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28 beautiful pull-out posters of floral masterpieces to hang on your walls. From Monet’s Water Lilies and Klimt’s Farm Garden with Sunflowers to Renoir’s Flowers in a Vase and Cézanne’s The Blue Vase, The Art of Flowers features 28 posters of art history’s most iconic floral paintings, ready to be hung, stuck, or pinned to your walls. Compiled in an easy-glide, pull-out format, this large-format poster book features affordable and beautiful artworks on quality card, to fit a standard 11 × 14” frame.

The first illustrated book to chronicle the dramatic 1973 face-off between French and American fashion designers, which left an indelible mark on the fashion industry, launched American designers as a global force, and challenged the cultural norms of the time. Images from the archives of renowned fashion photojournalists Bill Cunningham and Jean-luce Huré—largely unseen until now—capture the behind-the-scenes drama, fabulous clothing, iconic models, and glamorous guests at this historic show.

This book celebrates the 1925 Paris Exposition—at its centenary—a landmark event that shaped twentieth-century design and gave its name to Art Deco. The exposition dazzled over sixteen million visitors during its run, showcasing the pinnacle of French luxury goods and design innovation. Renowned as the preeminent exponent of French Art Deco, Ruhlmann (1879–1933) was recognized for the aesthetic refinement, luxurious materials, and impeccable craftsmanship of his creations. Inspired by eighteenth-century pleasure pavilions, Ruhlmann’s pavilion, L’Hôtel du Collectionneur (The Town House of the Collector), was one of the most admired exhibits at the fair. Conceived as a modern-day Trianon, it was filled with his own sumptuous furnishings together with a meticulous selection of objets d’art by his contemporaries, including Edgar Brandt, Jean Dunand, and Jean Puiforcat.

The Book of Miracles first surfaced several ago and is one of the most spectacular discoveries in the field of Renaissance art. The near-complete illustrated manuscript, created in Augsburg around 1550, is composed of 169 pages of large-format illustrations in gouache and watercolor, depicting wondrous and often eerie phenomena. The mesmerizing images deal with both biblical and folkloric tales, depicting stories from the Old Testament and Book of Revelation as well as events that took place in the immediate present of the manuscript’s author. From shooting stars to swarms of locusts, terrifying monsters to fatal floods, page after page hypnotizes with visions alternately dreadful, spectacular, and even apocalyptic.

From The Crown to Downton Abbey, the country house speaks to our fantasies of rustic splendour, style, and escape. Featuring three hundred photos from the National Trust, this lavish book draws back the curtain on the finest and most important historic homes in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, revealing these great houses' intriguing pasts, grand interiors, and vi-brant reinventions for the enjoyment of modern-day visitors, residents, and armchair travellers. Locations include Knole, Cragside, Castle Howard, Chatsworth, Polesden Lacey, Petworth, Castle Bodiam, Blenheim, Longleat, and dozens more. Illuminating essays by country house expert Jeremy Musson, legendary British author and historian David Cannadine, and contributing writers and scholars provide unique insight into centuries of life in a historic home. This is a rich visual resource for lovers of sumptuous interiors on a human scale, as well as grand exterior architecture and gorgeous landscapes. For Anglophiles, royals watchers, and lovers of the country house lifestyle, architecture, and interior design, this is a magnificent new look at landmark British country houses, the treasures they contain, and how they speak to our fantasies of rustic splendour and escape today.

Wu is one of China’s most recognized and awarded interior designers, and the proposer of an original holistic design language at the crossroads of East and West. In a modern era when tranquility has become a luxury, his work seamlessly blends traditional Eastern aesthetics with Western modernism, creating majestic spaces with a distinctive calm and soothing atmosphere. This book showcases a selection of W.DESIGN recent projects: the elegant Riverside Mansion, the spectacular Deqin Meri Poodom Hotel in the majestic mountains of South China, an estate in the Sanya Haitang Bay, and city apartments. Mindful of the relationship between man and nature, these sophisticated houses integrate the essence of Chinese traditional landscape and garden architecture into modern open layouts with clear lines, fluid transitions, and a dynamic interplay between interior and exterior. The results are superb and elevated interiors of grandiose volumes, precise proportions, elegant details, and a keen sensibility for the combination of luxurious materials.