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The leading design authority for the last century, AD under Astley is more popular and far-reaching than ever before, featuring a wide range of styles and tastemakers and helping to personalize interior design for us all. This book showcases highly original interiors and the personality and creativity of the bold-faced names who live in them. Spanning the worlds of fashion, music, film, art, and design, the people inhabiting these pages come from around the globe, showing us there are so many ways to create a beautiful home. The interiors encompass different milieus and styles, from city to country, classical to bohemian, modern to old world, including art-filled urban lofts and classic townhouses as well as country estates and tropical getaways.

Step (or jitterbug) into the dazzling world of 1930s American advertising, where bold promises, slick design, and more than a touch of wishful thinking kept the country dreaming through the Great Depression. While wallets tightened, creativity soared―glossy magazine pages teemed with cheerful, colorful ads selling everything from beauty creams to Hawaiian vacations, all wrapped in an air of optimism that defied the hard times.

This lovely gift-ready edition presents the original book plus a new introduction and chapter detailing how the house and its rooms have changed over the years—all presented in a sumptuous package featuring a new cover design with a “cloth-wrapped” exterior, a debossed foil title, faux-leather spine, and a satin ribbon marker. Bunny Williams is renowned for creating classic decor that evolves over time and with the way people live and entertain in their homes. She published An Affair with a House in 2005, and it helped launch her into the top ranks of the interior design profession, where she has stylishly remained ever since. Williams has been involved in a passionate love affair with her New England manor house for nearly half a century. From the moment she glimpsed it—in a state of sad disrepair—she knew she wanted to bring it back to glorious life. This is the process she famously details in An Affair with House, tracing her home’s evolution and her design philosophy.

A book that gets under the skin in every sense, containing hundreds of vivid photographs of intricate anatomical waxworks, created more than two centuries ago to astounding levels of accuracy. The models were intended to advance medical understanding at a time when scientific curiosity and intellectual fervor were sweeping Europe. Housed in Florence’s La Specola museum, which opened its doors in 1775 to visitors of all social classes―itself a visionary notion at the time―, the specimens have served as both educational tools and objects of public fascination ever since.

Quien mas quien menos se ha sentido atrapado en algun momento de su vida por alguna saga interminable repleta de señores oscuros, magos barbudos, espadas magicas, duendes, quimeras o elfos.El exito de dos nuevas superproducciones televisivas basadas en sagas literarias La casa del dragon, precuela de Juego de tronos, y Los anillos de poder, precuela de El señor de los anillos hacen de este un momento ideal para publicar un libro que de un repaso al genero narrativo que lleva un siglo arrasando.Historias apasionantes en las que el mal se enfrenta al bien encarnado en sus mas diferentes valores: la valentia, el honor o la honradez, aderezado siempre con un tono de epica. Y que el autor de este libro ha sintetizado con manos expertas y mucho conocimiento para hacer de ello un compendio de lo mas granado del mundo de la literatura, el cine, el comic o los videojuegos.Fantasia de leyenda: De Dragones y mazmorras a El ultimo unicornio.Un mundo de fantasia medieval de la mano de George R. R. Martin: Cancion de hielo y fuego.Fantasias para todos los gustos: De Willow a El priorato del naranjo.Fantasias camp: De Krull a La leyenda del buscador.Cronicas de la carcajada: de Mundodisco a Nimona.Una fantasia epica distinta: de la Saga de la Tumba Sellada a Step by Bloody Step.Videojuegos de fantasia: De World of Warcraft a Dragon Quest.