Architecture

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Historical Handbook to the Monuments, Inscriptions, &c., of the National Collegiate and Cathedral Church of S. Patrick, Dublin

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Report copyright infringementby Alexander Leeper (Author)Delve into the rich history of Dublin's iconic Saint Patrick's Cathedral with Alexander Leeper's "Historical Handbook to the Monuments, Inscriptions, &c., of the National Collegiate and Cathedral Church of S. Patrick, Dublin." This meticulously researched handbook serves as an invaluable guide to the cathedral's architectural marvels, historical inscriptions, and significant monuments. Discover the stories behind the stones as Leepe...

Build It! World Landmarks: Make Supercool Models with Your Favorite Lego(r) Parts

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Kemmeter (Author)With simple, step-by-step directions and a visually rich design, the unique Build it! series of instruction books for LEGO(R) creations helps young children learn and have fun simultaneously.Inside World Landmarks you'll find instructions for creating three of the world's most famous buildings with no detail overlooked. Each book in this interactive series contains 3-5 "dioramas" featuring a diverse range of models that can be created ...

Embracing the Past: Stories of the people who live in historic districts

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Report copyright infringementby Charles M. St Clair (Author)EMBRACING THE PAST tells the story of how the author's personal preservation project turned into a study of the people who live in historic districts (areas of a city that are designated as having historic, cultural or architectural significance) and how they navigate the day-to-day realities of old wiring, bad plumbing, crumbling foundations, curious tourists, not-always-helpful city officials and skeptical family members. Interview...

Rosario Candela & the New York Apartment: 1927-1937 the Architecture of the Age

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Report copyright infringementby David Netto (Author), Paul Goldberger (Author), Peter Pennoyer (Author)Masterworks of the Jazz Age architect whose residential buildings are as significant in their impact on the character of New York as the skyscrapers of Wall Street. Known and celebrated for many of the apartment buildings on Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue, and in Sutton Place--82 in NYC, including the storied 740 Park, sometimes called the richest and most powerful address in New York and whose f...

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

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Report copyright infringementby Rem Koolhaas (Author)Since its publication - Delirious New York (1978) has attained mythic status. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the variety of human behaviorAt the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle - "the culture of congestion" - and its architecture. "Manhattan," he write...

Anatomy of Color: The Story of Heritage Paints & Pigments

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick Baty (Author)Why were primary colors popular in postwar kitchens? Why did the Art Deco era prefer clean lines and pastel shades? This comprehensive illustrated history of the use of color and paint in interior decoration answers these questions and many more.Drawing on his huge specialist archive, historian and paint expert Patrick Baty traces the evolution of pigments and paint colors together with color systems and standards, and he examines their imp...

An English Vision: Traditional Architecture and Decoration for Today

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Pentreath (Author), The Earl of Moray (Foreword by)Pentreath is renowned as one of the foremost designers of new traditional buildings and country houses in the world. In celebration of his London-based firm's twentieth anniversary, Pentreath presents his authentically, yet playfully, classical approach. This is the first of Pentreath's books to present his own output in its entirety--from his personal residences in Dorset, London, and Scotland that brought...

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Report copyright infringementby Claud Gurney (Author)Renowned for its elegant hand-painted wallpapers and textiles, de Gournay creates some of the most beautiful interiors in the world. Celebrated for its hand-painted chinoiserie wallpapers, sumptuous patterns of colorful flora and varied birdlife, the company produces additional collections that explore historical themes, such as nineteenth-century French pastoral scenes or exotic Brazilian landscapes bursting with wildlife. De Gournay also ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark D. Sikes (Author)The author of Beautiful is back with a new book of his interiors, filled with blue-and-white vignettes, wicker, saturated color, and pretty patterns. Interior designer Mark D. Sikes burst onto the publishing scene with his New York Times best-selling first book, Beautiful. His new book, aptly titled More Beautiful, picks up where the first left off, in a celebration of classic, all-American decorating. The rooms featured in More Beautiful ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lake Verea (Photographer), Carla Verea Hernández (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Francisca Rivero-Lake (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A diaristic archive of pilgrimages to Luis Barragán's modernist abode In this intimate archive, the contemporary Mexican photographer duo Lake Verea record their pilgrimages, made over the course of nearly two decades, to the house of Mexican architect Luis Barragán (1902-88). As devotees of the architect, the duo began photographing th...

