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Un anno in meno - Diario del 2006: case, musei, incontri, viaggi | Alvar González-Palacios usato Storia Biografie Diari e Memorie

Un anno in meno - Diario del 2006: case, musei, incontri, viaggi | Alvar González-Palacios usato Storia Biografie Diari e Memorie

Il suggestivo diario di Alvar Gonzáles-Palacios, intellettuale, storico dell'arte e massimo esperto internazionale di arti decorative. Alvar González-Palacios, figura emblematica di storico dell'arte e, soprattutto, di arti decorative antiche, fine intellettuale e uomo di mondo, consegna alle stampe, in occasione del compimento del suo settantesimo compleanno, un affascinante scritto autobiografico redatto nel corso del 2006. Il diario "minimo" di Alvar González-Palacios è un resoconto puntuale di pensieri, sensazioni e incontri che hanno costellato il suo settantesimo anno, ma è soprattutto una rivisitazione virtuale, icastica e brillante, di un'intera vita dedicata alla storia dell'arte e, tout court, alla storia del gusto attraverso cammei di personaggi e figure di scrittori, intellettuali, storici e critici d'arte, ma anche di figure emblematiche del "bel mondo" internazionale: immagini, avvenimenti e considerazioni raccontate con arguzia e garbo da un occhio attento, critico e affettuoso allo stesso tempo, al mutare del gusto e alle trasformazioni del mondo.

EUR 15.00
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London underground maps - Art, design and cartography | Claire Dobbin usato Storia Locale

London underground maps - Art, design and cartography | Claire Dobbin usato Storia Locale

By documenting and guiding us on the journeys we make every day, maps influence the way we navigate and identify with our surroundings. The Underground, London Transport, and its successor Transport for London have produced and inspired maps which are navigational, decorative forms of publicity and works of art. This book, which draws on the rich collections of the London Transport Museum, sets out to explore this unique form of visual communication. Covering the period from 1900 to the present day, Claire Dobbin's fascinating narrative provides a chronological account of the mapping of London's Underground. Starting with the magnificent early twentieth-century decorative maps of Macdonald Gill, the evolution of London's diagrammatic Underground map, introduced by Harry Beck's iconic 1931 design, is expertly told. The legacy of Beck's inspiring design is highlighted through selected maps, artworks, posters and merchandise. Incorporating design, art, cartographic, social and transport history, London Underground Maps provides a fascinating account of the capital's innovative approach to decoding and promoting its complex underground network. An accessible narrative coupled with first-class imagery make this book a must for lovers of art, design and cartography as well as the history of London.

EUR 50.00
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Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver | Annelies Krekel-Aalberse usato Arte Design

Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver | Annelies Krekel-Aalberse usato Arte Design

"Interest in the applied and decorative arts of the early decades of the twentieth century has never been greater. But while such fields as glass, furniture and jewelry have been widely studied, this pioneering book is the first international survey of Art Nouveau and Art Deco silver. Annelies Krekel-Aalberse, the prominent Dutch authority on the subject, analyses and compares the work of all the most important designers and silversmiths working in the UK, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, the Scandinavian countries, Russia and the USA during this period." - dust jacket.

EUR 25.00
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Deco | Alastair Duncan usato Arte Design

Deco | Alastair Duncan usato Arte Design

Il periodo fra le due guerre, la grande Depressione, l'era del jazz, dell'automobile e del grattacielo, gli anni del fermento artistico e sociale nelle grandi citta d'Europa e d'America: l'Art déco accompagna l'avvento del mondo moderno e determina una nuova estetica che abbraccia gli stili decorativi più raffinati del Novecento. Nelle sue forme più pure il déco nasce a Parigi da un'idea di lusso e ricercatezza che, negli anni venti, si esprime spesso attraverso l'uso di materiali esotici e pregiati. Il fenomeno coinvolge successivamente i designer modernisti d'Europa e d'America che sperimentano l'uso del metallo e della plastica. Dall'ispirazione a modelli estetici e artigianali di altre culture - dall'antico Egitto all'antichità classica del Mediterraneo, agli imperi coloniali in Oriente e in Africa - emerge così nelle arti decorative. Quell'insieme di stili che oggi rientrano nell'accezione più ampia di "Art déco". Con un apparato iconografico di oltre 1000 immagini, il volume di Alastair Duncan rappresenta un'opera completa sulle arti decorative del periodo fra le due guerre. Oltre a testi di inquadramento storico e artistico, il libro offre un repertorio di più di quattrocento voci ordinate alfabeticamente, con le maggiori personalità nell'ambito dell'arte, della grafica e del design, le scuole più influenti, le esposizioni che hanno promosso le creazioni degli oggetti déco e le case che li hanno prodotti.

EUR 105.00
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Word & Image - Art, books and design | Julius Bryant, Roman Watson, Elizabeth James usato Enciclopedie Enciclopedie

Word & Image - Art, books and design | Julius Bryant, Roman Watson, Elizabeth James usato Enciclopedie Enciclopedie

This book celebrates Britain's National Art Library, the first of what was a new kind of museum library, formed in the 19th century by and for artists, designers, and artisans; and intensively used by them and later by the public. Here are more than 100 objects that have helped to define and redefine the subject and scope of the history of the fine and decorative arts, from a 15th-century book of hours to George Cruikshank's studies of Fagin for Oliver Twist to an Yves Saint Laurent design for the House of Dior and Bill Brandt's photos, this book explores some of the world's finest examples of books.

