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Shelley-Maree Cassidy Great Escapes Europe ENFeaturing a selection of the most unique hotels and guesthouses from Sweden to Turkey - all places where you can melt away from the problems of the 'real world' - the book mixes gorgeous color photographs with directions, pricing, and contact information. Since reading is a requisite part of your relaxing escape, we also suggest books for you to take along to each destination. From a lighthouse in Wales to a former…
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Angelika Taschen Great Escapes EuropeThrough ancient wonders, world capitals, and tiny places with infectious personalities, Europe packs some serious travel punches. The world's second-smallest continent makes up for size with its intricate cultures and abundant charms, ..
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Christiane Reiter Great Escapes Italy ENTo travel through Italy is as close as one gets to being in paradise. For centuries, writers, artists, architects and merchants have been drawn here, inspired by the beauty of Venice, Florence, Naples and Rome. Countless books, paintings, poems and sculptures are evidence of its undying appeal, and over the past 60 years, the country has become one of the world's top travel and holiday destinations. The loveliness…
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Christiane Reiter Great Escapes Mediterranean ENWhere to get lost—in style and comfort The Mediterranean is a mythical place, with three continents – Europe, Africa and Asia – and 21 countries sharing its coastline. These disparate cultures are all blessed with its fine climate, luxuriant fauna and flora, and the intense blues of its sea. Angelika Taschen has discovered the very best of this legendary region. Included here are the glamorous Eden-Roc on the Côte…
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Great Escapes North America ENFollowing up on our Great Escapes Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America titles is this volume concentrating on the most extraordinary and tempting Canadian and American hotels. Ranging from funky and inexpensive to luxuriously elegant and wildly pricy, these hotels, inns, guesthouses, bungalows, ranches, lodges, resorts and even—yes—wigwams and treehouses will surely seduce you.
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Great Escapes South America ENContinuing its quest to seek out the world’s most unique and inspiring hotels, TASCHEN takes on South America. This diverse selection of hotels, posadas, and haciendas highlights the most exceptional destinations on the continent. Among the breathtaking paradise spots are a hotel on a Patagonian natural reserve, a hacienda perched high in the Andes mountains, an adobe hotel in the Chilean desert, a converted…
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Angelika Taschen, Shelley-Maree Cassidy Great Escapes: Europe ENAngelika Taschen travels Europe to bring you a discerning selection of the mostunique hotels and guesthouses from Sweden to Turkey. Selected for their breathtaking locations, refined service, and beautiful design, each of these accommodation options offers the surroundings of style and the serenity in whicheveryday life can melt away. The book combines gorgeous color photographs with directions, pricing, andcontact…
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Angelika Taschen, Christiane Reiter Great Escapes: Mediterranean ENFlanked by three continents and offering coastline to 21 countries, the Mediterranean is a mythical place, blessed with its fine climate, abundant fauna and flora, and the intense blues of its sea. In this revised edition, Angelika Taschen catalogs the best hotels of this legendary region, scouring the most beautiful gardens, the most enchanting beaches, the little-known islands, the finest architecture, and the…
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Angelika Taschen, Daisann McLane, Don Freeman Great Escapes: North America ENFrom dazzling cities to eccentric small towns, from vast mountains to plains as far as the eye can see, Canada and the United States offer an awe-inspiring abundance of travel adventures. In this discerning hotel guide, Angelika Taschen guides you on your way, scouring the North American continent for the most extraordinary, elegant, and inspiring places to rest your head. Coast to coast, from North to south,…
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Kristin Rübesamen Great Yoga Retreats ENLooking for a tranquil vacation that leaves you relaxed, restored and uplifted? Then try a Yoga retreat. Even if enlightenment is not your aim, you’ll definitely achieve a luminous glow. Yogis understand the positive influence of natural surroundings and feng shui on the body, mind and soul, while the healthy organic food (almost always vegetarian) served at most retreats leaves you feeling lighter and purified.…
