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Airports are highly appealing places. Gateways to the big wide world, they represent international movement and inspire travel. This book shows you not only real terminals but also airport-specific design and architecture - from VIP lounges to passenger routes, from control towers to hangars and airplan museums. Because of their size and the range of their services, airports often seem to be a city within a city. Pulling together airports from all over the world, this book presents a full picture of airport buildings built in the last few years. It also peers behind the scenes into new design plans, revealing ideas that are waiting to happen. As well as visions that may or may not be realized, the book shows many projects which will definitely take shape in the near future.

Every generation an extraordinary figure captures the imagination of the design public, allowing us to dream and see what is heretofore impossible. That man of the moment is Alan Faena.

Raised in the restrictive regimes of 1960s Argentina, Alan Faena came of age when the country opened up to the West and Alan transformed himself into the icon of this new spirit, first as the founder of a popular Argentine fashion company, then as the hotelier of the highly sought-after FAENA hotels, in Buenos Aires and Miami. In each of the two cities Alan Faena did not simply build a hotel, but a whole universe of luxury design by working with the best talents of the day: Philippe Starck, Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster, Damian Hirst, and the film director Baz Luhrmann, among others. The results are immersive dream places, full of color, life, and high design.

In this revealing memoir, profusely illustrated with images of the hotels and Alan's private homes and retreats as well as his famous and beautiful friends, Alan Faena details how his ambition to create beauty was realized with gorgeous interiors and restaurants, lavish gardens and pools, and the very best that can be dreamt of.

About the Author:

Alan Faena came of age in Buenos Aires during the exuberant days after the fall of Argentina's military dictatorship, which propelled him into a successful career as a fashion model then as a fashion designer before going into hotels.

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Пролистать книгу Alan Faena: Alchemy & Creative Collaboration: Architecture, Design, Art

Architect Léon Krier asks, “Can a war criminal be a great artist?” Speer, Adolf Hitler's architect of choice, happens to be responsible for one of the boldest architectural and urban oeuvres of modern times.

First published in 1985 to an acute and critical reception, Albert Speer: Architecture 1932-1942 is a lucid, wide-ranging study of an important neoclassical architect. Yet is is simultaneously much more: a philosophical rumination on art and politics, good and evil. With aid from a new introduction by influential American architect Robert A. M. Stern, Krier candidly confronts the great difficulty of disentangling the architecture and urbanism of Albert Speer from its political intentions.

Krier bases his study on interviews with Speer just before his death. The projects presented center on his plan for Berlin, an unprecedented modernization of the city intended to be the capital of Europe.

Alberto Pinto has infused contemporary flair into these his most recent interiors, which are the most innovative of his lengthy career...

This sumptuously illustrated book features celebrated designer Alberto Pintos most recent interiors. A diverse range of locationsfrom contemporary apartments in New York and London to an English castle, and from two exceptional yachts to offices in Greece and Turkeythese interiors represent the most spectacular work of his career. Long-time fans of Pintos elegant, refined, and luxurious interiors will find new ideas, while new readers will be drawn to his innovative design responses to an eclectic variety of settings. Bringing fresh inspiration to established design principles, Pinto excels at creating a perfect harmony of volume and space. In Alberto Pinto Today, the designer brings together an unprecedented range of styles; he continues to defy ascribed categories and dismiss common preconceptions by translating his own style into each interior, according to the site, his clients tastes, and his own flair for creativity. To coincide with his companys fortieth anniversary, Pinto has opened a showroom in Paris and online where a broader market of interiors enthusiasts can access his exceptional furniture and tableware that previously had been reserved for his commissioning clients.

Другие книги Alberto Pinto:

Alberto Pinto: World Interiors

Alberto Pinto: Bedrooms

Alberto Pinto: Classics

Alberto Pinto Corporate: Contemporary Offices

Alberto Pinto: Moderns

Alberto Pinto: Orientalism

Alberto Pinto: Table Settings

Alberto Pinto is among the most celebrated interior designers at work today and is known primarily for his highly creative use of color and texture to achieve the effect of unparalleled opulence.

