BELLAS ARTES

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.

Si pudiéramos viajar en el tiempo, ¿a dónde iríamos? ¿A revisar nuestro pasado o a conocer nuestro futuro? ¿Querríamos cambiar algo de nuestras vidas o nos limitaríamos a ser testigos pasivos de la historia? Estas son solo algunas de la infinidad de preguntas que se plantean en las películas de viajes en el tiempo, una de las manifestaciones más recurrentes del cine fantástico de ayer y de hoy. Es un tema que traspasa las fronteras de los géneros y que adopta múltiples formas. Entender el concepto de viaje en el tiempo es comprender mejor la misma función del cine, lleno de viajeros que, como los cineastas y los espectadores, juegan a desafiar los límites de su existencia. Este libro propone un recorrido por 50 títulos fundamentales que demuestran que los protagonistas de películas como Regreso al futuro o Atrapado en el tiempo no están solos en su aventura contra el reloj.

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.

Desde el estreno de su primer largometraje, Tesis, en 1996, Alejandro Amenábar se ha convertido en «el niño de los Goya» del cine español, cuya marca garantiza calidad, gran audiencia y éxito de taquilla. Ha dirigido tres de las películas más taquilleras de la historia del cine español y ha gozado de un enorme reconocimiento internacional y de la crítica (incluido un Óscar a la Mejor Película Extranjera por Mar Adentro, en 2004, entre muchos otros premios y reconocimientos), se encuentra en la cúspide de la industria cinematográfica española y es ampliamente considerado como el mejor director internacional español. Pau Gómez, periodista cinematográfico y muy próximo a Amenábar, nos transporta por un recorrido a través de todas las películas del cineasta, comentadas una por una por primera vez por el mismo Alejandro Amenábar, en la primera obra que reúne, por fin, la filmografía completa del cineasta y en conversación con el propio director, para conocer la trayectoria fílmica del gran cineasta en su máxima profundidad.

Readers will respond to the warm and sophisticated work of Hugh and Simon Jacobsen, whose style of architecture and interiors might best be described as American modern vernacular—the place where traditional comfort and modern design meet. Hugh Newell Jacobsen, the legendary architect and late co-founder with his son, Simon, of Jacobsen Architecture, once said “the best house is polite to her neighbors and never shouts.” This statement is a key to the philosophy of the firm, whose houses are suffused with a kind of quiet sophistication that mingle elegant, subtle modernism, with respect for local vernacular traditions. Low-key on the outside, on the inside these houses offer dancing symphonies in white. Unmarked by moldings, walls and ceilings express simple volumetric forms composed of solid planes and voids, while, upon floors of burnished wood or travertine, furniture, much of it designed by the firm, allows for serene repose and practical, unfussy use. Featured here are exemplars of the firm, from Harbor Hill—a cluster of 12 small structures, appearing at first as a group of smallish shingled Nantucket cottages, that reveals itself as a single serene residence overlooking Nantucket Harbor—to Windsor, a Florida Colonial abstraction in Vero Beach. Featuring inviting interiors, exteriors, and gardens, the book is an expression of eloquent design.

An in-depth look at Charles and Ray Eames's prolific legacy—one that has placed them among the most important American designers of the twentieth century and at the forefront of modernism. Charles and Ray Eames's expansive and monumental career in furniture design ran from 1941 to 1978. This comprehensive and illustrated text serves as a guidebook to their most important pieces and themes. As beloved figures in design, art, and architecture who emerged from the optimism of the 1950s, the couple’s egalitarian and humanistic furniture designs made them household names. Most famous for their chairs, they also created seminal works of architecture and film. Written by their grandson, Eames Demetrios, An Eames Primer is an easy-to-read and informational book to the world's most famous and influential furniture designers.