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Renzo Mongiardino. A painterly vision
A fresh look at the interiors of Renzo Mongiardino considered one of the finest designers of the late twentieth century that will both appeal to past devotees and introduce his work to a new generation of design enthusiasts.This book explores the sublime work of Renzo Mongiardino (1916 1998), (...)
Categoría: Decoración y Diseño
Van Eyck
Accompanies the biggest ever exhibition on the Flemish master Jan Van Eyck, a once-in-a-lifetime experience that makes the artist's world more tangible than ever before.Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck (c. 1390 1441) towered above his contemporaries. With his unprecedented technique, scientific (...)
Categoría: Arte
Humphry Repton : Designing the Landscape Garden
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 (...)
Categoría: Jardines-Botánica
Remains-Tomorrow
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 (...)
Categoría: Arte
Villa Cetinale: Memoir of a House in Tuscany
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, (...)
Categoría: Decoración y Diseño
Bleneheim. 300 Years of Life in a Palace
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 (...)
Categoría: Arquitectura y Urbanismo