Rooms to RememberThe Classic Interiors of Suzanne TuckerWritten by Suzanne TuckerFormat: Hardcover On Sale: September 29, 2009 Price: $65.00 In the work of interior designer Suzanne Tucker, art and artifact collections are displayed to best advantage for daily enjoyment by their owners, custom-mixed wall colors are set off by richly sensual textiles and forms, and inherited pieces are blended with newly found treasures to bestow a subtle aura of age... |
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Delirious New YorkA Retroactive Manifesto for ManhattanWritten by Rem KoolhaasFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: December 1, 1997 Price: $35.00 Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts... |
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Modern LuxuryWritten by Richard Mishaan, Foreword by Pamela FioriFormat: Hardcover On Sale: May 19, 2009 Price: $50.00 Interior designer Richard Mishaan believes that all good furniture and art can be combined successfully regardless of style, period, or price. Drawing on his international background and love of travel, he combs the world to find exquisite, unique pieces for his clients. Mishaan skillfully brings together furnishings and objects from myriad... |
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MonochromeWritten by Paula Rice Jackson, Introduction by John F. SaladinoFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 28, 2008 Price: $50.00 More than any other element of interior design, color sets the mood of a room. Once the palette is limited to a single color, the effect can be dramatic and powerful or sublime. Monochrome features projects by more than twenty internationally known interior designers who have created rooms based around one... |
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S, M, L, XLWritten by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce MauFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 1, 1997 Price: $85.00 S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a... |
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New YorkCity of IslandsContribution by Pete Hamill, Photographed by Jake RajsFormat: Hardcover On Sale: February 1, 2007 Price: $25.00 The islands that form New York City are far more subtle and varied than the five that can be seen from the air. In this spectacular portrait of the great metropolis, renowned photographer Jake Rajs juxtaposes iconic views—the Empire State Building, the Hudson River skyline, the Brooklyn Bridge—with unheralded neighborhoods and... |
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Beatrix FarrandPrivate Gardens, Public LandscapesWritten by Judith B. TankardFormat: Hardcover On Sale: September 29, 2009 Price: $60.00 Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (she was the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the traditional social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for... |
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Building Up and Tearing DownReflections on the Age of ArchitectureWritten by Paul GoldbergerFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 13, 2009 Price: $35.00 PAUL GOLDBERGER ON THE AGE OF ARCHITECTURE The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, the CCTV Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas, the Getty Center by Richard Meier, the Times Building by Renzo Piano: Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Paul Goldberger’s tenure at The New Yorker has documented a captivating era in the world of architecture, one... |
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New York 1880Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded AgeWritten by Robert A.M. Stern, Thomas Mellins and David FishmanFormat: Hardcover On Sale: April 1, 1999 Price: $85.00 This is the fourth volume in architect and historian Robert A. M. Stern's monumental series of documentary studies of New York City architecture and urbanism. The three previous books in the series, New York 1900, New York 1930, and New York 1960, have comprehensively covered the architects and urban planners who... |
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Bringing Paris HomeWritten by Penny Drue BairdFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 7, 2008 Price: $45.00 Bringing Paris Home invites the reader to re-create the panache of French interior style in an American setting. Author Penny Drue Baird shares her love and knowledge of French history and decorative arts and describes the design elements essential to an elegant French interior—architectural details, furniture, paint and wall covering, fireplaces... |
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AdrianSilver Screen to Custom LabelWritten by Christian Esquevin, Foreword by YeohleeFormat: Hardcover On Sale: April 10, 2008 Price: $50.00 This book highlights and showcases many of Adrian great costume and fashion designs from the 1920s through the 1950s. Not only are his timeless glamour gowns, period costumes, and amazing show-girl costumes shown from the movies, but also his impeccable suits and beautiful gowns from his private label. The ten years... |
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Robert A. M. SternHouses and GardensWritten by Robert A.M. Stern, Introduction by Witold RybczynskiFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 17, 2005 Price: $85.00 Robert A. M. Stern is dedicated to the synthesis of tradition and innovation. In more than thirty-five years of practice, he has produced a wide range of building types with a variety of stylistic influences, all inspired by the great legacy of American architecture. His firm, Robert A. M. Stern Architects... |
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The Colors of NatureSubtropical Gardens by Raymond JunglesWritten by Raymond Jungles, Foreword by Terence RileyFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 28, 2008 Price: $50.00 In exquisite gardens inspired by the lush native plants of his adopted home of Miami, landscape artist/architect Raymond Jungles uses nature as a means of self-expression. He is known for modernist groupings of geometric shapes, which highlight the natural aspects of plantings, water features, and native stone. His use of plants... |
