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McLeod Virginia: Encyclopedia of Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This is a comprehensive sourcebook, containing newly commissioned scale drawings of every type of architectural detailtaken from 100 of the best contemporary houses. Over 700 detailed drawings of walls, floors, ceilings, doors, windows, and staircases feature keys explaining construction techniques and materials used. Each drawing is cross referenced to other details from the same building. This…

Bocuse Paul: Bocuse in Your Kitchen: Simple French Recipes for the Home Chef

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Author and world-renowned chef Paul Bocuse has chosen only simple, classic French recipes that are easy to follow and prepare. According to the chef, «Simple fare is, in my opinion, the best-the kind that I love to prepare at home for my family and my friends», and Bocuse in Your Kitchen teaches even the most inexperienced of cooks how to share his flair for good food. The book is divided into 15…

Jacobs Michael: The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence

Скачать книгу (размер 1 085 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 214) Аннотация: Provence is a land apart, a territory of outstanding beauty and distinction that has fascinated outsiders since earliest times. It is in its smaller communities that the true Provencal spirit can be found. Hugh Palmer's radiant photographs and Michael Jacob's evocative accounts of the most beautiful villages of Provence opens with the villages of Vaucluse and the Bouches-du-Rhone, then moves east…

Cole Drusilla: Patterns

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Pattern is back, and what better way to celebrate its revival than with a cool compendium of the best pattern design from around the globe? This exciting new book showcases some of the most innovative pattern designs, including graphics, textiles, fashion, furnishings, ceramics, tiles, wallpaper, and stationery. While many of the featured designers work commercially, others are independent…

Thoret Jean-Baptiste: Talk About Cinema

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This fresh, engaging volume provides the key ideas for a better understanding of today's cinematic style and the reference terms that are crucial to film studies by challenging preconceived ideas and cliches about cinema. It defines the main notions of film, explains major dates in its history, deciphers the leading works, and presents the portraits of thirty great filmmakers. Original…

Waterman Tim: The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture provides an introduction to the key elements of this broad field. From climate change to sustainable communities, landscape architecture is at the forefront of today's most crucial issues. It serves as a guide to the many specialisations within landscape architecture, such as landscape strategy and urban design. This book explains the process of…

Fit Men Wanted: Original Posters from the Home Front

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Eat Less Bread, Beer: A Necessity to the Strength of Britain, The Fight Is Now, Fit Men Wanted, Victory is in the Kitchen, We Need the Woman: such stirring messages exhorted British citizens to do their bit for the country 's war effort. Today they seem charmingly innocent, quintessentially English, and often very funny, and the posters that bear the slogans are a treasury of vintage graphics.…

Sparshott David: Bike Watching: An Explorer's Journal

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This journal is designed to champion a new type of activity: bike watching! David Sparshott's inspiring illustrations celebrate bike culture in all its diverse and colourful glory, from stylish accessories and beautiful components to quirky gatherings and classic races. Inspired by birdwatching logs and the very British tradition of trainspotting, this journal gives users room to record and…

Thompson Henrietta: Remake it: Clothes: The Essential Guide to Resourceful Fashion With Over 500 Tricks, Tips and Inspirational Designs

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: An encyclopedia of life skills, smart ideas, and great design, Remake It: Clothes blends inspiration, entertainment, and hands-on advice in equal measure. It incorporates a wealth of almost-forgotten skills, step-bystep projects to create new clothes from old, and accessories from found materials plus examples from celebrated international designers to show what can be created with a Remake It…

Blom Philipp: Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Russian Empire was among the most mysterious of the world's great powers, profoundly torn between a rural population living almost medieval lives and industrial and social change in the cities. The tsar's gigantic realm struggled with the advent of modernity and with its own internal contradictions between Asia and Europe, faith and science, different ethnic groups, and the divergent…

O'Keeffe Linda: Stripes: Design Between the Lines

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The simplest and most ancient of all decorative markings, stripes continue to fascinate. Natural inspirations in the forms of zebra stripes, rippled sand dunes, and intricately gnarled wood grain have led us to use stripes in every permutation: on human bodies from elaborate woven textiles to the iconic Breton T-shirt to sharp pin-striped suits, in art from the earliest cave paintings to vibrant…

Adams Bryan: Bryan Adams: Exposed

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In the late nineties Bryan Adams became curious about making photographic self-portraits for his album covers, and so chose to pick up the camera himself. That serendipitous decision was the beginning of a successful photographic, parallel to Adams' impressive achievements as a singer, songwriter and producer. Exposed is a retrospective of Adams' photography and features portraits of friends and…

Dickerman Leah: Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925

Скачать книгу (размер 1 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 376) Аннотация: Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925 explores the development of abstraction from the moment of its declaration around 1912 to its establishment as the foundation of avant-garde practice in the mid-1920s. The book brings together many of the most influential works in abstractions early history to draw a cross-media portrait of this watershed moment in which traditional art was reinvented in a…

Frampton Kenneth: Kengo Kuma: Complete Works

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The quintessential Japanese architect, Kengo Kuma has forged a modern design language that artfully combines the countries traditional building crafts with sophisticated technologies and materials. This title documents a leading light of the global architecture scene and offers insight into interpretations of Japans ancient building traditions.

Bond Anthony: Francis Bacon: Five Decades

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Twenty years after the artists death, this new publication presents a timely and rich overview of the life and work of Francis Bacon. The book includes some 60 paintings as well as photographs, ephemera and archival material largely drawn from the artists studio. An introduction and four essays by international experts look at specific aspects of Bacons work, from detailed analysis of archival…

Subotzky Mikhael: Mikhael Subotzky: Retinal Shift

Скачать книгу (размер 2 304 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 453) Аннотация: Retinal Shift is the catalogue for Mikhael Subotzky's 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Exhibition, which will tour every major museum in South Africa. Retinal Shift investigates the practice and mechanics of looking — in relation to the history of Grahamstown, the history of photographic devices, and Subotzky's own history as an artist. The works draw on archival portraits from the last century,…

Thiebaut Philippe: Gaudi: Builder of Visions

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Antoni Gaudi and his inimitable fluid, organic style, is inextricably linked with the city of Barcelona. His spectacular buildings — among them the Guell Palace and the monumental La Sagrada Familia — are eternal symbols of the city. This little book by Philippe Thiebaut invites the reader to explore the visual richness of Gaudi's creations in scores of well chosen illustrations. As well as…

Jury David: Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: Who first coined the phrase graphic design, a term dating from the 1920s, or first referred to themselves as a graphic designer are issues still argued to this day. What is certain is that the kinds of printed material a graphic designer could create were around long before the formulation of such a convenient, if sometimes troublesome, term. Here David Jury explores how the jobbing printer who…

Pilcher Tim: Little Book of Vintage Love

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Following the success of the hugely popular Little Books of Vintage series, come three sequels: Terror, Love and Space. Each one is packed with unseen strips, adverts and text stories from the Golden Age of comics. Plus, each one comes with a brand new introduction giving a brief history of the genre, and each title has its own, unique free fridge magnet.

Press Ilex: My Camera Journal

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: With its stylish design and lavish finish, this designer journal is the essential gift for every photographer, and is particularly suited for Lomographers. The journal is the ideal place for recording research on locations and those all important details, such as shutter speeds, apertures and times, when on a shoot. It also provides an endless source of amusement, being crammed with over…