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Reuel Golden London ENSamuel Johnson famously said that: “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” London’s remarkable history, architecture, landmarks, streets, style, cool, swagger, and stalwart residents are pictured in hundreds of compelling photographs sourced from a wide array of archives around the world. London is a vast sprawling metropolis, constantly evolving and growing, yet throughout its complex past and…
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Jane Edwards London Interiors ENLondon is swinging again. The latest design trends, the best musicals, the most innovative plays and films are born in the capital of Cool Britannia. What catches on in Notting Hill, Soho and Hoxton now influences taste as far away as the North Cape and Tierra del Fuego. At the same time, the city on the Thames, one of the most cosmopolitan on the planet, is home to people from every corner of the world and has…
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London Style ENLondon is the capital of cool, full of famous artists, photographers, musicians, writers, decorators, designers, architects, and film-makers—and here is a chance to sneak into their homes! Arranged progressively by color, the rich, detailed full-page photos featured here take the reader on a whirlwind tour of the town, exploring a wide range of architecture and interior design.
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London, Hotels & More ENSuch a big, hectic, and crazy city as London isn’t easy to navigate unaided, which is why anyone planning a trip there should grab this invaluable guide. A wide selection of hotels, from classic to designer, gives a perfect variety to choose from, whether it’s the Dorchester in Mayfair, the Soho Hotel, a Notting Hill's Lennox Hotel or Eleven Cadogan Gardens in Chelsea. Antique hunters and style mavens alike will…
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London, Restaurants & More ENEnglish food is much more varied than fish ‘n’ chips (though we can tell you where to get the best London has to offer). Indeed, England’s capital city is home to a dizzying array of culinary options and of course Angelika Taschen has selected the finest London eateries where you’ll delight in a meal, tea, or simply hobnobbing with the jet-set.
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London, Shops & More ENLondon is huge, sprawling, and chaotic, so before you set out on a shopping spree we recommend you arm yourself with this handy guide to make sure you never get lost and don’t miss out on anything—from the oldest traditional establishments to the most avant-garde boutiques. And because we want you and your purchases to stay nice and dry, we’ve kindly included the address of a legendary umbrella maker!
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August Sarnitz Loos ENAdolf Loos (1870–1933) was a flamboyant character, whose presence in the cultural hotbed of early 1900s Vienna galvanized the country’s architectural landscape. An early, impassioned advocate of modernism, he all-out rejected the grand Secessionist aesthetic prevalent in contemporary Viennese architecture, as well as any hallmarks of the European fin de siècle. Instead, in lectures and essays, such as the milestone…
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Jim Heimann Los Angeles ENFrom the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city’s cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. L.A. is shown in its emergence from a desert wasteland to a vast palm-studded urban metropolis, beginning with the 1880s’ real estate boom, through the early days of…
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Jim Heimann Los Angeles NoirIn the years following World War I, Los Angeles was a city awakening to its darker side, transforming itself from a backwater town to a gleaming metropolis and city of the future. But along the way a tarnished patina began to coat its ever-more glamorous
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David LaChapelle Lost + Found (Part 1)TASCHEN is proud to announce Lost + Found, Part I and Good News, Part II, the long-awaited, latest and final publications from artist David LaChapelle. The books are the fourth and fifth installments of LaChapelle’s five-book anthology, which began with LaChapelle Land (1996), continued with Hotel LaChapelle (1999), and followed with Heaven to Hell (2006). Lost + Found, Part I is a visual recording of the times we…
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Louvre CZDejiny galérie Louvre sú úzko späté s dejinami Francúzska. Louvre bol postavený v roku 1190 ako pevnosť. Za vlády Františka I. z Angoulême, ktorý tu takisto založil kráľovskú umeleckú zbierku, sa stal rezidenciou panovníka. Všetci následujúci králi prispievali svojím dielom k podobe, akým je Louvre známy dnes. Budova, ktorá dnes nesie názov Louvre, vznikla za vlády Henricha IV. V tom čase tu bola postavená Grande…
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M. C. Escher M. C. Escher - Grafika a kresbyKniha Grafika a kresby prináša viac ako 80 najzaujímavejších vyobrazení, ktoré Escher osobne vybral. Umelcov komentár uľahčuje výklad jeho prekvapivých grafických výtvorov. Kniha obsahuje aj Escherov náčrt vlastného umeleckého vývoja. Táto naozaj autentická publikácia je najlepším úvodom do fantastického sveta veľmajstra ilúzií, ktorým Maurits Cornelis Escher nesporne je...
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M. C. Escher - The Graphic Work ENM.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher's innate graphic talents. From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design in Haarlem, where he was instructed in graphic techniques by S. Jessurun de Mesquita, who greatly…
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M.C. Escher CZMonografia holandského umelca, ktorý bol viac považovaný za vedca ako za umelca. Napriek tomu je jeho dielo optických klamov a fiktívnych perspektívnych svetov jedinečné a originálne.
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Marcel Parquet Macke ENA style of his own: The colorful work of a truly avant-garde painterIn the course of his short life, German painter August Macke (1887 1914) combined inspirations from extremely different sources into a unique and personal style. Macke was engaged with the world, closely following the development of abstract art and at the same time feeling tied to the Blauer Reiter movement of Munich. Macke developed a flat yet…
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Matthew Weiner Mad Men ENWith its brilliant writing, spot-on acting, faultless art direction, and impeccable costume design, Mad Men is a landmark for cable television. Never before has a period series offered such compelling plotlines alongside such painstaking attention to detail and accuracy. As the show’s personal and professional machinations evolve, so too are the minutiae and the milestones of history in motion, from the shifting…
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Dominique Mainon Mae West ENIn terms of celebrity icons, few attained the highest levels of fame and controversy as rapidly as Mae West. Labeled a pornographer by censorship boards, she was also one of 1930s Hollywood’s most lucrative box-office draws (causing Variety in 1933 to label the star as hot an issue as Hitler). Nicknamed by critic George Jean Nathan the Statue of Libido and paid homage to in the title song of Cole Porter's musical…
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Mike Caveney Magic ENSpecial effects: A visual history of magic, from the Middle Ages to modernity Magic has captivated humankind for millennia. Whether invoking spirits, reading minds, or inverting the laws of nature, the magician’s hand has evoked terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Long before science fiction, virtual realities, video games and the Internet, magic was the ultimate world of fantasy and possibility.This book…
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Mike Caveney Magic BookThe world’s greatest magicians from the Middle Ages through the 1950. Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians have always been conduits to ...
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Bruno Ernst Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher EN“A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, ‘Madame, if that’s the way you see it, so be it.’” An engagingly sly comment by the renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898–1972)—the complex ambiguities of whose work leave hasty or single-minded interpretations…
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Magritte ENThe works of René Magritte (1898 – 1967) and the ideas that underlie them are a special case both in the history of modern art and in surrealist painting. In the search for the “mystery” in which things and organisms are enveloped, Magritte created pictures which, taking everyday reality as their starting point, were to follow a different logic from that to which we are accustomed. Magritte depicts the world of…
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Paulo Herkenhoff MaldicidadeIn Maldicidade, the city never sleeps. By dawn or dusk, in New York, Havana, Salvador de Bahia, or Tokyo, it is an environment fraught with yearning, aching with solitude, and fretful with fortunes never made...
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Gilles Néret Malevich ENAfter flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) found his metier in dissolving literal, representational figures and landscapes into pure, emotionally-charged abstraction. In 1915, he created what is widely lauded as the first and ultimate abstract artwork: Black Square (1915), a black rectangle on a white background, hailed as the zero point of painting, a…