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...
Tamy Tazi has set her own special mark of distinction on contemporary Moroccan dress: ceremonial or everyday caftans, djellabas, selhams (capes), jackets and serouals Her models embrace two remarkable traditions that both resist the pressures of time. One is the Haute Couture that has long been Tamy Tazis daily bread as Yves Saint-Laurents representative...
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.
Bright colors, bold prints, and joie-de-vivre flair are abound in this must-have tribute to Pucci, the fashion house like no other. Packed full of archival photography, sketches, designs, and gorgeously evocative ephemera, this tome captures the breathtaking elegance, drama, and innovation of a unique brand.
Sensual and softly surreal, the nude photography of Ralph Gibson frames the female form both organically and graphically, referencing art history while also innovating in the arena of erotic imagery. In XXL scale, Gibson’s photographs summon visceral sensation and call out for tactile attention. Thumb through this exquisite tribute to the contours and...
In this stunning new addition to the Assouline Ultimate Collection, Enrico Bernardo, the world’s best sommelier, imagines the perfect cellar filled with the most exceptional wines of the twentieth century: The Impossible Collection of Wine. Weighing the virtues of rarity, terroir, taste, and historical mystique, Bernardo’s is a list any connoisseur could...
As usual the trend themes include numerous high-grade graphics for boys and girls, created by professional fashion designers with loving attention to detail.
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.
t the heart of this book, the archive of Stefano Chiassai, made of garments selected between stores and fleamarket in '40 years' of traveling. Through a series of timeless outfits their stories have found a new revival in 'RITMOEMOTIVO'.
Graphicollection is a smart collection of graphic designs for girls and women. Artistic illustrations on the topics of nature, enchanting landscapes of the ´50s, glamorous outfits and beautiful portraits dedicated to the trend theme
Doodle Art Textures Vol. 1 incl. DVD. These books are full of themed illustrations, from Liberty to Japanese designs, from landscapes to the most famous cities, from flowers to animals.
This trade journal for professionals provides a selective analysis of the just finished Designer Shows in New York, London, Milan and Paris, compiled according to future minded design criteria.
Abstract Camouflage Textures Vol. 1 incl. DVD
Chanel N°5 has been made with flowers from the same picturesque patch of land between the Alps and the Mediterranean, known as the Pégomas Valley, since the perfume was created in 1921. Every year hundreds of pounds of flowers are cultivated, picked, and distilled, following secret traditions. For the first time, the artisanal techniques used to create...
GraphiCollection Kids Girl Vol.1, now for you! Graphicollection presents the new book entirely dedicated to babies and Kids Girl with more graphics and many all-overs for your ideas and for your fashion works.
This trade journal for professionals provides a selective analysis of the just finished Designer Shows in New York, London, Milan and Paris, compiled according to future minded design criteria.
Garments are no longer defined by their age, but by the story they tell. The classic, the contemporary and the new become intertwined, creating a form of timeless research. The tradition inherited by the past meets with the liveliness of today’s fashion to present a new source of inspiration and redefine our vision of beauty. A garment is not just looked...
This book develops designs in the geometric world with a particular imprint called "grunge" in opposition to a synthetic, iconographic, linear vision.