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Philip Jodidio Green Architecture ENWhen is a house ecological? Does the use of natural materials and solar cells on the roof make a building an example of green architecture? Perhaps even Antoni Gaudí and Frank Lloyd Wright designed greener buildings than most contemporary architects, whose low-energy houses scarcely differ outwardly from traditional ones. James Wines puts up the various - and often irreconcilable - concepts of environmentally…
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Philip Jodidio Green Architecture Now! ENThe ecological impact of new construction, once a secondary concern, has become a crucial issue. Badly designed buildings guzzle natural resources and pollute their surroundings; in an era of rocketing energy costs and environmental degradation, the need for a sustainable, energy-efficient architecture is paramount. This book features the architects, artists and firms pioneering a new green architecture, and…
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Philip Jodidio Green Architecture Now! (Vol. 1) ENThe ecological impact of new construction, once a secondary concern, has become a crucial issue in recent years. Badly designed buildings guzzle natural resources and pollute their surroundings. In an era of rocketing energy costs and environmental degradation, the need for a sustainable, energy-efficient architecture is paramount. This book examines the emergent innovations, aesthetics, and pioneers of green…
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Philip Jodidio Green Architecture Now! (Vol. 2) ENSustainability gone chic. Building a better future for our planet. Green architecture used to be on the fringes, but it has gone mainstream and this new volume shows, how, why, and where. This is not a technical handbook, but rather a guided tour from one end of the globe to another where sustainability has not only gone chic, but has become indispensible. Solar panels and double glazing to the rescue - the energy…
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Greta Garbo ENGreta Garbo’s uniquely photogenic beauty belies her great talent as an actress, as her performances in Queen Christina and Camille prove. A hint of a Garbo smile, touch, or glance conveyed volumes. She was languid, distant, and melancholy, yet in her love scenes she conveyed a passion and hunger that startled audiences and overturned American notions of eroticism and sexuality. Part of her fascination, too, is the…
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Ivo Kranzfelder Grosz ENGeorge Grosz (1893-1959) was an artist of his times, deeply disturbed by the nationalistic, militaristic, bourgeois tendencies of early 20th-century Germany. Drawing on his talents as a draftsman and caricaturist, he vented his bitterness in pen, ink, and oil paint, focusing in particular on dark, satirical city portraits of Berlin. With grotesque, exaggerated figuration, Grosz pictured an underworld of criminals,…
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Guidelines for Online Success ENThis title presents the dos and don'ts of web entrepreneurship. Did you ever innocently click on a link, only to be directed to a website that pops open a fullscreen window and blasts annoying music from your speakers? Did you ever spend too much time trying to find basic information that was buried deep in a needlessly complex website? Designers of such sites probably didn't consider the comfort and pleasure of the…
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Gilles Néret Gustav Klimt CZJeho revolta proti akademizmu strhla koncom 19. storočia vlnu odporu. Bol terčom urážok, ale aj nadšeného obdivu. Pre jedných bol šíriteľom pornografie, pre iných zase otcom novej maľby. Rakúšan Gustav Klimt bol presvedčený, že „umenie je o slobode“. Jeho maľba bola oslavou života, ale najmä ženy. On je moderným tvorcom tajomnej a dráždivej femme fatale – osudovej ženy. Stal sa ikonou viedenskej secesie. „Kto sa…
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Klimt Gustav Klimt ENGustav Klimt je umelec konca 19. storočia, ktorý vo svojom diele dokonale vystihuje vzrušujúcu a apokalyptickú víziu konca starej esteiky, ktorá sa neustále vracia do minulosti, ale len vo forme suchého, strohého napodobovania a kopírovania. Klimt sa vo svojej novej estetike a výraze dokonale vysmieva viedenským mešťanom, útočí na ich prudérnosť a prehnité konvencie. Organická krása vyrastajúca z prírodných…
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Gustav KlimtDefining Decadence The legacy of Gustav Klimt A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862 1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. In this neat, dependable monograph, ...
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H.R. Giger H.R. Giger ENPortfolio predstavuje najznámejšieho umelca zaraďovaného do skupiny fantastického realizmu.H. R. Giger narodil sa v roku 1940 v Chur v Švajčiarsku. Študoval architektúru a priemyselný dizajn v Zurichu. Jeho kariéru začalo vytvorenie prvého diela v roku 1964 a sólová výstava v roku 1966. Vo veľmi krátkom čase sa mu podarilo vytvoriť si vlastný rukopis, ktorý je silno individuálny, a práve preto sa jeho diela…