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Across Brazil and around the world, the elegant and meticulously crafted spaces designed by the firm Dado Castello Branco Arquitetura e Interiores are known for blending functionality with aesthetic allure. These places—residences, apartments, and villas, all in the signature style the firm has honed since its founding in São Paulo in the early 1990s—are brought to cinematic life by Brazilian artistic director and visual artist Ricardo van Steen. In these pages, van Steen stages a visual journey through four key elements of the company’s sophisticated design vision: He considers light as medium and muse, almost a character in the drama of each living, breathing space. He attends to matter, meaning the very materials of wood, copper, stone, fabric, and glass through which Dado’s designs achieve their richness and authenticity. He turns to the horizon, an essential feature that opens up perspectives and creates visual intrigue, serving as a metaphorical guide to the soul of the space. And he closes with art, paying tribute to Dado Castello Branco’s lifelong passion for the artists who inspire him and the art objects whose presence enhances these meticulous interiors. This richly illustrated publication brings us into these worlds of drama and elegance with exclusive photography and a profound consideration of the legacy of this legendary firm.

Painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was one of the 20th century’s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to art, he is celebrated in particular for his surrealist practice, with such conceits as the soft watches or the lobster telephone, now hallmarks of the surrealist enterprise, and of modernism in general. Dalí frequently described his paintings as “hand-painted dream photographs.” Their tantalizing tension and interest resides in the precise rendering of bizarre elements and incongruous arrangements. As Dalí himself explained, he painted with “the most imperialist fury of precision,” but only “to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality.” Revolutionizing the role of the artist, the mustache-twirling Dalí also had the intuition to parade a controversial persona in the public arena and, through printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and film, to create work that could be consumed and not just contemplated on a gallery wall.

Artista pop, pintor de la vida moderna, paisajista, maestro del color, explorador de la imagen y de la percepción durante seis decadas, David Hockney es conocido por ser un artista que siempre encuentra nuevas formas para explorar el mundo y sus posibilidades de representación. No ha dejado de crear imágenes inolvidables: obras con líneas gráficas y texto integrado durante los Swinging Sixties en Londres; la famosa serie de piscinas, crónica del estilo de vida californiano en la decada de 1970; así como penetrantes retratos y paisajes de gran formato y colores brillantes tras su regreso a su Yorkshire natal. Además de los dibujos en los que traslada lo que ve directamente al papel, hay collages multiperspectiva hechos con polaroids que abren el espacio a un sinfín de vistas de gran detalle, y dibujos realizados con iPad en los que captura la luz con un medio más moderno, testimonio todo ello del placer que Hockney siempre ha encontrado en la experimentación.

Celebrating the full arc of 40 years’ worth of Yarrow’s most iconic images, this massive retrospective is the must-have photography monograph of the year. Legendary British photographer David Yarrow showcases 150 of his best images in a curated mix of yet-to-be-published and best-selling photographs. The Collection details the artist’s journey from a 20-year-old shooting pitchside at the 1986 FIFA World Cup Final to photographing the natural world and, more recently, simply telling stories. His personal anthology of the Wild West sought to entertain, not teach, and its success encouraged him to tell historical stories elsewhere. These large-scale productions across multiple continents have told epic stories, from a lion on a catwalk in South Africa to a car race at Willow Springs International Raceway to evocative scenes in some of the world’s most exclusive towns. Yarrow refuses to be conveniently categorized within a specific genre of photography through the stories he tells. This collection of his work showcases his rigorous aesthetic program and his relentless journey that has taken him around the world, photographing subject matter that includes sports stars, wildlife, supermodels, and frontier towns. The Collection offers additional insight through behind-the-scenes photos and Yarrow’s own first-person contextual narratives.

Una guía imprescindible para recorrer la historia del cine de DC. Descubre cómo los personajes, las localizaciones, el vestuario y las armas se han adaptado de las páginas a la pantalla y cómo han evolucionado a lo largo de las décadas. Algunos de los mejores actores del mundo, como Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix o Viola Davis han participado en muchas películas, algunos como superhéroes o supervillanos. Adéntrate en el fascinante mundo de las películas de DC y descubre datos poco conocidos mientras examinas impresionantes fotogramas, diseños de personajes, escenarios y guiones. ¡El libro que todo fan del cine de DC estaba esperando!