Libros

A celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages and an exploration of its lasting legacy. Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of (...)

Entre las plantas vivas del Real Jardín Botánico (Madrid) destacan por su delicadeza los pequeños árboles bonsái, plantas cultivadas en bandejas de magnífico porte y mágico aspecto. En este libro el RJB recoge las fotografías de una buena parte de estos bonsáis. Cuidados y seleccionados por su (...)

*El primer recopilatorio exhaustivo de las creaciones de Karl Lagerfeld y Virginie Viard para Chanel, totalmente actualizado.*Más de 180 colecciones que se presentan a través de la fotografía de pasarela.*Más de 1450 imágenes: un tesoro oculto de inspiración y una referencia imprescindible para (...)

De Clara Peeters et Artemisia Gentileschi, femmes du XVIIe et du XVIIIe siècle à Niki de Saint-Phalle, égérie du XXe siècle, en passant par les grandes Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Berthe Morisot, Camille Claudel, George Sand, Rosa Bonheur, Marie Bashkirtseff, Suzanne Valadon, Frida Kahlo, Dora Maar ou (...)

Under the Lend-Lease agreement with the US during WWII, the Soviet Union received large quantities of war materiel, including many aircraft; the Bell P-39 Airacobra takes a special place among them. The P-39 was dismissed as hardly suitable for combat both by the US and England, who turned it over (...)

An aviation legend designed in the mid-1940s, the Canberra entered service in 1951 with RAF Bomber Command. It served in the conventional, interdictor and nuclear bomber role with the RAF, in the UK, Germany, the Middle East and Far East. Its performance and adaptability made it ideal as a (...)

Le 15 juin 1722, durant l'intermède de la Régence commencé au décès de Louis XIV le 1er septembre 1715, la Cour revient à Versailles et Louis XV, alors âgé de douze ans, retrouve les lieux qui ont bercé sa première enfance. Quelques mois plus tard, le 25 octobre, le sacre du jeune roi à Reims ouvre (...)

From AD100 landscape architect Edmund Hollander, a collection of spectacular projects celebrating the way we live outdoors, from pastoral retreats to seaside escapes to rooftop refuges.In this book, Hollander explores the idea of home as the natural surroundings that people live in: a place of (...)