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Carefully selected from the definitive volume Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie, a collection of 100 postcards that celebrate Star Wars as a masterpiece of design and world-building.

Ralph McQuarrie is the most iconic artist in the history of Star Wars. He worked hand-in-hand with George Lucas to help establish the saga’s visual aesthetic and its inimitable look and feel.

The deluxe keepsake package also functions as a display frame: The box features a die-cut window, so fans can rotate their favorite production design paintings into view.

About the Author:

Ralph McQuarrie (1929–2012) was an American conceptual designer and illustrator. His career included work on the original Star Wars trilogy, the original Battlestar Galactica television series, the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and the film Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award.

Wanda Ferragamo’s life is an opportunity to analyze the role of a woman at the head of an important entrepreneurial business during the economic boom.

This volume is being published on the occasion of the exhibition Women in Balance at the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence.

Wanda Miletti Ferragamo, wife of Salvatore Ferragamo, was an extraordinary figure who combined the traditional role of a woman devoted to her home and children with a commitment to work and business. Her individual story triggers profound reflections on how she honored her husband’s memory through her entrepreneurial, cultural, and social choices. These choices allowed her to outline a specific form of family business, which has long been considered a pinnacle of the Italian economy.

Her life was characterized by a strong dedication to work, and her role as a pioneering leader at the helm of an innovative company such as Salvatore Ferragamo provides an opportunity to explore and analyze the role of women in the years of Italy’s “economic miracle,” with a focus on issues such as household consumption and the influence of advertising.

About еhe Author:

Ginevra Visconti is the granddaughter of Wanda Ferragamo and daughter of Fulvia Visconti Ferragamo. Since 2014 she has worked as a freelancer for various media outlets in Italy and abroad, and she received a master’s degree from Bocconi University in Milan.

Wow, you look really great today….way better than yesterday. Anyway, this card set by Brass Monkey includes 200 unique compliment cards to hand out…100 compliments and 100 backhanded compliments. Each card features a unique phrase on the front, with a place to write a personal note on the back (unless you want to stay anonymous). Give them out one at a time, or display them on your coffee table. You’re smart, you’ll figure out something.

• Includes 100 compliment cards & 100 backhanded compliment cards.
• Example compliment: You are like a 20 dollar bill found in a winter coat.
• Example compliment: I’m glad that you aren’t a bodybuilder. Your veins are the perfect size already.
• Example backhanded compliment: Your attractiveness more than makes up for your personality.
• Example backhanded compliment: Wow, you look really good in this light.

About the Author:

Brass Monkey
Vintage-inspired Smartassery

Created by Mike Sayre and Melanie Bridges way back in 2020, Brass Monkey was founded on the idea that there’s a world between fine china and bobblehead dolls. That products can have personality, without becoming roadside souvenirs. So that’s where you’ll find them…making beautiful, well-designed items that just happen to have a sense of humor. Who said that art school and open-mic nights were such a waste of time? We’re looking at you, dad.

Taste and Place: The Design Hotels Book is a broad and inclusive exploration of food, an integral part of purposeful travel. 

In our most ambitious book yet, we have called upon leading writers, photographers, creative chefs, and culinary innovators to explore forward-looking ideas and inspiring practices around food in our hotels, destinations, and larger community. Featuring stories from Rockhouse Hotel in Jamaica, Rastrello in Italy, Satoyama Jujo in Japan, and many more Design Hotels locations, these stories go beyond the dish, the kitchen, and the dining room to reveal the holistic connectivity of food. 

We find that the ecosystem of a hotel seen through the lens of food provides a perfect microcosm to better understand bigger system changes. With this rather special book, we at Design Hotels reflect on what we can bring to these shifts in terms of the hospitality we support and want to see in the future. Read more about our journey here.

Taste and Place: The Design Hotels Book includes a story about how kitchen camaraderie is created at Bursa Hotel in Kyiv, Ukraine. The hotel has been forced to close its doors for now due to the war, but the team is safe and has given us their approval to go ahead with the book release. As a sign of our support, we pledge to donate this year’s online sale profits to humanitarian aid actions suggested by our two Ukrainian member hotels.

