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Book Review: Decorative Arts by Jean-Michel Frank

Book Review: Decorative Arts by Jean-Michel Frank – Between 1932 and 1940, J.M. Frank completely reinvented the vocabulary of decorative arts. Working in Paris, New York and South America, Frank was inspired by neo-classicism, abstract art and primitive art. He sought to create an original style for the thirties, a style whose elegance gained him the patronage of an elite clientele. J.M. Frank’s name has come to serve as a reference for collectors. The decorative principles he created are still today the basis for the minimalist style that dominates contemporary decor. See also: Free eBook: 100 Modern Chairs One of France’s leading fashion and style specialists, Francois Baudot is a writer and an editorial adviser for Elle and Elle Decor. He is the author of a number of books devoted to fashion and decorative arts, including in Assouline: Compendium of Interior Style, The Allure of Men and, in the Fashion Memoire series Chanel, Chanel Jewelry, Fashion & Surrealism, Fashion Dogs, Jean-Michel Frank, Eileen Gray, Gruau and Yohji Yamamoto. See also: New Edition of Coveted, the Luxury and Design Magazine Keep following Best Design Books for the latest book reviews and the most amazing design books and magazines! Follow Best Design Books on…

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Shigeru Ban: Challenging Accepted Notions of Architecture

Shigeru Ban: Challenging Accepted Notions of Architecture – From emergency relief shelters to a cardboard cathedral and exhibition spaces in shipping containers, Pritzker Prize–winning architect Shigeru Ban has made his name with his restlessly inventive response to material and situation, as much as with his humanitarian work at the sites of natural and man-made disasters. See also: Free eBook: Must-Have Limited Edition Furniture In the spirit of a three-dimensional poetry, Ban uses materials as an incorporated part of his design, selected not for their cutting-edge credentials but rather for their expressive ability, their capacity to convey the building’s overall concept. In particular, Ban has made regular use of paper tubing in projects as varied as the Japanese Pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hanover and emergency shelters for Rwanda’s Byumba Refugee Camp.   This essential introduction, compiled with Ban’s own collaboration, presents his most important projects to date to survey the full reach and importance of, in the words of the Pritzker Prize jury, a “committed teacher who is not only a role model for younger generations, but also an inspiration.” See also: Free eBook – Best Home Decor Ideas to Inspire You Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architectu re series features: an…

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Inspirations

Free eBook: 100 Modern Chairs

Free eBook: 100 Modern Chairs – The ultimate source of inspiration for interior designers! Modern Chairs is the ultimate source for dining chairs and armchairs inspiration. Get your free e-book and be inspired! Our mission is to inspire whoever is searching for tips on how to style a living room, find the best upholstered dining chairs or looking for velvet armchairs for the bedroom, from the best interior designers and brands. From different chair designs to upholstered chairs or simple metal chairs, Modern Chairs has the best designers chair for your sitting room.   See also: Free eBook: Must-Have Limited Edition Furniture In this e-book you will find 100 modern chairs from the world’s top brands and designers. Subscribe now and get all you need to know about modern chairs in one click. This is the beginning of a series of inspirational e-books you will definitely want to collect. See also: Free eBook – Best Home Decor Ideas to Inspire You Keep following Best Design Books for the latest book reviews and the most amazing design books and magazines! Follow Best Design Books on Pinterest! In this e-book you will find 100 modern from the world’s top brands and designers. Subscribe now…

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Free eBook: 60 Modern Dining Tables

Free eBook: 60 Modern Dining Tables – 60 modern dining tables is the ultimate source of inspiration for interior designers who are looking for the perfect modern dining table to create a unique dining room set for that special client. Download eBook Now! Get inspired by a range of styles that goes from hyper luxury, with a limited edition gold plated dining table, to the quintessential Midcentury modern. If you are looking for a specific style, it will be there. The same for materials, from the finest marble to wood, from lacquer to metal. Not to mention sizes: round, square, narrow, rectangular, oversized! You name it… See also: Free eBook: Must-Have Limited Edition Furniture And all this only selected from collections of the world’s top brands and designers. Subscribe now and get all you need to know about modern dining tables in one click. This is the beginning of a series of inspirational Ebooks you will definitely want to collect. Get inspired now! See also: Free eBook – Best Home Decor Ideas to Inspire You Keep following Best Design Books for the latest book reviews and the most amazing design books and magazines! Follow Best Design Books on Pinterest! How to Create…