EUR 20.00
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Zillij - The art of moroccan ceramics | John Hedgecoe, Salmá Samar Damlūjī usato Arte Antiquariato

Zillij - The art of moroccan ceramics | John Hedgecoe, Salmá Samar Damlūjī usato Arte Antiquariato

Zillij: The Art of Moroccan Ceramics represents an outstanding photographic record of Moroccan ceramics and cut tiles, with written contributions from leading art historians and architects specialising in these fields. Photographer John Hedgecoe and the editor Salma Samar Damluji were given unprecedented access to Morocco's finest buildings, including Royal Palaces, and to private and state museum collections. Through the auspices of the Ministry of Culture in Morocco, a unique book on one of the world's great forms of art has been created. It was through the art of zillij, intricate cut-tile patterns, that Moroccan craftsmen achieved their most sophisticated expression of precision, spatial geometry and aesthetics. This book is a careful study of the achievements of those craftsmen in the art of zillij. It is also, as importantly, an investigation into the relationship of zillij designs to ceramics, which present the designs or a new scale and with a new function. Zillij: The Art of Moroccan Ceramics is essential to the library of all those interested, either professionally or otherwise, in architecture, design ceramics, Islamic and decorative arts.

EUR 75.00
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Il pino domestico - Elementi storici e botanici di una preziosa realtà del paesaggio mediterraneo | Giacomo Lorenzini, Cristina Nali usato

Il pino domestico - Elementi storici e botanici di una preziosa realtà del paesaggio mediterraneo | Giacomo Lorenzini, Cristina Nali usato

"Il pino domestico ci parla di una lunga storia mediterranea, ci ricorda un passato glorioso sulle terre e sui mari, ci collega con antiche civiltà; è frequente presenza nella letteratura, nelle arti decorative, nei miti, nella quotidianità. È pianta capace di vivere nelle condizioni più ingrate, simbolo di 'toscanità', secondo solo, forse, al cipresso. Occuparsi di questa specie multifunzionale significa interagire con un universo che comprende aspetti paesaggistici, ma anche economici e produttivi, implica confrontarsi con il passato dei nostri luoghi, con le loro consuetudini, con la loro tradizione alimentare. Le condizioni dei nostri boschi sono però profondamente mutate: fattori di ordine economico, sociale, ambientale e biologico hanno sconvolto gli antichi equilibri e oggi è difficile continuare a pensare alle pinete nei termini ai quali eravamo abituati alcuni decenni fa: i conti economici non tornano e si rischiano fenomeni di abbandono, peraltro già in atto. Si intravedono dunque nuovi ruoli per la pineta, non più come fonte di ricchezza, ma, soprattutto, di arricchimento ambientale e paesaggistico"--Book jacket flap.

EUR 15.00
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Art Deco Jewelry | Sylvie Raulet usato Arte Design

Art Deco Jewelry | Sylvie Raulet usato Arte Design

After the extravagant forms of Art Nouveau, the Art Deco movement represented a return to simplicity and severity. As this book richly demonstrates, in that period jewelry found a virtually unlimited source of renewal. Designers drew inspiration from the entire vivid spectrum of the plastic arts: riotous colors in explosive combinations from the Ballets Russes and the Fauves, geometric shapes from Cubism and Suprematism, the contrast of black and white from Neo-Plasticism, and a fascination with the mechanical world from Futurism. Nor were its exponents confined to the modern European world: an Egyptian vogue was prompted by the 1922 discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, while other themes were borrowed from the Far East, Persia, and Africa.Art Deco Jewelry displays through sumptuous illustrations, coupled with a lucid and informative text, the creations of the haute joaillerie (jewelers such as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels) and of the avant-garde designers -- Jean Fouquet, Raymond Templier, Gerard Sandoz, Jean Durand, and Paul Brandt -- to whom we owe some of the most daring and brilliant jewels of the period. There is also an exquisite range of accessories: dainty vanity cases fashioned with the maximum of detail in the minimum of space, boxes and cigarette cases, and a spectacular array of clocks.With the addition of succinct biographies of the most innovative and influential jewelers of the day, a select bibliography, and a glossary, this book serves as an essential reference for anyone interested in the period or in superb examples of the jeweler's art.

EUR 65.00
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Quilt Artistry. Inspired designs from the east | Yoshiko Jinzenji usato Arte Cataloghi

Quilt Artistry. Inspired designs from the east | Yoshiko Jinzenji usato Arte Cataloghi

Quilt Artistry will transform the way that readers think about quilts. Author Yoshiko Jinzenji began quilting after she came upon quilts made by Canada's Mennonite people and was deeply moved by their resonant, sacred quality. The richly minimalist quilts she makes today are as powerful as the works that originally inspired her. Quilt Artistry presents her unforgettable quilt creations in 100 color photos and in 300 black-and-white photos and diagrams. Detailed patterns and instructions are included for all projects shown. In addition to full-size quilts, Jinzenji demonstrates how to make quilted pillows, clutch purses, necklaces, decorative objects, table mats, tiny miniature quilt "mandalas," even a hammock. There are a total of 90 projects, for everyone from beginners to the most advanced quilters. Jinzenji is also a superb natural dyer and often makes quilts from fabric or fiber she colors herself, including very subtle and rich bamboo-dyed white silk. In other quilts she uses antique fabric collected from around the world, and in still others vibrant tropical natural dyes or innovative synthetics such as black metallic cloth created by well-known textile designer Jun'ichi Arai. No matter what the material, her quilts all have a remarkable quiet power. They resonate with a spiritual quality like that of classic North American quilts, but one that is rooted in an Asian, even Buddhist sensibility. Jinzenji has always wanted to "give something back" to the Western quilting tradition that first motivated her own work, and with this book she is wonderfully successful. Quiltmakers and all others with an interest in textiles or design will find Quilt Artistry as inspirational as it is practical.

EUR 45.00
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