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Josep M. Sert, has been called the last great mural painter, one of the last aesthetes of religious art. While very famous before, Sert has now faded into oblivion. Today Sert is mostly known for his murals done in the Waldorff-Astroria and Paris' city hall and the Rockefeller centre. This publication puts Josep M. Sert back in the public eye and sheds light on the(...)
Josep M. Sert: photographic archive of the model
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Josep M. Sert, has been called the last great mural painter, one of the last aesthetes of religious art. While very famous before, Sert has now faded into oblivion. Today Sert is mostly known for his murals done in the Waldorff-Astroria and Paris' city hall and the Rockefeller centre. This publication puts Josep M. Sert back in the public eye and sheds light on the craftsmanship with which J.M. Sert created his paintings. With never-before-seen images from Michele Chomette.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This book features international locations, concepts, and designers that deal with the world of food in a timely and surprising way. On the one hand, the book sheds light on current trends and future developments in restaurant design. It presents an extensive selection of locations with a design spectrum varying from glamorous to minimalist, from romantic to high-tech. On(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
April 2010
Eat out!
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This book features international locations, concepts, and designers that deal with the world of food in a timely and surprising way. On the one hand, the book sheds light on current trends and future developments in restaurant design. It presents an extensive selection of locations with a design spectrum varying from glamorous to minimalist, from romantic to high-tech. On the other hand, it examines in detail the different concepts that this variety of restaurants uses to create unique dining experiences.
Commercial interiors, Building types
David Adjaye: The Webster
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The third instalment in the ‘A.MAG Long Collection’ looks at The Webster’s flagship store in Los Angeles, a retail development adjacent to the historic Beverly Center shopping mall. Juxtaposed beneath this monolithic eight-storey structure, Adjaye’s design elegantly asserts itself as a sculptural and experiential counterpoint to the larger mall. In an ode to the(...)
David Adjaye: The Webster
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The third instalment in the ‘A.MAG Long Collection’ looks at The Webster’s flagship store in Los Angeles, a retail development adjacent to the historic Beverly Center shopping mall. Juxtaposed beneath this monolithic eight-storey structure, Adjaye’s design elegantly asserts itself as a sculptural and experiential counterpoint to the larger mall. In an ode to the luminosity of California’s natural light, the cantilevered concrete facade presents as saturated pink while its form also references and reimagines the brutalist envelope of the existing building.
Architecture Monographs
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This book sheds new light on the work of Henry Moore (1898–1986), recording contemporary architect Zaha Hadid's design of a display environment for the exhibition of Moore's sculptures and drawings. Hadid and Moore share a proclivity for fluid organic form, and for this project Hadid created curvaceous white linen walls and a giant horseshoe-shaped plinth. This volume(...)
Henri Moore: Ideas for sculpture, a project with Zaha Hadid
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This book sheds new light on the work of Henry Moore (1898–1986), recording contemporary architect Zaha Hadid's design of a display environment for the exhibition of Moore's sculptures and drawings. Hadid and Moore share a proclivity for fluid organic form, and for this project Hadid created curvaceous white linen walls and a giant horseshoe-shaped plinth. This volume collects the documentation of this adventurous installation, presenting reproductions of sculptures and sketches by Moore alongside Mary Moore's detailed account of their conception.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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''Vital Little Plans'' bring together for the first time a selection of essays, articles, speeches and interviews by the late Jane Jacobs. These works shed light on the development of the ideas she made famous in her best-known works, ''The Death and Life of Great American Cities'' and ''The Economy of Cities'', while expanding upon familiar themes with new insights. Some(...)
Vital little plans: the short works of Jane Jacobs
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''Vital Little Plans'' bring together for the first time a selection of essays, articles, speeches and interviews by the late Jane Jacobs. These works shed light on the development of the ideas she made famous in her best-known works, ''The Death and Life of Great American Cities'' and ''The Economy of Cities'', while expanding upon familiar themes with new insights. Some works also explore topics rarely directly addressed in her major works, from skyscrapers to feminism to universal health care to gentrification
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Brutal London
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This collection of photographs of Brutalist architecture by Simon Phipps casts the city in a new light. Arranged by inner London Borough, ''Brutal London'' takes in famous examples such as the Trellick Tower, the Brunswick Centre and the Alexandra Road Estate, as well as lesser known housing and municipal spaces. It serves as an introduction to buildings the reader may(...)
