Of course, as a classicist, I pine for the days when everything was made entirely by hand, and so I look longingly back to the days before the Industrial Revolution. I'm under no illusions as to what our life would be like without technology, but I can dream, can't I? -Matthew White, in his introduction to Italy of My Dreams Italy of My Dreams: The Story of an American Designer's Real Life Passion for Italian Style is the expansive culmination of what began as the childhood pursuit of tiny bits of Eden in Amarillo, Texas and developed into a deep personal connection with the art and architecture of Italy. Full of theatrical, bold exteriors, and interiors adorned with classical flourishes, each featured project is a unique testament to the designer's appreciation of Italian design.
L'atlante dell'architettura offre un'esauriente conoscenza degli stili e un ampio compendio di storia dell'architettura, entrando al tempo stesso nel dettaglio delle tecniche architettoniche. Con il suo minuzioso corredo di illustrazioni, schizzi, piante e commenti alle tavole, con le sue puntuali e sintetiche pagine di testo, l'opera costituisce uno strumento originale di consultazione, studio e approfondimento.
Web Design Indexes are international bestsellers, with about a quarter million copies sold worldwide. Since its first edition in the year 2000, the annual Web Design Index has developed into one of the most important publications in its field. Year after year, it gives an accurate overview of the state of the art in web design. Every Web Design Index contains 1002 outstanding web pages. With each web page, the URL is indicated, as well as the names of those involved in the design and programming. Selection for the Web Design Index is based on design quality, innovation, and effectiveness, and the books offer examples of all conceivable forms and styles.
This stunning book celebrates the work of the British fashion icon Zandra Rhodes. Internationally recognized, Zandra's designs have always been clear but creative, dramatic but graceful, bold but feminine, and her garments have a timeless quality, which makes them unmistakably a Rhodes creation. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum, Zandra Rhodes and the Art of Textiles highlights classics from the Rhodes collection such as the famed 'Dinosaur' coat, the Lily collections, Conceptual Chic, the Chinese series, and the rarely seen Spanish Impressions and Medieval collections
Books 5 to 8 in the popular Compact Design Portfolio series profile four modern masters: Eva Zeisel for her elegantly democratic housewares that span a seventy-year career; Ingo Maurer, who raises lighting design and lamps to a high art form; Gaetano Pesce whose rejection of traditional good taste brought about revolutionary furniture design; and George Nelson, the genius behind such classics as the Marshmallow sofa and the Editor 2 typewriter. Stylish, small, and perfect for collecting, Compact Design Portfolio titles are penned by accomplished writers with real knowledge of and fresh enthusiasm for their subjects
Books 5 to 8 in the popular Compact Design Portfolio series profile four modern masters: Eva Zeisel for her elegantly democratic housewares that span a seventy-year career; Ingo Maurer, who raises lighting design and lamps to a high art form; Gaetano Pesce whose rejection of traditional good taste brought about revolutionary furniture design; and George Nelson, the genius behind such classics as the Marshmallow sofa and the Editor 2 typewriter. Stylish, small, and perfect for collecting, Compact Design Portfolio titles are penned by accomplished writers with real knowledge of and fresh enthusiasm for their subjects. Containing scores of illustrations for ongoing reference, this series perfectly encapsulates the life, work, and influence of the great designers of our time.
Until now the history, culture and textiles of the Chin, a heterogeneous group of people, has been inadequately studied. Their rich textile culture emphasizes grand blankets and intricate tunics, made of homespun cotton, flax, hemp and silk, dyed with indigo and lac, and woven on a back-tension loom. In considering Chin textiles as art and cultural objects, the authors describe both their beauty and technical virtuosity and their integral role in the Chin effort to achieve merit in this life and the next.
Il volume raccoglie una selezione delle opere e dei progetti migliori di un architetto figlio di quella "generazione dell`incertezza" (come l`ha definita Tafuri) degli inizi degli anni cinquanta. Essi sono arricchiti da un`ampia documentazione grafica e fotografica e da un apparato di testi di approfondimento. Una carrellata di immagini introducono il lettore allo stile architettonico.
This oversize souvenir album, by the collaborators of New York Observed, published to coincide with exhibits at New York City's Jack Gallery and six other NYC institutions, evokes in many photographs and few words the novelties unveiled at the 1939 World's Fair, whose landscape was dominated by the symbolic Trylon and Perisphere, bold structures representing "the global aspirations of democracy and of commercial and industrial enterprise" on the eve of World War II. Heroic as the original Trylon and Perisphere may have been, they spawned a mountain of kitsch--from bookends to salt and pepper shakers--itself a testimonial to American business initiative, and amply displayed here. Yet the coauthors also retrieve artifacts of singular elegance, such as lighting fixtures that uncoil with spare, muscular dignity, and monumental posters.
la prima guerra mondiale e` alle porte, quando il catamarano del pirata rasputin salva un naufrago destinato a morte certa: qualcuno l`ha legato mani e piedi a una zattera e l`ha spinto alla deriva tra le onde del pacifico. quell`uomo ha un nome destinato a entrare nella leggenda: corto maltese. che cosa ha fatto per meritarsi una pena tanto crudele? che cosa si nasconde dietro il suo sguardo enigmatico? se lo chiedono anche pandora e cain, due ragazzi di una ricca famiglia australiana, finiti per caso nelle mani di rasputin. ancora non sanno che quell`incontro segnera` per sempre le loro vite.
Il catalogo annovera oltre 300 pezzi di arredo quali tavoli, librerie, tappeti, lampade, ceramiche, vetri e stoffe, prodotti in Finlandia dagli anni cinquanta agli anni novanta del novecento, e realizzati dai principali designer del paese, quali Alvar Aalto, Tapio Wirkkala, Timo Sarpaneva. Il catalogo e` preceduto dai testi critici di Mariateresa Chirico, Arja Luukela, Antonia Mealli, e Giorgio Tartaro, che, prendendo spunto dalla collezione, tracciano un quadro del design e dell`estetica finlandese.