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SOMArchitecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1997-2008Introduction by Kenneth FramptonFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 17, 2009 Price: $60.00 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, founded in 1936, is one of the largest and most influential architecture firms in the world. SOM has long been known for innovation, experimentation, design excellence, and technical mastery, for an abiding interest in the contributions that buildings can make to the life of cities, and for... |
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Eric Fischl1970-2007Written by Arthur C. Danto and Robert Enright, Afterword by Steve MartinFormat: Hardcover On Sale: May 15, 2008 Price: $85.00 Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America's most important figurative painters. His paintings, many of which show a single intense moment, compel the viewer to participate in a world of middle-class suburban ambiguity and drama. In Fischl's engaging distinctly American canvases, narrative, morality, sexuality, and psychology are preeminent... |
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Living WestNew Residential Architecture in Southern CaliforniaWritten by Sam LubellFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 13, 2009 Price: $50.00 A dense concentration of design talent, uniquely varied topography, and one of the world’s most pleasant climates have made Southern California a crucible of architectural innovation. There, forward-looking clients respond to dramatic modern interpretations of form and site that capitalize on natural light and magnificent ocean views, perch delicately on steeply... |
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Dark NostalgiaWritten by Eva HagbergFormat: Hardcover On Sale: September 29, 2009 Price: $45.00 As the late twentieth-century fascination with rounded shapes, organic influences, and plastics fades, interior designers are increasingly drawn to deep colors, polished woods, velvets, furs, leather, dark metals, and brick that have a nostalgic quality—materials used liberally in centuries gone by. Efforts to shape a more authentic, less austere present by... |
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A Clearing in the WoodsCreating Contemporary GardensPhotographed by Roger FoleyFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 3, 2009 Price: $50.00 In A Clearing in the Woods, landscape photographer Roger Foley brings luxuriant green spaces, quiet water features, and colorful plantings to life. Over the past thirty years, he has collaborated with many noted landscape designers and architects, many of whom have transformed the profession with radical experimentation and diverse ideas to... |
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White on WhiteChurches of Rural New EnglandAfterword by Robert Campbell, Photographed by Steve Rosenthal, Introduction by Verlyn KlinkenborgFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 20, 2009 Price: $85.00 The early churches of New England hold a special place in the American consciousness, revered for their physical beauty, simplicity, and elegance and for their role in the early history of this country. Places of worship they were and are, but they are also icons of a particularly American sensibility and... |
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Crossing BoundariesA Global Vision of DesignWritten by Vicente WolfFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 1, 2006 Price: $50.00 Good design knows no boundaries. —Vicente Wolf Famed interior designer Vicente Wolf is known for a modern and elegant design sensibility that is guided by integrity and simplicity. He is also a photographer of note, capturing images of his own design work and of his travels. Crossing Boundaries is a fascinating combination of... |
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The Hudson RiverFrom Tear of the Clouds to ManhattanAfterword by Arthur G. Adams, Photographed by Jake Rajs, Introduction by Joan K. DavidsonFormat: Hardcover On Sale: June 1, 2006 Price: $25.00 Celebrated as the American Rhine, the majestic Hudson River flows more than three hundred miles from its source high in the Adirondack Mountains to New York Harbor. Lining its banks are the marks of the four hundred years of history that have transpired since Henry Hudson piloted the Half Moon north... |
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Tara DonovanWritten by Tara Donovan, Text by Lawrence Weschler, Nicholas Baume and Jen MergelFormat: Hardcover On Sale: September 16, 2008 Price: $45.00 Artist Tara Donovan uses commonplace consumer materials--toothpicks, tape, pencils, buttons, paper plates, and the like--to create her dazzling sculptural installations. Often biomorphic or topographical in character, her large-scale abstract works utilize systematic arrangements of thousands or even millions of units. Visually evocative and perceptually seductive, her pieces are at once organic... |
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Jim Olson HousesWritten by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen, Introduction by Michael WebbFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 17, 2009 Price: $65.00 The sixteen houses and apartments featured here respond to different needs and sites, but all share a common DNA. They are the product of a singular vision and a collaborative process. —Michael Webb Seattle-based architect Jim Olson, the founding partner of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, is particularly known for his subtly elegant... |
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Lasting EleganceEnglish Country Houses 1830-1900Written by Michael HallFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 27, 2009 Price: $65.00 The great English country house tradition reached its apotheosis in the nineteenth century. Designed by all the most eminent architects of the age, houses constructed during this period were larger, more elaborate, and more lavishly furnished than ever before, and they became famous throughout Europe and America for their luxury, technological... |
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Sverre FehnThe Pattern of ThoughtsWritten by Per Olaf FjeldFormat: Hardcover On Sale: June 30, 2009 Price: $75.00 As recipient of the 1997 Pritzker Architecture Prize—the profession’s highest honor—Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn has had an impact not only in his home country but around the globe. His projects, often described as being instilled with a human quality, include the Norwegian Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition and the... |
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