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Henri Stierlin discusses the vast scope of Islamic architecture and architectural decoration from the frontiers of Iran to the heart of India and places it within its historical context, while photographs of Islam's monuments, ceramics, miniatures and carpets enable us to use art as a window into Islamic culture. The final section of the book presents nine great(...)
Islamic art and architecture from Isfahan to the Taj Mahal
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Henri Stierlin discusses the vast scope of Islamic architecture and architectural decoration from the frontiers of Iran to the heart of India and places it within its historical context, while photographs of Islam's monuments, ceramics, miniatures and carpets enable us to use art as a window into Islamic culture. The final section of the book presents nine great masterpieces of Islamic architecture, including the Friday Mosque in Isfahan, the Registan in Samarqand, the abandoned Mughal city of Fategpur Sikri and Agra's Taj Mahal.
Arch Middle East
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If abandoned and left alone, human settlements are inevitably taken back into nature’s fold. Photographer and ruin explorer Nakasuji Jun confronts us with the eerily still and untouched buildings and interiors of a modern town now lost to the forest. Chairs and tables are covered in lush carpets of moss, trees spring from roofless houses and rusted vehicles, once lively(...)
Jun Nakasuji: overgrown ruins
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If abandoned and left alone, human settlements are inevitably taken back into nature’s fold. Photographer and ruin explorer Nakasuji Jun confronts us with the eerily still and untouched buildings and interiors of a modern town now lost to the forest. Chairs and tables are covered in lush carpets of moss, trees spring from roofless houses and rusted vehicles, once lively industry lies quiet, and vines delicately drape facades and power lines with a mantle of green. The stories the town holds slowly slip away in nature’s embrace.
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127 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 x 36 cm
Bologna, Italy : Damiani ; Akron, Ohio : Akron Art Museum, ©2010.
Detroit disassembled / essay by Philip Levine ; photographs by Andrew Moore.
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Bologna, Italy : Damiani ; Akron, Ohio : Akron Art Museum, ©2010.
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159 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
[Millerton, N.Y.] : Aperture ; [New York] : Distributed in the U.S. by Viking Penguin, ©1983.
Tibet, the sacred realm : photographs, 1880-1950 / preface by Tenzin Gyatsho, His Holiness the Dalai Lama ; chronicle by Lobsang P. Lhalungpa ; photographs from the archives of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia [and others].
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[Millerton, N.Y.] : Aperture ; [New York] : Distributed in the U.S. by Viking Penguin, ©1983.
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Jean Tschumi: Architecture at Full Scale is the first book on the Swiss architect who, after his training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, entered the polemical field of modernity and its technological expression. Interrupted by his tragic death in 1962 at the age of 57, Tschumi’s work is rich in theoretical questions. What is the meaning of design at full scale, not(...)
Architecture Monographs
October 2009
Jean Tschumi: architecture at full scale
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Jean Tschumi: Architecture at Full Scale is the first book on the Swiss architect who, after his training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, entered the polemical field of modernity and its technological expression. Interrupted by his tragic death in 1962 at the age of 57, Tschumi’s work is rich in theoretical questions. What is the meaning of design at full scale, not just for carpets, tables, or armchairs? Why does the architect study his compositions at the minimal scale of a "postage stamp"? Is furniture the starting point of architecture? Why should the project be studied through the systematical use of variants? Does the future of the city lie in the planning of deep underground systems?
Architecture Monographs
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The booklet you are holding, is about imitating the sound of the seaside by using two hands and a piece of carpet.
SSS shore scene soundtrack: theme and variations for carpet
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The booklet you are holding, is about imitating the sound of the seaside by using two hands and a piece of carpet.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Umberto Riva, designer
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In his long career, Umberto Riva (1928-2021), one of the most original Italian architects of the last decades, has developed a personal approach to design, understood as a fundamental part of a broader research that connects painting and architecture, interiors and objects. Lamps, furniture, carpets and graphic design resonate with paintings, installations, buildings,(...)
