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240 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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London : George Philip, 1987.
London : George Philip, 1987.
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Property and landscape : a social history of land ownership and the English countryside / Tom Williamson and Liz Bellamy.
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240 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Property and landscape : a social history of land ownership and the English countryside / Tom Williamson and Liz Bellamy.
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London : George Philip, 1987.
London : George Philip, 1987.
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This comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-West Lancashire treats each city, town, and village in a detailed gazetteer. The great port city of Liverpool dominates, with its cathedrals, mighty commercial buildings and warehouses, and Georgian inner city. Full accounts are also given of the suburbs and industrial towns beyond. But most of the area remains rural, and(...)
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This comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-West Lancashire treats each city, town, and village in a detailed gazetteer. The great port city of Liverpool dominates, with its cathedrals, mighty commercial buildings and warehouses, and Georgian inner city. Full accounts are also given of the suburbs and industrial towns beyond. But most of the area remains rural, and(...)
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Guides des villes
Guides des villes
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août 2006, New Haven / London
août 2006, New Haven / London
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Lancashire : Liverpool and the south-west
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This comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-West Lancashire treats each city, town, and village in a detailed gazetteer. The great port city of Liverpool dominates, with its cathedrals, mighty commercial buildings and warehouses, and Georgian inner city. Full accounts are also given of the suburbs and industrial towns beyond. But most of the area remains rural, and in this landscape are found buildings (Sefton church, Speke Hall, and the Georgian country houses of Knowsley, ancestral seat of the Earls of Derby, and Ince Blundell, with its Neoclassical sculpture gallery). Numerous maps and plans, color photographs, indexes, and an illustrated glossary complete this volume.
Lancashire : Liverpool and the south-west
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This comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-West Lancashire treats each city, town, and village in a detailed gazetteer. The great port city of Liverpool dominates, with its cathedrals, mighty commercial buildings and warehouses, and Georgian inner city. Full accounts are also given of the suburbs and industrial towns beyond. But most of the area remains rural, and in this landscape are found buildings (Sefton church, Speke Hall, and the Georgian country houses of Knowsley, ancestral seat of the Earls of Derby, and Ince Blundell, with its Neoclassical sculpture gallery). Numerous maps and plans, color photographs, indexes, and an illustrated glossary complete this volume.
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août 2006, New Haven / London
août 2006, New Haven / London
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Guides des villes
Guides des villes
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AMAG 40 Go Hasegawa
AMAG 40 Go Hasegawa
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$108.00
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How do we dwell lightly? Or build with care? ‘AMAG’ presents a curated selection of key projects by Japanese architect Go Hasegawa, offering insight into the spatial, cultural, and poetic dimensions of his architecture. From private homes to communal spaces, rural Japan to European sites, a deep sensitivity to place, memory, and the human body is revealed. Projects like(...)
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How do we dwell lightly? Or build with care? ‘AMAG’ presents a curated selection of key projects by Japanese architect Go Hasegawa, offering insight into the spatial, cultural, and poetic dimensions of his architecture. From private homes to communal spaces, rural Japan to European sites, a deep sensitivity to place, memory, and the human body is revealed. Projects like(...)
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AMAG 40 Go Hasegawa
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How do we dwell lightly? Or build with care? ‘AMAG’ presents a curated selection of key projects by Japanese architect Go Hasegawa, offering insight into the spatial, cultural, and poetic dimensions of his architecture. From private homes to communal spaces, rural Japan to European sites, a deep sensitivity to place, memory, and the human body is revealed. Projects like House in a Forest, Pilotis in a Forest, and House in Komazawa explore lightness, nature, and structural clarity. The Yoshino Cedar House merges domesticity and community under one roof, while urban works like Apartment in Nerima and House in Gotanda reimagine domestic life in dense cities.
