Auguste Racinet: The Complete Costume History
Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity through the end of the 19th century, this grand work, originally published between 1876 and 1888, remains completely unique in its scope and detail.
Seen from the sea, Bahia’s coast still resembles what the Portuguese found 500 years ago when they first arrived. The tree-lined, white sand desert beaches and warm, clear waters continue to attract more tourists...
For someone who shuns the limelight by concealing his real name, never showing his face and never giving interviews except by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. In his home town of Bristol, in Los Angeles, in London,...
Barcelona may be design-crazed these days, but visitors can still take a trip back in time by visiting devotional shops that have hardly changed in centuries, such as Cereria Subira. Cooks and culinary fans will...
Barcelona: Hotels & More (English, French, German)
This book is intended to encourage you see more of Barcelona than just the main tourist attractions, like the Rambla, the Picasso Museum and the Gaudi buildings. I want to take you to the places where locals go, from...
Bauhaus (Bibliotheca Universalis) Баухауз
In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany`s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art,...
The Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design in Berlin holds the most important collection on the Bauhaus today. Documents, workshop products from all areas of design, studies sketches in the classroom, and architectural plans...
Bauhaus (Basic Art) HC Баухаус
In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany`s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school developed a pioneering...
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Max Beckmann found his central theme in the loneliness of the twentieth century man, threatened by catastrophe and torn between materialism and freedom of mind and spirit. His early pictures showed the influence of...
Ingrid Bergman was born beautiful, but, unusually for one so blessed, she knew that beauty is never enough. She wanted to be great as well. Did any movie star of the classic era demonstrate more ambition? On the...
Glamorous in the Roaring Twenties, destroyed during World War II and divided afterwards, rebuilt in the 1950s, and now reunited, Berlin is a city of vibrant contrasts where diverse cultures form a multihued urban...
