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Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: America's Next Top Model is a runaway runway series and must-see television for millions of teens and tweens. Young women of various backgrounds, shapes, and sizes are mentored by today's top fashion stylists and industry experts. With chapters that focus on beauty, health, and education, and filled with tips on hair, makeup, nutrition, and fashion dos and dont's, this is the first and only book…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: This ambitious book examines in great depth the English country house, including Tudor, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Georgian, Regency, Victorian, and Edwardian houses. The book covers all aspects of country living and includes famous estates by Vanbrugh, Lutyens, and Adam, as well as smaller, classically English houses and cottages, each a jewel of its period. More than four hundred color and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Frank Lloyd Wright's wife, Olgivanna, is famously quoted as saying that My husband seemed to thrive on hardships. From the years 1920 to 1932 Wright's fortunes were at a low ebb; he was plagued by financial, personal, and professional setbacks, but saw the time as one of challenges instead of one of defeat. Unable to find patrons, his imagination led to visionary, often splendid, architectural…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The latest installment of Rizzoli International Publications best-selling series of monographs on one of America's most important architects, Richard Meier, Architect: Volume 5 documents Meier's work since the publication of the previous volume in 2004. This extensively illustrated presentation, composed by renowned graphic designer Massimo Vignelli, vividly conveys the purity and power of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Suzanne Kasler is known for her classically inspired rooms, pretty palettes, and comfortable spaces. She brings Southern charm, European sensibility, and a respect for architectural details to her interiors. Her neutral palette, spiced with hits of color, creates warm spaces that are elegant yet inviting. Inspired by fashion, Kasler uses a scarf as a throw, adds grosgrain or satin banding to the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: XS Future, the third volume in the successful XS series, focuses on two of today's most challenging design problems — how to conserve space and help preserve the environment. The houses that are profiled here all represent striking, cost-effective, functional solutions located at the edge of possibility — remote locations previously deemed unbuildable, sites that face extreme environmental…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This book presents in detail forty architecturally rich and picturesque houses, ranging from the earliest one-story adobe structures, with flat roofs and an emphasis on utility and simplicity, to today's Santa Fe style, showing deep roots in Pueblo Indian, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo traditions. It includes the best of the Territorial style, introduced by newcomers from the East after 1846, as…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: When photographer Nan Goldin appeared on the art scene in the late 1970s, her tough, autobiographical frankness quickly established her in the all-male field of diaristic photographers. The beaten down and beaten up personages that populate Goldin's work are icons now deeply inscribed in our collective memory. Variety: Photographs by Nan Goldin compiles the still photographs Goldin created for…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Weekend Retreats is a celebration of the intimate narratives of retreat and relaxation — from charming coastal New England houses to restive woodland retreats. Lifestyle meets design know-how and inspiration in this thoughtful collection of design influences and singular approaches to well-lived style that will inspire all those wishing to style their country homes. Whether your idea of serenity…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Elegant and enigmatic, the silhouette is the simplest of art forms — but that simplicity belies a rich and varied past. In this first major work on the art of the silhouette, art historian Emma Rutherford draws from dozens of American and European sources to create a fascinating history of the craft. This intriguing and influential art form began as a fashionable distraction in the eighteenth…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: The work of James Cutler and Bruce Anderson of Cutler Anderson Architects reveals a unique approach to sustainable architecture: encouraging environmental stewardship through design that heightens the experience of the natural world. Each project begins with a careful investigation of site and material and culminates in a well-crafted building that fits seamlessly into the landscape. This…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 268) Аннотация: This large-format monograph is the first to chronicle exclusively Shigeru Ban's explorations in paper architecture. Informed by a thorough and early interest in sustainable forms, his innovative practice pioneered the use of paper as a structural element in buildings. This book features permanent and temporary structures, ranging from one-off museums and exhibition spaces to emergency structures…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 404) Аннотация: Luxury and art have never been more closely linked than they are in these early years of the twenty-first century. Virtually all the world's major luxury houses have associated themselves with contemporary art through sponsorships, commissions, or foundations, and these points of exchange nourish the increasingly symbiotic relationship between fashion, art, and other design disciplines. Of all…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Ryan McGinness is an internationally exhibited artist whose skate-punk aesthetic incorporates carefully rendered personal iconography, contemporary semiotics, and layered neo-baroque compositions. His works are in multiple mediums and his signature symbols and visual code have influenced an entire generation of graphic designers. Ryan McGinness Works. is a collection of the artist's most recent…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Flowers for the Home presents over 100 simple and stylish floral arrangements for both everyday and special occasions that have been shaped by Handy's worldwide travels. Showcased are floral designs inspired by cultures and traditions from such far-flung places as China, the tropical rain forest, the English countryside, and the American South. Handy discusses the basic design principles we can…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: «The name Valentino has been synonymous with high fashion for almost fifty years. Based in Rome, Valentino is only one of two couture houses recognized by the French government outside of Paris. His exquisite designs are coveted and worn by young Hollywood and high society the world over. On the occasion of his last couture collection, presented in Paris in the spring of 2008, this landmark book…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Graduating from Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela (and his contemporaries in the Antwerp Six) transformed global fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional fashion design and a polemical approach to luxury trends. Working first with the house of Gaultier, Margiela absorbed the radical design of Japanese deconstruction, making it wholly his own with the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Zaha Hadid is the most visionary of the best-known contemporary architects. This is the most complete survey of her work, and it encompasses both built and unbuilt designs, including her most recent commissions: the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum in Lithuania and the Aquatics Centre for the 2012 London Olympics. Among her most renowned works are the Vitra Fire Station in Germany and the Contemporary…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The recipient of the 1998 Turner Prize, Chris Ofili is one of the most important artists working today. Ofili began to garner attention in the mid-1990s with his intricately constructed works that combine beadlike dots of paint, collaged images from the popular media, and natural, if unusual, materials such as elephant dung. Ofili created a unique iconography that married African artistic and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 284 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 253) Аннотация: Cliff May’s modern homes epitomize the indoor-outdoor lifestyle characteristic of the American Dream, fusing the open plan/open living philosophy with the traditional ranch house. Starting in the 1930s, the modern ranch house took the country by storm, migrating from California to Arizona, and Cliff May was the chief proponent of this style. His long, low designs managed to be both modern and…