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Patterns, Inside the Design Library
Peter Koepke
Phaidon, 2022
Every season, designers from fashion, home furnishings, textiles, graphic arts, and paper-product industries seek inspiration from patterns to bring their collections to life. Many of these designers - including Beacon Hill, Boden, Calvin Klein, Clinique, Colefax & Fowler, Lululemon, Nike, Oscar de la Renta, Pottery Barn, and Target - look to the Design Library, the world's largest archive of surface design. This one-of-a-kind book, drawn from the Design Library's archive, is an exclusive and ultimate sourcebook of pattern and ornament.
ISBN 9781838665654
Philip Jodidio
Taschen, 2023
Architecture giant Norman Foster walks us through his most significant projects, from the Millennium Bridge to Apple Park. Presenting his architectural oeuvre, the first volume of this XXL monograph brims with unpublished images and sketches, handpicked by Foster, while the second contains eight essays describing his sources, written by the Pritzker-prize winning architect. The XXL monograph encompasses a lifetime of achievement and originality in two volumes. The first presents his architectural œuvre and is filled with numerous unpublished images and sketches handpicked by Foster from his archives. Paired with nearly 1000 illustrations, the second book contains eight essays he wrote explaining his sources of inspiration.Aside from the 1999 Pritzker Prize, he has won the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Architecture, the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, and the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture. This is a magnificent visual journey not only through significant buildings of our time but also into the mind of a genius. Norman Foster sketched every page of this book and spent countless hours with the author and the graphic designer to make it one of the most remarkable architecture books ever published.
English - 1064 Pages - 40 x 45 cm - 10,1 Kg
ISBN: 9783836596268
Collectif
Association Genevoise des Architectes, 2022
Le 13 avril 1922, 8 architectes ont donné naissance à l’AGA pour changer, imaginer, regrouper, organiser, mais surtout œuvrer pour maintenir le prestige de la profession, son rôle culturel et économique au sein de la société civile, développer les relations de bonne confraternité entre ses membres et défendre les intérêts de la profession. Pour son 100e, l’AGA a conçu un ouvrage qui porte un regard sur dix lieux représentatifs de l’urbanisme et de l’architecture de ces 100 dernières années à Genève. Il porte également un regard sur le présent et pose des questions pour le futur.
Français - 96 Pages - 20 x 30 cm - 1 KgISBN: 9782839934787
Vincent Darré
Flammarion, 2021
Le maître incontesté de la photographie réaliste japonaise d'après-guerre reste une référence pour les photographes d'aujourd'hui. La richesse et la diversité de l'oeuvre de ce photographe du XXe siècle révèle son attention et sa curiosité sans fin pour la culture, l'art, les portraits, la société et la politique de son pays. Avec plus de 70 000 photos prises entre les années 1920 et les années 1980, Domon Ken est considéré à la fois comme le maître suprême de la photographie japonaise et le principal représentant du réalisme. Il a perfectionné son art au fil des années, passant de la photographie de propagande pendant la guerre à la photographie comme la mission d'une vie, à la recherche de son propre Japon : un Japon silencieux et fascinant, fait d'anciens temples, de sculptures bouddhistes, de théâtres de marionnettes (dans lesquels il s'est réfugié pendant la guerre) ; un Japon où les visages expressifs et séducteurs des célébrités côtoient ceux bien plus modestes des enfants de rue. Il a exposé la pauvreté extrême des villages miniers japonais ainsi que les blessures encore ouvertes d'Hiroshima dans ses œuvres les plus récentes et perturbantes. Plus de 150 photographies des années 1920 aux années 1970 retracent cette trajectoire et ce talent uniques.
Français - 216 Pages - 29 x 33 cm - 2.1 KgISBN: 9782080262103
Jacques Dworczak
Assouline, 2019
Upon India’s independence, Jawaharlal Nehru, the nation’s first Prime Minister, dreamed of “a new town, symbolic of the freedom of India …. an expression of the nation’s faith in the future.” Chandigarh, meaning “fortress of Chandi,” the Indian goddess of power, is the incarnation of Nehru’s vision. The construction of this municipality, the brainchild of renowned modernist architect Le Corbusier, born of his utopian dream of an avant-garde city, symbolized the determination of India to move forward into the contemporary world. Instead of a “vertical city,” Chandigarh was organized as a horizontal grid with broad avenues, residential neighborhoods, green spaces, medical facilities, schools, temples, shops, sports grounds, and an artificial lake. Le Corbusier designed most of the infrastructure, highlighting large volumes through a bold use of raw concrete. Adapting his architectural plans to the regional climate, Le Corbusier provided protection against the sun and the monsoon rains while facilitating air circulation with vented shutters and large terraces. In close collaboration with his illustrious cousin, Pierre Jeanneret supervised the manufacture of numerous articles of furniture for public and private buildings, using wood from the forest-clearing necessitated by the vast undertaking. Recently, record prices achieved at auction for these pieces have brought awareness of this great project and its creators to a broader public. Today, Indian leaders have become aware of the wealth of this great cultural heritage, and since January 2011 no furniture pieces can exit the country without permission of the authorities and the Ministry of Culture. This specialized catalogue raisonné sheds new light on this visionary urban project that is generating growing interest among design aficionados around the world.
English - 350 Pages - 31 x 4 x 38 cm - 3,9 KgISBN 9781614286998