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Quiet Spaces
William Smalley; Foreword by Edmund De Waal; Photographs by Harry Crowder, Hélène Binet
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R1,146
Discovery Miles 11 460
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An elegant presentation of interiors for introverts, placing the
memorable work of London architect William Smalley alongside
buildings around the world that have inspired his practice. The
interiors in Quiet Spaces were made for private contemplation: calm
places in which to read a book, listen to music or have dinner with
friends. Showcasing the possibilities of sophisticated, low-key
luxury design, this book presents the work of William Smalley
alongside a selection of inspirational spaces across the globe that
have influenced his practice. This timely publication speaks to the
growing trend for slow and calm living, boosted by a return to
focusing on home life thanks to the pandemic. Organized into four
themed chapters – Space, Silence, Shadows and Life – Quiet
Spaces reveals the importance of key design concepts in creating
quiet equilibrium in Smalley’s practice, as well as in homes,
interiors and architecture more generally. Projects range from
Smalley’s work – including his own Bloomsbury Apartment and a
number of private residences, frequently in old houses – to
inspiring buildings around the world, such as Mexico City’s Casa
Barragán, Villa Saraceno in Italy and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
Newly commissioned photography and interviews with the owners give
fresh insights into the experience of living in these exquisite
spaces, brought together in an elegant and covetable package that
will inspire designers, architects and anyone with a love of
restrained and refined design.
From the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Hare with Amber
Eyes As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by
accident. I know your street rather well. The Camondos lived just a
few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears. Like de Waal's
family, they were part of belle epoque high society. They were also
targets of anti-Semitism. Count Moise de Camondo created a
spectacular house filled with art for his son to inherit. Over a
century later, de Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed
archives and, in a haunting series of letters addressed to Camondo,
he tells us what happened next. 'Illuminating... A wonderful
tribute to a family and to an idea' Guardian 'Letters to Camondo
immerses you in another age... Dazzling' Financial Times
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine
James Attlee, Geoffrey Batchen, Allie Biswas, David Chipperfield, Edmund De Waal, …
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R1,088
Discovery Miles 10 880
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Magical images that defy time from the grand master of conceptual
photography. Through his expansive exploration of the possibilities
of still images, the internationally renowned artist and
photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto has created some of the most
alluringly enigmatic photographs of our time; pictures that are
meticulously crafted and deeply thought-provoking, familiar yet
tantalisingly ambiguous. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine is a
comprehensive survey of work produced over the past five decades,
featuring selections from all of Sugimoto’s major photographic
series, as well as lesser-known works that illuminate his
innovative, conceptually-driven approach to making pictures. Texts
by a collection of international writers, artists and scholars -
including Geoffrey Batchen, Edmund de Waal, Mami Kataoka, Ralph
Rugoff, Lara Strongman and Margaret Wertheim - will highlight his
work’s philosophical yet playful inquiry into the nature of
representation and art, our understanding of time and memory, and
the paradoxical character of photography as a medium suited to both
documenting and invention.
There are three main strands. There is a Jewish professor who had
taken his family to America when he saw danger at home; they
thrived in their new life but he did not, and has returned alone.
There is an entrepreneur, of Greek descent, who is returning to a
city where he believes he will find business and social openings.
And there is an American girl, the daughter of immigrants, who has
been sent to stay with relations in the hope that it would pull her
out of what seemed to be apathy with her life.And in consequence
there are three very different stories, told in different
styles.(Amazon review)
An intimate look at Ben Nicholson's everyday inspirations
Throughout his career, Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) transformed
everyday homewares into extraordinary experiments in abstract art.
Nicholson's studio was filled with objects that inspired him. From
patterned mocha-ware jugs and cut glass goblets to spanners,
hammers and chisels, these ordinary personal possessions were a
source of almost endless inspiration to the artist. This book
brings together for the first time Nicholson's paintings, reliefs,
prints and drawings alongside his rarely seen personal possessions
and studio tools. It traces how the artist's style developed, from
his early traditional tabletop still lifes to his later abstract
works. Still life was at the heart of Nicholson's artistic
practice. Through these humble items, he began to experiment with
form and color. His early works in particular owed inspiration to
his father, the painter William Nicholson. The book traces the
artistic and personal influences on Nicholson's evolutionary still
life style from the 1920s to the 1970s. It explores his time with
Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, as well as his encounters
with other Modernist greats, Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian.
Distributed for Pallant House Gallery
An" Economist" Book of the Year
Costa Book Award Winner for Biography
Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year
Award)
Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty
years making beautiful pots--which are then sold, collected, and
handed on--he has a particular sense of the secret lives of
objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood
and ivory carvings, called netsuke, he wanted to know who had
touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to
survive.
And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective
story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his
family, the Ephrussis, over five generations. A nineteenth-century
banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna, the Ephrussis were as rich and
respected as the Rothchilds. Yet by the end of the World War II,
when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna, this
collection of very small carvings was all that remained of their
vast empire.
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Objects of Desire (Hardcover)
Maria Hummer-Tuttle; Foreword by Edmund De Waal; Photographs by Miguel Flores-Vianna
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R1,226
Discovery Miles 12 260
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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63 rue de Monceau, Paris
Dear friend,
As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I
know your street rather well.
Count Mose de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's
forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his bestselling memoir
The Hare with Amber Eyes. Like the Ephrussi, the Camondos were part of
belle poque high society. They were also targets of anti-semitism.
Camondo created a spectacular house and filled it with the greatest
private collection of French eighteenth-century art for his son to
inherit. But when Nissim was killed in the First World War, it became a
memorial and, on the Count's death, was bequeathed to France.
The Muse Nissim de Camondo has remained unchanged since 1936. Edmund
de Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed archives and uncovers
new layers to the family story. In a haunting series of letters
addressed to the Count, he tells us what happened next.