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This influential reference work ― revered by architects, designers, restaurateurs, hoteliers and creatives around the world ― contains exquisite images from leading photographers and expert commentary from the world’s greatest food writers and culinary innovators. Their stories take the reader beyond the dish, the kitchen and the dining room to explore the holistic connectivity between food and locality; its provenance and production; the people, landscape and architecture. From regional terroir, through the kitchen, to the community, the stories gathered from the experts that created them detail their methods of production; work practices; and visionary hospitality. It poses questions such as, how can we travel more responsibly? How can hotels reduce their impact on the environment? How can travelers give back more than they take? Journeying from the ancient island of Crete; through traditions in Swiss and Japanese mountains; to cutting-edge culinary practices in the Caribbean ― every hotel featured in this annual compendium is uniquely exquisite.

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Terroir
A “taste of place” is about understanding the luxury of location as expressed through soil, climate, people, crops, and produce.

Island Ways
Islands are microcosms of the larger world; they can also be experimental grounds for evolutionary shifts.

Homegrown
From olive groves to space farms, homegrown and homemade produce is a hyperlocal contribution to the well-being of both hotel staff and guests.

Kitchen Spirit
A new generation of chefs and owners is creating inclusive and caring environments focused on working together in and around the kitchen.

Table Settings
Dining rooms are key points of contact between provenance, production, people, landscape, food, and architecture.

Waste Not
Everything is something else. Here, we explore the geography of what will be the most exciting part of the future of cuisine.

With Reverence
Every creature, fruit, or vegetable on the table gave its life to be consumed. Valuing that, as well as traditions, heirloom varieties, and methods of producing, is an essential part of sharing food.

Big Picture
Here is a glimpse of what the next chapter of luxury is going to look like through the example of old hands and new pioneers.

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This beautifully illustrated set of fully functional tarot cards is based on traditional tarot iconography as interpreted by MEGAMUNDEN, author of Tattoo Postcards and the best-selling Tattoo Colouring Book.

The set contains the 78 cards of the tarot deck, luxuriously packaged in a gift box. A 28-page booklet explains how to interpret the cards and conduct your own readings, gaining a fascinating insight into what lies ahead and a fresh perspective on important themes and opportunities to watch for.

About the Authors:

MEGAMUNDEN is a UK-based illustrator who has created illustrations for advertising, fashion, product design and publishing. He is a Senior Designer at design agency ILoveDust.

Diana McMahon-Collis is a tarot consultant and co-founder of the Tarot Association of the British Isles. She has written for numerous magazines and websites.

Deftly crafted dissectable female wax models take centre-stage in this disquieting volume for fans of the macabre, the ghoulish and medical history

Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente Susini’s Anatomical Venus (c. 1790), a perfect object whose luxuriously bizarre existence challenges belief. It – or, better, she – was conceived as a means to teach human anatomy without the need for constant dissection, which was messy, ethically fraught and subject to quick decay. This life-sized wax woman is adorned with glass eyes and human hair and can be dismembered into dozens of parts revealing, at the final remove, a tranquil foetus curled in her womb. Sister models soon appeared throughout Europe, where they not only instructed the specialist students but also delighted the general public.

The Anatomical Venus is a celebration of these female wax models and reveals their evolution from wax effigy to fetish figure and the embodiment of the uncanny. Today, these images trouble the edges of our neat categorical divides between life and death, science and religion, body and soul, effigy and ecstasy, spectacle and education, kitsch and fine art. Skilfully written by a curator of the macabre, the beautiful and the spiritual, this is a meticulously illustrated survey of these anatomical odalisques and the cultural and artistic intersection they inhabit.

About the Author:

Joanna Ebenstein is an internationally recognised expert in the art of anatomy and creator of the Morbid Anatomy blog, library and event series. Her books include Death: A Graveside Companion and Anatomica.

