The refined and revered tradition of botanical illustration, produced under aristocratic patronage, stretches back to the Renaissance. It emerged out of the desire to catalogue nature in all its wild splendour, and it...
The Secret Code: The Mysterious Formula That Rules Art, Nature, and Science
The Golden Section, also known as the Divine Proportion or ф, can be observed in plant seed patterns as well as in the pyramids, in Gothic cathedrals and in the human body, to mention just a few phenomena from an...
The Vegetable Garden: Album Vilmorin
Werner Dressendorfer
Culled and assembled by Romeyn Beck Hough between 1888 and 1913 in what still remains a stunning and unparalleled achievement, American Woods -originally published in 14 volumes, with actual specimens mounted on card...
The World of Ornament/Мир орнамента
Discover a world of decorative ideas with this compendium of history`s most elegant patterns and ornamental designs. The World of Ornament brings together the two greatest encyclopedic collections of ornament of the...
The World of Ornament / Die Welt der Ornamente / L`Univers de l`ornement
The most beautiful patterns in all of history - all available on image database. Imagine having an opulent compilation of history`s most elegant and beautiful patterns and designs at your fingertips - to use, peruse,...
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So you love sushi, sleep on a futon, drink green tea-why not take your Nippon-adoration one step further by infusing your surroundings with a few Japanese touches? The best place to start is this look book bursting...
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, scion of an ancient aristocratic family, was a crippled dwarf. His familys wealth gave him financial security, and he chose to become an artist. In Paris he was drawn to the world of the In...
Transit: Around the World in 1424 Days
Part travel journal, part scrapbook, this unique book traces the four-year, 250,000-km journey of photographer Uwe Ommer during the making of Taschen`s "1000 Families". Called a "family album of planet earth," "1000...
Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art
Carlo McCormick
Tropical Fishes of the East Indies
One of the first depictions of marine fauna comes from Samuel Fallours, who was in the service of the Dutch East India Company. On the island of Ambon, one of the Moluccas, he made drawings of fish and other marine...
True Crime Detective Magazines 1924-1969
At the height of the Jazz Age, when Prohibition was turning ordinary citizens into criminals and ordinary criminals into celebrities, America`s true crime detective magazines were born. "True Detective" came first in...