Here, Pinto turns his attention to intimate and personal spaces. Pinto succeeds in giving each of the forty bedrooms in this book his unequaled touch of grandeur while evoking its owner's personality. Under Pinto's direction, the bedroom becomes a fantasy-like oasis adorned with water elements, fine damasks, gorgeously colored mosaics, fancy brocades, or neo-classical columns.

The resulting rooms are contemporary bedrooms — some more appropriately described as suites rather than single rooms — from Europe and North America that evoke a spectrum of classical styles updated for the finest in twenty-first century living.

Alberto Pinto's bedrooms are spaces that are grand and yet intimate. Each one will be an inspiration to anyone who is designing or redecorating a bedroom.

Другие книги Alberto Pinto:

Alberto Pinto: World Interiors

Alberto Pinto Today

Alberto Pinto: Classics

Alberto Pinto Corporate: Contemporary Offices

Alberto Pinto: Moderns

Alberto Pinto: Orientalism

Alberto Pinto: Table Settings

With an international clientele - among whom may be numbered royalty, giants of industry, and leaders of state - it is no wonder that interior designer and decorator of renown Alberto Pinto feels himself best suited to the shadows - albeit the shadows of the great.

From this privileged position, he subtly shapes lifestyles and, to a certain extent, the images of princes. In Alberto Pinto: Classics, author Philippe Renaud offers us an intimate glimpse of Pinto's world, a world of exquisite luxury and opulence, a world in which, by Pinto's hand, elegance and abundance are brought to balance in harmonious accord. We are shown the magnificent interiors of apartments in New York, mansions in Paris, villas on the Riviera, country houses in England, and palaces in Cairo.

We are also brought to a ranch in the deserts of New Mexico and to the ocean-side hills of Long Islands elegant Hamptons. Here we find Pintos cultivated but decidedly eclectic approach to design - an indirect result, perhaps, of his having grown up in post-colonial Casablanca. His roots are Moroccan - under the certain influence of Paris. Of course, his work is more than this: it is an amalgam of British chic, French elegance, and American rationalism; it is a manipulation of classical styles with a twist; it is frequently a brilliantly daring tendency to juxtaposition and apparent paradox in which a surrealistic painting by Magritte might hang below a Neoclassical bust - all of this ultimately resounding in an affirmation of Alberto Pinto as the interior designer and decorator of choice.

Другие книги Alberto Pinto:

Alberto Pinto: World Interiors

Alberto Pinto Today

Alberto Pinto: Bedrooms

Alberto Pinto Corporate: Contemporary Offices

Alberto Pinto: Moderns

Alberto Pinto: Orientalism

Alberto Pinto: Table Settings

The preeminent master of unabashed wealth and opulence, Paris based Alberto Pinto is one of the worlds most acclaimed interior designers.

Alberto Pinto: Moderns offers us an intimate glimpse of Pintos world, a world of exquisite luxury, a world in which, by Pintos hand, elegance and abundance thrive. His clients are among the worlds elite. In this book, the first in English to deal exclusively with Alberto Pintos modern interiors, we are offered a privileged look at some of his most exciting commercial and residential work, the renovation of the famous "La Mamounia" Hotel in Marrakech, a hotel in Gstaad, the Balmain boutique in Paris, a private Boeing 737, a five-masted private yacht, a vacation house in Marbella, and an apartment in Paris.

It is with good reason that Alberto Pinto's interiors have appeared on the covers of the worlds leading interior design and architecture magazines and that his life is well documented in the society pages of the world's newspapers. He stands beside his clients, inclined to an appreciation of the finer things. In Alberto Pinto: Moderns this is sumptuously evident.