Brutal London
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This collection of photographs of Brutalist architecture by Simon Phipps casts the city in a new light. Arranged by inner London Borough, ''Brutal London'' takes in famous examples such as the Trellick Tower, the Brunswick Centre and the Alexandra Road Estate, as well as lesser known housing and municipal spaces. It serves as an introduction to buildings the reader may see every day, an invitation to look differently, a challenge to look up afresh, or to seek out celebrated Brutalism across the capital.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Hermann Eidenbenz (1902–1993) was one of the first persons in Switzerland to describe himself as a graphic designer. From the first half of the 20th century into the 1950s, he was involved in graphic design education in Zurich, Magdeburg, Basel, and Brunswick, first as a student and later as a teacher. The didactic material from Eidenbenz's time as a teacher of graphic(...)
Teaching graphic design. Documents 1926-1955
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Hermann Eidenbenz (1902–1993) was one of the first persons in Switzerland to describe himself as a graphic designer. From the first half of the 20th century into the 1950s, he was involved in graphic design education in Zurich, Magdeburg, Basel, and Brunswick, first as a student and later as a teacher. The didactic material from Eidenbenz's time as a teacher of graphic design published here throws light on this discipline at a time before graphic design in Switzerland had achieved international recognition.
Graphic Design and Typography
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The English translation of the German title, which is the only text in this book, would be something like: "You make them mostly inside, but in summer they can also be made outside." The drawings in this book were produced during a 6 months stay in Paris in 2007, with a technique Bill calls "light on photographic paper", using self-modified pocket-lamps on black(...)
October 2007, Zurich
Linus Bill. Meistens macht man die im haus, aber im sommer gehts auch draussen
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The English translation of the German title, which is the only text in this book, would be something like: "You make them mostly inside, but in summer they can also be made outside." The drawings in this book were produced during a 6 months stay in Paris in 2007, with a technique Bill calls "light on photographic paper", using self-modified pocket-lamps on black photographic paper, creating very instinctive works, allowing coincidence, letting accidents happen and leaving mistakes as they are.
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For over thirty-five years, Wout Berger has lived on the IJsselmeer, a freshwater lake in central Netherlands. It is the first thing he sees each morning and his artistic subject matter, besides the landscape and atmosphere of his daily life. From a tripod fixed by his bedroom window, Berger began to photograph whatever he saw. Recalling both Impressionist light studies(...)
Wout Berger: when I open my eyes
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For over thirty-five years, Wout Berger has lived on the IJsselmeer, a freshwater lake in central Netherlands. It is the first thing he sees each morning and his artistic subject matter, besides the landscape and atmosphere of his daily life. From a tripod fixed by his bedroom window, Berger began to photograph whatever he saw. Recalling both Impressionist light studies and Olafur Eliasson’s photo series, Berger captures the amorphous shapes of waves, fog, rain and clouds fading into the photographic surfaces.
Photography monographs
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Beyond the book, on screens and in spaces being invented, we are seeing the re-casting of roles between people creating and people receiving historical narratives. The six studies brought together in this volume are intended to shed light on the role played by the design of graphic, publishing and museographical systems in the way knowledge is produced and passed on. This(...)
Design Theory
July 2014
Transmettre l'histoire : contribution du design à la production des savoirs
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Beyond the book, on screens and in spaces being invented, we are seeing the re-casting of roles between people creating and people receiving historical narratives. The six studies brought together in this volume are intended to shed light on the role played by the design of graphic, publishing and museographical systems in the way knowledge is produced and passed on. This involves highlighting the challenges of design and questioning the place of signs, images and texts in these systems of transmission.
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