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An authoritative volume on the most innovative and environmentally sensitive new residential design. This carefully curated presentation of new and recent houses represents the vanguard of architects creating innovative structures that maintain a sensitive relationship to their natural contexts. Ron Broadhurst has selected projects on five continents demonstrating the inexhaustible potential of the modern house to enter into a dialogue with na...

One of the modern French houses that transformed global fashion in the latter half of the twentieth century, KENZOnder the directorship of Antonio Marras draws from the rich vein of a 40-year old tradition. Marras mines both East and West, the present and the past, to create a collection that evokes, reveres, and reinvents the intentions of its founder. In a gatefold and evena pop-up, this lavish volume features the romantic textiles for which...

Patterned on "The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art "(1922), one of the most successful and well-known architecture books ever published, "The New Civic Art, " with 1, 200 new illustrations and all new text for over 1, 000 entries, exemplifies the very best urban planning and town design. This entirely new book thoroughly details the most important recent trends as well as time-honored precedents. It includes information...

This pioneering art series combines stunning high-quality color reproductions with expert commentary on the most popular artists of all time at an extremely accessible price. Giotto, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Vermeer are names well known to any student of art history, museum-goer, or culturally engaged individual. Rizzoli is pleased to launch its Classics of Art series with monographs on these six world-renowned...

Wedding Flowers" taps into the desire of every bride to make her wedding day special. The choice of flower color, fragrance, and display is one of the most effective and fun ways to do so. "Wedding Flowers" will give the bride the confidence and ability to design her own floral theme and work with a florist to execute it, or perhaps even undertake some of the arrangements herself for a truly personal touch. The book explores wedding traditions...

Be a caterpillar by day and a butterfly by night, counseled the legendary designer Coco Chanel. "Nothing could be more comfortable than a caterpillar, and nothing could be more made for love than a butterfly." This high priestess of style understood what the well-dressed woman has always known: There's something special that goes on after dark. While daywear must be practical, versatile, and appropriate, the evening is open for interpretat...

For those interested in contemporary permutations of neo-classical architecture, this volume offers a photo essay of the work of 14 architectural firms. Among them are Robert Adam Architects Ltd, Norman Davenport Askins, John Blatteau Associates, Fairfax & Sammons, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Michael G. Imber, and Porphyrios Associates. The build

After ninety years, The House in Good Taste by America's "first lady of interior decoration, " Elsie de Wolfe, still offers timeless design advice. Compiled from her articles in newspapers and magazines and first published in 1914, The House in Good Taste is a seminal book on interior design with ideas that have lasted a century because they influenced not only the wealthy clients of Park Avenue and Palm Beach, but popular taste as well. De Wo...

Gloriously illustrated, this book goes behind garden walls to reveal 18 of the most beautiful private gardens in North America's second-oldest city, including one of the city's most venerable horticultural treasures, the public Bandelier Garden. The city's ancient cultural heritagethe intermingling of Native American, Latin, and Anglo presencesmakes its influence known here, and gardeners find their creativity in this region where days are hot...

Over a career spanning six decades, architect Paul Revere Williams came to define what gracious living looked like for the Hollywood elite. Williams mastered an array of architectural idioms-including American Colonial, Spanish Mediterranean, English Tudor, French Normandy, Art Deco, and, of course, the California ranch style-to create the sophisticated yet understated showplaces that are featured here in all new full-color photography. Among ...

In 2000, Ryan McGinley, then a student, staged his first exhibition of photographs in an abandoned SoHo gallery. To coincide with the show, the artist created several handmade books featuring a sampling of his work entitled The Kids Are Alright. A copy eventually found its way into the hands of Sylvia Wolf, then a curator of photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2003, Wolf mounted an exhibition of his work at the venerable inst...

From early 2009 to mid-2010, the Underbelly Project was the world's best-kept urban art secret. This is the only book documenting the project, during which the world's leading urban artists, such as Swoon, Faile, Revok, and Lister, made late-night trips to an abandoned New York City subway station, painting night after night to transform the space into the largest underground art gallery in the world.When curators Workhorse and PAC declared th...

Un libro che sfiora toni da epopea descrivendo mirabilmente la disperata e vacua vitalità di una tribà di giovani dove covano piccole e grandi tragedie." - Giorgio De Rienzo, Corriere della Sera "Un romanzo capace di tenere insieme - nella deriva o nel dramma di molte vite - il filo di una speranza che sprigiona da due esistenze forse destinate a combaciare." - Giovanni Tesio, Tuttolibri, La Stampa "La Avallone è molto brava a dipingere c...

I racconti di "Non esiste saggezza" provengono dai luoghi della realtà quotidiana: sono volti che emergono dalla folla dei viaggiatori, in zone neutrali di transito. Soprattutto, figure di donne: con esse, la voce del narratore è partecipe, solidale, protettiva, come a voler condividere il peso di un segreto in varie forme doloroso, a volerle affrancare da un destino ostile. Appaiono improvvisamente: a un casello autostradale, la bambina solit...

Carine, and her vision of French Vogue, embodies all that the world likes to think of as Parisian style: a sense of chic that's impeccable and sometimes idiosyncratic and which forever lives on a moonlit street as seen through the lens of Helmut Newton."--Anna Wintour Karl Lagerfeld once said that if you close your eyes and imagine the ideal French woman, it would be Carine Roitfeld. She is a fashion visionary and a muse. Since the start of he...

A daring design from pop culture's barometer magazine designed by DAZED & CONFUSED 's founding editors --interview , photo shoots and controversial covers that access the creative energy of a whole generation.

An extraordinary monograph created by Christian Louboutin, renowned for his beautifully crafted handmade shoes, in particular his elegantly sexy stilettos. This stunning volume, with a fanciful and intricate pop-up, an elaborate foldout cover, and dramatic still-life photography, evokes the artistry and theatricality of Louboutin's shoe designs.Celebrated for his vertiginously high stilettos with their signature lacquer-red soles, Louboutin ha...