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Comme tous les grands inventeurs de formes, Piero Fornasetti a fini par disparaître derrière celles qu'il avait inventées. Figure essentielle des années cinquante, on lui doit (en particulier au cours d'une fructueuse collaboration avec Gio Ponti) quelques-uns des meubles et objets les plus caractéristiques de cette période, inlassablement reproduits dans les histoires(...)
Fornasetti : designer de la fantaisie
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Comme tous les grands inventeurs de formes, Piero Fornasetti a fini par disparaître derrière celles qu'il avait inventées. Figure essentielle des années cinquante, on lui doit (en particulier au cours d'une fructueuse collaboration avec Gio Ponti) quelques-uns des meubles et objets les plus caractéristiques de cette période, inlassablement reproduits dans les histoires du design et les magazines de décoration. Par-delà même ces réussites incomparables, Fornasetti fut une personnalité versatile, à la tête d'une œuvre multiforme, embrassant aussi bien l'art graphique que la verrerie, la porcelaine que le tissu, la gravure que le théâtre, le mobilier que la peinture. Travailleur acharné, il poursuivit souverainement, entre 1935 et 1988, une recherche obstinée, se créant une mythologie personnelle, un monde imaginaire dont il ne cessa, un peu comme Jean Cocteau, de varier les éléments. C'est à ce monde totalement méconnu qu'ouvre le présent ouvrage. Conçu en collaboration avec l'artiste peu avant sa disparition, il embrasse en une série d'étonnants documents et de superbes illustrations tous les aspects d'une œuvre aussi prolifique que méconnue. Alors que l'on redécouvre les uns après les autres tous les créateurs du " style cinquante ", il rend justice à l'un des plus riches d'entre eux, créateur d'espaces excentriques, d'images envoûtantes et seul, disait Gio Ponti, à " savoir faire parler les objets ".
Design Monographs
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it's a good bet that at least half of those words relate to the picture's copyright status. Art historians, artists, and anyone who wants to use the images of others will find themselves awash in byzantine legal terms, constantly evolving copyright law, varying interpretations by museums and estates, and despair over the(...)
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June 2006, Chicago, London
Permissions, a survival guide : blunt talk about art as intellectual property
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it's a good bet that at least half of those words relate to the picture's copyright status. Art historians, artists, and anyone who wants to use the images of others will find themselves awash in byzantine legal terms, constantly evolving copyright law, varying interpretations by museums and estates, and despair over the complexity of the whole situation. Here, Susan Bielstein offers her decades of experience as an editor working with illustrated books. In doing so, she unsnarls the threads of permissions that have ensnared scholars, critics, and artists for years. Organized as a series of “takes” that range from short sidebars to extended discussions, "Permissions, a survival guide" explores intellectual property law as it pertains to visual imagery. How can you determine whether an artwork is copyrighted? How do you procure a high-quality reproduction of an image? What does “fair use” really mean? Is it ever legitimate to use the work of an artist without permission? Bielstein discusses the many uncertainties that plague writers who work with images in this highly visual age, and she does so based on her years navigating precisely these issues. As an editor who has hired a photographer to shoot an incredibly obscure work in the Italian mountains (a plan that backfired hilariously), who has tried to reason with artists' estates in languages she doesn't speak, and who has spent her time in the archival trenches, she offers a snappy and humane guide to this difficult terrain.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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This book is about the "public realm," defined as a particular kind of social territory that is found almost exclusively in large settlements. This particular form of social-psychological space comes into being whenever a piece of actual physical space is dominated by relationships between and among persons who are strangers to one another, as often occurs in urban bars,(...)
The public realm : exploring the city's quintessential social territory
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This book is about the "public realm," defined as a particular kind of social territory that is found almost exclusively in large settlements. This particular form of social-psychological space comes into being whenever a piece of actual physical space is dominated by relationships between and among persons who are strangers to one another, as often occurs in urban bars, buses, plazas, parks, coffee houses, streets, and so forth. More specifically, the book is about the social life that occurs in such social-psychological space and the forces that threaten it.
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Moshie Safdie: Volume 2
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Volume Two features an essay by Safdie presenting his current thoughts on the significant issues facing architecture today. Accompanying it are texts by William Mitchell on the theme of a global practice responding to a wide range of varied local conditions, and by Thomas Fisher on Safdie's books, which hold as much interest and have been as influential as his buildings.(...)
Moshie Safdie: Volume 2
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Volume Two features an essay by Safdie presenting his current thoughts on the significant issues facing architecture today. Accompanying it are texts by William Mitchell on the theme of a global practice responding to a wide range of varied local conditions, and by Thomas Fisher on Safdie's books, which hold as much interest and have been as influential as his buildings. Featured projects include the Salt Lake City Public Library, the Peabody Essex Museum and the US Institute of Peace, the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, the Rabin Center for Israeli Studies, and the new city of Modi'in in Israel; the Khalsa Heritage Memorial Complex in India; and the Guangdong Science Center and the Guangdong Children's Palace in China. Show More Show Less
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Architecture Monographs
Moshe Safdie: Volume 1
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Influenced by the diverse cultures of Canada, Israel and the USA, Moshe Safdie’s architecture displays a rich and evolving tectonic and spatial sensibility. During 40 years of practice, Safdie has designed cultural, educational and civic institutions, housing, mixed-use complexes and airports, and developments for existing urban districts and entirely new cities. Projects(...)
