ARQUITECTURA Y DISEÑO

An inspiring addition to interior design aesthetics, Graduate Hotels is a collection of meticulously hand-crafted boutique hotels in college towns, designed to evoke the glory days, sleepless nights, and the spirited, beautiful memories of college culture.  Graduate Hotels spaces uniquely connect with guests on a visceral level. Each hotel is its own immersive experience of inspired textures and contrasts that captures the college experience in full. This book follows suit: a 272-page tome beautifully designed in the style of a college yearbook that tells deep and nuanced interior design stories, which reflect each college town where a Graduate Hotel resides. Graduate Hotels is as easily at home in the interior design section of a bookstore as the travel, art, or architecture sections. The book is as useful for design inspiration and mood boards as it is for wanderlust and adventure planning.

Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some even said her audacious, futuristic designs were unbuildable. During the latter years of her life, Hadid’s daring visions became a reality, bringing a unique new architectural language to cities and structures as varied as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, hailed by The New York Times as “the most important new building in America since the Cold War”; the MAXXI Museum in Rome; the Guangzhou Opera House in China; and the London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre. At the time of her unexpected death in 2016, Hadid was firmly established among the elite of world architecture, recognized as the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, but above all as a giver of new forms, the first great architect of the noughties. From her early sharply angled buildings to later more fluid architecture that made floors, ceilings, walls, and furniture part of an overall design, this essential introduction presents key examples of Hadid’s pioneering practice. She was an artist, as much as an architect, who fought to break the old rules and crafted her own 21st-century universe.

Few nineteenth-century architects ventured far from the pattern-book styles of their time. One architect not constrained by tradition was the Irish-born American Henry Howard, who started as a carpenter and stair builder in 1836 New York and arrived in New Orleans the following year, soon establishing a reputation for distinctive designs that blended American and European trends. His career gained momentum as he went on to design an extraordinarily diverse portfolio of magnificent residences and civic buildings in New Orleans and its environs. Henry Howard is a lavishly produced clothbound volume featuring hundreds of contemporary and archival images and a comprehensive analysis of his built work. The first book to examine the forty-year career of the architect, Henry Howard establishes a clear lineage of his aesthetic contributions to the urban and rural environments of the South. Princeton Architectural Press co-publishes Henry Howard with The Historic New Orleans Collection: a museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to the study and preservation of the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South.

HISTORIA DEL VESTIDO DE NOVIA DESDE PRINCIPIOS DEL SIG LO XX. Es mucho más que un simple recorrido visual por la historia del vestido de novia y las ceremonias nupciales de Occidente, es el relato de la colisión entre la tradición y la alta costura, y una valiosa fuente de inspiración para diseñadores y futuras esposas. El libro contiene un amplio reportaje fotográfico, desde diseños para personajes de la realeza como la princesa Letizia Ortiz o Diana de Gales, hasta trajes mini para celebraciones nupciales exóticas, submarinas o en capillas de hielo. También se han incluido fotogramas de los vestidos de novia más glamorosos de cada década, así como fotografías de bodas de actrices, cantantes y bellezas de la alta sociedad, desde Bianca Jagger en Saint Tropez, con un escotado esmoquin blanco, hasta la princesa Gracia de Mónaco, con un elegante vestido de encaje. Todo ello con el sello inconfundible de las mejores firmas de la alta costura, Chanel, Dior o Yves Saint Laurent, y una exquisita selección de diseñadores, Manuel Pertegaz, Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano y Vera Wang, entre otros.

Desde hace casi dos décadas, Sneaker Freaker ha liderado la escena mundial de las zapatillas de deporte. Con más de 650 páginas rediseñadas, fotografías recientes, detalles históricos pormenorizados y una minuciosidad obsesiva propia de un otaku, esta monumental antología es una oda a las zapatillas deportivas. Reúne lo mejor de la revista... En 2002, Simon“Woody”Wood le daba vueltas a la fórmula para conseguir zapatillas gratis. Dos semanas más tarde, era el orgulloso propietario de Sneaker Freaker y su vida no volvió a ser la misma. Desde sus primeros pasos como un fanzine de estilo punk hasta la primorosa edición en papel y la presencia en Internet de la actualidad, esta publicación ferozmente independiente ha recogido todas las zapatillas de deporte colaborativas, personalizadas, de edición limitada, retro, Quickstrike, Hyperstrike y Tier Zero lanzadas en los últimos 15 años.

Filled with personal insight, humour, creativity, joy, and poignancy, Home: A Celebration is a lyrical ode to sanctuary and a thoughtful and inspirational book to peruse again and again. Through the lenses of their crafts and passions, each illustrious contributor presents an offering either a personal text or work of art on what home means to them. Historian Jon Meacham discusses books as the emotional infrastructure of the houses in his life. Photographer Oberto Gili documents the glorious garden at his property in northwest Italy. Chef Alice Waters proffers a recipe from her home garden. Interior designers including Nina Campbell, Steven Gambrel, Michael S. Smith, and Kelly Wearstler share aspects of their profession that define home to them. Other notable pieces are from Joan Juliet Buck, Julian Fellowes, John Grisham, Jill Kargman, Joyce Carol Oates, and Gloria Steinem. Charlotte Moss s inspiration for this project is Edith Wharton s The Book of the Homeless (1916), a fundraising effort that aided refugees and children during the First World War. For this book, a portion of the profits are benefiting the organization No Kid Hungry, which works to feed more than 11 million children in the United States who live in food-insecure homes.