A Common DestinyA Photographic Journey Through a Changing WorldContribution by James Lovelock and Wangari Maathai, Photographed by Cedric Delsaux, Introduction by Bill McKibbenFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 17, 2009 Price: $75.00 An artful photographic voyage documenting the impact of modern industry and consumerism on our planet, A Common Destiny presents a hauntingly beautiful vision of a world perched on the edge of an abyss. Juxtaposing images of pristine wilderness with photos of mines, abandoned nuclear reactors, large industrial farms, and spaces that... |
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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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Juan MontoyaWritten by Juan Montoya, Text by Elizabeth GaynorFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 17, 2009 Price: $75.00 Always on the cutting edge, Juan Montoya's work exudes refinement and simplicity. Each of his designs features an exquisite juxtaposition of textures, colors, and volumes; an attention to scale, lighting, and spatial qualities; and objects that reflect an interest in a variety of cultures. In addition to creating beautiful, eclectic rooms... |
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Ken SmithLandscape ArchitectWritten by Ken Smith, Introduction by John BeardsleyFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 17, 2009 Price: $50.00 Both a landscape designer and a public artist, Ken Smith produces designs that range in scale from small public installations to vast parks. He is known for inventive and imaginative gardens and landscapes, some of which use little or no natural plant material. His projects include public, commercial, and private work... |
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PicassoWritten by Philippe DagenFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 17, 2009 Price: $150.00 Art critic and scholar Philippe Dagen approaches Picasso as a subject through a series of questions. What does it mean to be an artist in the twentieth century? What does it mean to be an artist in the time of newspapers and museums, in a time when the art market has... |
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SOMArchitecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1950-1962Commentaries by Ernst Danz, Introduction by Henry-Russell HitchcockFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 17, 2009 Price: $45.00 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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SOMArchitecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1963-1973Commentaries by Axel Menges, Introduction by Arthur DrexlerFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 17, 2009 Price: $50.00 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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SOMArchitecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1973-1983Introduction by Albert Bush-BrownFormat: 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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SOMArchitecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1984-1996Introduction by Detlef MertinsFormat: 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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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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Space ProjectPhotographed by Lynn Davis, Foreword by Alan WeismanFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 17, 2009 Price: $65.00 Lynn Davis, known for surveys of natural and man-made wonders, has long been fascinated with the objects and venues of space exploration. Her photographs of the architectural icons, cornerstones, and abandoned sites of the space race reflect the many facets of a historically complex industry: the beginnings of space exploration; the... |
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Star PiecesThe Enduring Beauty of Spectacular FurnitureWritten by David Linley, Charles Cator and Helen ChislettFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 17, 2009 Price: $65.00 Furniture has star qualities unlike any other object: It is both functional and decorative, yet it can connect us to history and far-flung places around the globe in the same way a Renaissance painting sends us back in time or a photograph takes us to a beloved overseas locale. Furniture also... |
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The Art of LivingText by Claudia Steinberg, Photographed by Barbel MiebachFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 17, 2009 Price: $65.00 To artists and designers, a home is a canvas on which they can project themselves, a testing ground for creative impulses, a place to display the objects that inspire them, a venue for experimentation with forms and materials that later appear in their own work. In this unique volume, photographer Bärbel... |
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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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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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