Umberto Riva, designer
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In his long career, Umberto Riva (1928-2021), one of the most original Italian architects of the last decades, has developed a personal approach to design, understood as a fundamental part of a broader research that connects painting and architecture, interiors and objects. Lamps, furniture, carpets and graphic design resonate with paintings, installations, buildings, public spaces and domestic interiors, reworking traditional and industrial materials. To retrace this complex artistic exploration, the volume presents Riva’s work in the field of design through sketches, drawings, photographs and other documents from the architect’s archive - many of them unpublished. The result is a mosaic of references, dialogues and artistic connections that give proof of his design experimentation, moved by a restlessness that results in geometric, chromatic and spatial exceptions.
Architecture Monographs
Imaginings by Kiki van Eijk
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Over the past 20 years, the Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk (born 1978) has created an extensive oeuvre including carpets, tapestries, lamps, glassware, furniture and sculptural objects. Her playfulness with form, great attention to tactility and skillful craftsmanship has given her a unique voice within Dutch design. Van Eijk's creative process is based on her emphatically(...)
Imaginings by Kiki van Eijk
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Over the past 20 years, the Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk (born 1978) has created an extensive oeuvre including carpets, tapestries, lamps, glassware, furniture and sculptural objects. Her playfulness with form, great attention to tactility and skillful craftsmanship has given her a unique voice within Dutch design. Van Eijk's creative process is based on her emphatically independent and lively imagination, which she captures in drawings, sketches and textile collages. ''Imaginings'' is an ode to this imagination and presents an overview of Van Eijk's work to date. The book looks closely at her creative process as well, with images and descriptions of objects, sketches and preliminary studies. Texts are by Textiel Museum curator Suzan Russeler, theorist Lidewij Edelkoort, painter Marc Mulders and design writer Blaire Dessent.
Design Monographs
Sonia Delaunay
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Sonia Delaunay was a true pioneer of modernist abstraction; breaking with the figurative vocabulary that subordinated color to subject matter, she placed dynamic color interaction at the core of her vision, whether expressed through painting, book illustration or costume and textile design. Drawing inspiration from both traditional Russian crafts and the modern frenetic(...)
Sonia Delaunay
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Sonia Delaunay was a true pioneer of modernist abstraction; breaking with the figurative vocabulary that subordinated color to subject matter, she placed dynamic color interaction at the core of her vision, whether expressed through painting, book illustration or costume and textile design. Drawing inspiration from both traditional Russian crafts and the modern frenetic metropolis, Delaunay’s work reflects the drastic changes ushered in by industrialization. Through her polyvalent practice, Delaunay helped construct the new modern woman that she herself embodied: equal parts avant-gardist, creative entrepreneur and businesswoman. This richly illustrated catalog showcases the range of Delaunay’s work as it unfolded over 60 years, from abstract paintings and works on paper to textile design, garments, fashion photography, books and carpets—even a brightly colored sports car.
Design Monographs
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Conceived by Nathalie Du Pasquier, this issue of Un Sedicesimo is a sequence of collages. One after the other objects from the artist’s paintings are picked out, modified, photocopied and cut out, ready to undergo yet another rearrangement. Nathalie’s objects , characterized by soft colours, humorous and familiar shapes escape from the mundane world to which they usually(...)
Un Sedicesimo 25a: Nathalie du Pasquier
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Conceived by Nathalie Du Pasquier, this issue of Un Sedicesimo is a sequence of collages. One after the other objects from the artist’s paintings are picked out, modified, photocopied and cut out, ready to undergo yet another rearrangement. Nathalie’s objects , characterized by soft colours, humorous and familiar shapes escape from the mundane world to which they usually belong to meet on the paper in new and exciting combinations. Nathalie Du Pasquier was born in Bordeaux (France) in 1957, she has lived in Milan since 1979. Until 1986 she worked as a designer and was a founder member of Memphis for which she designed many textiles, carpets, furniture and objects. When the group broke up in 1987, painting became her main activity.
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