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This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout Northern Europe in the 18th century, adorning classical architecture with their rich and fluent décor. Their names (...)

Conceived and developed as a civilian airliner during the 1930s, the elegant four-engined Focke-Wulf Fw200 Condor soon became one of the Luftwaffe's most immediately recognizable and potent maritime armed reconnaissance aircraft.Following its introduction into service in 1939, the Condor took part (...)

Respetuosa con la historia y el genius loci, pero radicalmente contemporánea; basada en un lenguaje de depurada geometría, pero esencialmente material; arquitectura de firma, pero al servicio de la comunidad. Así podría describirse la trayectoria profesional del británico David Chipperfield, cuyo (...)

Piedra angular de la literatura universal, las Mil y una noches han inspirado a numerosos autores, desde Charles Dickens y Edgar Allan Poe a Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector o Angela Carter. En esta lujosa edición ilustrada y anotada, el historiador literario Paulo Lemos Horta y la poeta y (...)

This beautifully illustrated volume celebrates the Japanese art of arranging flowers with reproductions of classical seventeenth-century artworks from the New York Public Library's Spencer Collection.Meticulous reproductions of sublime paintings showcase rikka, the oldest and most traditional form (...)