AMAG 40 Go Hasegawa
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How do we dwell lightly? Or build with care? ‘AMAG’ presents a curated selection of key projects by Japanese architect Go Hasegawa, offering insight into the spatial, cultural, and poetic dimensions of his architecture. From private homes to communal spaces, rural Japan to European sites, a deep sensitivity to place, memory, and the human body is revealed. Projects like House in a Forest, Pilotis in a Forest, and House in Komazawa explore lightness, nature, and structural clarity. The Yoshino Cedar House merges domesticity and community under one roof, while urban works like Apartment in Nerima and House in Gotanda reimagine domestic life in dense cities.
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novembre 2025
novembre 2025
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Revues
Revues
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Rome, the"Eternal City", is a unique palimpsest dating back to Antiquity. However, beyond the historic center built over millennia on the famous seven hills - another Rome exists, one of large and often stunning modern neighborhoods, housing estates, schools, and public buildings. When Rome became Italy's capital in 1871, the population increased extensively and the city(...)
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Rome, the"Eternal City", is a unique palimpsest dating back to Antiquity. However, beyond the historic center built over millennia on the famous seven hills - another Rome exists, one of large and often stunning modern neighborhoods, housing estates, schools, and public buildings. When Rome became Italy's capital in 1871, the population increased extensively and the city(...)
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The other Rome: Building the modern metropolis 1870-1960
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Rome, the"Eternal City", is a unique palimpsest dating back to Antiquity. However, beyond the historic center built over millennia on the famous seven hills - another Rome exists, one of large and often stunning modern neighborhoods, housing estates, schools, and public buildings. When Rome became Italy's capital in 1871, the population increased extensively and the city exceeded its boundaries since Roman times, the Aurelian Walls. This extraordinary transformation laid the foundation for many new quarters built to accommodate civil servants and rural migrants, drawing on vernacular and ancient Roman traditions and blending past and present. This book looks at Rome's evolution and architecture from the 19th century onwards.
The other Rome: Building the modern metropolis 1870-1960
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Rome, the"Eternal City", is a unique palimpsest dating back to Antiquity. However, beyond the historic center built over millennia on the famous seven hills - another Rome exists, one of large and often stunning modern neighborhoods, housing estates, schools, and public buildings. When Rome became Italy's capital in 1871, the population increased extensively and the city exceeded its boundaries since Roman times, the Aurelian Walls. This extraordinary transformation laid the foundation for many new quarters built to accommodate civil servants and rural migrants, drawing on vernacular and ancient Roman traditions and blending past and present. This book looks at Rome's evolution and architecture from the 19th century onwards.
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octobre 2025
octobre 2025
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Winding its way southward through the Philadelphia communities of Chestnut Hill and Mount Airy, as well as the verdant rural countryside of Gwynedd, Whitemarsh, and Wyndmoor, the Wissahickon Creek flows through a region of both unsurpassed natural beauty and some of the nation’s most exquisite residential architecture. The marvelous landscape that attracted early(...)
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Winding its way southward through the Philadelphia communities of Chestnut Hill and Mount Airy, as well as the verdant rural countryside of Gwynedd, Whitemarsh, and Wyndmoor, the Wissahickon Creek flows through a region of both unsurpassed natural beauty and some of the nation’s most exquisite residential architecture. The marvelous landscape that attracted early(...)
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septembre 2008, New York
septembre 2008, New York
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Houses of Philadelphia: Chestnut Hill and the Wissahickon Valley 1880-1930
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Winding its way southward through the Philadelphia communities of Chestnut Hill and Mount Airy, as well as the verdant rural countryside of Gwynedd, Whitemarsh, and Wyndmoor, the Wissahickon Creek flows through a region of both unsurpassed natural beauty and some of the nation’s most exquisite residential architecture. The marvelous landscape that attracted early travelers and settlers became the setting for glorious estates that celebrated the connection between the natural and the built environment. From the mid-19th through the mid-20th century, three generations of prominent regional and national architects designed houses that have endured as magnificent examples of their own time, and remain eminently livable homes to this day.
