Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The story of Snoop's musical and spiritual journey to Jamaica, reaching its culmination during the recording of his most recent album and captured in VICE and Snoopadelic Films documentary Reincarnated. Immediately following the death of longtime friend and collaborator Nate Dogg, Snoop headed to Jamaica to regroup and record his twelfth album. There, he experienced a radical transformation from…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: The most forward-looking spaces designed for rustic living in the twenty-first century. Across the globe, architects are creating innovative houses for country living, reimagining the way we escape into the natural world. Some combine industrial materials like metal and concrete with traditional wood. Others create sophisticated essays in off-grid living, employing the most technologically…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: One of America's premier fashion historians offers an unrivaled and exceptional fashion resource. This immersive timeline is illustrated by photographs — over 700 — that tell the story of fashion through its changing and multitudinous silhouettes. As the years advance, we watch crinolines inflate and deflate, the bustle shape-shift, skirts narrow, and sleeves balloon. The twentieth…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «International supermodel Cindy Crawford chronicles her life and career, sharing stories and lessons learned, and featuring her most memorable images in this New York Times bestseller. Cindy Crawford was the cornerstone of the golden age of the supermodel in the 1990s. She blazed a trail during that decade, seamlessly moving between the runway to unconventional outlets, such as cutting-edge MTV,…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: The first book to focus on Dior's iconic design known as the New Look, which revolutionized the fashion industry. A must-have for followers and students of fashion.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «Michael S. Smith's first collection of new interiors work in seven years. Appearing at a seminal point in Michael Smith s life and career, «The Curated House» is also his most personal book, tracing the origins and influences of his design philosophy in depth and presenting a substantial offering of new projects. In the first section of the book, illustrated with images of Smith's own dramatic…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This charmingly illustrated, highly informative field guide to understanding art history is small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers. This seventh entry in the hugely popular How to Read series is a one-stop guide to understanding the world's great artworks. The book explains the aesthetics of schools of painting from the Renaissance masters and Impressionists to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Libertine is an invitation into Johnson Hartig's world, as the designer shares images of his eccentric and whimsical fashion designs, inspirational references, and his captivatingly eclectic interiors. Johnson Hartig is the founder and designer for the innovative fashion brand Libertine, which is renowned for breathing electric life back into vintage couture pieces by cutting them up and adding…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles is a celebration of the design history and craftsmanship behind this simple but efficient two-wheeled vehicle. Featuring fifty classic models built by hand, this book unveils the bicycle's technical evolution within a historical context. Beautifully detailed are early-twentieth-century models with multi-gear systems, mid-century machines where war and postwar…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: The work of one of the most influential and innovative hat designers of this century. Philip Treacy s career over the last two decades has been prolific and high-profile. A visual delight, this book shares Treacy s favorite designs in 250 striking photographs, curated by Treacy himself, and showcases his collaborations and personal relationships. Treacy has said, Every hat I have ever made has…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This significant catalog is a highly detailed look at the world's most celebrated collection of Red and White quilts. Like the Log Cabin or Baltimore-style, the Red and White quilt is a hugely popular genre of quilting. Colorfast Turkey red dye became readily available in the mid-nineteenth century, so red and white quilts became extremely popular, due not only to the newness of the color but…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Life/Style is in the tradition of Jane Cumberbatch's classic book Pure Style. Designer Tricia Foley is also a popular devotee of pared-down, quiet interiors. In Foley's first book devoted to her home, she embraces the power of simplicity in her designs. In this inspiring volume, Tricia Foley's charming home — her personal design laboratory — illustrates her approach to creating pure and simple…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 044 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 206) Аннотация: Richard Avedon's iconic fashion work not only changed fashion photography but also changed the way the world looks at fashion. One of his most prolific collaborations was with the House of Dior, which can be traced back to 1947, just after the haute couture house had taken the Paris fashion world by storm. This lavish volume includes 150 iconic and many never-before-published photographs by…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «New York Times Bestseller — Celebrity List The selfie photography of Kim Kardashian West, featuring many never-before-seen personal images from one of the most recognizable and iconic celebrities in the world. From her early beginnings as a wardrobe stylist, Kim Kardashian West has catapulted herself into becoming one of the most recognizable celebrities in Hollywood. Hailed by many (including…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Tapping into today’s trend to return to unstructured playtime and move away from over-scheduling and electronic games, Playful Home is perfectly suited to the times. Andrew Weaving celebrates the best of childhood, from his favorite games and crafts projects to the whimsical décor that kids love. The result is kids’ rooms designed to feed and inspire the imagination, as well as to hold…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: For gardening aficionados and Francophiles, a love letter to the Versailles Palace and grounds, from the man who knows them best. In Alain Baraton's Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds, and since 1982 he has devoted his life to the gardens, orchards, and fields that were loved by France's kings and queens as much as the palace itself. His…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Astonishing, richly spontaneous, and almost entirely unpublished images of the Beatles' historic first trip to the United States, as chronicled by an award-winning photographer given unique access to their tour. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles' first visit to the United States, this rare and mostly unseen collection of photographs marks the beginning of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Capturing the romance and beauty of la dolce vita, this volume features intimate and rare moments of Veruschka, the iconic face of 1960s glamour, from the forgotten and unpublished photographic archive of Johnny Moncada. When fashion photographer Johnny Moncada unlocked a trunk he had left sealed for forty years, he and his daughter discovered ten thousand of his unpublished negatives. They…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: In his first book, acclaimed interior designer Jay Jeffers displays the sophisticated yet playful spirit of his work. Jay Jeffers is known for his fearless and inventive use of color and pattern, his brilliant mix of art and furnishings-including antique, vintage, and modern-and the redefinition of traditional style from his modern point of view. Luxurious but livable, his designs always include…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In an age of picture-perfect interior design, best-selling author Mary Randolph Carter celebrates her highly personal and creative approach to decor, illustrating how to live stylishly with the many items you want to treasure forever. Mary Randolph Carter's newest book indulges our desire to surround ourselves with belongings that impart beauty and meaning to our lives. Whether you are passionate…