"Any landscape architect worth their soil should pick up The Architecture of Trees, an all-encompassing atlas of all things tree-related." ― The Architect's Newspaper

A 2019 Oprah's Favorite Things Pick

A gorgeous, large-format volume that shows each hand-drawn illustration in stunning detail. The Architecture of Trees is the result of over twenty years of dedicated study by landscape architects Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi. This new edition preserves the original magnificent illustrations and text, translated into English for the first time.

Features more than 550 exquisite quill-pen drawings of trees. Each of the 212 tree species are drawn to a scale of 1:100, with and without foliage. Complete with tables of seasonal color variation and projections of shadows cast during the hours of daylight and season by season, no other tree book contains such detailed and scientific drawings.

A legendary and unsurpassed botanical masterwork. Considered a standard in many landscape architecture firms, the drawings, essays, and detailed charts are essential for large-scale landscaping projects and a helpful tool for backyard renovations. Landscape designers will think in new ways about the effect of seasons and the time of day on trees, and anyone interested in nature and trees will be captivated by the stunning illustrations.

"This book could be considered the Bible for tree lovers." ― Western Art & Architecture

An incredible book for anyone interested in trees:
• An oversized, captivating coffee table book for lovers of art and nature illustrations
• A helpful tree identification book with accurate drawings of trees and detailed looks at branches, leaves, and fruit
• A reference for students of landscape architecture, botany, dendrology, architecture, and illustration

About the Authors:

In 1963, as an undergraduate at Florence University of the Arts, Cesare Leonardi (1935–) opened a design practice with Franca Stagi (1937–2008), a postgraduate at Milan Polytechnic. Together they designed the celebrated Nastro, Eco, and Dondolo chairs before turning to urban and landscape design, renovation, and redevelopment in Modena and its surroundings.

An insider’s tour of France’s most beloved and beautiful villages uncovers the country’s hidden treasures and idyllic holiday destinations.

The Best Loved Villages of France takes the reader to forty-four of the country’s most treasured locations. Always picturesque, but often well-kept secrets, the book offers insight into French village life. Visit a crumbling medieval fortress with the mayor of Lavardin or peruse the maritime objects found at sea by a mustached fisherman in Saint-Suliac, stroll along the windsurfer’s paradise at Wissant bay or promenade through the manicured grounds of Vaux-le-Vicomte, enjoy a fresh langoustine dinner in Corsica or catch the sunrise over the fairytale castle in Montsoreau.

This book offers an illustrated tour around all twenty-two regions of France, from Provence and the Alps, to Normandy and the Loire. A charming selection of aerial and intimate photographs invite the reader to explore these splendid locales, while the descriptions, anecdotes, and interviews with local village-dwellers plunge you into the individual history and character of France’s diverse regions. Feel inspired by journalist Stéphane Bern’s informative and practical travel tips and recommendations, and start planning your own adventure to France’s most loved villages or simply enjoy the armchair tour.

About the Author:

Stéphane Bern is a journalist for Le Figaro and a popular radio and television personality in France. He is the author of several biographies of royal families and society figures as well as coauthor of Highland Living: Landscape, Style, and Traditions of Scotland.
 

Discover the story behind the award-winning rosé wines from Provence’s Château d’Esclans, which inspired the “rosé revolution.”

Château d’Esclans’s impressive estate extends across 660 acres in the heart of Provence, France. Dating back to the time of the Gauls, vines have grown on its lands for centuries. When its founder Sacha Lichine acquired the property in 2006, he was destined to shake up the wine world: he set out to create the best rosés and to forever transform their place in the collective imagination, from accessible rosés to ultra-premium, luxury wines.

Exquisitely photographed, the never-before-published images showcase the history and spirit of Château d’Esclans. From spectacular images of the vineyards throughout the seasons to an exploration of the wine-making process and the people behind it, this book invites readers to discover how rosé wines come to life, and how they embody the essence of summer insouciance and the Provençal art de vivre. Esclans’s most popular bottles — Whispering Angel, Rock Angel, Les Clans, and Garrus — are icons of contemporary oenology, beloved by celebrities and lauded by wine experts alike. An exclusive look into one of Provence’s most innovative wine-making estates, this is the perfect book for rosé enthusiasts everywhere.