Houses of Philadelphia: Chestnut Hill and the Wissahickon Valley 1880-1930
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Winding its way southward through the Philadelphia communities of Chestnut Hill and Mount Airy, as well as the verdant rural countryside of Gwynedd, Whitemarsh, and Wyndmoor, the Wissahickon Creek flows through a region of both unsurpassed natural beauty and some of the nation’s most exquisite residential architecture. The marvelous landscape that attracted early travelers and settlers became the setting for glorious estates that celebrated the connection between the natural and the built environment. From the mid-19th through the mid-20th century, three generations of prominent regional and national architects designed houses that have endured as magnificent examples of their own time, and remain eminently livable homes to this day.
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septembre 2008, New York
septembre 2008, New York
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CPULs: continuous productive urban landscapes, designing urban agriculture for sustainable cities
CPULs: continuous productive urban landscapes, designing urban agriculture for sustainable cities
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This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of(...)
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This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of(...)
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Architecture écologique
Architecture écologique
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janvier 2005, Amsterdam, Boston, London
janvier 2005, Amsterdam, Boston, London
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CPULs: continuous productive urban landscapes, designing urban agriculture for sustainable cities
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This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of foodstuffs to the city dwelling consumers. The revolutionary and innovative concepts put forth in this book have potential to shape the future of our cities quality of life within them. Urban design is shown in practice through international case studies and the arguments presented are supported by quantified economic, environmental and social justifications.
CPULs: continuous productive urban landscapes, designing urban agriculture for sustainable cities
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This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of foodstuffs to the city dwelling consumers. The revolutionary and innovative concepts put forth in this book have potential to shape the future of our cities quality of life within them. Urban design is shown in practice through international case studies and the arguments presented are supported by quantified economic, environmental and social justifications.
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janvier 2005, Amsterdam, Boston, London
janvier 2005, Amsterdam, Boston, London
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Architecture écologique
Architecture écologique
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The architect is present
The architect is present
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The exhibition ''The Architect is Present'' shows the work of five influential international studios who have turned austerity into their ethic and aesthetic motto. With offices located in five continents, these young architects work in underprivileged contexts, proving that scarcity of means can stimulate technical inventiveness and community participation, and become(...)
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The exhibition ''The Architect is Present'' shows the work of five influential international studios who have turned austerity into their ethic and aesthetic motto. With offices located in five continents, these young architects work in underprivileged contexts, proving that scarcity of means can stimulate technical inventiveness and community participation, and become(...)
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The architect is present
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The exhibition ''The Architect is Present'' shows the work of five influential international studios who have turned austerity into their ethic and aesthetic motto. With offices located in five continents, these young architects work in underprivileged contexts, proving that scarcity of means can stimulate technical inventiveness and community participation, and become the basis for a responsible architecture where the vocation of service does not exclude beauty and emotion. From Norway and Germany to Burkina Faso, and from Paraguay to Australia passing through India or Thailand, these studios have built housing, rural schools or social centers with an extraordinary economy of means, admirable adaptation to collective needs and exemplary material execution.
The architect is present
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The exhibition ''The Architect is Present'' shows the work of five influential international studios who have turned austerity into their ethic and aesthetic motto. With offices located in five continents, these young architects work in underprivileged contexts, proving that scarcity of means can stimulate technical inventiveness and community participation, and become the basis for a responsible architecture where the vocation of service does not exclude beauty and emotion. From Norway and Germany to Burkina Faso, and from Paraguay to Australia passing through India or Thailand, these studios have built housing, rural schools or social centers with an extraordinary economy of means, admirable adaptation to collective needs and exemplary material execution.
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octobre 2014
octobre 2014
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Architecture contemporaine
Architecture contemporaine
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Library : an unquiet history
Library : an unquiet history
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Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home(...)
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Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home(...)
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juin 2003, New York
juin 2003, New York
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Library : an unquiet history
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Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age. He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish—and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia.
