Libros

A white-walled city perched between Morocco and Europe, Tangier was long a haven for the literary and artistic avant-garde--and black sheep--of Europe and America. Now a new generation of residents are blending color, pattern, and taste to create an interior aesthetic all their own. Inside Tangier (...)

La conquista islámica de 711 constituye uno de los episodios más importantes y, a la vez, más controvertidos y tergiversados de la historia de España. El españolismo nacionalcatólico generó una visión denigratoria basada en una lectura catastrofista (la pérdida de España ), mientras que, por el (...)

Natural Elegance showcases the award-winning interiors of WRJ Design, headquartered in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and led by Rush Jenkins and Klaus Baer. The firm's homes are set against the backdrop of dramatic western landscapes from the Rockies to the Pacific. Their interiors are infused with a (...)

Textile designer Lisa Fine shares the many sources of inspiration for her coveted hand-printed linens and her personal interior design aestheticIn Near & Far, Lisa Fine invites us into her homes in Dallas, New York, and Paris and then takes us along as she visits the places and people who have been (...)

Shaped By War Don McCullin has held many exhibitions over the years, including his first landmark show at the V&A in London. As the greatest war photographer of his time, it is no surprise that his work is the subject of a huge exhibition organized by the Imperial War Museum. Focusing on his (...)

The Anatomy of Colour is the definitive book on the use of colour and paint in interior decoration over a 300-year period. Drawing on his huge specialist archive, historian and paint expert Patrick Baty traces the evolution of pigments and paint colours together with colour systems and standards, (...)

Twenty-five world-class designers invite us inside their private French residences, providing intimate access to their creative universe and rich inspiration for home style. Stepping inside the private residences of France's leading tastemakers provides unrivaled inspiration for interiors with a (...)

A trove of master interior designer Tom Scheerer's latest projects in his signature style--sophisticated, yet relaxed and unpretentiousTom Scheerer's second book, 16 of his latest projects are featured, including city houses and apartments in New York, Dallas, Houston, and Paris; summer houses in (...)

The book describes and analyses the Scanian War, which was fought from 1675 to 1679 between, on one side, primarily Brandenburg and Denmark-Norway and, on the other, Sweden. The war was mainly fought in Scania, the former Danish lands along the border with Sweden, and in northern Germany. The (...)

Esta es, sin duda, la mejor biografía de Winston Churchill que se haya publicado. Andrew Roberts, considerado como el mejor historiador militar británico, ha podido utilizar para su trabajo una gran cantidad de documentos que ningún biógrafo había podido consultar con anterioridad, incluídos los (...)

Partiendo de la observación de un metro cuadrado de bosque y su evolución a lo largo del tiempo, el análisis científico se convierte en una experiencia casi mística gracias a la belleza de la narración. Imprescindible para comprender nuestro planeta.