The Big Book of Small House Designs

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Finally available in paperback for the first time, Black Dog's collection of more than 500 blueprints, elevation drawings, and illustrations of small homes of various styles, from a New England farmhouse, to a sophisticated city townhouse, to a Santa Fe ranch. These small homes, all 1,250 sq. feet or less, represent a variety of living spaces suitable for every climate and environment, as well as…

Roth Ed: Stencil 201

Скачать книгу (размер 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 68) Аннотация: In this entirely original collection, stencil maverick Ed Roth presents twenty-five new stencil designs from retro-cool typewriters, phonographs, and roller skates to elegant leaves, birds, and abstract shapes. He also offers more than twenty wildly creative projects. Best of all, the stencils are reusable and can be stored at the reclosable pocket in the back of the book.

Woods Terry John: Terry John Woods' Summer House

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Summer House captures the feeling that summer evokes with memories that last beyond the season itself. In this book, author of STC's successful New Farmhouse Style, Terry John Woods explores the freedom of creating comfortable spaces meant solely for relaxing and entertaining. A summer house, cottage, or cabin is not encumbered with the necessities of year-round living. It is instead able to…

Bowles Hamish: Vogue: The Covers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: An illustrated history of the iconic fashion magazine's cover, Vogue: The Covers chronicles over 100 years of the images that have influence past and present style. It includes over 300 of the most beautiful, provocative, and fashion-forward that covers ever produced are highlighted alongside the history and stories behind the covers themselves. Vogue: The Covers begins with the illustrated…

Linn Judy: Patti Smith 1969 — 1976

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Before she was a world-renowned singer/songwriter and bestowed with the title The Godmother of Punk, Patti Smith was a struggling poet posing for the lens of photographer Judy Linn. In intimate portraits of an artist as a young woman, Linn captures Smith at her most vulnerable, as a raw performer on the verge of becoming an iconic artist. Linn's photographs offer a fascinating document of Smith's…

Budnitz Paul: I Am Plastic, Too: The Next Generation of Designer Toys

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The designer toy explosion continues in Kidrobot’s second book, I Am Plastic, Too, which features a worldwide survey of the newest, rarest, and most sought-after toys. By offering designers, comic book artists, illustrators, and graffiti artists a new outlet for their creative energies, these toys become miniature works of art, collected and coveted by fans everywhere. Showcasing examples from…

Crafting Modernism

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Crafting Modernism: Mid-century American Art and Design will provide an in-depth examination of the American studio craft movement in general, with detailed analyses of all of the major mediums (clay, wood, fibre, metal, jewellery, and glass) favoured by the greatest craftsmen of the period. Both an exhibition catalogue and an historical reference, Crafting Modernism explores the origins of the…

Graffiti Paris

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: As much as London, New York and Los Angeles, Paris has been hijacked by street artists who have transformed public spaces into giant showrooms with their posters, stickers, silk-screens, paintings, mosaics, murals, stencils and photocopies. Photographer and art historian Fabienne Grevy leads a tour of Paris' popular art, exhibited on pavements, stairways, metro stations, abandoned buildings and…

The New French Decor: Living with Timeless Objects

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «The art of setting, compiling or combining disparate objects is a difficult art. Yet it has become the chic new decorating style in France and is now spreading throughout the world. Journalist Michele Lalande and photographer Gilles Trillard team up once again to showcase the most successful combinations of treasured heirlooms and contemporary design.From precious mundane objects like seashells…

Harrison Olivia: George Harrison: Living in the Material World

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Drawing on George Harrison's personal archive of photographs, letters, diaries, and memorabilia, Olivia Harrison reveals the arc of his life, from his guitar-obsessed boyhood in Liverpool, to the astonishment of the Beatles years, to his days as an independent musician and bohemian squire. Here too is the record of Harrison's lifelong commitment to Indian music, and his adventures as a movie…