Library : an unquiet history
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Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age. He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish—and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia.
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juin 2003, New York
juin 2003, New York
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Through eighteen distinctive projects set across urban, suburban, and rural spaces, this book explores how thoughtful design and awareness of local ecology can make gardens both beautiful and sustainable. Featuring interviews with designers in the United States and the United Kingdom, this survey presents the stories and lessons behind inspirational garden projects,(...)
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Through eighteen distinctive projects set across urban, suburban, and rural spaces, this book explores how thoughtful design and awareness of local ecology can make gardens both beautiful and sustainable. Featuring interviews with designers in the United States and the United Kingdom, this survey presents the stories and lessons behind inspirational garden projects,(...)
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Beyond the garden: Designing home landscapes with natural systems
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Through eighteen distinctive projects set across urban, suburban, and rural spaces, this book explores how thoughtful design and awareness of local ecology can make gardens both beautiful and sustainable. Featuring interviews with designers in the United States and the United Kingdom, this survey presents the stories and lessons behind inspirational garden projects, including stormwater conservation in the high desert of New Mexico, native woodlands restoration in coastal Maine, and land stewardship in England's Hampshire county, this comprehensive survey of eco-conscious garden designs offers guiding principles to make your landscape "greener" and will spark curiosity about the natural systems just outside your front door.
Beyond the garden: Designing home landscapes with natural systems
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Through eighteen distinctive projects set across urban, suburban, and rural spaces, this book explores how thoughtful design and awareness of local ecology can make gardens both beautiful and sustainable. Featuring interviews with designers in the United States and the United Kingdom, this survey presents the stories and lessons behind inspirational garden projects, including stormwater conservation in the high desert of New Mexico, native woodlands restoration in coastal Maine, and land stewardship in England's Hampshire county, this comprehensive survey of eco-conscious garden designs offers guiding principles to make your landscape "greener" and will spark curiosity about the natural systems just outside your front door.
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juillet 2022
juillet 2022
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Jardins
Jardins
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Stefan Canham: The town
Stefan Canham: The town
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Photographer Stefan Canham has visited the provincial town of Sapa in northern Vietnam repeatedly since 2011. Speaking with women from the surrounding mountain villages, he became obsessed with the small rectangular patches of cloth they were selling. Cut from traditional jackets and embroidered in abstract geometric patterns indicating the wearer’s village, the patches(...)
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Photographer Stefan Canham has visited the provincial town of Sapa in northern Vietnam repeatedly since 2011. Speaking with women from the surrounding mountain villages, he became obsessed with the small rectangular patches of cloth they were selling. Cut from traditional jackets and embroidered in abstract geometric patterns indicating the wearer’s village, the patches(...)
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Stefan Canham: The town
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Photographer Stefan Canham has visited the provincial town of Sapa in northern Vietnam repeatedly since 2011. Speaking with women from the surrounding mountain villages, he became obsessed with the small rectangular patches of cloth they were selling. Cut from traditional jackets and embroidered in abstract geometric patterns indicating the wearer’s village, the patches have become objects in transition between rural customs and international tourism. The town itself is also in transition: scores of slender new houses with eclectic facades are being erected, catering to the influx of tourists. Canham explores these two significant facets of material culture in a carefully thought out artist’s book.
Stefan Canham: The town
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Photographer Stefan Canham has visited the provincial town of Sapa in northern Vietnam repeatedly since 2011. Speaking with women from the surrounding mountain villages, he became obsessed with the small rectangular patches of cloth they were selling. Cut from traditional jackets and embroidered in abstract geometric patterns indicating the wearer’s village, the patches have become objects in transition between rural customs and international tourism. The town itself is also in transition: scores of slender new houses with eclectic facades are being erected, catering to the influx of tourists. Canham explores these two significant facets of material culture in a carefully thought out artist’s book.
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mai 2022
mai 2022
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Monographies photo
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