With texts by designers Marco Romanelli and Matteo Ragni, this book takes us on a colourful exploration of contemporary wallpaper design through the eyes of several Italian designers. Enamoured by the medium, these men and women take the decoration of wall surfaces seriously, if not whimsically, and here celebrate this oft-ridiculed yet pervasive element...
Islamic geometric designs are admired worldwide for their beauty and intricacy, yet in truth they are seldom understood. In this volume, the author analyses and explains these complex designs in their historical and physical context.
There are over 350 illustrations, including specially taken color photographs, maps, line drawings and a dictionary of stitches. Complete with a glossary, a guide to textile collections around the world, and advice on collecting and conserving textiles, this comprehesive survey will be invaluable to anyone interested in fashion, textiles, crafts, and...
A design history classic, now revised and back in print.Pattern design flourished throughout the 20th century. From Art Nouveau at the end of the 19th century to computer-generated digital images at the turn of the Millennium, each new generation had their own distinctive approach to pattern design. Tracing the creative cross-fertilization between fashion...
Hardcover. This breathtakingly detailed book presents dress patterns, construction details, embroidery and making instructions for fifteen garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century woman's wardrobe. Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given for each garment alongside photographs of the objects and x-ray photography....
Wallpaper has recently experienced something of a renaissance. After years of minimalism; of plastered walls painted in neutral colours, people are again coming round to the idea of individual expression in interior design. The enormous variety and scope that wallpaper allows for means that it is, at last, hip once more. The Cutting Edge of Wallpaper pays...
Although Arabic Art by Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) is presented as an anthology of ornamentation, it was also one of the first publications of "modern" archaeology. A reference in the field, the book offers a wide vision of Arabic art in the areas of architecture, decoration and the applied arts.
Celebrating ten issues of the gloriously opulent, bi-annual Cabana magazine, founded in 2014 by Martina Mondadori Sartogo, scion of the Mondadori publishing dynasty, Cabana Anthology features the very best photography, interviews, profiles, and features from its first five, formative years.
Some images are so deeply ingrained in the American vernacular, they jolt us with their familiarity. A major new monograph, Gregory Crewdson (Rizzoli), with an introduction byNancy Spector and a series of image-inspired short narratives by Jonathan Lethem,captures nearly three decades of the photographer’s iconic work.
Polidori delivers a sublime photographic tract on architectural revisionism by charting the decades-long conservation project at Versailles. Photographed over a period of 25 years, the ever-evolving phases of Versailles' grandeur are here laid bare for the reader to decode and admire.
In 1969, the first issue of American Penthouse sold out in a matter of days. England's controversial magazine of beautiful girls, intelligent journalism, and intimate revelations had arrived. Now, on the 40th anniversary of that first sold-out issue, Assouline presents a limited-issue collector's edition of the most iconic photographs from the magazine's...
Nowadays, people are looking for peace and relaxation. Places where their mobile phone does not constantly ring and their email inbox no longer bothers them: Digital Detox.
Nothing compares to the moment when, after arriving in a foreign city, the hotel room’s drapes are drawn back to reveal the world outside—a world that, neatly if barely contained by the window’s geometry, seems to belong to you alone. Condé Nast Traveler’s “Room with a View” column, featuring frame-worthy vistas from all over the world.
BOOK SHOPS - long-established and the most fashionable, published by Braun, is dedicated to the 35 most beautiful bookstores in the world, including E'stile, 1 out of 3 selected stores in Italy! It is an interesting book with thousand architectural and design curiosities.
(2010 by James Danziger) Cecil Beaton was one of the 20th century's most important photographers, and now for the first time ever, Assouline presents the private scrapbooks and personal collections of the man who helped invent the cult of personality. Format: 11.5 x 14.4 inches, 392 pages, 2000 images
This book (2010) shows a host of examples of recently built or restored residences, where interior designers and antiquarians have achieved an eclectic whole emerging from old and new. Format: 11.9 x 9.4 x 1 inches, 204 pages
(2011) This volume presents the broad scope of her whimsical style, combining the contemporary with classic elegance. Muriel Brandolini’s exceptional taste and unconventional aesthetic have made her a celebrated international interior designer. Format: 9.9 x 1.3 x 12.3 inches , 304 pages
Zaha Hadid: Complete Works (2004) is one of the most exciting and complex architectural monographs ever published. This brilliantly conceived and designed publication comprises four volumes of differing sizes that offer multiple perspectives on more than a hundred projects and over twenty years at the avanguard of architecture. Format: 12.4 x 10.6 x 2.2...
Ice Architecture (2008) presents the most innovative projects that demonstrate that contemporary architecture can withstand the extreme climatic conditions in the regions. The designs provide a glimpse into the world of architecture in the ice. Format: 9.5 x 12.4 x 1 inches, 176 pages.
(2006) Thomas S. Hines explores the efforts of Neutra and his modernist contemporaries to find the forms that would be most expressive of the twentieth century. Format: 10.2 x 1.4 x 11.3 inches, 352 pages.
Oscar Niemeyer: Houses (2006) showcases the houses built by this seminal modern master in a lavish format that finally does justice to his extraordinary work. Format: 11.3 x 1.1 x 11.3 inches, 240 pages.
I. M. Pei: Complete Works (2008), written by Janet Adams Strong, Carter Wiseman (Introduction), Philip Jodidio, I.M. I.M. PEI (Foreword by). Format: 8.9 x 1.6 x 11.3 inches, 368 pages
Desert Architecture (2008) presents exciting and pioneering projects from the field of desert architecture, demonstrating that contemporary architecture can meet the unique challenges presented by torrid zones. 250 colored illustrations. Size: 32 x 24 cm , 176 pages
This volume (2011) presents a selection of projects that embody visions of a near future where it's essential commitment to the environment and more efficient use of resources. Size: Brossura, 290x290 cm, 600 pages. Language: Italian