Segan Francine: Dolci: Italy's Sweets

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Acclaimed food historian and cookbook author Francine Segan takes home cooks on a virtual tour of Italy with more than 125 recipes for cookies, cakes, sweet breads, crostate, pastries and more. Time-tested recipes for beloved favourites such as cannoli, biscotti and olive oil cake are featured along with unusual regional specialties, such as Rosemary and Grape Focaccia, Licorice Granita and…

Laurent de Brunhoff: Babar's Celesteville Games

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Babar's children have all grown up. He and Celeste take them to the Celesteville Games. All the best animal athletes will be there to compete. Babar's daughter Flora falls in love with a young athlete, Corriander, from the country of Mirza. They decide to marry and all of Celesteville is invited.

Jean-Luc Fromental: 10 Little Penguins: Stuck on the Fridge

Скачать книгу (размер 34 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 8) Аннотация: From bestselling author-illustrator duo Jean-Luc Fromental and Joelle Jolivet comes a new way to enjoy the playful penguins from 365 Penguins magnets! Create new scenes, combine characters, and learn a little about counting and numbers along with the mischievous penguins and their friends. Featuring an original booklet from the authors with ideas for play and explanations of new concepts, as well…

Cees de Jong: The Poster: 1,000 Posters from Toulouse-Lautrec to Sagmeister

Скачать книгу (размер 2 890 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 568) Аннотация: Posters is a complete international history of poster design from the Art Nouveau to the present. It covers all of the significant developments in poster design, and every important type of poster, from wine and war to rock and rebellion. It also includes every important artist and graphic designer who ever created a memorable poster, making it a source book on design from Art Nouveau to today.…

Jake Nickell: Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World's Most Inspiring Online Design Community

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Threadless.com is the phenomenally successful T-shirt company with more than 4 million tees sold since it began in 2000. It pioneered the online business model of crowd-sourced or community-driven design, in which people submit designs that are voted on by the site's 1 million users and printed. Over the past 10 years, the company has amassed a vast archive of very cool, very hip, and often very…

Bob Blumenthal: Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollins

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: On September 7, 2010, the 80th birthday of jazz legend Sonny Rollins, Saxophone Colossus will appear in celebration of his incredibly prolific career. This intimate appreciation in pictures and words combines the images of John Abbott, who as Rollins' photographer of choice for the past twenty years has captured the saxophonist at home and at work, and the essays of Bob Blumenthal, a jazz critic…

Virginia Mecklenburg: Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg

Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: Telling Stories, based on the Rockwell collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, is the first book to chart the connections between Rockwell's iconic images of American life and the movies. Rockwell, the quintessential American mythmaker of the twentieth century, was a storyteller on a par with the great Hollywood directors of his day. Within his art, the fantasies and foibles of ordinary…

Bunny Williams: A Scrapbook for Living

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Bunny Williams is renowned for her glamorous design and attention to every little detail in her clients' homes. Using her incredible knowledge of design and decor, and drawing on her wealth of experience, Williams takes the reader through several homes room by room, showing creative ways to organize and add personal touches. From dining rooms (place a chest of drawers near the dining table to…

Swoon: Swoon

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: When the 27-year-old Brooklyn street artist Swoon had her first one-person gallery exhibition at New York's Deitch Projects in 2005, the area surrounding the gallery was so overrun with fans and friends that neither cars nor pedestrians could pass through. Reviews in all of the major New York papers, and even national news sources like Newsday, raved — crediting her intricate paper cut-outs and…

Chenoune Farid: Yves Saint Laurent

Скачать книгу (размер 1 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 364) Аннотация: One of the most distinctive and influential designers of the second half of the twentieth century, Yves Saint Laurent takes his place in the pantheon of French couturiers, alongside Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, and Jeanne Lanvin. Yves Saint Laurent, the first comprehensive retrospective of his life's work, will accompany an exhibition of some 250 garments from the collection of the Fondation…