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Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «Costume Worldwide» combines the studies of two classic 19th-century illustrators, Auguste Racinet and Friedrich Hottenroth, alongside an illuminating modern text. Their works are presented first by chronology and then by subject, so that illustrators, historians and students alike can choose to follow the path of fashion through the centuries, or study in detail the contrasting styles of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Customizing is hot. Everything can be customized: from pimped cars to retro furniture. This major trend is especially popular in footwear. Customizing your own shoes is a way of stepping out of the crowd, of showing your personality. And, just about every sneaker brand has found a way to put street art into their products; rain boots have never been more hip; and there are even Customize…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Featuring innovative and stylish interior products that all design-savvy parents will want for their children, Designed for Kids is the first such guide for children from the nursery up. Sourced from around the world, the book presents more than 450 cutting-edge products that are all aesthetically pleasing and technologically advanced. Informative texts review the strengths, materials and…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «Detail in Contemporary Kitchen Design» features over 30 kitchen designs from around the world, each created by a notable architect for a specific residence. Arranged into chapters according to the dominant material used in its construction a stone, timber and steel, each design is accompanied by an image of the whole house, placing it in context and providing a flavour of the general design…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Edward Steichen was already a famous painter and photographer when, in 1923, he was offered one of the most prestigious and most lucrative positions in photography – that of chief photographer for Condé Nast’s Vogue and Vanity Fair. Over the next fifteen years, Steichen produced an oeuvre of unequalled brilliance, dramatizing and glamorizing contemporary culture and its achievers – in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Drawing upon an impressive array of original sources, English Style and Decoration offers a cornucopia of design riches. Lavishly illustrated with page after page of original sketches and printed patterns for furniture, textiles, flooring, wallpaper, glass, ceramics and household utensils, from doorknobs to tableware and light fittings. Like its companion volume, French Style and Decoration, this…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This book traces the extraordinary life of an artist whose unforgettable imagery combined cruelty and wit, honesty and insolence, pain and empowerment. Admired by the Surrealists and photographed by the greatest, Frida was most renowned for her self-portraits and unusual still lifes. She learned about suffering at an early age. She contracted polio when she was six and was seriously maimed in a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 366) Аннотация: This volume provides a complete overview of the major exhibition of masterpieces by Giorgio Morandi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museo d'Arte Moderna in Bologna (MAMbo). Over one hundred paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings illustrate the artist's entire creative and poetic course from the landscapes and still lifes of 1913-1914 to his final works of 1963-1964.…

Скачать книгу (размер 713 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 141) Аннотация: Japan has always been a breeding ground for innovative approaches to Western traditions, such as cinema and baseball. Another example includes graffiti, which covers the buildings and walls of Japan's largest cities, as well as the more rural areas. While graffiti in Japan shares many of the same characteristics with examples from other parts of the world, distinct cultural aspects of Japan, from…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: When it comes to interior design there are as many ideas as there are design suggestions to realize them. The homes featured in this book showcase the stunning variety of materials and designs to be found in contemporary homes. Impressive photos and illustrations make the volume Home! A comprehensive reference resource on contemporary interiors from all over the world. Over approx. 400 page's the…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: With his focus on the “disagreeable beauty” of the anomalous and the transgressive, Joel-Peter Witkin’s images are edgy and disturbing. Influenced by artists from Giotto to the Surrealists, by daguerreotypes and the work of Bellocq, his portraits and complex tableaux incorporating corpses, hermaphrodites, masks and mutiliation provoke and challenge the viewer.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Warm and witty, Locusts is a book of photographs that, in the words of its creator, Sasha Gusov, ‘pulls together the concept of mass mentality – photographs that examine the way people eat, the tourist eternally behind the camera, the obsession with consumerism … an investigation of contemporary man – who we are, who we have become and how absurd we can be at times.’ The outcome of five years of…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Retail trade has recognized the opportunity of qualification and individualization through high-grade buildings. The trailblazers of outstanding and innovative commercial architecture today are, first of all, the inner city shopping malls and department stores. In many downtowns, modern shopping facilities have been developed as new focal points of attraction. Moreover, these new multi-functional…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «Menswear has evolved from existing in niche markets to procuring mainstream acceptance. With consumers revelling in fashion and the associated lifestyle products, contemporary fashion design for men has become a beacon for masculine identity.Creating this focus is a group of visionaries who have shifted the boundaries of menswear design, designers who have broken with convention to visualize…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 396) Аннотация: The twilight of Imperial Russia witnessed a sudden renaissance of the visual, literary and performing arts: here was a Silver Age as luminous perhaps as the Golden Age of Russian literature many decades before. Much of this new flowering was indebted to the set of ideas known as Symbolism, which fell on fertile soil in Russia. The Russian Symbolists lived and created on the edge, which often made…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «The urge to create an individualized shopping experience is a major trend around the world. A new generation of independent shops has grown up. These are mostly small, and are setting up against the odds, so that they have to make an effort with their exteriors, interiors and branding to lure in customers. Some such shops are a triumph of ingenuity on a low budget, while other one-off outlets…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «The company Salvatore Ferragamo Italia S.p.A., founded in 1927 by designer Salvatore Ferragamo, is a luxury brand with more than 450 stores in over 55 countries. It sells footwear, handbags and small leather goods, scarves and ties, men's and women's ready-to-wear, bijoux, watches, fragrances and eyewear. Salvatore Ferragamo made the name famous in California, first in Santa Barbara and then in…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This is the new, fully revised London edition of the world’s number-one stylish travel series, bringing you up to date with what’s happening in your favourite city. Strikingly photographed, superbly designed and produced, and yet ingeniously practical with easy-to-read maps and pacy, informed texts, each StyleCity volume presents a selective, particular and stylish portrait of a great world city.…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Paris in the early 1920s saw the growth of a new art form called surrealism. Both a formal movement and a spiritual orientation, surrealism embraced ethics and politics as well as the arts. Surrealists sought to create a medium that liberated the subconcious mind, and many artists and photographers captured this revolution through photographic images. This new survey includes works by Max Ernst,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «UNBRIDALED» is a visual primer for the modern bride. An initiative by CRYSTALLIZED⢠â Swarovski Elements, the product brand for loose cut crystal manufactured by Swarovski, the book is the result of an invitation to creative talents around the world to produce a unique, one-off design that will make the modern bride truly shine. This title features fashion designers including…