The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from
the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes. ** A
Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ** "Other things in the world are
white but for me porcelain comes first" A handful of clay from a
Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right
materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into
porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and
potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins
in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice,
Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South
Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of
porcelain. Along the way, he meets the witnesses to its creation;
those who were inspired, made rich or heartsick by it, and the many
whose livelihoods, minds and bodies were broken by this obsession.
It spans a thousand years and reaches into some of the most tragic
moments of recent times. In these intimate and compelling
encounters with the people and landscapes who made porcelain,
Edmund de Waal enriches his understanding of this rare material,
the 'white gold' he has worked with for decades. 'This is a
haunting book, a book that amasses itself piece by piece, gaining
in weight.' Olivia Laing, New Statesman 'A mighty achievement'
Guardian
264 wood and ivory carvings of animals, plants and people, none of
them larger than a matchbox; apprentice potter Edmund de Waal was
entranced by the collection when he first encountered it in the
Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. When he inherited them,
he discovered that they unlocked a story larger than he could have
imagined.
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Japanese Netsuke (Paperback)
Julia Hutt; Foreword by Edmund De Waal
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R624
R512
Discovery Miles 5 120
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'You will have a moment of quiet delight and a mood of
introspection to carry you away.' Edmund de Waal Prized by
collectors from East to West, Japanese netsuke are tiny objects of
wonder that originated as utilitarian accessories for traditional
Japanese dress. Over the centuries these small carved toggles,
designed to hook over the top of the kimono sash, evolved into
high-fashion depictions of all aspects of Japanese life. In this
richly illustrated and highly accessible book, Julia Hutt draws on
the V&A's world-famous netsuke collection to explore the
origins and techniques of this captivating art form.
The sea of flowers he presented in the courtyard of Somerset House
during the 2012 Olympic Games in London made him and his art famous
on the international stage: the Chilean sculptor Fernando
Casasempere (*1958 in Santiago, Chile) placed ten thousand ceramic
daffodils on the otherwise carefully mowed lawns there. Casasempere
molded each one individually out of clay from his homeland, using
the spring blossoms to draw attention to the wonders of nature with
which humans destructively interfere-in this case, with lawn
mowers. Casasempere, who has lived in England since 1997, also
employs clay to make far more experimental sculptures, such as
seemingly liquid marble columns or vaulted and bulging shapes,
through which he repeatedly questions humankind's treatment of the
environment. This richly illustrated catalogue is an impressive
presentation of the development of his body of work over the past
twenty-five years.
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The Exiles Return (Paperback)
Elisabeth de Waal; Foreword by Edmund De Waal
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R629
R518
Discovery Miles 5 180
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WITH A FOREWORD BY EDMUND DE WAAL, AUTHOR OF "THE HARE WITH AMBER
EYES
"SET IN THE ASHES OF POST-SECOND WORLD WAR VIENNA, A POWERFUL,
SUBTLE NOVEL OF EXILES RETURNING HOME FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER FLEEING
HITLER'S DEADLY REIGN
Vienna is demolished by war, the city an alien landscape of ruined
castles, a fractured ruling class, and people picking up the
pieces. Elisabeth de Waal's mesmerizing "The Exiles Return" is a
stunningly vivid postwar story of Austria's fallen aristocrats,
unrepentant Nazis, and a culture degraded by violence.
The novel follows a number of exiles, each returning under very
different circumstances, who must come to terms with a city in
painful recovery. There is Kuno Adler, a Jewish research scientist,
who is tired of his unfulfilling existence in America; Theophil
Kanakis, a wealthy Greek businessman, seeking to plunder some of
the spoils of war; Marie-Theres, a brooding teenager, sent by her
parents in hopes that the change of scene will shake her out of her
funk; and Prince "Bimbo" Grein, a handsome young man with a title
divested of all its social currency.
With immaculate precision and sensitivity, de Waal, an exile
herself, captures a city rebuilding and relearning its identity,
and the people who have to do the same. As mesmerizing as Stefan
Zweig's "The World of Yesterday," and as tragic as Hans Fallada's
"Every Man Dies Alone," de Waal has written a masterpiece of
European literature, an artifact revealing a moment in our history,
clear as a snapshot, but timeless as well.
This third volume in the Frick Diptych series offers fresh insight
into a pair of candelabra that represent the pinnacle of luxury and
taste in the years prior to the French Revolution. Vignon tells the
fascinating story of these objects that are made of two small white
vases with extraordinary gilt-bronze mounts by Pierre Gouthiere,
the celebrated eighteenth-century French chaser and gilder.
Vignon's essay is paired with a text by De Waal in which he
examines what it is to make, own, and desire such complex objects
An engaging look at how the middle classes of fin-de-siecleVienna
used innovative portraiture to define their identity During the
great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siecleVienna, artists of
that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict
artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and
society celebrities from the upwardly mobile middle classes. Viewed
as a whole, the images allow us to reconstruct the subjects'
shifting identities as the Austro-Hungarian Empire underwent
dramatic political changes, from the 1867 Ausgleich (Compromise) to
the end of World War I. This is viewed as a time when the
avant-garde overthrew the academy, yet Facing the Modern tells a
more complex story of the time through thought-provoking texts by
numerous leading art historians. Their writings examine paintings
by innovative artists such as Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and
Egon Schiele alongside earlier works, blurring the
conventionally-held distinctions between 19th-century and
early-20th-century art, and revealing surprising continuities in
the production and consumption of portraits. This compelling book
features works not only by famous names but also by lesser-known
female and Jewish artists, giving a more complete picture of the
time. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale
University Press Exhibition Schedule: The National Gallery, London
(10/09/13-01/12/14)
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