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Скачать книгу (размер 830 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 164) Аннотация: Elaborately, gilded masks worn by dancers performing in the popular Ramayana dance drama are an enduring symbol of Thai culture. Since their introduction in the late eighteenth century, many hundreds of thousands of masks have been produced by skilled craftsmen. Less well-known as an art form, the history of Thai puppetry dates back to the 17th century Ayutthaya when large, metre-high puppets…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: With the rise in people working from home, home offices have become more common. The challenge is to maintain a professional space, while still having it remain part of your home. This book shows how to meet such challenges.

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This book shows ingenious and innovative solutions to storing items that we want to remain accessible but not necessarily in plain view. Storage Space shows how to make the most of your available space without spoiling your interior theme.

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This volume covers the most important feature of any home — spaces to relax and forget the world. From peaceful patios to energetic games rooms, this book shows some of the most inspiring interiors for leisure.

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: With over 100 colour images, from loft apartments to town houses this book proves to be the ultimate pocket sized guide to urban interiors.

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This book inaugurates a series of publications under the title Stones devoted to interior design. This book showcases twenty such homes, twenty mini-narratives, each one conveying an individual lifestyle and design for living, and illustrative of the shifting frontiers in which the common denominator seems to be the quest for new interior models and functional blueprints that can express, through…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: The crucial importance of getting one's message across in today's media-driven society has prompted a surge of developments in the area of installation design. This book offers a critical update on the theme, and testifies to the acutely experimental approach adopted for installation projects, which involve interweaving input from a variety of different disciplines to produce a single focused…

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: The aim of the collection is to offer a series of short monographs which, though brief, nevertheless deal with all aspects of the master's personality: works, constructed or otherwise, primary written sources, critiques and photographic interpretations. The underlying aim is to offer an in-depth, comprehensive overview targeted at anyone interested in learning about architecture including…

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: The aim of this collection is to offer a series of short monographs which, though brief, nevertheless deal with all aspects of the master's personality: works, constructed or otherwise, primary written sources, critiques and photographic interpretations. The underlying aim is to offer an in-depth, comprehensive overview targeted at anyone interested in learning about architecture including…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: In Famous Interiors, Vandertol uses inspiring international interior — photos of eight celebrities as a starting point. The reader peeps into Easy Rider Dennis Hopper's steel barn in Los Angeles, is invited into the home of the founders of the Missoni fashion house, known for their outstanding blend of colourful creations and modern art, discovers the interior of the Italian fashion designer…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The new Home series from Beta-Plus invites you to take a fascinating journey through the most beautiful and inspiring interiors. The thirty volumes in this series are thematically divided by room (living rooms, bathrooms, kitchens and so on), and also by style (including designer homes, country houses and contemporary interiors). The reports in these books combine to create a unique voyage of…

Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: «Cities like Hong Kong do not appear out of nowhere. Behind and beyond the skyline and the tourist attractions, people from all parts of China and the world have worked together to overcome daunting internal obstacles and external forces. In architecture, Wong & Ouyang has been an important contributor to that immense effort. The publication of this book, «Wong & Ouyang: Blueprints for Hong Kong»…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 977 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 389) Аннотация: At the turn of the century, WMF was the worlds largest manufacturer and exporter of household metalware. In 1906 they produced a sumptuous catalogue showing over 3,000 pieces with descriptions in English, which is reprinted here for the first time, with an historical introduction by Graham Dry.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «The firm of Tiffany & Co. has long been regarded as America's premier maker and retailer of fine luxury goods. This is especially true in the case of jewellery, an area in which the company emerged as an arbiter of taste and style by the mid-19th century. Charles Lewis Tiffany, one of the founders of the firm, was astutely aware of the desire of newly emerged elites for high-style jewels that…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Architect Charles R. Stinson conceives each project as a balance of space and light, where horizontal and natural light bring the outside in. The result is a living space that is both transcendent and grounding; a place that lifts the spirit and connects those who live there. Whether he is envisioning a family home or creating an entire community, Stinson views the compositional process as the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Symbol of prestige and venue of relaxation, the villa has always provided an exceptional opportunity for understanding architecture's relationship with the countryside. This holds true for the projects selected in this second volume of Villas in Italy & Canton Ticino. Purposely and solely comprised of new projects, this collection represents the contemporary interpretation of a theme, which,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «- Sassy, metropolitan, chic: the modern girl's guide to good living — «Etiquette for Girls» explains how to behave with ease and style in every social situation — With advice on all aspects of 16-30-year-old life, this is the need-to-know bible for girls who want to get it right — Beautifully illustrated and finished with full-colour photography throughout The ultimate girl's guide to getting it…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «100 Great Kitchens & Bathrooms by Architects» examines the role of architects in creating comfortable, visually pleasing and functional kitchens and bathrooms. This title features a stunning collection of recent interior projects examining the vast array of styles adopted by architects around the world, particularly in the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Slovenia and Brazil, in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Jan De Bray and his father Salomon are the greatest history painters that Haarlem ever produced. The two artists also determined the face of Harleem Classicism. Both Salomon and Jan were universally gifted, not only as painters but also as architects, poets and art theorists. It is small wonder that Salomon — just like the slightly younger Pieter de Grebber — was commissioned to decorate Paleis…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: A monograph on the work on an American architecture firm, famous for capturing the essence of 'The American Summer'. It features over twenty houses and a handful of small institutional buildings in photographs by some of the world's best architectural photographers and drawings by the firm.