty-first-century dandy. Each section features a specially commissioned 16-page fashion shoot by a rising star of fashion photography and eight pages of bespoke inspiration, instruction, interviews and insight. The reference section has a tailor’s glossary and contact information. Whether your taste runs to the classic or the modern, the English dandy sets the pattern for the twenty-first-century male. After a number of years working in the London offices of the British Council, Alice Cicolini is now based in Delhi, where she heads the Arts and Culture Department of the British Council in India.
Название: New York in Store
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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Here is a quirky look at one hundred of New York’s offbeat shops and shop windows, from such Manhattan mainstays as Macy’s and Katz’s Delicatessen to the idiosyncratic, including the 99¢ store on East 14th Street, or Dr Rico Perez’s drugstore in the Bronx. At a time when much of New York is succumbing to the uniformity of the mall, these are the shops that are bucking the trend. • This colourful antidote to corporate blandness follows the same format as cult hits London in Store and Paris in Store • All types of store are here! Track them down with calling cards, which detail the shops' names and locations Valérie Weill and Philippe Chancel co-wrote Paris in Store and London in Store. Novelist and poet Harry Mathews is a native New Yorker, and now divides his time between Paris and London.
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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This book explores the sixteen most exciting young architectural studios in Australia, and the progressive projects built in Australasia that are winning them global attention. Highly attuned to the growing influence and economies of the Far East, where many of these architects are already working, Australia and the pioneering spirit of its creative community are well-placed to lead the way.
Название: Pet Shop Boys — Catalogue
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2006
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Pet Shop Boys – Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe – are the most successful duo in British pop history. Since the mid-1980s, their records have topped the charts and sold in their millions across the world. Number-one hits such as ‘West End girls’, ‘It’s a sin’ and ‘Always on my mind’ and platinum-selling albums such as 'Please', 'Actually' and 'Very' have helped establish the group as one of the most influential of recent decades. From the iconic photography and seminal graphic design of their record sleeves to their groundbreaking videos and innovative stage shows, Pet Shop Boys have set the standards for the visual presentation of pop.
Название: Picture Perfect English Villages
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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This is a spectacular celebration of England’s picture perfect villages, grouped by area and by county. Clustered around the parish church and green, or winding along an eccentrically curving street, villages are the very embodiment of Englishness. The village inn and the local farm, great houses, cottages and beautiful country gardens speak of a way of life which has developed slowly since Anglo-Saxon times. Time spent in England’s idyllic villages offers a revitalizing glimpse of a more tranquil existence. The richness and diversity of the English village are recorded in this book in absorbing commentary and magnificent photography by James Bentley and Hugh Palmer.
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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A true original: this lavishly photographed book captures the style of American fashion maverick Iris Apfel, who, over the past forty years, has cultivated a personal chic that is exuberantly idiosyncratic. Combining genres, colours, textures and patterns without regard to period, provenance or, ultimately, aesthetic convention, she is one of the few style icons of our time. Here, in over ninety sumptuous colour plates, Eric Boman shows off a selection of her extraordinary outfits on wittily posed mannequins.
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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This is the first book devoted exclusively to rings considered by theme rather than by date – though the author, a world expert, brings her rich historical and literary knowledge to the subject. Rings of all periods are included – from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages and Renaissance up to the 20th century. The rings are drawn not only from great museums but from private collections, preeminently that of the noted gem dealer and art patron Benjamin Zucker.
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2007
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From spiked stilettos to negative heels and from platform soles to ballerina flats, all is documented in this bible of footwear styles, materials and production methods – a must-have for any shoe addict or professional. Organized by time and by style, this ravishing book, uniquely illustrated with photographs of actual period shoes, takes us on a remarkable tour of the shoe closets of the world over the last four hundred years. Exploring how historical events and social change have influenced styles and production, Jonathan Walford shows why almost-forgotten designs will still appeal today. Fabulous images of conversation-starting shoes with revealing commentaries fill the pages. There is an illustrated section devoted to biographical notes on shoemakers, designers and manufacturers who have shaped footwear history, and a detailed glossary of all the main terms.
Жанр: Thames&Hudson
Год: 2008
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This is the most comprehensive and inspirational volume ever published on the extraordinary world of shells. Shells have been put to an amazing array of uses – as decoration, tools, medicines and musical instruments. For nearly four millennia, millions of them were used acros the world as currency. Shells have been worn as amulets to bring fertility, good fortune or protection from the evil eye. Above all, the beauty of shells has fired the imaginations of artists and craftsmen, and their work forms the lavish heart of this book, from the simplest beads to designs in gold and precious stones, silverware, ceramics, glass, textiles, furniture and fashion. Shells encrusted the garden grottos and pavilions of the 17th and 18th centuries, and in the 20th century influenced the forms of landmark modernist and post-modernist buildings. Some shells were so coveted that specimens could raise staggering sums at auction. Ingrid Thomas explores this history of shell collecting, and explains how shells can be collected responsibly today without harming our marine environments. Includes a worldwide directory of shell collections and grottos and a photographic glossary of shells,
