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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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FrameworkGluckman Mayner ArchitectsWritten by Richard Gluckman, Introduction by Detlef MertinsFormat: Hardcover On Sale: September 15, 2009 Price: $50.00 Richard Gluckman is an architect who creates spaces comparable to minimalist art. His careful consideration of the basic components of architecture—structure, scale, proportion, material, and light—produces buildings and interiors that heighten the perception of physical space and what is contained in that space. Subtle design elements, all drawn from a vocabulary... |
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Italian GardensRomantic Splendor in the Edwardian AgeWritten by Helena Attlee, Photographed by Charles LathamFormat: Hardcover On Sale: July 7, 2009 Price: $65.00 For centuries, the cardinals, popes, and rulers of Italy have devoted themselves to creating vast villa gardens that represent their wealth and power, provide a calm refuge from city life, and showcase lavish plantings and rare flowers. Here, in over two hundred exquisite photographs—taken during the Edwardian era when these historic... |
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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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Adolf LoosArchitecture 1903-1932Written by Roberto Schezen, Kenneth Frampton and Joseph RosaFormat: Hardcover On Sale: June 16, 2009 Price: $45.00 Adolf Loos not only was part of the first wave of modern architecture but also served as an important source of inspiration for all architects who followed. He is emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the... |
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Edwin LutyensCountry HousesWritten by Gavin StampFormat: Hardcover On Sale: June 16, 2009 Price: $65.00 Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), perhaps the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, was introduced by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, his celebrated collaborator, to Edward Hudson, the founder of the great British magazine Country Life, in 1889. Hudson thereafter did all he could to promote the work of a man he admired... |
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Tangible VisionsNorthwest Coast Indian Shamanism and Its ArtWritten by Allen WardwellFormat: Hardcover On Sale: June 16, 2009 Price: $85.00 Northwest Coast Indian art is famous for its spectacular totem poles, house posts, feast dishes, boxes, and painted house fronts. Less well known but equally important is the art made for use by shamans, particularly those of the Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Haida tribes. This volume presents the first comprehensive illustrated study... |
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HavanaHistory and Architecture of a Romantic CityWritten by Maria Luisa Lobo Montalvo, Prologue by Hugh Thomas, Translated by Lorna S. FoxFormat: Hardcover On Sale: June 9, 2009 Price: $85.00 Havana, the legendary capital of Cuba, bears the traces of every stage of the island's rich history, from its indigenous traditions to the introduction of European culture in the late fifteenth century to the development of the unique amalgam of these influences that is unmistakably Cuban. In this exquisite volume, author... |
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La HabanaHistoria y Arquitectura de una Ciudad RománticaWritten by Maria Luisa Lobo Montalvo, Prologue by Hugh ThomasFormat: Hardcover On Sale: June 9, 2009 Price: $85.00 Cuba is both an essential part of the history of the Western hemisphere since 1492 and an island with a past and traditions entirely its own. Havana, its legendary capital, bears the traces of every stage of its history. In this volume, author Maria Luisa Lobo Montalvo presents the architecture and... |
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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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Night ShiftPhotographed by Lynn Saville, Introduction by Arthur C. DantoFormat: Hardcover On Sale: May 19, 2009 Price: $45.00 Lynn Saville photographs New York during the time of transition from daylight to night, the fleeting moments when natural light gives way to streetlight, moonlight, window light, and advertisement and surveillance lighting. Subdued tones and shadows reveal a geometry hidden beneath the visual distractions of daylight. Saville has sought out places... |
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