Frida Kahlo
Buy on Amazon Though her work was often overlooked during her lifetime, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is now ranked among the great masters of the twentieth century. Kahlo first began to paint brilliantly colored, highly ...
New Hotel Design
Buy on Amazon In recent years there has been a remarkable evolution in the design of hotels, with mainstream hotel chains rejecting characterless functionalism in favour of style-led individualism. This book gathers together over 40 ...
Inigo: The Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance
Inigo Jones was an unlikely candidate to change the landscape of British style and design, yet this self-taught son of a cloth worker was to bring classicism to England. His surviving buildings, including the Banqueting ...
Impossible Worlds: The Architecture of Perfection
This book brings together visions of utopia from around the world, from the lowly caravan to grand city plans, and looks at the ideas and aims of the people who created them. For some, the ...
Birkhauser Architectural Guide to Spain: 1920-99
Spain is a country of great regional differences, and such differences have left their mark on the country’s architecture. Over 100 buildings are selected and described in this study in over 750 texts, organized by ...
Richard Meier: Museum Fur Kunsthandwerk
Buy on Amazon The Frankfurt Museum for Decorative Arts is one of Richard Meier’s major buildings of the 1980s. This book looks at this building which is based on Le Corbusier’s Purist syntax and sets ...
The Whitney Museum – Marcel Breuer (Building Block)
Buy on Amazon Ezra Stoller’s photographs of the Whitney, taken just after the museum’s opening, have become icons themselves – pristine images of the building as Breuer intended it to be seen. Newly commissioned color ...
Off the Wall: Fashion from East Germany, 1964 to 1980
Buy From Amazon For a vague period somewhere in the 1970s the notoriously repressive bureaucrats who ran the Deutsche Demokratische Republik dedicated to bring some colour to their otherwise drab lives. A cuninng and original ...