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Report copyright infringementby Hannah Burstein (Editor), Hamza Walker (Editor), Elizabeth Alexander (Foreword by)Scholars and contemporary artists reckon with decommissioned monuments, examining fraught narratives of the legacy of the Civil War and slavery as well as national identity in the United StatesPublished with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and The Brick. This volume features a selection of decommissioned monuments, many of them Confederate, presented alongside contempo...

Upstate Now: Art, Design, and Rural Life in the Hudson Valley and Catskills

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Report copyright infringementby Michel Arnaud (Author), Jane Creech (Author)A gorgeous coffee table book rich with photographs and stories about place, community, and living a creative life in the singular world of New York's Hudson Valley. Today, the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains are home not only to once-harried Brooklynites adapting to small-town living or West Coasters living a Hollywood version of American country life but also to locals who grew up in the region and are committed...

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Report copyright infringementby Eva Kirsch (Editor), Stanislav Szukalski (Author), George Di Caprio (Foreword by)Szukalski is now the subject of the critically acclaimed 2018 Netflix documentary Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski directed by Irek Dobrowolski and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.Foreword by Leonardo and George DiCaprio The range of Szukalski's achievements in sculpting, drawing, painting, theorizing, and writing is finally reckoned with in Struggle, the title of both th...

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Report copyright infringementby David Walentas (Author)Fortune Favors the Brave details the incredible story of the making of a real estate tycoon.Fortune Favors the Brave is the memoir of David Walentas, the visionary behind the iconic rejuvenation of the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. The detailed journey chronicles his formative years in upstate New York and his sheer will to succeed. Filled with anecdotes and personal stories of triumph and failure, it is sure to inspire generations ...

The Nature of Decorating: Interiors Inspired by the Natural World

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Report copyright infringementby Jenny Rose-Innes (Author)Discover the transformative power of nature in interior design with Jenny Rose-Innes' The Nature of Decorating. As an expert with years of experience in decorating, renovating, and building homes, Jenny is perfectly placed to share her unique insights on how to bring the outside in, creating spaces that enhance our connection to nature. This book is both inspirational and practical, featuring stunning images of Jenny's own home and gard...

A Place in Scotland: Beautiful Scottish Interiors

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Report copyright infringementby Banjo Beale (Author)A Place in Scotland is a collation of interior spaces that represent a rejuvenated Scottish vernacular that has emerged over the past twenty years. Something is happening in Scotland - a new confidence - and inspirational voices are redefining what 'Scottish style' really is. Banjo and Alexander see this manifesting in homes and public spaces alike. Spanning the breadth of Scotland, they have picked places that tell a story, highlight susta...

An Affair with a House (Collector's Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Bunny Williams (Author)From one of America's best-loved and most celebrated designers, a luxurious 20th-anniversary collector's edition of the Bunny Williams interior design classic, updated to include a new introduction and chapter This lovely gift-ready edition presents the original book plus a new introduction and chapter detailing how the house and its rooms have changed over the years--all presented in a sumptuous package featuring a new cover design with...

The Killer and Frank Lloyd Wright: The True Story of Mass Murder in Paradise

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Report copyright infringementby Casey Sherman (Author)The scandal. The genius. The murder that shocked America.Frank Lloyd Wright was more than the mind behind America's most iconic buildings--he was a man whose turbulent private life captivated a nation. The famous architect's stormy marriage to Kitty Wright and his infamous affair with another woman, Mamah Borthwick, ignited one of the country's first celebrity scandals, splashed across headlines from coast to coast.Then, in August 1914, sc...

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Report copyright infringementby Axel Vervoordt (Author), Tatsuro Miki (Author), Michael Paul (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Interior design guru Axel Vervoordt shares his latest inspirations for the home. Axel Vervoordt's intense curiosity has fueled his work as an interior designer, spurring him to explore and draw inspiration from cultures around the globe. He was first exposed to Eastern art and philosophy years ago, but today it has become the guiding principle in his work, particularly the c...

