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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Washington Through Two CenturiesWritten by Joseph PassonneauFormat: Hardcover On Sale: June 17, 2004 Price: $65.00 The history of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is as complex and fascinating as that of the nation itself. Built on an almost untouched plot of land on the Potomac River, the city has grown from a collection of small villages into a major metropolis with a central... |
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Only in New YorkPhotographs from Look MagazineWritten by Donald Albrecht and Thomas MellinsFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 27, 2009 Price: $50.00 In the aftermath of World War II, New York emerged as a world-class city and the de facto national financial capital, becoming a magnet for moguls and strivers. At the same time the city remained a collection of small towns made up of people going about their daily rounds. No other... |
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Selldorf ArchitectsWritten by Annabelle Selldorf, Introduction by Jane WithersFormat: Hardcover On Sale: September 29, 2009 Price: $50.00 The work of Selldorf Architects is known for its clarity of distribution, elegant proportions, deliberate rendering of light, and integrity of structure. This monograph, the first published on the firm, concentrates on twenty major projects from institutional, commercial, high-end retail, residential, and art-related spaces. Projects featured include the acclaimed Neue Galerie... |
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The Architecture of Natural LightWritten by Henry PlummerFormat: Hardcover On Sale: September 29, 2009 Price: $65.00 Shelter and natural light are fundamental elements of architecture. The first is concerned with protection from natural elements; the second with the creative and sometimes spiritual interaction between the man-made and the natural worlds. One is solid and static, the other illuminates and animates. Architects through the ages have preoccupied themselves with... |
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Inside OutsideWritten by Petra BlaisseFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 20, 2009 Price: $65.00 Petra Blaisse and her firm, Inside Outside, specialize in the rare combination of interior and landscape design, interweaving architecture and context. Interior projects use materials that introduce visual effects such as color, flexibility, seasonal change, and movement and solve acoustic, climatic, shading, and spatial issues. Landscape projects reflect a fascination with... |
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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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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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Modern ShoestringContemporary Architecture on a BudgetWritten by Susanna SirefmanFormat: Hardcover On Sale: May 15, 2008 Price: $40.00 Residential design provides a rich testing ground for architectural innovation. Intimate scales and specific programs inspire distinctive homes, and comparatively small budgets are catalysts for exploring nontraditional materials. Modern Shoestring proves that building a contemporary house can be affordable and shows how constraints actually stimulate the most creative design solutions. Eighteen... |
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OlinPlacemakingWritten by Laurie Olin, Dennis C. McGlade, Robert J. Bedell, Lucinda R. Sanders and Susan K. WeilerFormat: Hardcover On Sale: September 30, 2008 Price: $65.00 With increased attention to sustainability and environmental concerns, landscape architects now lead teams of urban planners and architects in developing new outdoor space and reconfiguring existing designs. As the preeminent landscape architecture firm in the United States, Olin is at the forefront of this movement with completed projects across the country... |
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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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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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