Moshe Safdie: Volume 1
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Influenced by the diverse cultures of Canada, Israel and the USA, Moshe Safdie’s architecture displays a rich and evolving tectonic and spatial sensibility. During 40 years of practice, Safdie has designed cultural, educational and civic institutions, housing, mixed-use complexes and airports, and developments for existing urban districts and entirely new cities. Projects include in this book are: Habitat project for Expo 67, the National Gallery of Canada, Hebrew Union College, restoration of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem, housing in the USA and Southeast Asia, and urban designs for Montreal, Senegal, Singapore and the new city of Modi’in, Israel.
Architecture Monographs
Architecture for the books
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In the age of information, digital communication and the computer, the traditional library building type is undergoing dramatic change, as these buildings become portals to information in a wide variety of forms beyond the printed page. 'Architecture for the books' shows how designers meet the challenge of library design for a new generation of library users. This(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
December 2003, Victoria (Australia)
Architecture for the books
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In the age of information, digital communication and the computer, the traditional library building type is undergoing dramatic change, as these buildings become portals to information in a wide variety of forms beyond the printed page. 'Architecture for the books' shows how designers meet the challenge of library design for a new generation of library users. This publication presents more than 30 new projects from North America, with a combination of public libraries, school libraries and university libraries. Projects are documented with full-colour photographs, plans, drawings and descriptive text.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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The popular image of the winery remains the picturesque European chateau, but a growing number of winemakers around the world are seeking a fresh approach. Architects are being challenged to rethink the winery as a bold contemporary expression of tradition and innovation, agriculture and technology, production and hospitality: powerful architecture with a(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
January 1900, Mulgrave
Adventurous wine architecture
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The popular image of the winery remains the picturesque European chateau, but a growing number of winemakers around the world are seeking a fresh approach. Architects are being challenged to rethink the winery as a bold contemporary expression of tradition and innovation, agriculture and technology, production and hospitality: powerful architecture with a serious purpose. This book by well-known architectural writer Michael Webb contains a selection of wineries designed by architects such as Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano, Steven Holl, Herzog & de Meuron, Santiago Calatrava, Rafael Moneo, Glenn Murcutt, Norman Foster and more. Each project has been carefully chosen for its architectural excellence and offers a new perspective on an age-old craft, and an adventurous approach to building. The locations are evocative: California, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Austria, Spain, Chile and Argentina.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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Published to accompany an exhibition at the Technisches Museum, Vienna. "Blue. Inventing the River Danube" combines a cultural history of the river with an artistic exploration of its present. The journey begins in Vienna and continue eastwards along the river for two thousand kilometres. Historical photograhs tell the story of how technologyreinvented the Danube from the(...)
Photography monographs
June 2005, Vienna
Blue : inventing the river Danube
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Published to accompany an exhibition at the Technisches Museum, Vienna. "Blue. Inventing the River Danube" combines a cultural history of the river with an artistic exploration of its present. The journey begins in Vienna and continue eastwards along the river for two thousand kilometres. Historical photograhs tell the story of how technologyreinvented the Danube from the middle of the 19th century onwards. They depict the development of the continent's second largest river, and its cultural and economic significance for central and south-easthern Europe. The river as it is today is the theme of the artistic work by Iosif Kiraly (Bucharest)and Sophie Ristelhueber (Paris). In winter and spring 2004/2005 the two photographers travelled along the Danube, eastwards and westwards. Kiraly visited places that have been shaped by the industrial age. Ristelhueber followed the Danube along its last few miles to Sulina, the place where the Danube ends and the Black Sea begins.
Photography monographs
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Sculptor Rachel Whiteread is internationnally renowned for the projects she has created for public spaces. Conceived in close collaboration with the artist, this book lends an insight into the creative process involved in realising what is arguably Whiteread's most dramatic intervention yet, in the vast Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, from conception through to(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
March 2006, London
Rachel Whiteread : embankment
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Sculptor Rachel Whiteread is internationnally renowned for the projects she has created for public spaces. Conceived in close collaboration with the artist, this book lends an insight into the creative process involved in realising what is arguably Whiteread's most dramatic intervention yet, in the vast Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, from conception through to completion. As well providing stunning photography of the final towering construction of "Embankment", this publication revals Whiteread' sources of reference, alongside an essay by Catherine Wood and an interview with the artist Gordon Burn.
Contemporary Art Monographs
The modernist home
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The Modernist house was a test of modern architects’ ability to meet human needs while fuelling the intellect. "The Modernist home" reveals the striking results of the challenge to fit utopian modernist principles to day-to-day living. The Modernist house dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional home, modernising the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior(...)
The modernist home
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The Modernist house was a test of modern architects’ ability to meet human needs while fuelling the intellect. "The Modernist home" reveals the striking results of the challenge to fit utopian modernist principles to day-to-day living. The Modernist house dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional home, modernising the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior to natural light and providing balconies and terraces for sun-worship and sleeping in the open air. Tim Benton uncovers its elements: from the technology that provided central heating and electric lighting; to new construction materials, such as concrete and steel; to close-ups on features like winter gardens and folding furniture. He opens the door on Modernist houses around the world, from Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, to Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, all fully illustrated with colour photographs and plans.
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