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Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 1992
ISBN 10: 0847815676ISBN 13: 9780847815678
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A famous American fine arts photographer creates strange images to match her retelling of a tale from the Brothers Grimm, which features a wicked wizard named Fitcher who, disguised as a beggar, steals beautiful girls.
Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 2009
ISBN 10: 0847831930ISBN 13: 9780847831937
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Shoot gathers over 20 photographers whose work focuses on capturing a moment rather than elaborate lighting setups or controlled, manufactured scenarios. Employing the most basic photographic tools-a single-lens reflex camera and natural light-they must rely on their instincts and their ability to interact with a situation to create a dynamic image. This freewheeling approach reflects an era in which we are increasingly bombarded by images, and the emotional resonance of images has become an important part of our visual vocabulary. The book documents the influence of an older generation of art photographers, such as the legendary Nan Goldin and Wolfgang Tillmans, and expands on a younger generation of photographers, including Tim Barber and J. H. Engstrm, to show how this style has gained traction and influence.
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Published by Brand: Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2007
ISBN 10: 0847829456ISBN 13: 9780847829453
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. By now most of us are aware of the threats looming in the food world. The best-selling Fast Food Nation and other recent books have alerted us to such dangers as genetically modified organisms, food-borne diseases, and industrial farming. Now it is time for answers, and Slow Food Nation steps up to the challenge. Here the charismatic leader of the Slow Food movement, Carlo Petrini, outlines many different routes by which we may take back control of our food. The three central principles of the Slow Food plan are these: food must be sustainably produced in ways that are sensitive to the environment, those who produce the food must be fairly treated, and the food must be healthful and delicious. In his travels around the world as ambassador for Slow Food, Petrini has witnessed firsthand the many ways that native peoples are feeding themselves without making use of the harmful methods of the industrial complex. He relates the wisdom to be gleaned from local cultures in such varied places as Mongolia, Chiapas, Sri Lanka, and Puglia. Amidst our crisis, it is critical that Americans look for insight from other cultures around the world and begin to build a new and better way of eating in our communities here.
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Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 1996
ISBN 10: 0847819574ISBN 13: 9780847819577
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. This is a book about a deeply spiritual culture's struggle to survive and maintain compassion in the face of tremendous aggression. The invasion by the Chinese Communists in 1949 led to massive destruction and repression, and to the occupation of Tibet, which continues to this day.Throughout 1994, photographer Phil Borges traveled to Tibet, as well as parts of Nepal and northern India where thousands of Tibetan refugees now reside, photographing Tibetans in an effort to understand what had happened to them, to their country and their culture. In doing so, he became fascinated by Buddhist philosophy and the Tibetan commitment to nonviolence.Tibetan Buddhists believe that there is no greater vehicle than compassion and forgiveness to counteract the suffering in the world. Their unique Buddhist practices and beliefs provide a framework for the attainment of mental peace and enlightenment, a goal they are encouraged to pursue from an early age. They are taught to value contentment, fulfillment, and mental peace above all else, since one's state of mind is believed to be the only possession that survives from one lifetime to the next.As the Tibetans work to save their unique culture and to regain their country, their internal struggle as human beings is to try to reconcile their nonviolent principles with the rage that can arise when harmed. It is an extreme test of their commitment to compassion, to their religion, and to their culture.
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Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 2007
ISBN 10: 0847829278ISBN 13: 9780847829279
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The accomplishments of ordinary women in developing and war-ravaged countries who have broken through the barriers of oppression to make a positive difference in their communities is brilliantly told through radiant photography and riveting profiles. The heroic examples set by these women, whose bravery and determination enabled them to move beyond victimization to leadership, speak to the universal themes of courage, empowerment, and human rights. As part of CARE's campaign to empower women everywhere, Women Empowered reveals how determined women of all ages have effectively turned their struggles into triumphs.
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Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 1985
ISBN 10: 084780612XISBN 13: 9780847806126
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Presents a revealing portrait of twenty-nine noted architects whose designs are shaping our environment, including Ambasz, Cobb, Cooper, Eisenman and Robertson, and Roche.
Published by Brand: Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 1979
ISBN 10: 0847802256ISBN 13: 9780847802258
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1st US - 1st Printing. Book by Andre Grabar.
Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 1997
ISBN 10: 0847820076ISBN 13: 9780847820078
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Hardcover. Condition: used. To travelers, the Italian Riviera and its famous villages-- Portofino, the Cinque Terre-- have meant "vacation," "sea" and "sun" for more than a century. To food lovers everywhere its culinary triumphs such as pesto, focaccia and ravioli are icons of Italian cooking. Liguria is known as well for the trompe-l'oeil that decorates it architecture inside and out, and for its crafts-- furniture-making, boat-building and lace-weaving among others, for which it has been renowned for centuries.This gorgeous book is devoted to Liguria, Italy's picturesque and culturally rich region that boasts a breathtaking Mediterranean seacoast and its mountainous "backyard." Downie's lively account of the fascinating history and lifestyle is matched by Harris's photographs of Liguria's dramatic locales, from Camogli, the "saltiest, most piratical town" on the Mediterranean, to the interior, a vast, vertical garden dotted with towns carved from the rugged landscape. Enchanted Liguria also includes rarely photographed interiors of grand aristocratic villas and elegant houses, some of which have been family homes since before the unification of Italy.Thirty recipes from the region's best chefs reflect the taste of Liguria in a celebration of herbs, marvelous pastas, breads and seafood. The appendix is a guide to museums, villas, specialty food stores and workshops. Enchanted Liguria is a practical, essential and beautiful tribute.
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Published by Brand: Electa / Rizzoli, 1985
ISBN 10: 0847804747ISBN 13: 9780847804740
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Discusses the characteristics of Renaissance architecture, focusing on the styles and major works of its major contributors.
Published by Brand: Rizzoli Publications, 1998
ISBN 10: 0866364900ISBN 13: 9780866364904
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The New Hotel: International Hotel and Resort Design 3 presents a connoisseur's choice of destinations that offer exceptional service, style and amenities from all corners of the globe. From palatial, world-class luxury resorts to sophisticated urban retreats, today's hotels are here to please with luxury and panache as they set a new standard in hospitality design.
Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 2005
ISBN 10: 0847826805ISBN 13: 9780847826803
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This pioneering art series combines stunning high-quality color reproductions with expert commentary on the most popular artists of all time at an extremely accessible price. Giotto, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Vermeer are names well known to any student of art history, museum-goer, or culturally engagedindividual. Rizzoli is pleased to launch its Classics of Art series with monographs on these six world-renowned painters, whose signature styles and sheer genius continue to inspire both scholars and lay people to this day.Each book in this series features a literary introduction and thoroughly researched essay followed by a section devoted to a detailed description of a selection of the artist's masterpieces. An extensive chronology of the artist's life and important historical events of his era as well as a compilation of remarks by famous historians, modern and old, add cultural perspective and insight into each painter's stylistic development. A visual chart with captions as to the whereabouts of each painting and a concise bibliography with suggested further reading provide invaluable research tools.With authoritative text by leading art historians from around the globe, these lavishly illustrated editions provide fresh insights into the art and lives of the most brilliant artists in the history of painting. No matter what your knowledge of art history, this series will compel you to explore a world of art beyond the canvas.
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Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 1993
ISBN 10: 0847817059ISBN 13: 9780847817054
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Softcover. Condition: Good. A study and history of the antique rugs of the Anatolia section of Turkey.
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Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 2006
ISBN 10: 0847828735ISBN 13: 9780847828739
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Founded in Italy in 1986 by charismatic Italian gourmand Carlo Petrini, Slow Food has grown into a phenomenally successful movement against the uniformity and compromised quality of fast food and supermarket chains. With nearly 85,000 members in 45 countries around the world, Slow Food has developed from a small, grassroots group into the most influential gastronomic movement in the world. Known as the "WWF of endangered food and wine," Slow Food not only focuses on a slower, more natural and organic lifestyle that complements nature, but also works to preserve dying culinary traditions, conserve natural biodiversity, and protect fading agricultural practices threatened in this age of mass consumerism. The book takes the reader on a gastronomic journey through the practices and traditions of the world's ethnic cuisines, from the artisanal cheeses of Italy to the oysters of Cape May and the native American turkey. It includes testimonies from Slow Food representatives-such as Alice Waters of Chez Panisse-illustrating exactly what they are doing-and what still needs to be done-to preserve them.
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Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 2003
ISBN 10: 0847825574ISBN 13: 9780847825578
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Hardcover. Condition: used. An expanded guide to recreating the luscious chocolate desserts made at Colonial Williamsburg's Trellis Restaurant includes recipes for Double Mocha Madness, Death by Chocolate, Chocolate Wedding Cake, Chocolate Chip Cookies, White Chocolate Ice Cream, Chocolate Temptation, Chocolate Dementia, and more. 20,000 first printing.
Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 1983
ISBN 10: 0847804879ISBN 13: 9780847804870
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean.
Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 2002
ISBN 10: 0847825043ISBN 13: 9780847825042
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. With The Rage and the Pride Oriana Fallaci breaks a ten year silence. The silence she kept until September 11's apocalypse in her Manhattan house. She breaks it with a deafening noise. In Europe this book has caused and causes a turmoil never registered in decades. Polemics, discussion, debates, hearty consents and praises, wild attacks. And a million copies sold in Italy where it still is at the bestsellers' top. Hundreds of thousands in France, in Germany, in Spain: the other countries where it has become the Number one Bestseller. Around a dozen translations will soon appear.With her well-known courage Oriana Fallaci faces the themes unchained by the Islamic terrorism: the contrast and, in her opinion, incompatibility between the Islamic world and the Western world; the global reality of the Jihad and the lack of response, the lenience of the West. With her brutal sincerity she hurls pitiless accusations, vehement invectives, and denounces the uncomfortable truths that all of us know but never dare to express. With her rigorous logic, lucidity of mind, she defends our culture and blames what she calls our blindness, our deafness, our masochism, the conformism and the arrogance of the Politically Correct. With the poetry of a prophet like a modern Cassandra she says it in the form of a letter addressed to all of us.The text is enriched by a dramatic preface in which Oriana Fallaci reveals how The Rage and the Pride was born, grew up, and detachedly calls it "my small book." In addition, a preface in which she tells significant episodes of her extraordinary life and explains her unreachable isolation, her demanding and inflexible choices. Because of this too, what she calls "my small book" is in reality a great book. A precious book, a book that shakes our conscience. It is also the portrait of a soul. Her soul. No doubt it will remain as a thorn pierced inside our brains and our hearts.
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Published by Brand: Skira Rizzoli, 2010
ISBN 10: 0847835278ISBN 13: 9780847835270
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The most comprehensive review of a remarkable contemporary artists work in an extraordinary package designed by Sagmeister, Inc. Since the early 1990s, New York-based artist Charles LeDray has become known for his miniaturized sculptures of hand-stitched clothing, carved human bone, and thimble-sized ceramics. Their intimate scale and materials poignantly evoke allusions to childhood memory, gender and class stereotypes, and wonder in the everyday. This volume accompanies a mid-career survey exhibition organized by Jen Mergel for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 2010
ISBN 10: 0847833925ISBN 13: 9780847833924
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Celebrating a lost era of elegant dining, this beautiful volume is evocative of other times and worlds, with recipes updated for todays palate. With recipes of glamorous bygone main courses, and packed with culinary history, this lavish cookbook features delicious and sometimes exotic favorites from around the world. Conjuring up the heyday of Hollywood is the classic Brown Derby Cobb Salad. From New Yorks Gilded Age comes Delmonicos Roast Crown of Pork. The old-world elegance of Paris and London is evoked with decadent creations such as Le Grand Vefours spectacular Coulibiac of Salmon and Robert Carriers Beef Wellington. The seventy-five recipes have been adapted for the home cook and updated for the modern palate. Featured are dishes for meats, poultry and game, fish and shellfish, salads, and hearty vegetarian plates. The Entr?es is illustrated with still lifes of these spectacular gastronomic creations that evoke the essence of old-time splendor.
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Published by Brand: Rizzoli Publications, 1996
ISBN 10: 0866363785ISBN 13: 9780866363785
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Through exquisite color photography and a thoughtful text, interior designers and architects explain hundreds of ingenious space-saving techniques for home decorators who are limited in space and budget.
