This book features a literary introduction and thoroughly researched essay followed by a section devoted to a detailed description of a selection of the artist`s masterpieces. An extensive chronology of the artist`s...
Living Gaudi: The Architect`s Complete Vision
A tour of the twentieth-century architect`s lesser-known works considers his gardens, parks, residential projects, and interior furnishing designs, studying the aspects of his finer details and including a selection...
With recipes of glamorous by-gone desserts, and packed with history and anecdotes of famous classic restaurants and the people who frequented them, Lost Desserts features delicious and sometimes exotic favorites from...
Louise Brooks has become one of the most spectacular icons of early cinema. Her distinctive "bob" haircut looks as modern as they did when she first appeared in films in 1925. Louise Brooks was born on November 14,...
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The stairwell of New York photographer Mark Seliger may be unadorned, decidedly offstage, and very small, but the creativity of so many talented people jammed into one space is enormous. Each artist, dancer, and...
McKim, Mead & White: The Masterworks
"McKim, Mead & White" rivals Frank Lloyd Wright for the honor of the premier architectural firm in American architecture. During McKim, Mead & White`s most creative period, the firm received nearly 1,000 commissions,...
One of the few truly visionary architects of large-scale commissions working today, Thom Mayne won the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize, his field`s most prestigious award. Mayne`s influential firm Morphosis, founded...
One of the few truly visionary architects of large-scale commissions working today, Thom Mayne`s influential firm Morphosis, founded in the early 1970s, has maintained an avant-garde presence among contemporary...
Owen Jones: Design, Ornament, Architecture and Theory in an Age of Transition
Owen Jones was, and still remains, a highly influential force in the world of architecture and design. His prolific and impressive work - captured here in its various stages through drawings, architectural plans, and...
Prairie Skyscraper traces the history and evolution of Wright`s recently restored nineteen-story-skyscraper masterwork, which takes its place beside the Johnson Wax Research Tower as one of Wright`s only two vertical...