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New Edition of Coveted, the Luxury and Design Magazine
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New Edition of Coveted, the Luxury and Design Magazine

New Edition of Coveted, the Luxury and Design Magazine – The ultimate collector’s luxury and design magazine, Coveted Edition has recently launched its fifth edition featuring a wide variety of matters that exude sophistication and glamour. Within these subjects, one can be delighted in interviews and projects from some of the most proficient interior designers in the world, such as Fiona Barratt, Robert Angell, Zaha Hadid Architects, Charu Gandhi, Staffan Tollgard, among countless others to spring trends for 2017 of the most covetable objects. See also: Free eBook: Must-Have Limited Edition Furniture Coveted Magazine will be distributed through January and February on the worldwide stands of the most distinguished and beloved design events, such as Maison et Objet, IMM Cologne and Paris DECO Off. In this issue, design enthusiasts can also expect an utterly curated selection of coveted hotels, like the Mandarin Oriental Munich and the Hilton Bankside Hotel. Regarding inspirations, a category solely dedicated to modern chairs was highlighted showcasing 25 of the most lavish pieces of furniture. See also: Free eBook – Best Home Decor Ideas to Inspire You When flipping through the pages, one will be stunned by visually enthralling pieces designed by prestigious brands, as well as news…

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Hugh Hefner Illustrated Autobiography: 25 Years of Playboy
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Hugh Hefner Illustrated Autobiography: 25 Years of Playboy

Hugh Hefner Illustrated Autobiography: 25 Years of Playboy – Hugh M. Hefner presents an illustrated autobiography with chronological highlights from Playboy’s first 25 years. His personal life and career—from cartoon-drawing childhood to astonishing success with Playboy—are revealed in the most intimate portrait ever. Limited Edition of 1,500 numbered copies signed by Hefner, in a Plexiglas case. Includes a facsimile edition of Playboy #1 from 1953—featuring the iconic Monroe cover and first nude shots—and a 7 x 7 cm (2.8 x 2.8 in.) piece of Hef’s famous silk pajamas, worn by the great man himself. See also: Contemporary Residential Architecture and Interiors by James Silverman This sumptuous six-volume anthology celebrates the decadence, sophistication and wit of the original men’s magazine and its creator. Hugh Hefner’s Playboy highlights the extraordinary years from 1953 to 1979, with a selection of each era’s spiciest centerfolds and writing by literary icons Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac and Ray Bradbury, as well as some of the most important Playboy Interviews, including Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Richard Nixon, and Roman Polanski. A wealth of never-before-seen ephemera from Hefner’s personal archives includes original artwork, cartoons and correspondence, and 700 pages of autobiographical text about his youth, military service, early…

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Book Review: The Art of Pin-UP

Book Review: The Art of Pin-UP – In the 15 years since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren that sold for $ 2,000 in 1996 are going for $ 200,000 and more today. Pin-up: drawings, paintings and pastels of an idealized female face and figure intended for public display, was produced between 1920 and 1970, for use on calendars, and magazine covers and centerfolds. The majority of original paintings were discarded by publishers and calendar companies after printing, making the surviving art that much more precious. Today it’s popularity is huge, and ripe for an equally huge and truly comprehensive collector’s edition. See also: Contemporary Residential Architecture and Interiors by James Silverman Formidably sized, The Art of Pin-up is an impressive book that will be coveted by casual fans as well as hardcore pin-up collectors. The top 10 artists are profiled in depth. Each chapter opens with a tipped-in reproduction of an original calendar or magazine cover by that artist. The reproduction quality of the paintings, pastels, and preparatory sketches that follow—largely sourced from the original art—…

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Collectors Edition Walt Disney’s Animation Masterworks
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Collectors Edition: Walt Disney’s Animation Masterworks

