Decorative Architectural Ironwork: Featuring Wrought & Cast Designs
ISBN: 9780764321924 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the world's greatest collections of architectural ironwork is on display in the five boroughs of New York City. Author and photographer Diana Stuart captures the magnitude and impressive array of historic exterior designs in 400 color photographs, with background information and the location of each piece included in captions. You will see iron fences, gates, newel posts, balustrades, railings, brackets, lamps, and much more. These stunning artifacts play a major role in the fabric of New York City's streetscape, and artists, designers, and ironworkers will all be inspired by the rich...
One of the world's greatest collections of architectural ironwork is on display in the five boroughs of New York City. Author and photographer Diana S...
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186,33 zł |
Old World Inspiration for American Architecture
ISBN: 9780764326684 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the classic resource for authentic Mediterranean and Spanish architecture, compiled in 1929 by the pioneer architect of its revival style. Its 144 plates display many country and city dwellings, interiors as well as exteriors, and architectural, garden, and ironwork details. Sections focus on roofs, street scenes, cornices and chimneys. There are Old World doorways, window grilles, balconies, and cornices. Its patios, fountains, and gates can provide inspiration for today's builders seeking to create authentic landscape design. Many of the photographic views are identified with the...
This is the classic resource for authentic Mediterranean and Spanish architecture, compiled in 1929 by the pioneer architect of its revival style. Its...
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277,00 zł |
Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-Century Poetics of Naturalized Architecture
ISBN: 9780754663089 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856a 1924) and the majority of his theoretical writings as emotional outbursts of an outmoded romanticism. In this study, Lauren Weingarden reveals Sullivan's eloquent articulation of nineteenth-century romantic practices a literary, linguistic, aesthetic, spiritual, and nationalistic a and thus rescues Sullivan and his legacy from the narrow role imposed on him as a pioneer of twentieth-century modernism. Using three interpretive models, discourse theory, poststructural semiotic...
For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856a 1924) and the majority of his th...
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705,23 zł |
Creating Concrete Art Furniture
ISBN: 9780764328732 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concrete is a fascinating material in the hands of a creative person. The Direct Concrete Technique, illustrated in this book, empowers anyone to make furniture or sculpture by hand without molds or forms. The key to this method is the use of a steel armature covered with wires. With 296 vivid color photos and precise text, you can learn the steps necessary to use concrete as a fine art material to create innovative and imaginative furniture, from initial concept and the creation of the armature to the application of concrete and finishing the artwork.
Bold and elegant designs of lightweight... Concrete is a fascinating material in the hands of a creative person. The Direct Concrete Technique, illustrated in this book, empowers anyone to make...
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140,99 zł |
Cast-In-Place Concrete Countertops
ISBN: 9780764329494 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concrete countertops are on the cutting edge of todays interior design and outdoor kitchen trends. Kitchen designers, contractors, architects, and homeowners alike can use this book to learn the detailed process of creating amazing concrete countertops. Here Ralston shows how to plan, execute, and complete a concrete countertop cast-in-place for ease and convenience. This book is a great inspiration for anyone interested in concrete countertop fabrication. Beautiful images of kitchens both indoors and out will inspire you, and step-by-step imagery will walk you through the process of...
Concrete countertops are on the cutting edge of todays interior design and outdoor kitchen trends. Kitchen designers, contractors, architects, and hom...
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186,33 zł |
Entryways and Doorways
ISBN: 9780764328589 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Home entryways and doorways are an integral part of the homes "curb appeal" and financial value. These integral components also welcome visitors and set the stage for what awaits inside the house. This book provides a pictorial survey of the many and varied forms of doorways and entryways in various locations around the United States with over 800 color photos. Twenty different front door styles, outer doors ranging from louvered to security, varying entryway styles, stairways, and walkways and driveways appear here. A glossary of useful terms is also included.
Homeowners, architecture... Home entryways and doorways are an integral part of the homes "curb appeal" and financial value. These integral components also welcome visitors and s...
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140,99 zł |
The Backstory of Wallpaper: Paper-Hangings 1650-1750
ISBN: 9780985656102 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wallpaper design has captivated Western consumers for 300 years, but this book looks closer - at wallpaper use. It tells how single-sheet wallpaper developed in Europe, found wide acceptance in England and France, and was successfully transplanted to the North American colonies. By 1750, wallpaper was well-established and poised for phenomenal growth.
Wallpaper design has captivated Western consumers for 300 years, but this book looks closer - at wallpaper use. It tells how single-sheet wallpaper de...
