Uniforms / Униформа (Laurence King)
Catalogs uniforms from around the world, from the traditional helmets worn by London bobbies to the futuristic protective body armor of the French riot police, from the high camp of airline uniforms to the utilitarian...
Fulco di Verdura was one of the outstanding jewelers of the 20th century. Patricia Corbett expertly analyses and evaluates Verdura`s jewelry designs in this lavish monograph, which is newly available in paperback....
Victorian & Edwardian Furniture & Interiors. From the Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau
The furniture designs of William Morris, C. R. Ashbee and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are even more popular today than in their own lifetimes. The work of other figures, such as William Burges and Christopher Dresser is...
Vu: The Story of a Magazine that Made an Era
The illustrated weekly magazine "VU" ran over 600 issues between 21 March 1928 and 29 May 1940. This book offers "VU" the attention it deserves by reproducing a selection of front covers, pages and spreads from its...
From the groves and vineyards of Provence to the dry hills of California, the farms of Australia and the forests of Canada, Gilles de Chabaneix`s stunning photographs capture the distinctive rural architecture, homely...
Gilles de Chabaneix was fascinated by the life of cities around the world, both as complete entities and as compendiums of urban detail in the form of streets, houses, apartments, offices, bars, cafes and people....
Way We Live: With Things We Love
Collecting is an art form, and our homes are the intimate museums where we display our treasures – and with them, aspects of ourselves. Stafford Cliff and Gilles de Chabaneix offer a fascinating compilation of images...
Wood Architecture / Архитектура из дерева (Laurence King)
The book`s introduction examines the ways in which a raw material of diminishing quality (but abundant quantity) can be `stretched` to perform as it has never done before using new technology and careful detailing....
Wood Architecture #ост./не издается#
Timber is having a renaissance as an architectural material, as more architects come to understand its properties, and enjoy adding it to their repertoire of materials. With a growing crop of good new timber...
In this remarkable book, artist Andy Goldsworthy offers a compelling look at the essence of wood as he has come to know it through his sculpture. Expanding upon the themes and preoccupations explored in his previous...
Workbench Guide to Jewelry Techniques
This comprehensive and ambitious workshop reference book for jewelers brings together a vast range of skills, techniques and technical data in one volume, providing an essential one-stop look-it-up resource for both...
Since its first publication this book has been hailed as the most up-to-date and wide-ranging history of art ever published in a single volume. This quote from Andrew Graham Dixon describes the book: "Spanning...
World of Coco Chanel : Friends, Fashion, Fame
Gabrielle `Coco` Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Epoque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair,...
Дизайн интерьеров. 6000 лет истории
"Дизайн интерьеров. 6000 лет истории" рассказывает о внутреннем убранстве частных и общественных построек, созданных за 6000 лет. Джон Пайл отмечает, что дизайн интерьеров связан со строительством, архитектурой,...
