Libros

La figura de Caravaggio (1571-1610), o para ser exactos, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, siempre estuvo rodeada de controversia. El notorio rebelde de la pintura italiana fue a la vez alabado y temido: era colérico y creativo, un artista revolucionario y una persona combativa.Este libro ofrece (...)

The collection of drawings Teyler's Museum has a widely known international reputation. This book is part of a series in which previously books were published on Italian drawings of the 15th and 16th century, and on Dutch drawings dating from 1575-1630 and 1740-1800. This book describes the 257 (...)

Ever since Tom Britt opened his New York based firm in 1964, he has been creating dramatic environments for his high-profile clients on multiple continents. His masterful design palette, with a wonderfully exotic slant, includes plush upholstered furniture, boldly patterned carpets, seductive (...)

Les mémoires d'Alexis, 3e baron de Redé, appartenant au plus haut cercle de la société mondaine européenne et américaine, collectionneur d'art et chantre de l'élégance et du goût. Arrivé à Paris en 1946, il s'installe dans le prestigieux hôtel Lambert, sur l'Île-Saint-Louis, dont il occupe l'étage (...)

Design legend Henri Samuel believed that a successful interior was one in which an observer never suspected that a decorator had been involved. This book takes the reader inside some of Samuel s groundbreaking and inspiring interiors, beginning with his first job assisting Stephane Boudin of Jansen (...)

From the 17th through the 19th century, artists in Kyoto and Edo (now Tokyo) captured the metropolitan amusements of the floating world (ukiyo in Japanese) through depictions of subjects such as the beautiful women of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters and performers of the kabuki theater. In contrast (...)

Rattan evokes the glamour and exoticism of the Riviera, grand yachts, and tropical verandas. It appeared in Impressionist paintings, and dazzling celebrities like Marilyn Monroe and Gina Lollobrigida were photographed lounging on it. Now, rattan is regaining its allure and becoming increasingly (...)

This magnificent new volume presents works of art from the fabled collection of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans (1674-1723), including masterpieces by Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Correggio, Poussin, Rubens, and Rembrandt, bringing them together for the first time since the collection's sale and (...)

Widely acknowledged as the last great landscape designer of the eighteenth century, Humphry Repton created work that survives as a bridge between the picturesque theory of Capability Brown and the pastoral philosophy of Frederick Law Olmsted. By turns inspired by and in opposition to the grandeur (...)

"Donne fotografe" è il cofanetto della collana "Fotonote" dedicato alle grandi autrici che hanno fatto la storia della fotografia. Tre volumi per un viaggio straordinario che permette di ripercorrere tutta la storia della fotografia attraverso lo sguardo femminile.

Remains Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction offers a thought-provoking perspective on the dynamic field of contemporary abstraction in Latin America. It proposes abstraction as an expanded field of reality in direct dialogue with life and as a strategy for critically (...)

The first book on the interiors of sought-after architect Vincenzo De Cotiis collects more than a decade of the atelier's projects.Milan-based architect and artist Vincenzo De Cotiis' frequent appearances on Architectural Digest's AD100 lists attest to his studio's international renown. Originally (...)

After inheriting a seventeenth-century Tuscan villa, Ned Lambton and his wife, Marina, lovingly restored the estate as a retreat for family and friends. With newly commissioned photographs by Simon Upton, Lambton brings to life the rich history of the villa, its redecoration, its raucous history, (...)

An interior design book showing how the alpine context, with its snowy landscapes and forests, influences the choice of colors, materials, and atmospheres.This book addresses a very specific topic within interior architecture, namely that of mountains, where the context of the surrounding landscape (...)

Hardcover. This comprehensive monograph brings together over 100 works spanning five decades of Thomas Schuette's career and examines his artistic production across multiple disciplines.The Duesseldorf-based sculptor, draftsman, model maker, and sometime architect Thomas Schuette works in scales (...)

The most important, most visited, and most renowned of all of Britain's stately homes, Blenheim has been home to the Churchill family for more than 300 years.Regarded as perhaps the greatest of the stately homes and the finest example of baroque architecture in Great Britain, Blenheim is a treasure (...)