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Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Interior design
This interactive book presents a curated collection of more than 60
uniquely designed boutique homes, brought together by the founders
and authors of the eponymous brand. The composition of excellent
architecture and design staged with stunning photography, showcases
an international 'best of the best' selection. This is further
divided into chapters: beach and cliff houses; architectural gems;
chic and cheap; updated history; urban retreat; country living;
emotional luxury; unplugged; cabins; and spaces for family and
friends. The book and complementary app for iPhones is more than an
exciting and glamorous source of inspiration. Each of the shown
houses and apartments is also available for rent, and can be
experienced in all its glory.
Charlotte Perriand is one of the foremost figures in
twentieth-century interior design. Together with her collaborators
Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier, she created many pieces of
furniture we now consider classics, including the instantly
recognisable LC4 chaise. Her pioneering work with metal was
particularly instrumental in paving the way for the machine-age
aesthetic popular throughout the 1920s and '30s. The third volume
in a four-part series, this lavish book covers the years between
1956 and 1968. During this period, Perriand established a
relationship with the Galerie Steph Simon, which exhibited and
published some of her most iconic work, as well as that of renowned
contemporaries Serge Mouille, Georges Jouve, and Jean Prouve.
Perriand also completed several high-profile projects throughout
the 1960s, most of which have been published here for the first
time. These include comprehensive designs for Air France's offices
around the world and the renovation of the Palais des Nations,
where many of her designs for furniture and the assembly halls she
decorated remain in use and relatively unchanged to this day. This
new volume also documents her intimate, yet little known, links to
Brazil. Covering key moments in Perriand's personal life, as well
as the iconic styles she developed, this third volume in the series
comes complete with annotations and a bibliography for further
research.
A revelatory look at the residences of Adolf Hitler, illuminating
their powerful role in constructing and promoting the dictator's
private persona both within Germany and abroad Adolf Hitler's
makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of
dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This
provocative book exposes the dictator's preoccupation with his
private persona, which was shaped by the aesthetic and ideological
management of his domestic architecture. Hitler's bachelor life
stirred rumors, and the Nazi regime relied on the dictator's three
dwellings-the Old Chancellery in Berlin, his apartment in Munich,
and the Berghof, his mountain home on the Obersalzberg-to foster
the myth of the Fuhrer as a morally upstanding and refined man.
Author Despina Stratigakos also reveals the previously untold story
of Hitler's interior designer, Gerdy Troost, through newly
discovered archival sources. At the height of the Third Reich,
media outlets around the world showcased Hitler's homes to
audiences eager for behind-the-scenes stories. After the war,
fascination with Hitler's domestic life continued as soldiers and
journalists searched his dwellings for insights into his
psychology. The book's rich illustrations, many previously
unpublished, offer readers a rare glimpse into the decisions
involved in the making of Hitler's homes and into the sheer power
of the propaganda that influenced how the world saw him.
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Decor me
(Paperback)
Kulsoom Sultana, Jasra S, Faiz Ul Haque Zeya
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R685
Discovery Miles 6 850
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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