Never Too Small: Reimagining Small Space Living

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Report copyright infringementby Joel Beath (Author), Elizabeth Price (Author)What does the future of urban living look like? Joel Beath and Elizabeth Price explore this question drawing inspiration from a diverse collection of apartment designs, all smaller than 50m2/540ft2. Through the lens of five small-footprint design principles and drawing on architectural images and detailed floor plans, the authors examine how architects and designers are reimagining small space living. Full of inspira...

In Praise of the Earth: A Journey Into the Garden

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Report copyright infringementby Byung-Chul Han (Author), Daniel Steuer (Translator)The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent meditation, a lingering in stillness. It gi...

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Biesty (Author)This children's book explores the innermost workings of some extraordinary buildings and machines. From helicopters to submarines, skyscrapers to coal mines, open up a fascinating world packed with unique and detailed cutaway drawings. Whether it's a Spanish galleon or a medieval castle, each cross-section slice or exploded view reveals what's going on inside. See the people swarming inside the Empire State Building, the workers busy back...

Some colonial mansions and those who lived in them, with genealogies of the various families mentioned

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Allen Glenn (Author)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. Number of Pages: 536 Dimensions: 1.19 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 30, 2019 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Simons (Author), Rainer Knapas (Author)AlvarAalto's work is strongly influenced by his experience of nature - especially inthe deep forests of his Finnish homeland. But he also visited the sites ofantiquity on several trips to the Mediterranean and the Orient.This bookexplores the dominant theme of nature in Aalto's work in a variety of ways. Interestinglyenough, it is little known that he also worked as a landscape architect andcreated the garden for Villa...

Classic Cars Coloring Book: Collection of 30 detailed coloring pictures of Classic cars for car lovers

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandra Cain Art (Author)Classic Cars Coloring Book 30+ drawings.Features!Key highlights of this book: ✅ Vivid images: black-and-white paper filled with 30 artistic illustrations and stunning designs.✅ Single-Sided Pages: Bleeding is no longer an issue because all pages are printed on single sides.✅ Fulfill your passion: All pages contain various appealing images to satisfy your creativity which helps you become a great coloring master.✅ The greatest gift eve...

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Report copyright infringementby C. W. Strickland (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is importa...

A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method

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Report copyright infringementby Banister Fletcher (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is import...

Lonely Planet Kids How Cities Work: Brilliant Facts & Lift the Flaps Amazing Illustrations Learn about Skyscrapers & Subways Explore Inside, Outside &

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Report copyright infringementby Jen Feroze (Author), James Gulliver Hancock (Illustrator)Get ready to explore the city in a whole new way. This innovative book for younger readers is packed with city facts, loads of flaps to lift, and unfolding pages to see inside buildings and under the streets. Children aged 5+ can learn about skyscrapers, subway systems and stinky sewers. Discover where people live and peek behind closed doors to see what's going on in houses and apartments, or why not fin...

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Markham (Author)LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD"Markham delivers a probing meditation on grief, memory, and memorialization... Plaintive and powerful, this is hard to forget."--Publishers WeeklyA speculative essay on language in the face of climate catastrophe: how we memorialize what has been lost and what soon will be, pushing public imagination into generative realms."I am in need of a word," writes Lauren Markham in an email to the Burea...

Surf Shacks Volume 2: The New Wave of Coastal Living

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Report copyright infringementby Gestalten (Editor), Matt Titone (Editor), Indoek (Designed by)Surfing is a way of life, one that defines not only where we live, but how we live. Surf Shacks Volume 2 picks up where the first volume left off, exploring homes of surfers, which range from improvised cabins by the beach to penthouse apartments in big coastal cities. In this followup, we meet a fascinating cast of characters from the shores of southern California through to the wild waters of Sri L...

Mountain House: Studies in Elevated Design - Hardcover

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by Nina Freudenberger (Author)A photographic study of more than twenty houses and the mountain landscapes, from alpine forests to urban peaks, that embrace them. Spanning continents and climates, the twenty homes presented in interior designer Nina Freudenberger's latest book challenge and expand the idea of what a mountain house might be. Artist retreats in Morocco's High Atlas and the snowy folds of the Engadine Valley in Switzerland speak to the long tradition of mountains spaces for conte...