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128,94 zł |
Style and Function in Roman Decoration: Living with Objects and Interiors
ISBN: 9780754665632 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book puts forward a new interpretation of Roman decorative art, focusing on the function of decoration in the social context. It examines the three principal areas of social display and conspicuous consumption in the Roman world: social space, entertainment, and dress, and discusses the significance of the decoration of objects and interiors within these contexts, drawing examples from both Rome and its environs, and the Western provinces, from the early Imperial period to Late Antiquity. Focusing on specific examples, including mosaics and other interior decor, silver plate,...
This important book puts forward a new interpretation of Roman decorative art, focusing on the function of decoration in the social context. It examin...
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755,61 zł |
Ironwork Today: Inside & Out: Inside & Out
ISBN: 9780764323904 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is an exciting foray into the world of the artist-blacksmith. Dona Z. Meilach discovers the growing numbers of men and women who revel in lighting up a forge and shaping hot, malleable iron into beautiful, useful objects. Blacksmiths today make both monumental and modest architectural accompaniments, from public art to an infinite number of items we encounter every day. With this book, you will gain an appreciation of the medium and its creators, and realize that blacksmiths do much more than shoe horses. Over 480 color photographs highlight objects for indoor and outdoor use, including...
Here is an exciting foray into the world of the artist-blacksmith. Dona Z. Meilach discovers the growing numbers of men and women who revel in lightin...
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231,67 zł |
Le Manuel Du Mouleur de Pierre
ISBN: 9782952964852 / Francuski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Que vous soyez amateur, bricoleur ou artisan, cet ouvrage unique dans son domaine est aussi un outil de terrain qui vous donne toutes les cles, la connaissance et les plans, pour apprendre a realiser vous-meme, par moulage ou par coffrage, vos parements, vos piliers, vos arcades et tous vos elements d'architecture et de decoration en pierre de taille calcaire reconstituee. La technique tres simple est rapidement assimilable et ne met en oeuvre que des materiaux que chacun peut trouver localement, pour un resultat semblable a la pierre naturelle. En restauration des vieilles batisses en...
Que vous soyez amateur, bricoleur ou artisan, cet ouvrage unique dans son domaine est aussi un outil de terrain qui vous donne toutes les cles, la con...
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349,87 zł |
Bedroom Feng Shui: Revised Edition
ISBN: 9781462051557 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bedroom Feng Shui was a best-seller when The Crossing Press first published it in 2001. It is now available in a revised, expanded edition. In feng shui, the bedroom is the most important room. It has the most influence in a person s life, because of the amount of time spent there, a third of a lifetime. For many people the bedroom is the only room that is theirs. The book explains everything a person needs to know when applying feng shui to their bedroom. People sense that the location of the bed is important and wonder, Is my bed in the best location? The main factors in... Bedroom Feng Shui was a best-seller when The Crossing Press first published it in 2001. It is now available in a revised, expanded edition. ... |
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60,06 zł |
Cast Iron and the Crescent City
ISBN: 9781589809949 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Familiar to both locals and visitors, cast iron artistry remains an iconic characteristic of New Orleans. This pictorial study traces the iron work's history from its origins in England in the sixteenth century, to the establishment of the Leeds Iron Foundry in New Orleans in 1825, and cast iron's evolution into contemporary times. Mass-production methods made cast iron available for numerous types of building materials, and it was used for both decorative and structural purposes. In addition to noting the application of the material for bridges, beams, and girders, the book cites... Familiar to both locals and visitors, cast iron artistry remains an iconic characteristic of New Orleans. This pictorial study traces the iron work... |
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58,54 zł |
The Authentics: A Lush Dive Into the Substance of Style
ISBN: 9780804189255 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From renowned photographer Melanie Acevedo and founding editor of domino magazine Dara Caponigro, comes a lush dive into the private worlds and gorgeous homes of creative trailblazers in art, design, and fashion around the world. The Authentics is a deep exploration into the substance of style through evocative photography and stimulating interviews that seek to unravel the tenets of taste and talent. The featured homeowners, all true originals, help define our culture--including interior designer Miles Redd, actress Peggy Lipton, and Libertine designer Johnson...
From renowned photographer Melanie Acevedo and founding editor of domino magazine Dara Caponigro, comes a lush dive into the private worlds ...
