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Gourmet and specialty shops
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"Gourmet & Speciality Shops" features more than 300 colourful images from 70 design case studies, including gourmet shops, specialty food stores, markets and supermarkets, organic and health food stores, coffee and tea retailers, and wine and liquor outlets.
Commercial interiors, Building types
May 2001, New York
Gourmet and specialty shops
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"Gourmet & Speciality Shops" features more than 300 colourful images from 70 design case studies, including gourmet shops, specialty food stores, markets and supermarkets, organic and health food stores, coffee and tea retailers, and wine and liquor outlets.
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May 2001, New York
Commercial interiors, Building types
Metro Montreal
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A book fit for any Montreal coffee table. All of Montreal's beautiful metro stations, photographed by Jesse Riviere, all in one place. This photo collection allows you to dive deep into the unique aspects of each station, while enjoying the ride from where ever you want.
Metro Montreal
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A book fit for any Montreal coffee table. All of Montreal's beautiful metro stations, photographed by Jesse Riviere, all in one place. This photo collection allows you to dive deep into the unique aspects of each station, while enjoying the ride from where ever you want.
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Let's draw fragrant pastas, delicious meats and succulent desserts in Martí Guixé's new book: Food Book! Each page is a tasty graphical suggestion to be "filled in" by each fellow dinner, from the starters to the coffee, satisfying the desires of the very moment or conceiving an elaborate menu.
Food book
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Let's draw fragrant pastas, delicious meats and succulent desserts in Martí Guixé's new book: Food Book! Each page is a tasty graphical suggestion to be "filled in" by each fellow dinner, from the starters to the coffee, satisfying the desires of the very moment or conceiving an elaborate menu.
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"Pop Photographica" (a term Daile Kaplan coined) encompasses unique homemade artifacts as well as mass-produced decorative and functional three-dimensional objects adorned with photographic images from ornate perfume bottles, to cups and saucers to coffee cans. "Antiques Road Show" expert Daile Kaplan demonstrates how photography was slowly assimilated into the popular(...)
Pop photographica : photography's objects in everyday life, 1842-1969
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"Pop Photographica" (a term Daile Kaplan coined) encompasses unique homemade artifacts as well as mass-produced decorative and functional three-dimensional objects adorned with photographic images from ornate perfume bottles, to cups and saucers to coffee cans. "Antiques Road Show" expert Daile Kaplan demonstrates how photography was slowly assimilated into the popular landscape.
Theory of Photography
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Photographer, cultural critic, and erstwhile waitress Candacy A. Taylor traveled through 43 U.S. cities collecting stories from career diner waitresses for this respectful, celebratory collection of oral histories and photographs.
Counter culture, the american cofee shop waitress
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Photographer, cultural critic, and erstwhile waitress Candacy A. Taylor traveled through 43 U.S. cities collecting stories from career diner waitresses for this respectful, celebratory collection of oral histories and photographs.
Photography monographs
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Honoré de Balzac's "Treatise on Modern Stimulants" is a meditation on five stimulants—tea, sugar, coffee, alcohol and tobacco—by an author very conscious of the fact that his gargantuan output of work was driven by an excessive intake (his bouts of writing typically required 10 to 15 cups of coffee a day) that would ultimately shorten his life. First published in French(...)
Treatise on modern stimulants
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Honoré de Balzac's "Treatise on Modern Stimulants" is a meditation on five stimulants—tea, sugar, coffee, alcohol and tobacco—by an author very conscious of the fact that his gargantuan output of work was driven by an excessive intake (his bouts of writing typically required 10 to 15 cups of coffee a day) that would ultimately shorten his life. First published in French in 1839 as an appendix to Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's "Physiology of Taste", this Treatise was at once Balzac's effort at addressing what he perceived to be an oversight in that cornerstone of gastronomic literature; a chapter toward his never-completed body of analytic studies (alongside such essays as "Treatise on Elegant Living") that were to form an overarching "pathology of social life"; and a meditation on the impact of pleasure and excess on the body and the role they play in shaping society.
Critical Theory
KR: It's all in my head
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Meticulously designed by Alife, this book spotlights the artistic and graffiti career of KR and his exploits as a photographer, gallery artist, graffiti vandal, and creator of Krink. Featuring his finest works from 1996 to the present, this is the perfect coffee table artist book, and is a must-have item for anyone who's a fan of KR/Krink, Alife, or AKA/12ozPROPHET
KR: It's all in my head
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Meticulously designed by Alife, this book spotlights the artistic and graffiti career of KR and his exploits as a photographer, gallery artist, graffiti vandal, and creator of Krink. Featuring his finest works from 1996 to the present, this is the perfect coffee table artist book, and is a must-have item for anyone who's a fan of KR/Krink, Alife, or AKA/12ozPROPHET
Graphic Design and Typography
One day of design
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One Day of Design takes a comprehensive look at how the graphics that surround us play a part in our lives, and covers everything from alarm clocks and coffee makers to skateboards and computers. It demonstrates how graphics are the key to the personal relationships we have with everyday objects, and how design plays a major role in the “visual soundtrack” of life.
One day of design
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One Day of Design takes a comprehensive look at how the graphics that surround us play a part in our lives, and covers everything from alarm clocks and coffee makers to skateboards and computers. It demonstrates how graphics are the key to the personal relationships we have with everyday objects, and how design plays a major role in the “visual soundtrack” of life.
Graphic Design and Typography
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This book presents a new chapter in a series of installations that different visual artists and architects from around the world created in Mies van der Rohe's emblematic building. The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei filled the pavilion's pools with two typical items that are part of our daily lives, but are completely at odds with an architectural construction: the water in the(...)
Ai Wei Wei: With milk, find something everybody can use
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This book presents a new chapter in a series of installations that different visual artists and architects from around the world created in Mies van der Rohe's emblematic building. The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei filled the pavilion's pools with two typical items that are part of our daily lives, but are completely at odds with an architectural construction: the water in the pools, one exterior and the other interior is replaced, respectively, with milk and coffee.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In this book, Edward Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring us seven wonders of the natural world -- eiderdown, vicuña fiber, sea silk, vegetable ivory, civet coffee, guano, and edible birds' nests -- that promise ways of using nature without damaging it. To the rest of the world these materials are mere commodities, but to their(...)
Strange harvests: the hidden histories of seven natural objects
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In this book, Edward Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring us seven wonders of the natural world -- eiderdown, vicuña fiber, sea silk, vegetable ivory, civet coffee, guano, and edible birds' nests -- that promise ways of using nature without damaging it. To the rest of the world these materials are mere commodities, but to their harvesters they are imbued with myth, tradition, folklore, and ritual, and form part of a shared identity and history.
Environment and environmental theory