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A fascinating voyage into the natural realm to discover the sources of inspiration of architectural forms, from antiquity to our time. Have you ever compared the shaft of a fluted column and a tree with its bark? Have you ever noticed the perfect homology linking the structure of a metallic bridge and the skeletons of large mammals? This book relates the forms of architecture, and even more the rules and ideas that have characterized architectural production through the centuries, with the forms of nature, whether they belong to biology or the physical world. The comparisons are conveyed by original photographs which themselves offer a fascinating itinerary between nature and artifice.

In Near & Far, Lisa Fine invites us into her homes in Dallas, New York, and Paris and takes us along as she visits the places and people who have been her greatest sources of inspiration. Among her favoured treasures are the Mughal palaces and gardens of India, the 18th-century home of Carl Linnaeus in Sweden; the whitewashed retreat of interior designer John Stefanidis on Patmos, the idyllic country house and garden of London-based designer Penny Morrison, and the storied house in the Tangier Casbah belonging to collectors Jamie Creel and Marco Scarani.

Evocatively photographed by Miguel Flores-Vianna and with a foreword by style editor Deborah Needleman, Near & Far not only provides a trove of design ideas but also offers advice for anyone interested in giving full expression to their personal style.

About the Authors:

Mississippi-born Lisa Fine is the founder of Lisa Fine Textiles, a line of hand-printed linens sold in showrooms worldwide. Fine has been a contributing editor for Elle Decor and House Beautiful, and currently is for Town & Country.

Miguel Flores-Vianna has been an editor, writer, and photographer for more than twenty-five years. His photography is regularly published in T, AD, World of Interiors, Vogue, Cabana, and Town & Country.

Deborah Needleman, formerly editor in chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, WSJ Magazine, and Domino, is currently editor at large for Harper’s Bazaar.

One of America’s greatest houses, the unequaled home of Gilded Age philanthropist Alfred I. duPont, has been newly restored to national acclaim. Nemours Mansion and Gardens is the 222-acre estate and onetime home of Alfred I. duPont-photographer, manufacturer, musician, politician, banker, inventor, suffragist, newspaper owner, businessman, and philanthropist. Designed and built in the Louis XIV style in 1909 by Carrere and Hastings, it is one of the largest and most opulent houses in America, to be compared only with the likes of the Biltmore Estate, the White House, The Breakers, and Hearst Castle. With seventy rooms spread out over 46,000 square feet, it is capacious, yet an intimacy of detail and graciousness of proportion give the visitor a feeling of serenity and a special sense of place that is unique to Nemours. Newly and painstakingly renovated, the house-now a museum that can be toured-glows with the finish of its original splendor, captured at long last in a volume that sumptuously reflects the magnificence of a masterpiece.   

 Dwight Young is a senior communications associate for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C. Sisse Brimberg has been a regular photographer for National Geographic magazine since 1976. Cotton Coulson has worked as a photographer for National Geographic, was associate director of photography at US News and World Report, and has served as senior vice president of C-NET in San Francisco. Grace Gary is executive director of Nemours Mansion and Gardens.

Contents:

006-023 VILLA 80Ј  WEST COAST OF GUAGNZHOU
024-033 THE PARAPHRASE
034-045 RANCHO SANTA FE
046-057 JANGNAN FANC RESIDENCE
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310-317 CHANGCHUAN ROAD
318-329 WANKE TANGYUE TOWNHOUSE 6A
330-337 HANGYU SHANGRI-LA GARDEN VILLA TYPE 251
338-347 DIVERSIFED NEW CLASSIC

This book selects 30 Neo-classic hotels from USA, UK, Italy and many other countries. It display authentic Neo-classic style to readers through extensive delicate photos, drawings and detailed texts.

The elegant design styles and rich decorative elements are all valuable references for architects, interior designers and other readers interested in Neo-classicism.

Combining classical styles and modern styles, Neoclassicism uses simpler and open skills to satisfy people’s missing of classical styles, and in the meanwhile possesses modern aesthetics. Neoclassical Hotel introduces 33 hotels of neoclassical styles. Decent and gorgeous, stylish and elegance, fresh and smooth, the hotels all contains deep cultural deposits and noble aesthetics, exactly where the quintessence of Neoclassicism lies.

These substantial volumes on art periods vividly portray the most important achievements from the areas of European architecture, sculpture, and painting. The impressive photographs of works from all visual arts movements are at the center of these richly illustrated volumes. The books successfully provide an overview of the artistic diversity of the individual periods, and they couldn't have been written and illustrated any more clearly. The informative and interesting texts have been written by renowned authors from the fields of history, architecture and art history, providing a multifaceted view of each period. These books are a real pleasure for anyone with an interest in art.

Illustrated with some 900 color photographs and reproductions, this volume explores the complexities of Neoclassicism and Romanticism in architecture and art through in-depth articles by eleven scholars, and reveals how these seemingly antithetical styles are in fact closely related. The book looks at Europe from the renewed interest in the art and architecture of classical antiquity in the mid-18th century (following the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii and the arrival of new architectural theories) through the effusions of the mid-19th century, and presents the work of such artists as Johann Heinrich Füssli, Eugène Delacroix, J.M.W. Turner, William Blake, and Francisco de Goya.