Libros

Desde comienzos de 1954, España empezó a recibir ayuda y asesoramiento militar por parte del país occidental más importante en aquellos tiempos: los Estados Unidos de América. Unos meses antes, en septiembre de 1953, se habían firmado en Madrid unos acuerdos que posibilitaban dicho acercamiento y (...)

En la zona del Mediterráneo vive una gran cantidad de diversas plantas. En este libro se estudia la flora mediterránea, desde orquídeas pasando por hierbas, helechos y coníferas. Más de 1500 plantas silvestres ordenadas alfabéticamente por familias y más de 900 mapas de distribución que muestran su (...)

The most private of artists was beguiled by a hardscrabble farm and its residents down the road from his studio, revealing some of his most personal friendships, and yielding some of his most iconic paintings.Andrew Wyeth first discovered the haunting beauty of the farm owned by German immigrants (...)

A second book by French tastemaker Cordelia de Castellane, celebrating her garden as an endless source of inspiration for entertaining.Cordelia de Castellane, true ambassador of French lifestyle, returns with a sequel to Life in a French Country House and offers her inspiring ideas and secrets for (...)

Before his New York home became a museum, Henry Clay Frick engaged some of his era's most important art dealers to build a notable collection and the best decorators to create suitable Gilded Age interiors to accommodate the works. This story traces the journey that led to the creation of one of (...)

After years of favoring loose, naturalistic styles, trends in garden design are shifting slightly back toward formalism-with a modern twist. From one of today's most decorated garden designers comes a volume that reveals in thirty exquisitely planted gardens dozens of ideas on how to adapt (...)