Thames & Hudson (818 kníh )
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Dominic Bradbury, Richard Powers Interior Design Close Up ENThis beautifully illustrated book is a style bible for anyone interested in design and the home. It is arranged into ten distinct chapters, each one concentrating upon a specific interior style or theme. Each chapter is illustrated with ten evocative houses or flats, whose aesthetic essence is captured within an opening double-page spread concentrating on the most spectacular space in the home. Its story unfolds in…
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Sonia Lucano Interior Inspiration ENNatural materials; neutral colours; clean, elegant lines: the Scandinavian look is one of the most popular in contemporary interior design. This book is the perfect introduction to its history and major practitioners, covering such great designers as Arne Jacobsen and Stig Lindberg, and such key furniture and textiles designers as Litala and Marimekko. It will also teach readers how to recreate Scandinavian style…
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Jacob Field Is Capitalism Working?Is Capitalism Working? is a highly relevant question today - not least to a generation coming of age in a world still experiencing aftershocks from the near-meltdown of the world economy in 2008. Economic theory can be complex, ...
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Niheer Dasandi Is Democracy Failing?Only four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do not fulfil the four basic requirements of democracy: free and fair elections, active participation of citizens in politics, protection of human rights
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Sally Hines Is Gender Fluid?When we are born, we are each assigned a gender based on our physical anatomy. But why is it that some people experience such dissonance between their biological sex and their inner identity? Is gender something we are or something we do? Is our expressio
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Andrew Smiler Is Masculinity Toxic?In the wake of the #MeToo movement and the upsurge in feminist and men's rights activism, traditional masculinity has become a topic of impassioned debate. But what exactly do we mean by `masculinity' and in what ways can it be said to be harmful? ...
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Julian Sheather Is Medicine Still Good for UsModern medicine is exceptionally powerful, and has achieved unprecedented successes. But it comes at a price; individuals suffer from medicine’s failures, and the economic costs of medicine are now stratospheric. Have we got the balance wrong? ...
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Chase F. Robinson Islamic Civilization in Thirty LivesThe religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1,400-year-long development of today’s secondlargest world religion. But who were these people? What do we know of their ...
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Eric Broug Islamic Design Workbook ENIn this inventive interpretation of the popular colouring book concept, Islamic design expert Eric Broug helps readers to create their own patterns, based on compositions from across the Islamic world. The book opens up the world of intricate Islamic patterns, allowing artists, designers and doodlers alike to learn about these works of art as they produce their own. With 48 Islamic geometric compositions from around…
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Eric Broug Islamic Geometric PatternsGeometric patterns are perhaps the most recognizable visual expressions of Islamic art and architecture, magnificent in their beauty and awe-inspiring in their execution. Now, with the aid of this book, anyone can learn how to master ...
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Shinsuke Yoshitake It Might be an Apple ENIt Might Be an Apple is a boisterous, philosophical shaggy dog story for young children and probably a few adults. The story follows a childs hilarious, wildly inventive train of thought through all the things an apple might be if it is not, in fact, an apple. Distrusting the apples convincing appearance, the childs imagination spirals upwards and outwards into a madcap fantasy world maybe its a star from outer…
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Walter B. Denny Iznik ENCovering both Iznik pieces de forme and the famous Iznik tiles that decorate Ottoman imperial monuments, Iznik integrates the entire spectrum of Iznik production, both tiles and wares, and the broader artistic tradition in which it originated. Walter B. Denny begins with a description of the particular nature of Islamic art under the Ottoman empire, as well as the methods of the craftsmen who worked under the…
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Olivia Bays, Cathelijne Nuijsink, Tony Seddon Japanese Style at HomeJapanese interiors focus primarily on one simple philosophy, Zen. All the rooms in a traditionally furnished Japanese home strive to achieve a balance of peace and simplicity; their interiors are steeped in centuries of cultural influence, ...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat ENFeatures Basquiat's work from 1981 - the year of his first official participation in the group exhibition New York/New Wave at PS1 of New York - to his premature death in 1988. Covering through some 50 paintings and 20 works on paper, this work offers a new occasion for dialogue with the more modern expressions of 20th century art.
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Patricia Corbett, Ward Landrigan, Nico Landrigan, Karl Lagerfeld Jewelry by Suzanne Belperron ENIn 1919 Suzanne Belperron, at age 19, began her lifelong journey at the vanguard of modern art and design. Her pioneering work in the Art Deco style evolved into the colorful compositions and pure, sensual forms that became her unmistakable trademarks. Among the pantheon of twentieth century master jewelers, Madame Belperron stands apart as the only woman. Illustrated in this book is a splendid array of Belperron’s…
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Jewels and JewelleryJewels and Jewellery surveys splendid early medieval pieces and superb examples of Renaissance, Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and 21st-century jewellery. Exquisitely detailed photography reveals both rare and precious stones as well ...
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Robert Fairer John Galliano for DiorAs testified by the monumental success of the recent Dior retrospective curated by the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, `Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams', which attracted over 700,000 visitors over its extended run, John Galliano's creations for...
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Charles Darwent Josef AlbersWhile Josef Albers’ Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the Homages to the Square, a series of over 2,000 seemingly tightly controlled experiments ...
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Robert Delpire, Josef Koudelka, Czeslaw Milosz Josef Koudelka: Exiles ENThis powerful document of the spiritual and physical state of exile now contains 10 new images by master of photography Josef Koudelka. The sense of mystery that fills these photographs mostly taken during Koudelka's years of wandering through Europe and the United States since leaving his native Czechoslovakia speaks of passion and reserve, of his rage to see. The brilliant accompanying essay by Robert Delpire…
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Mel Gooding Joseph Banks' FlorilegiumA full-colour publication of the botanical illustrations commissioned by Joseph Banks, with expert commentaries. Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage round the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, ...
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Joanna Carey Judith KerrAn overview of the life and work of much-loved children’s illustrator and author Judith Kerr, creator of classics such as The Tiger Who Came to Tea, and Mog...
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Hansjörg Küster, Ann Wilde Karl Blossfeldt: Masterworks ENKarl Blossfeldt (1865–1932) was a great pioneer of botanical photography, yet he was neither a professional photographer nor a botanist. A professor at the Academy of Applied Arts in Berlin, he was a sculptor and amateur photographer, and his interest in the plant world was originally educational. Fascinated by the structure of plants, whose apparently artistic forms were created by biological expediency, he…
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Michael Prestwich KnightAn insider’s guide: how to become a knight, wield a sword, join a Crusade, and make your fortune. The knight is the supreme warrior of the Middle Ages. Fully armored and mounted on a magnificent charger, ...
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Koudelka ENWhether photographing avant-garde theatre, gypsies on the steppes of Eastern Europe, resistance to Soviet guns and tanks advancing on Prague, or the environmental degradation of a crumbled empire, Josef Koudelka has consistently produced images that provoke a connection to the larger questions of human existence. This book is the first to unite all his most eloquent images, and is the ultimate volume on this key…