Helena Rubinstein's life as a pioneering cosmetics mogul and art collector is vividly captured in this richly illustrated volume. Featuring 400 vintage images and 16 expert essays, it explores her bold decor style, ranging from sleek modernism to eclectic vintage influences, showcased in her salons and residences in major cities. Rubinstein's remarkable art collection included works by iconic artists like Picasso and Monet, while her distinctive fashion sense kept her in the spotlight. This book revives her vibrant character and lasting impact on culture and style.
What visitor to the Caribbean has not been entranced by the beauty and spirit of its tropical islands? In Caribbean Style, more than 600 spectacular full-color photographs and an illuminating text re-create the houses, gardens, and lifestyle of this enchanting region. A trendsetting book that combines travel and design, Caribbean Style offers a previously unseen view of the islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Bartélémy, Antigua, Nevis, Montserrat, Barbados, Haiti, and Jamaica. The book includes information on island vegetation and colors, plantation houses, town houses, popular houses, contemporary houses, and gardens. In addition, the Architectural Notebook provides plans and information on different types of houses on the various islands. These pages take you from plantation manor houses with gracious verandahs that catch the mild, cooling winds to brightly painted native dwellings adorned with imaginative wood trim; from colonial plantation gardens with rows of majestic palm trees and winding water canals left from earlier days to simple town-house gardens with bright patches of bougainvilleas. Caribbean Style explodes with an intense profusion of images and colors. With this vivid portrait of the Caribbean, you will almost feel the soft breezes, inhale the fragrance of tropical flowers, and luxuriate in the warmth of the sun.
Rediscovering the Style and Design of Central Europe
251 pages
9 hours of reading
The authors of the International Style Library turn their attention to the land east of the Danube as they travel through Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and the surrounding countryside to find in the architecture, interiors, and folk arts of the region a host of thriving design traditions accessible again after a long isolation.Full-color photographs.
Wire objects have worked their way into virtually every human activity. Since the eighteenth century, such occupations as housekeeping, cooking, gardening, fishing, and hunting were unthinkable without them. Shopkeepers fashioned wire into display racks, and children played with wire toys. Many pieces, such as fruit bowls, platters, and baskets of all kinds served both practical and decorative functions.With its vintage photographs, pages from early catalogs, old advertisements, and more than 300 evocative full-color photographs, Wire reveals why there is such a strong revival of interest in these pieces and demonstrates how they can be integrated into our homes today.
The authors of the International Style Library turn their attention to the land east of the Danube as they travel through Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and the surrounding countryside to find in the architecture, interiors, and folk arts of the region a host of thriving design traditions accessible again after a long isolation.Full-color photographs.
A flip and playful collection of postcards features accompanying thoughts on love and romance from such authorities as Cher, Dorothy Parker, George Bernard Shaw, Chico Marx, and Woody Allen. 20,000 first printing.
"In more than 700 photographs, from cafes to courtyards, and from fifteenth-century palacios in Ibiza to contemporary apartments in Barcelona, family homes on Mallorca and holiday villas near Segovia, Spanish Style truly captures the beauty and romance that is Spain."--BOOK JACKET.