Collectors Edition: Walt Disney’s Animation Masterworks  – This TASCHEN Collector’s Edition presents the first volume of one of the most expansive illustrated publications on Disney animation. In it, some 1,500 images as well as top essays by eminent Disney experts take us to the beating heart of the studio’s “Golden Age of Animation,” tracing Disney’s complete animation journey from the silent film era, through his first full-length feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and the pioneering artistic experiment Fantasia (1940), right up to his last masterpieces Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966) and The Jungle Book (1967). Collectors Edition Walt Disney’s Animation Masterworks See also: Contemporary Residential Architecture and Interiors by James Silverman The book brings focus to each of the major animated features made during Walt’s lifetime, including Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and One Hundred and One Dalmatians, without forgetting the experimental short films of the Silly Symphonies series, underappreciated episodic musical films such as Make Mine Music and Melody Time, and many unfinished projects, such as proposed sequels to Fantasia or a homage to Davy Crockett by painter Thomas Hart Benton. See also: Book Review: Nendo – Interior Design…

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Book Review The Circus 1870s–1950s history and legacy
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Book Review: The Circus 1870s–1950s history and legacy

Book Review: The Circus 1870s–1950s history and legacy – During its heyday, the American circus was the largest show-biz industry the world had ever seen. From the mid-1800s to mid-1900s, traveling American circuses performed for audiences of up to 14,000 per show and crisscrossed the country on 20,000 miles of railroad in one season alone. The spectacle of death-defying daredevils and strapping super-heroes gripped the American imagination, outshining theater, comedy, and minstrel shows of the day, and ultimately paving the way for film and television. The circus offered young Americans the dream of adventure and reinvention. This book brings to life the grit and glamour of the circus phenomenon. Images include photographic gems by early circus photographers Frederick Whitman Glasier and Edward Kelty, many of the earliest color photographs ever taken of the circus from the 1940s and 1950s, iconic circus photographs by Mathew Brady or Cornell Capa, and little-known circus images by Stanley Kubrick and Charles and Ray Eames. For the first time, contemporary readers can experience the legend of the American circus in all its glory. See also: Contemporary Residential Architecture and Interiors by James Silverman Linda Granfield is a widely published author whose book Circus: An Album won…

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Book Review: The Making of the Eiffel Tower

Book Review: The Making of the Eiffel Tower – “The Tower is also present to the entire world…a universal symbol of Paris…from the Midwest to Australia, there is no journey to France which isn’t made, somehow, in the Tower’s name.” — Roland Barthes See also: Contemporary Residential Architecture and Interiors by James Silverman When Gustave Eiffel completed his wrought iron tower on Paris’s Champ de Mars for the World’s Fair in 1889, he laid claim to the tallest structure in the world. Though the Chrysler Building would, 41 years later, scrape an even higher sky, the Eiffel Tower lost none of its lofty wonder: Originally granted just a 20-year permit, the Tower became a permanent and mesmerizing fixture on the Parisian skyline. Commanding by day, twinkling by night, it has mesmerized Francophiles and lovers, writers, artists, and dreamers from all over the world, welcoming around seven million visitors every single year. See also: Book Review: Nendo – Interior Design Book from Japan Based on an original, limited edition folio by Gustave Eiffel himself, this fresh TASCHEN edition explores the concept and construction of this remarkable building. Step by step, one latticework layer after another, Eiffel’s iconic design evolves over double-page plates, meticulous…

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Book Review: Case Study Houses and Pioneering Designs
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Book Review: Case Study Houses and Pioneering Designs

Book Review: Case Study Houses and Pioneering Designs – The Case Study House program (1945–1966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, the program sought to respond to the postwar building boom with prototype modern homes that could be both easily replicated and readily affordable to the average American. See also: Contemporary Residential Architecture and Interiors by James Silverman Concentrated on the Los Angeles area, the Case Study Houses included 36 model homes commissioned from such major architects of the day as Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig, Eero Saarinen, A. Quincy Jones, and Ralph Rapson. Their criteria included “using, as far as is practicable, many war-born techniques and materials best suited to the expression of man’s life in the modern world.” The results of the program would redefine the modern home and extend influence not only across the United States but around the world. This compact guide includes all of the Case Study Houses with over 150 photos and plans, as well as a map showing locations of all sites, including those that no longer exist. See also: Book Review: Nendo – Interior Design Book from…

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