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Aerin Lauder’s love of flowers is deeply personal, being passed down to her by her celebrated grandmother, Estée Lauder, as well as her mother, Jo Carole Lauder. From fresh bouquets to floral patterns on wallpaper, fabric, and tabletop pieces, in Living with Flowers Lauder shares the many ways she brings flowers into her home. Whether it’s an arrangement of daisies in the kitchen to welcome friends or family for dinner, or a single stem on her desk to brighten the workday, flowers are an essential part of her home and her lifestyle.

The first book to feature this modernist masterpiece, one of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer's most important residential commissions. Offering a rare opportunity to explore the largest and most luxurious house designed by Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and Marcel Breuer, leading architect and furniture designer of the twentieth century, this beautifully designed volume celebrates the Alan I W Frank House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1939-40, the house embodies the Bauhaus "total work of art" philosophy, with Gropius and Breuer having designed every aspect of the building and its site. Illustrations including new and archival images and the architects' plans and sketches highlight an exquisite balance of proportions and colors. Accompanying essays place this house firmly within the American modernist canon just as the Bauhaus celebrates its one-hundreth anniversary in 2019.

While touring readers through four of his own homes, Paredes shares the key elements in his creative process, giving us access to the same tools he uses in every home to decorate rooms that feel modern even as they glamorize the past, to show us how an environment has real power to transform our very state of mind. Paredes is renowned for being a master of extrapolating an entire theme from one unique item, say transforming the stripe of a crisp Oxford shirt into a unique upholstery perfect for the seaside, or finding inspiration for a couch’s decorative fringe in a well-worn piece of leather ranch gear. He is said to have “perfect visual pitch,” creating vignettes and rooms with an energy that feels undeniably masculine and sophisticated thanks to dark wood, iron railings, rustic fabrics, an overall patina, and soft furnishings in soothing earth tones.

Passionate about designing buildings and neighborhoods that quietly transform the urban environment, Torti Gallas is committed to improving cities, towns, and distressed communities throughout the United States and around the world. This fully illustrated book shows how they have combined the disciplines of architecture, planning, and urban design into a single practice, creating housing and mixed-use buildings that bring catalytic change to urban neighborhoods: the mixed-use apartment buildings, rowhouses, and single-family homes that comprise the fabric of a city. Their work hearkens back to a tradition that, before World War II, created some of the country’s finest neighborhoods, including Forest Hill Gardens in Queens, Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, and Russian Hill in San Francisco. Featuring 60 built projects, this book shows how Torti Gallas is dedicated to raising the level of this architecture to a new high.

Un libro que apasionará a todos los amantes del arte. Con obras de todo el mundo y de los periodos más importantes. Con explicaciones de los símbolos, los detalles y las técnicas para entender cada obra. Desde los frescos el Antiguo Egipto hasta Joan Miró o Banksy.

Una cita con el destino El arte de la astrología, desde la ciencia antigua hasta la práctica moderna Desde el comienzo de la historia humana, personas de todas las culturas y sistemas de creencias han mirado al cielo en busca de sentido. El movimiento de los cuerpos celestes y su relación con nuestras vidas humanas ha sido el principal objeto de estudio de la astrología durante miles de años. La práctica ha inspirado admiración y devoción, y nos ha permitido profundizar en nuestro propio conocimiento y en el del mundo que nos rodea.

Throughout history, tabletop decoration has been at the nexus of utilitarian function and innovative design. In At the Artisan’s Table, designers and event producers Jane Schulak and David Stark pair historical table wares from the world’s finest design museums with pieces by an international array of contemporary artisans who reinterpret traditional crafts and styles, including Aptware (marbled clay), blue-and-white Delft, chinoiserie, faux bois, plaster, splatterware, and trompe l’oeil. Each chapter features a museum object that serves as a muse; the work and studio of the artist who has updated the traditional craft; and gorgeous table settings designed by Schulak and Stark that incorporate the artist’s handmade wares and provide inspiration for everyone who has ever wished to wow their dinner guests.

En este preciso momento estás orbitando alrededor de un agujero negro. Rebecca Smethurst, galardonada investigadora de la Universidad de Oxford, arroja luz sobre el fenómeno más misterioso y emocionante de la astrofísica, y desarma los equívocos construidos a su alrededor para contarnos que los agujeros negros no son realmente negros. Que se parecen más a una mullida almohada que a una potente aspiradora. Que orbitamos alrededor del agujero negro supermasivo denominado Sagitario A*.

Guía de bolsillo sobre los movimientos, las obras, los temas y las técnicas fundamentales. * Una nueva e innovadora introducción al arte creado desde finales de la década de 1960 hasta nuestros días. * 49 obras esenciales del arte contemporáneo, piezas que van desde el land art y el performance art hasta óleos y NFT, que se relacionan con los movimientos, conceptos y metodologías más significativos. Accesible, conciso y profusamente ilustrado con imágenes de obras emblemáticas de creadores de todo el mundo, este libro explora cómo y por qué se desarrolló este arte y se ponen de manifiesto las cruciales innovaciones de diversos artistas. Esta desmitificadora introducción al tema permite conocer con profundidad y disfrutar en toda su extensión el arte más revolucionario creado en las últimas décadas.

Celebrating 10 years of publishing the finest interior design and decorative arts, Cabana Anthology: The Anniversary Edition is a stunning showcase of the most impressive and influential styles featured in the cult interiors magazine in its first decade. This sublime book delves into the stories behind a multitude of stunning interiors, offering insights from the designers, collectors, and artists who have contributed to Cabana’s legacy of true artistry and craftsmanship. Founded by editor-in-chief Martina Mondadori along with designer Christoph Radl and publisher Gianluca Reina in 2014, Cabana aims to inspire a new generation of globetrotters, taking them on a journey through sophistication, obsessive collecting, colors, and fabrics. This stunning volume features the very best photography, interviews, profiles, and features from the publication, with contributions from Carlos Mota, Marco Mansi, and Marian McEvoy, and photographers Miguel Flores-Vianna, Guido Taroni, Mark Luscombe Whyte, Tim Walker, and Joanna MacLennan, among many others.