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A fresh look at one of America’s best-known and beloved artists at a pivotal but little-known moment in his life that profoundly shaped both his art and career. Edward Hopper & Cape Ann tells the largely ignored but significant origin story of Edward Hopper’s years in and around Gloucester, Massachusetts—a period and place that imbued Hopper’s paintings with a clarity and purpose that had eluded his earlier work. This volume focuses on summers Hopper spent there in the 1920s, starting in 1923, when he first embraced watercolor during outdoor painting excursions on Cape Ann and discovered one of his favorite subjects: houses and vernacular architecture. The success of Hopper’s Gloucester watercolors transformed his work in all media and set the stage for his monumental career. Accompanying a major retrospective at the Cape Ann Museum, including an unprecedented loan of twenty-eight works from the Whitney Museum of American Art, this highly readable and beautifully illustrated volume reveals in great depth the lesser-known story about the influence of a young painter, Josephine Nivison, who became not only Hopper’s wife but also the most trusted force underlying his artistic confidence. Here she is recast as principal producer of Hopper’s distinctive style and his “brand” visionary from the time of their courtship until his death in 1967.

El primer resumen completo de las magníficas colecciones de alta costura de Yves Saint Laurent, desde la inauguración en 1962 hasta su retirada en 2002, presentado a través de las fotografías originales de las pasarelas. Como homenaje al legendario diseñador, este libro es el registro de cuarenta años de creaciones icónicas de la alta costura, desde el radical «Le Smoking» (el primer traje de esmoquin para mujeres) de 1966 hasta las deslumbrantes creaciones inspiradas en el arte: vestidos «Mondrian», preciosos bordados «Van Gogh», capas «cubistas» y la famosa colección Ballets Russes, por nombrar algunos. * Incluye una introducción y una descripción sobre el perfil del diseñador a cargo de Suzy Menkes, así como los textos de las colecciones del Musée Yves Saint Laurent París. Un libro que ofrece una oportunidad única de mostrar las creaciones del diseñador que revolucionó el guardarropa de la mujer moderna. Con más de 1000 imágenes, este tesoro de inspiración es una referencia obligada para todos los profesionales de la moda y los seguidores de Yves Saint Laurent.

Everyone wants a stylish home, but with so much information available, how does one begin to put it all together? EnterInterior Design Master Class: 100 Rooms. The designers who’ve created the remarkable spaces in this volume individually explain in their own words the framework for the success of each room. The spaces featured in the book are broken down by type of room, including Gathering (media and family rooms), Transitional (porches and entryways), Respite (bedrooms and sitting rooms), Entertaining (dining rooms and bars), and Utility (kitchens, baths, and mudrooms). In each category, the multiple examples by designers well known from their appearances in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, and Southern Living explore a variety of topics. Katie Ridder uses her vibrant living room to write about establishing a successful palette. Suzanne Kasler writes about the importance of light in bedrooms. Frances Merrill of Reath Design shares her thoughts about kitchens. Mark Sikes contributes an essay on tables. Steven Gambrel writes about the color blue. Josh Greene expounds on the bath. Also featuring Bunny Williams, Robert Couturier, Heidi Caillier, Miles Redd and David Kaihoi, Nicole Hollis, and Corey Damen Jenkins, the book is an elegant guide to twenty-first-century living, room by room.