The New East: Design and Style in Asia
The influence of traditional Asian design is far-reaching, and today, contemporary Asian interior designers and architects have developed a new kind of modernism that references the appropriate elements of their own...
The Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri Rendered Into Spenserian English
В сборнике публикуются материалы Всероссийской научно-практической конференции "Единство фронта и тыла в разгроме фашизма, в завоевании Победы в Великой Отечественной войне (1941-1945)",состоявшейся в Москве 21-22...
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...
"You have entered the rooms of the Russian Museum Outside, beyond the walls of the palace, there has remained the noisy city. In the palace you find yourselves in the realm of calm and silence - a calm of museum...
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 Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Passed in the . 1807-69., Volume 92
"Если я владею языками людей и даже ангелов, но любви у меня нет - я только меди звон и литавр грохот. Если у меня есть дар пророчества, или мне доступны всякие тайны и всякое знание, или у меня такая вера, что я могу...
Настоящее издание представляет собой уникальное соединение добротного исторического исследования, научно-методического пособия и просветительской хорошо иллюстрированной книги. В первой части - "Призрение детей:...
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...
Tiffany Lamps and Metalware: An Illustrated Reference to Over 2000 Models
This beautiful and comprehensive work illustrates a seemingly inexhaustible selection of the oil and electric light fixtures issued by the Tiffany studios: table and floor lamps, chandeliers and sconces. Also included...
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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...