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Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 2000
ISBN 10: 0847822621ISBN 13: 9780847822621
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. World-renowned for its sublime beauty and aura of enchantment, Lake Como in Northern Italy has inspired poets, writers, and artists from the time of Virgil, while luring travelers to its shores. For nearly five centuries, visitors of celebrity, fortune, and power have come to rest, revel, and marvel at Villa d'Este, the luxury hotel as spectacular as the lake it graces. Named the best hotel in Europe by Travel & Leisure magazine, Villa d'Este has dazzled an impressive array of guests, including King Leopold of Belgium, Caroline of Monaco, Evita Peron, Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra, and Alfred Hitchcock. Today, this top resort destination is famed for its breathtaking gardens, its unique floating swimming pool, its exceptional cuisine, and its gala celebrations. But Villa d'Este also boasts a fascinating history filled with intrigue, passion, murder and mystery.Villa d'Este Style opens the doors of the celebrated hotel to reveal the secrets of its colorful past and luxurious lifestyle. Jean Salvadore, public relations director at Villa d'Este for more than three decades, delves into the estate's private archives to present an unprecedented guided tour. From its birth in 1568 as Villa Garrovo, a summer estate commissioned by a prominent cardinal; to its christening as Villa d'Este in 1815 by its most famous resident, Caroline of Brunswick-the estranged wife of England's King George IV; to its debut as a hotel in 1873, the early life of Villa d'Este unfolds through vintage sepia-toned photo-graphs and evocative line drawings. From its annual "Midsummer Night" extravaganza to its acclaimed cooking school; from its popularity with the Hollywood glitterati to its sensuous yet understated guest rooms, today's Villa d'Este comes alive in more than 100 glorious, full-color photographs. Throughout, engaging anecdotes capture the essence of the hotel-its splendor and grandeur, its devotion to the personal and its undercurrents of daring. The walls of Villa d'Este have many astounding stories to tell-including the truth about the notorious murder at the Biki fashion show and the elaborate ruse behind the erotic photo shoot for Helmut Newton's provocative illustrated book classic, White Women.For armchair travelers, connoisseurs of Italian history, design, and lifestyle, and all enthralled by the inside scoop on the rich and famous, Villa d'Este Style is the ideal escape. With a preface by Jean Marc Droulers, Villa d'Este's C.E.O. for the last 24 years, and a foreword by Joseph Heller, acclaimed novelist, playwright, and author of Catch-22, this exquisite book stands as a tribute to a resort hotel truly in a class of its own.
Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 1993
ISBN 10: 0847807347ISBN 13: 9780847807345
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Shows a variety of homes in the Santa Fe, New Mexico area and discusses the use of stone, adobe, Navajo weaving and crafts, folk art, and hand carved furnishings that make up the local style.
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Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 2009
ISBN 10: 0847832007ISBN 13: 9780847832002
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Weekend Retreats is a celebration of the intimate narratives of retreat and relaxation-from charming coastal New England houses to restive woodland retreats. Lifestyle meets design know-how and inspiration in this thoughtful collection of design influences and singular approaches to well-lived style that will inspire all those wishing to style their country homes. Whether your idea of serenity abounds in rustic antiques or a plethora of well-curated oil paintings and designer throw pillows, the homes featured are distinctively enjoyed and the histories of design decisions are unraveled in savvy detail. This collection features not only beautifully styled rooms but also playful gardenscapes where the owners entertain and enjoy their retreats away from the inconveniences of modern life. Every space is a playground for the owners, and their tastes and whimsies are reflected in their unique colors, textures, and designs. The book includes modern country style interiors with glimpses of vintage antiques and casual elegance. From objects collected from travels abroad to artifacts of the good life, Weekend Retreats will provide escape from the ordinary.
Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 1991
ISBN 10: 0847814203ISBN 13: 9780847814206
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. With a breathtaking collection of photographs, this volume shows how rooms can be magically transformed through tromp-l'oeil murals, objects, paintings and fabrics, as well as with painted faux finishes that dazzle and beguile the viewer. These ingenious techniques turn wodden floors into opulent marble expanses, adorn plain walls with neoclassical moldings, upgrade ordinary furniture to period pieces, and add sumptuous garden views to windowless rooms.
Published by Brand: Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 1993
ISBN 10: 0847804496ISBN 13: 9780847804498
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Looks at college buildings, performing arts centers, museums, townhouses, banks, office buildings, and low cost housing designed by the Liverpool-born architect and discusses influences on his work.
Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 2002
ISBN 10: 0847824195ISBN 13: 9780847824199
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Minimalist style interiors are now a familiar and recognizable part of today's visual culture. Top shelter magazines from Wallpaper and House and Garden to Elle Décor devote monthly features to the latest variation on white or beige, while fashion designers like Calvin Klein and Donna Karan design neutral housewares to match minimalist decor. Cheaper but no less stylish, Crate and Barrel, and Pottery Barn sell their own versions of minimalism, and countless upmarket European designer kitchen and furniture companies entice fashion conscious consumers with advertisements in leading shelter magazines.Building on this trend, Monochrome Home presents designer Kelly Hoppen's innovative and breakthrough new approach to the next step beyond minimalist style interiors-by using dabs of color, texture, and dimension to establish a refined yet warm environment. A winner of Britain's "Oscars" of interior design, the prestigious Andrew Martin Award, she is considered, internationally, a leading interior designer.The hallmark of the Hoppen style: bold, simple pieces of modern furniture mixed with an emphasis on texture and comfort; and counterpointing subtle neutral shades mixed with brighter dots of color to add a luxurious, sensual element to modern minimalist interiors.Monochrome Home is a wonderful visual resource full of exquisite and original close-up photographs that detail Hoppen's brilliant editorial eye, combined with her talent for juxtaposing various elements to create dramatic, stunning effects.Monochrome Home is a flexible and inspiring resource, suitable for small studios, or larger spaces. It is equally useful for those with small budgets or unlimited funds. For fans of minimalism who want more than anonymous white spaces, Monochrome Home describes in visual detail how to achieve a more personalized and inspired brand of minimalism-full of simplicity, elegance, comfort and style.
Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 2005
ISBN 10: 0847827127ISBN 13: 9780847827121
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition (1st printing),. Once the bastion of the haute bourgeoisie, the town house has now been embraced by families with young children, single urban professionals, and retired couples, all looking for more comfortable city or suburban living. Architect Alexander Gorlin explores a spectacular array of diverse town house designs (often referred to by different terms in different parts of the country) that carry this familiar symbol of architectural innovation and refinement into the twenty-first century. Creating the New American Town House features cutting-edge town houses that each draw from architectural tradition while achieving originality by both breaking from and adhering to the limitations of the town house form. Within the typical five-story frame and two parallel walls presented here are ingenious and exquisite and, above all, extremely livable design solutions to the constraints of this classic housing type.Ranging from sites in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, each of the buildings featured in Creating the New American Town House represents an eloquent contribution to the form and is designed by such celebrated architects as Steven Ehrlich, Hugh Newell Jacobson, Stanley Saitowitz, and 1100 Architect. Each project is extensively illustrated with full-color photography that showcases the interior design as well as plans and drawings. Alexander Gorlins insightful text continues the discourse begun in his The New American Town House, surveying the adaptation of this beloved urban dwelling to the demands of a new century.
Published by Brand: BUR Biblioteca Univerzale Rizzoli, 2024
ISBN 10: 8817114111ISBN 13: 9788817114110
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Softcover. Condition: used. Book by Maraini, Dacia.
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Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 2001
ISBN 10: 0847823741ISBN 13: 9780847823741
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Santa Barbara. For centuries this temperate, inviting locale has glowed with subtle but unmistakable light-- a beacon of warmth beside the profound blue of the Pacific. From the Chumash, whose predecessors can be traced to 11,000 b.c.e., to the present-day resident, vacationer, and tourist, diverse and countless peoples have been enchanted and enraptured by Santa Barbara's spell.In Santa Barbara Style, author Kathryn Masson and photographer James Chen, invoke this magic and invite us to walk with them through winding and abundant gardens, onto the grounds of grand estates, and into the great houses of this region. Here we find the work of such architectural luminaries as Addison Mizner, Bertram Goodhue, and Reginald D. Johnson. We wander from the historic adobe mansion Casa de la Guerra-- built in the early-nineteenth century by town patriarch Jose de la Guerra-- to the spectacular, and aptly named, Villa Lucia (House of the Light)-- built in 1989. We are given an intimate look at George Washington Smith's Spanish Colonial Revival masterpiece, Casa del Herrero; and a broad view of Lotusland, the thirty-seven acre horticultural paradise. With each turn of the page, we see the beauty, grace, and style of Santa Barbara.
Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 1996
ISBN 10: 0847819590ISBN 13: 9780847819591
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Hardcover. Condition: used. The collection of the National Palace Museum is made up largely of the personal holdings of the Ch'ien-lung emperor (reigned 1736-95). Representing the artistic legacy of imperial China, it offers an unsurpassed view of Chinese civilization. The objects lavishly illustrated and described in this book, which include magnificent ritual bronzes, precious jades, monumental landscape paintings, and exquisite ceramics, are among the finest ever created.Published to accompany the exhibition "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei," the book takes the reader through the most significant periods of Chinese culture: its foundations in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, its flowering in the sophisticated world of the Sung dynasty, its exuberance during the Ming, and its technical brilliance under the Manchus. The author makes the unique beauty of this art accessible through comparisons of selected works and through discussion of their historical context.
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Published by Brand: Rizzoli, 1992
ISBN 10: 084781551XISBN 13: 9780847815517
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Presents designs, styles, and planting tips for creating gardens reminiscent of periods ranging from the 1400s to the 1900s.