Другие книги Alberto Pinto:

Alberto Pinto: World Interiors

Alberto Pinto: Bedrooms

Alberto Pinto: Classics

Alberto Pinto Corporate: Contemporary Offices

Alberto Pinto: Orientalism

Alberto Pinto Today

Alberto Pinto: Table Settings

Alberto Pinto is among the most celebrated interior designers at work today.

Here he turns his eye to the wonders of the East and a series of interiors inspired by the colors and textures of Morocco, Byzantium, India, and beyond. Included in this book are interiors in Europe, North America, and North Africa belonging to the jet set and modern elite. Each interior celebrates opulence, whether with fine damasks and silks, intricate tilework, or glittering objets dart.

Included are other visual stage sets for living that are as breathtaking as they are original-vast terraces over sumptuous gardens, shimmering swimming pools open to the sea and sky, filtered light bouncing off floor-to-ceiling mirrors reflecting an infinity of precious woods in an exquisite parquet floor. Pinto designs spaces to delight the senses, and the publication of Orientalism will usher in a new era of sensuality in interior design

Другие книги Alberto Pinto:

Alberto Pinto: World Interiors

Alberto Pinto: Bedrooms

Alberto Pinto: Classics

Alberto Pinto Corporate: Contemporary Offices

Alberto Pinto: Moderns

Alberto Pinto Today

Alberto Pinto: Table Settings

France’s foremost interior designer showcases his signature table settings designed to brighten any occasion.

Internationally acclaimed interior designer Alberto Pinto sets the paradigm for creating the perfect setting for entertaining, from large events to intimate, informal ones. Here, he explores the complete spectrum of stylish table settings. Pinto has designed table settings for every type of occasion, from formal corporate affairs to intimate evenings à deux.

Profiled here are hundreds of successful designs sure to inspire anyone planning an event.

Pinto shows how to create a desired mood or ambience through the use of colour combinations, finishes, textures, architectural flourishes, and floral arrangements, in styles ranging from minimalist simplicity to classic elegance.

Другие книги Alberto Pinto:

Alberto Pinto: World Interiors

Alberto Pinto: Bedrooms

Alberto Pinto: Classics

Alberto Pinto Corporate: Contemporary Offices

Alberto Pinto: Moderns

Alberto Pinto: Orientalism

Alberto Pinto Today

In this sumptuous book, Alberto Pinto excels at creating a perfect harmony of volume and space by bringing fresh inspiration to established design principles. He assembles an unprecedented range of styles by merging his client’s tastes with his own flair for creativity. 

With an unobstructed view of a white sandy beach and shimmering turquoise water, a sprawling apartment in the exclusive Ipanema enclave of Rio de Janeiro is decorated in subdued earth tones, punctuated by animal prints and vibrant works of modern art. The interior of a classical orientalist residence in Kuwait reveals elaborate marble tile and wood details, while more modern spaces are furnished predominantly in black and white with judiciously placed accents in red. The details in a Monaco apartment subtly remind us that the home is perched above the Mediterranean Sea, while an ornate white-and-blue residence in New York is distinctly European in its rich use of antique furniture, ceramics, and ornate moldings. Other striking and sublime spaces include a palace in Riyadh and a home in Santa Rita, as well as grand yachts and private jets. 

Pinto’s Parisian workshop, where his exceptional furniture and tableware can be purchased, is also featured. 

Alberto Pinto is one of the most highly acclaimed interior designers working today. Pinto has published numerous monographs on various aspects of his work, including Table Settings, Moderns, Orientalism, Bedrooms, Classics, Contemporary Offices, and Alberto Pinto Today.
Julien Morel is a lifestyle and design writer at a leading communications and PR agency in Paris.

Другие книги Alberto Pinto:

Alberto Pinto Today

Alberto Pinto: Bedrooms

Alberto Pinto: Classics

Alberto Pinto Corporate: Contemporary Offices

Alberto Pinto: Moderns

Alberto Pinto: Orientalism

Alberto Pinto: Table Settings