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Скачать книгу (размер 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 196) Аннотация: From her captivating debut in Roman Holiday in 1953, Audrey Hepburn redefined notions of Hollywood elegance and sophistication. This lavishly illustrated book celebrates Audrey's popularity as an enduring icon, providing a unique insight into her career, personality and trademark style that still fascinate and captivates today. A detailed biography is accompanied by over 160 photographs, many…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This is a visual bible for fashion illustrators and graphic designers, giving an unprecedented variety of approaches for illustrating fashion with hundreds of stunning images. Illustrators from all over the world show a range of approaches, techniques and styles. With illustrators from Singapore to Italy, America to New Zealand, it is the ultimate resource for fashion expression. The chapters are…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: This is a large format, meticulously researched, lavishly illustrated and fully international history of mankind's seaborne voyages from the Phoenicians and Chinese to modern navies and round-the-world sailing yachts. Royal prestige, intellectual curiosity, commerce and territorial expansion all propelled mankind to make perilous voyages across unpredictable oceans to find out what lay beyond the…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Icon, legend, actress, star — all these words can be used to describe Marilyn Monroe and yet they simply do not do her justice, because she was so much more. Norma Jean has inspired and created more headlines than any other movie actress — yet her marriages, affairs and life choices all distract us from the talent of this very beautiful woman. Part of the successful «Life in pictures» series,…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: An invaluable resource for designers and crafters looking for designs and motifs that have their heart in the Celtic tradition but are new, fresh and original – also available on the CD inserted in the book. New twists on Celtic knotwork, tessellation and spiralwork are mixed with stunning figure work to create great designs, suitable for those working in wood, glass, textiles, embroidery and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The Guide has been described as the National Trust's bible — and indeed it is. This latest edition takes a larger, squarer format, to do full justice to the Trust's illustrious collection of colour photographs, and to showcase recent acquisitions such as the Gothic wonder of Tyntesfield, John Lennon's childhood home Mendips, and William Morris' Arts and Crafts Red House. Magnificent landscapes,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Presents an illustrated celebration of Grace Kelly, one of Hollywood`s brightest stars. This work includes a biography and over 160 pictures and contact sheets. It also features family pictures, national archives, private collections, press agencies, and newspapers.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A History of 20th Century Fashion charts the early dominance of couture to the influences of street culture. The narrative is based on a firm understanding of social, economic and technical developments all over the world, and emphasizes the commercial organization of the industry, from designer and textile manufacturer right through to the consumer. Over 100 b/w and 50 colour illustrations bring…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: When the National Trust decided to take on the care of gardens, the aim was that these would be the very best of their kind in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Trust now has the finest collection of gardens ever assembled under one ownership — the greatest in number, diversity, historic importance and quality. Taken together they contain the world's most important collection of cultivated…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: A beloved icon who put the 'haute' in 'couture' and found success as an actress, a mother and a humanitarian, Audrey Hepburn was an expert in the art of being a woman. The waifish star and muse of Givenchy was quite the sage as well, turning out insightful quotes on topics of concern to women the world over: careers, love lives, motherhood, relationships and ageing gracefully, among others.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: At the beginning of the 21st Century, 'The Book of Rock' pays tribute to those artists whose music has provided a soundtrack for the growing pains of three generations. It is a gallery of 500 saints, sinners and martyrs of rock and pop history. Here democracy is everything: guitar heroes rub shoulders with tortured geniuses, and the flamboyant masters of showmanship receive the same treatment as…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In December 2003 the painter Jack Vettriano, a coalminer's son, met his parents off the train from Scotland on his way to collect an OBE. Over the last few years Vettriano has had a meteoric rise to fame — emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields, unknown and untutored, he has become Scotland's most successful and controversial contemporary artist. Appearing on posters and…