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Este libro esencial sobre la figura de Toulouse-Lautrec recorre un universo de cantantes, bailarinas, músicos y prostitutas para descubrir a un artísta dotado de un gran empatía, una habilidad figurativa sorprendente y una sensibilidad única para captar la energía y las historias propias de una ciudad.

The architectural style of the classic American summer, the shingled house can suggest the beach, the countryside, the mountains, and even the city. AD100 architects Ike Kligerman Barkley, one of the most successful firms practicing in a traditional style today, presents 14 houses that celebrate the simple wood shingle's infinite flexibility--ranging from richly historic to sculptural and experimental. The New Shingled House includes examples throughout the fabled seaside resorts of New England--Martha's Vineyard, Block Island, and the Hamptons--as well as houses in California's Bay Area and Point Loma, on a pristine mountain lake in South Carolina, and a Scandinavian influenced family residence in Connecticut. All are characterized by a sense of graciousness and generosity that makes them unique spaces for the owners and enviable spaces for readers. The versatility of the shingle style allows the designers to explore formal ideas and to respond to client preferences and taste. The houses thus achieve the architects' fundamental goal: when their clients enter their new house for the first time, they should feel as though they have always lived there. This stunning visual presentation features new photography by noted interiors photographer William Waldron, who has captured the graciousness and generosity of the elegant interiors and welcoming porches and terraces that make these houses so inviting and timeless.

Opening Interior Design Master Class is like sitting down to the best dinner party you ve ever attended. A classic in the making, the book features one hundred essays by America s top designers from established design legends to members of the new guard that explore in detail the process of designing a home, from the fundamentals to the finishing touches. Grouped by theme, the subjects range from practical considerations (Bunny Williams on Comfort, Etienne Coffinier and Ed Ku on Floor Plans) and details (Victoria Hagan on Light, Rose Tarlow on Books) to inspiration (Jeffrey Bilhuber on America and Char- lotte Moss on Couture) and style (Kelly Wearstler on Glamour, Thomas O Brien on Vintage Modern). Each piece is paired with images of the designer s work to illustrate the principles being discussed, annotated with informative captions. Unique in the quality of its contributors, this is a book that readers will refer to again and again for advice and inspiration, an invaluable resource for practical tips and thought-provoking design.

«Santo Domingo vino a ser el ombligo de la conquista. De sus casas y solares partieron expediciones y héroes de buena y mala vida. Salieron: Alonso de Ojeda, (1466-1515), militar, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, (1475-1519), hidalgo, Juan de la Cosa, (1449-1510), cartógrafo, los que buscaron éxito y fortuna, todos partiendo de la boca del río Ozama. Pero vivieron en Santo Domingo, y en palacios reales o casi reales, Diego Colón, el Adelantado Rodrigo de Bastidas (1445-1527), otro hidalgo: Diego Caballero, Francisco Tostado de la Peña, poeta (+1586); y en sus salas y mentideros nació también la lucha del desconocido extremeño quien llegó a América para buscar nombradía y fama, y con la finalidad de alcanzar, por fuerza y acción propia, posición social, limpiando muchas veces el nombre familiar desconocido en la península. Estos monumentos, tal como hemos dicho anteriormente, "son palabras y frases dichas en piedras talladas". Son el modelo del primer cambio social producido por la implantación de la cultura europea en tierras americanas. Hemos de preservar este trozo de historia, como hasta hoy, y desde luego, hemos de recalcar que un monumento es historia coagulada; la historia presentada como resultado de hechos, buenos y malos, que aún palpitan, consolidados por los documentos y los siglos de investigación, y que éstos son la biografía del pasado que envuelven la vida de los monumentos coloniales en Santo Domingo.» Marcio Veloz Maggiolo