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.
The story of Gracie wallpaper, founded in 1898 and still family owned by the sixth generation, is one of the great untold stories of American interior design. Best known for their exquisitely detailed designs, Gracie papers have been installed at the White House and many of America’s most notable homes. They are a go-to resource for interior designers including Mark Sikes, Summer Thornton, Ellie Cullman, Brooke Giannetti, Suzanne Kasler, Michael S. Smith, Alexa Hampton, Alex Papachristidis, and Amanda Lindroth, and Gracie can be found in the homes of celebrities including Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, and Cameron Diaz.
This is Bunny Williams’ most ambitious book to date.
Inviting us into her impressive grounds with charming personal anecdotes, expert advice, and hundreds of stunning photographs–printed on two different speciality stocks–Bunny Williams illustrates every aspect of the gardens surrounding her eighteenth-century manor house in Northwestern Connecticut in different lights and seasons.
A popular stop on the Garden Conservancy circuit, Williams’ property boasts a parterre garden,year-round conservatory, extensive vegetable garden, orchard, woodlands, an aviary with exotic fowl, and a rustic poolside Greek Revival–style folly. Each section of the garden is accompanied by adirectory of featured plants—from native ferns and succulents to a wide variety of flowering specimens.
Este segundo volumen continúa la genealogía del pensamiento posmetafísico siguiendo el hilo conductor del discurso sobre fe y saber. Empezando con el protestantismo y la filosofía del sujeto, se centra en la bifurcación de la tradición trascendental (Kant) y la empirista (Hume) para, a partir de ahí, desgranar los temas del lenguaje, el espíritu objetivo y la filosofía de la historia, hasta los Jóvenes Hegelianos, el marxismo, la filosofía de la existencia y el pragmatismo. De las muchas líneas posibles de una historia de la filosofía, Jürgen Habermas destaca un proceso de aprendizaje cuyas huellas permitan insuflar ánimos de cara a las tareas impuestas a la razón humana.
La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal, La muerte contada por un sapiens a un neandertal y La conciencia contada por un sapiens a un neandertal forman el proyecto literario más original de los últimos años. El paleontólogo Arsuaga y el escritor Millás se propusieron, hace cuatro años, levantar el gran relato sobre la existencia.
Iniciaron así un viaje a lugares especiales, algunos desconocidos o poco accesibles, pero otros, espacios de la vida común donde hablar de los orígenes del ser humano, de nuestra evolución como especie y como individuos, de por qué se produce el proceso de envejecimiento, de la muerte, y del mayor enigma del ser humano: el cerebro. Es la vida, en todo caso, lo que late en estos libros. La mejor de las historias.