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This sumptuous volume, published to accompany a major exhibition at Japan Society Gallery in New York and the British Museum in London, focuses on the decorative aspects of traditional objects arranged in specific architectural contexts. The concept of kazari, "the will to decorate, " embodies the interplay between objects and settings in a dynamic process that stimulates both the visual and intellectual senses. With superb examples of decorat...

This riveting analysis looks at the relationship between people, designers, and electronic products. It speculates on how, in the future, cell phones, personal computers, audio equipment, and televisions may merge into one all-purpose tool, blending into the fabric of our homes and offices or even disappearing into our bodies. David Redhead focuses on the role of designers in shaping this brave new world.

Two volume slipcase covering the art of Dale Chihuly from 1968 to the present day.

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Mapmaking fulfills one of our most ancient and deepseated desires: understanding the world around us and our place in it. But maps need not just show continents and oceans: there are maps to heaven and hell, to happiness and despair, maps of moods, matrimony, and mythological places. There are maps to popular culture, from Gulliver's Island to Gilligan's Island. There are speculative maps of the world before it was known, and maps to secret pl...

Walter Crane, one the best-loved designers of the British Arts and Crafts movement, produced this beautifully illustrated poem that tells the delightful story of a wedding day in 1905. This lovely facsimile edition, reproduced in glorious color, bound in real cloth, and embossed with foil, makes a perfect wedding, engagement, or Valentine's Day gift. "Yes, flower bells rang right merry that day, When there was a marriage of flowers, they say.

Graffiti has evolved into a rich and democratic form of visual expression that is now most often labeled "street art." Although the work is frequently location-specific, the genre has become a global phenomenon as the Web transmits the latest works around the world in an instant. As it matures, street art is moving indoors, galleries now exhibit and sell limited-edition prints by established artists with recognizable self-created brands, inclu...

Twilight: in that zone between the certainty of day and fear of the dark, Gregory Crewdson sets his eerie, enigmatic photographs. A woman floats in her flooded living room, a cow appears to have fallen from the sky onto a front lawn, a gang of teenagers, seemingly hypnotized, pile up household objects for a bonfire. Created as elaborately staged tableaux, this series of images suggests the bizarre yet beautiful surrealities behind deceptively ...

This long-overdue volume showcases the Victoria and Albert Museum's outstanding holdings of stained and painted glass--a peerless collection ranging in date from c.1140 to 1540. The works include important examples from England, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy. More than 100 color plates and selected color details show the full range of this magnificent collection, from large panels from key churches ...

One of the eminent figures of the Victorian era, Henry Cole (1808-1882) was a visionary whose pioneering ideas helped create the magnificent London museum that is now called the Victoria and Albert. With Prince Albert (consort of Queen Victoria), "Old King Cole" also helped to make London's Great Exhibition of 1851 a rousing triumph. Yet Cole's important contributions to cultural history have largely been forgotten.The Great Exhibitor is the f...

Catherine the Great, famed 18th-century Empress of Russia, was not only one of history's most remarkable women, but also a voracious and astute collector. Her fabulous private horde of jewels, miniatures, clocks, porcelain, arms and armor, coins and medals, paintings, and other precious objects is owned by the Hermitage Museum, which is housed in the former Winter Palace of the tsars in St. Petersburg. These are treasures fit for an empress, n...

Few American artists are as enduringly popular as Frederic Remington (1861-1909). His bronzes and paintings of the American West have become iconic images, shaping the way Americans view the history of the West. This generously illustrated volume is the first to examine the exceptional collection of his works housed at the Frederic Remington Art Museum in Ogdensburg, New York.In his richly detailed portrait of the artist, Western art scholar B...

Red Grooms is one of the most inventive and prolific artists working today. His antic humor, imaginative vision, and often raucous view of an extensive range of subjects are legendary. In this comprehensive collection of his graphic work from 1956 to 1999, his mastery of an array of printmaking techniques is revealed, whether in delicate, soft-ground etchings, spray-painted stencils, or an over six-foot-tall woodblock print.Walter Knestrick, a...

Griffin & Sabine, the most creative and discussed bestseller of 1991, left readers on the edge of a precipice. In the second volume of this inventiive trilogy, they begin--along with Griffin--the fall. Told through strangely beautiful postcards and richly decorated letters--that actually must be taken from their envelopes to be read--the story is also culled from the sketchbook and diary kept by the possibly unreal Sabine. Full color throughout.

Completely updated, this all-new, easy-to-use guide covers all five boroughs of New York City. Parents, grandparents, teachers, and tourists will find everything they need to treat their children and themselves to a vast variety of great cultural experiences in New York City.

A beautiful and stirring coming-of-age story about a Lakota boy and his horse.

In a host of memorable portraits, across a vast geography of resorts, estates, palaces, elegant apartments, mansions, castles, and other glamorous settings, Slim Aarons's photos define that legendary class known as the Beautiful People. 250 color photos.

MX: The Way of the Motocrosser" is a photo-driven essay that documents this explosive sport, its major personalities and the subculture that surrounds the pro circuit. This extreme trek through the world of motocross offers a great introduction to this rapidly growing phenomenon for new fans. 120 photos.

Praise for Wisdom: "If you could bottle up the been-there, done-that between these pages, you'd have an elixir for the ages." -- American Profile

The Jelleybeans are back for a third book in this "New York Times"-bestselling series. When the four friends with different talents and abilities go to summer camp together, they use their strengths to make camp fun for all. Full color.