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Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Redefining cool for a new generation, Pharrell Williams is a creative force, using music, fashion, and design to express his distinctive style. Originating at the crossroads of art, design, popular culture, and street savvy, Pharrell Williams’s output is unique. By playing off different disciplines—namely music, fashion, street art, and design—and using each as an element in the other, Pharrell…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The first book dedicated to the career of one of New York’s most successful and prolific yet forgotten architects. Ralph Walker shaped New York’s skyline during the Roaring Twenties, from the iconic Barclay-Vesey Telephone Building at 140 West Street to the luxurious Irving Trust bank tower at 1 Wall Street in the heart of the city’s financial district. Walker was a master of modern ornament,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A native of Hungary, Rita Ackermann moved to New York City in the mid-1990s. She arrived to find a culture (and art world) in transition: rave and zine culture was in full swing; collaborations between artists, musicians, and magazine and book publishers were pervasive; and the dawning of the Internet age was upon us. Within a few short months after settling in New York, the artist received…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: For their tenth anniversary, the design studio Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors presents projects that blend the spirit of our collective history with a modernist edge. Roman and Williams’s style honors craftsmanship, the use of natural materials, and the overlooked in unexpected ways. Their understated, glamorous sensibility is imparted in Manhattan’s Ace Hotel interiors and restaurant…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In 2002, two years after Ryan McGinley, then a student, staged his first exhibition of photographs in a SoHo gallery, he created inexpensive handmade books of a sampling of his work titled The Kids Are Alright. Those books eventually found their way to Sylvia Wolf, then curator of photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, who gave him a solo show a year later, making him the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 034 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 204) Аннотация: My grandmother can make better photographs. Sergey Sapozhnikov s appearance on the Moscow art scene has been accompanied by the same kind of electricity that flows through his work. The dynamic whirlwinds of his photography radiate an energy that could not, it would seem, be of worldly provenance, but rather from some impossible power source. This book features the artist s major series…

Скачать книгу (размер 44 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 10) Аннотация: An interactive and imaginative way to experience the Star Trek universe using the magic of «Kling-on» pieces. Few television series have had as big an impact on popular culture as Gene Roddenberry s Star Trek. Now Trekkies and fans of all ages can set their phasers to fun as they reenact their favorite scenes from the original Star Trek universe or create new, uncharted scenarios! Stuck on Star…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 268) Аннотация: Both a fun read and a true resource of more than one hundred essential wilderness skills, this book is for readers of any age who love adventure, even from the comfort of an armchair. In a world of technological gadgets like GPS, there is an increased sense of nostalgia and thirst for true practical and survival skills. Whether as a launchpad for daydreaming or a resource of practical knowledge…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The other side of twentieth-century architectural history in Italy and Europe. The short-lived cultural journal Quadrante transformed the practice of architecture in fascist Italy. Over the course of three years (1933–36), the magazine agitated for an «architecture of the state» that would represent the values and aspirations of the fascist regime, and in so doing it changed the language with…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 236) Аннотация: Will eco-friendly fashion dress the future? Can fashion be sustainable? Sustainability is a challenge that cannot be ignored today. Sustainable fashion reassesses the material and manufacturing components without renouncing the aesthetic and symbolic. The Beautiful and the Good highlights with the aid of case histories how we are going through a profound and necessary change of paradigm in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: The first and greatest book of regional American cuisine, now revised for today’s home cook. Imagine a person with the culinary acumen of Julia Child, the inquisitiveness of Margaret Mead, and the daring of Amelia Earhart. This is Clementine Paddleford, America’s first food journalist. In the 1930s, Paddleford set out to do something no one had done before: chronicle regional American food.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A fresh, modern take on wedding design perfect for today s bride. Paige Appel and Kelly Harris started designing weddings in 2009, and their work immediately resonated with young brides and grooms: weddings in fields, art galleries, refurbished warehouses, vineyards, hip hotels, or farmhouses. Weddings that featured Mimolette and Mexican beer; fireside chats; succulents and wildflowers; funny…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Having travelled widely throughout the USA, the authors compiled this homage to the humble treehouse. As well as illustrating examples from the very simple to the sophisticated, the book includes plans and drawings for the reader to have a go.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The owners of the acclaimed stores and decorating firm Circa Interiors present eight stylish, beautiful homes blending comfort, beauty, and function with classic Southern hospitality. A house with an open door is like a friend with an open heart: inviting, generous of spirit, and constant at the core. In their first book, Jane Schwab and Cindy Smith present beautifully arranged interiors in which…

Скачать книгу (размер 422 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 84) Аннотация: This volume includes 55 color illustrations from Urs Fischer's Beds and Problem Paintings show that was exhibited at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles from February 23rd to April 7th, 2012. This exhibition was the artist's first major solo exhibition with the gallery. Beds and Problem Paintings was designed by the artist, and the images within the book include installation photos from the…

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: A captivating look at the career of social and style revolutionary Vidal Sassoon. A visionary hairstylist who became a household name, Vidal Sassoon was an instrument of change during the cultural shifts of the 1960s. Inspired by Bauhaus architecture, Sassoon’s career took off with the Nancy Kwan bob in 1963, followed by the boyish five-point haircut that blurred class and sexual distinctions in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: These artifacts of the original rock and roll era recall a time that seems simpler, less commercial, and more meaningful. The tee shirts shown here weren't produced for commercial use but as promotional giveaways by record companies, fans, and festivals such as Woodstock, and the designs from the early days look homemade and amateurish. As band shirts became available, record companies discovered…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: From early 2009 to mid-2010, the Underbelly Project was the world’s best-kept urban art secret. This is the only book documenting the project, during which the world’s leading urban artists, such as Swoon, Faile, Revok, and Lister, made late-night trips to an abandoned New York City subway station, painting night after night to transform the space into the largest underground art gallery in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Known worldwide as a creative darling, Mike Perry’s celebrated DIY style of hand-drawn rendering has influenced a generation of contemporary designers and illustrators. Though Perry publishes zines, runs a magazine, makes clothing, has curated three successful books, and has painted, sculpted, silk-screened, and drawn on anything and everything, Wondering Around Wandering is his first monograph.…

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: A monographic look at Pierres Vives, Zaha Hadid s latest major work, and its innovative approach to spatial design and urban planning. This book documents the ten-year creation of Pierres Vives, an imposing new public building by world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid. The 28,500-square-meter stone and concrete sculptural structure brings Hadid s signature boundary-pushing spatial concepts to urban…