This volume is the definitive anthology of sports cars. It brings together 50 of the most desired vehicles of all time, from the iconic 1903 Stutz Model A Bear Cat to the radical 2020 McLaren Speedtail. Each model is presented through stunning imagery...
Explore la era moderna del diseño en esta edición de Bibliotheca Universalis sobre los movimientos y tendencias clave del siglo XX. Con innumerables obras de todo el mundo, este es un compendio esencial para los aficionados al diseño...
Mount Fuji has long been a centerpiece of Japanese cultural imagination, and nothing captures this with more virtuosity than the landmark woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). The renowned printmaker docu...
From the adrenaline-filled 24 Hours of Le Mans to the legendary Goodwood Festival of Speed, Lake Como's famed Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este to the premier Monterey Car Week, the collector car calendar and market has shown one of the most...
Published annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics. Since the publications went out of print, the...
The works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are monuments of transience. Gigantic in scale, they are always temporary, created to exist only for a limited time and to leave unique, unrepeatable impressions. "From the smallest of the Packages made in Paris...
Clothes define people. A person's attire, whether it be a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, personality, even faith. Indeed, clothing has the power to define people and their generation. Recognizing...
The Mastaba on the Lake Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 20-meter-high Mastaba in London's Hyde Park From June 19 to September 23, 2018, London's Hyde Park will host Christo and Jeanne-Claude's newest installation: The Mastaba (Project for London,...
William Morris (1834-1896) was one of the greatest creative figures of the 19th century. As a visionary designer, as well as a manufacturer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, he pioneered the Arts and Crafts movement of the Victorian era, and left...
Walter Gropius (1883-1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a bold new hybrid of light, geometry, and industrial desi...
Scottish architect, designer, and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was one of the earliest pioneers of modern architecture and design. While he did not receive much recognition in his hometown of Glasgow during his lifetime, his bold new blen...
The work of the artist couple Christo (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) resists categorization. It is a hybrid of art, urban planning, architecture, and engineering, but above all an aesthetic uniquely their own: surreal and ethereal environmental...
Esta obra resulta básica para entender las obras maestras de la historia del arte, ya que pone bajo la lupa algunos de los lienzos más famosos del mundo para descubrir sus elementos más pequeños y sutiles, y todo lo que pueden...
Explore la era moderna del diseño en esta edición de Bibliotheca Universalis sobre los movimientos y tendencias clave del siglo XX. Con innumerables obras de todo el mundo, este es un compendio esencial para los aficionados al diseño...
Designed to be a companion to our classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are the 20th century's most interesting electric lights, from Tiffany's beautiful leaded-glass...
A principios del siglo XXI podemos ver claramente que el anterior estuvo marcado por cambios memorables en el campo del diseño. La estética entró en la vida cotidiana con resultados a menudo asombrosos. Nuestros hogares y lugares de...