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279,83 zł |
Geometric Symmetry in Patterns and Tilings
ISBN: 9781855734920 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book encompasses a wide range of mathematical concepts relating to regularly repeating surface decoration from basic principles of symmetry to more complex issues of graph theory, group theory and topology. It presents a comprehensive means of classifying and constructing patterns and tilings. The classification of designs is investigated and discussed forming a broad basis upon which designers may build their own ideas. A wide range of original illustrative material is included. In a complex area previously best understood by mathematicians and crystallographers, the author develops...
This book encompasses a wide range of mathematical concepts relating to regularly repeating surface decoration from basic principles of symmetry to mo...
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941,99 zł |
To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909 1049
ISBN: 9780801422065 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Barbara H. Rosenwein here reassesses the significance of property in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a period of transition from the Carolingian empire to the regional monarchies of the High Middle Ages. In To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter she explores in rich detail the question of monastic donations, illuminating the human motives, needs, and practices behind gifts of land and churches to the French monastery of Cluny during the 140 years that followed its founding. Donations, Rosenwein shows, were largely the work of neighbors, and they set up and affirmed relationships with Saint...
Barbara H. Rosenwein here reassesses the significance of property in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a period of transition from the Carolingian emp...
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272,02 zł |
The Gargoyles of Notre Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity
ISBN: 9780226092454 / Angielski / Twarda / 439 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most of the seven million people who visit the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris each year probably do not realize that the legendary gargoyles adorning this medieval masterpiece were not constructed until the nineteenth century. The first comprehensive history of these world-famous monsters, "The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame" argues that they transformed the iconic thirteenth-century cathedral into a modern monument.
Michael Camille begins his long-awaited study by recounting architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc s ambitious restoration of the structure from 1843 to 1864, when the gargoyles were... Most of the seven million people who visit the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris each year probably do not realize that the legendary gargoyles adornin...
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164,38 zł |
Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
ISBN: 9781119998952 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover the techniques behind beautiful design?by deconstructing designs to understand them
The term 'hacker' has been redefined to consist of anyone who has an insatiable curiosity as to how things work--and how they can try to make them better. This book is aimed at hackers of all skill levels and explains the classical principles and techniques behind beautiful designs by deconstructing those designs in order to understand what makes them so remarkable. Author and designer David Kadavy provides you with the framework for understanding good design and places a special emphasis on... Discover the techniques behind beautiful design?by deconstructing designs to understand them
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159,08 zł |
Cherry Creek Gothic: Victorian Architecture in Denver
ISBN: 9780806146232 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Almost every citizen is laudably ambitious to build a house unlike that of his neighbor," wrote an observer in early Denver, "and is more desirous that it shall have some novel feature than that it shall be surpassingly beautiful." This history of early Denver has over two hundred illustrations of buildings designed by nouveaux riches miners and frontier businessmen who had more money and fanciful imagination than taste. There is also a picture map of the business district in 1892 that shows where many of these extraordinary structures stood. Victoriana was in bloom, and architectural purity...
"Almost every citizen is laudably ambitious to build a house unlike that of his neighbor," wrote an observer in early Denver, "and is more desirous th...
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138,59 zł |
Ironwork Today 4: Inside and Out
ISBN: 9780764346736 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hundreds of detailed color photos provide a sweeping overview of the wide range of iron artwork being created by over 90 of today's artist-blacksmiths. These fascinating works of art in metal are found in homes, offices, and public spaces alike. They vary in size from small, everyday objects to impressive public monuments. The pieces, discussed by the artists who made them, include sculpture, gates, railings, furniture, andirons, lighting fixtures, doors, door knockers, and much more. This book, the fourth in an ongoing series, has artwork arranged by the artist alphabetically, rather than in...
Hundreds of detailed color photos provide a sweeping overview of the wide range of iron artwork being created by over 90 of today's artist-blacksmiths...
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231,67 zł |
The Colours of ... : Frank O. Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Wang Shu and other architects
ISBN: 9783038215868 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Farbe ist unlosbar mit der Architektur verbunden - als Medium der Gestaltung, aber auch als eigene Qualitat pragt sie Form und Textur des Gebauten. Das Buch prasentiert Farbgestaltungen avancierter Architektur, die in technologischer wie in asthetischer Hinsicht auerordentlich sind, fur ein breites Spektrum von Bauaufgaben: vom Apartment zur Konzerthalle, vom Flagship Store zum Stadtpark. Farbe ist unlosbar mit der Architektur verbunden - als Medium der Gestaltung, aber auch als eigene Qualitat pragt sie Form und Textur des Gebauten.... |
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86,76 zł |