About the Authors:

Martin Bruno is a French photographer. He has worked for Architectural Digest, Air France Magazine, and Intersection magazine, and for major brands such as Hermès, Apple, Orange, Nespresso, and Chanel.

Lindsey Tramuta is a journalist based in Paris. She is the author of The New Paris (2017) and The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris (2020) and is a regular contributor to T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Afar, Eater, Bloomberg, and Fortune.
 

Ever felt an emotion that you haven't been able to find the right words for?

Dip into The Box of Emotions to find the perfect expression of how you feel. Each of the 80 cards contains a mini-essay on a different emotion on one side and a mesmerizing colour pattern on the other. Learn more about yourself and what makes your fellow beings tick, from anger and worry to empathy and courage. And with a host of less familiar emotions - dépaysement, fago, and litost among them - you may discover a whole new way of being.

There are 11 categories and within this there are 5 - 8 emotions described, these categories are: Zen, Bliss, Enjoyment, Possibility, Ego, Heat, Heartache, Angst, Loathing, Bitterness and Emptiness.

About the Author:

Thérèse Vandling is a London-based independent graphic designer and experimental screen-printer with a passion for all things printed.

Build your dream vacation with this eclectic and tantalizing collection of 1,000 life-affirming adventures spanning the 7 continents

A travel book like no other, this unique guide will inspire both seasoned trekkers and arm-chair globetrotters alike to build experiences you will treasure forever. You'll find memorable, once-in-a-lifetime activities organized by longitude and latitude (country-by-country index also included) so you can max out your itinerary with the best things to do and the best places to visit around the world. 

Discover recommendations that fit every traveler's must-do list, whether you go for museums and cultural experiences, sports & adventure travel, natural wonders and monuments, or culinary delights.

Packed with over 300 remarkable photos and info on the best beaches, museums, monuments, islands, inns, restaurants, and mountains at every longitude, each chapter includes not only geographically unique ideas, but also activities you can fit in to any itinerary, for travelers of all ages:

Globetrotting: Hitchhike across a border, or stand on the International Date Line
Wildlife Encounters: Watch sea turtles lay eggs on a beach, or fish with a cormorant on the Yangtze
Extreme Sports: Rafting on the Yukon, or zipline down the Alps
Music & Dance: Learn the guitar in 7 days and perform in a public square, or find a tango partner in the street in Buenos Aires
Legacy: Volunteer at an Orangutan sanctuary in Borneo, or research your family history and visit an ancestral site
Food & Drink: Eat a beignet at Café Du Monde in New Orleans, or forage your own dinner in Central Park 

A valuable reference and a wonderful gift for digital nomads, recent grads, sabbatical planners, and adventuresome retirees, fair warning: you might just find your travel bucket list getting much, much longer.

About the Author:

Kath Stathers grew up in the Middle East, has traveled extensively in South America, and now lives and works as a writer and editor in London, from where she continues to explore the world.

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An indispensable guide for the beer lover -- where to visit, when to go, what to drink, and everything in between.

Finally -- a beer-centric bucket list! Celebrating beer worldwide, this is a must-have for any beer aficionado. Whether you're planning a pub crawl, a weekend in the country, or a longer vacation, this book is a trove of ideas for the beer lover.

As is to be expected, this lively guide to beer-related travel contains a comprehensive list of hundreds of breweries large and small -- both long-standing and freshly minted--that are open for tours and tastings along with an in-depth look at their different approaches to brewing, philosophies about flavors and ingredients, and what makes their beers special.

But this book digs deep into the world of beer and includes a multitude of ideas for exploring the world's best beer destinations: the Pacific Northwest's gleaming modern taprooms; atmospheric English pubs; iconic breweries including San Francisco's Anchor Steam and the Czech Republic's original Pilsner; boisterous festivals from Munich's Oktoberfest to Denver's Great American Beer; and other points of interest such as Germany's pop-up beer gardens or a pub crawl in Dublin where you can hoist a Guinness at James Joyce's favorite pub.

The book is liberally illustrated with atmospheric photos and reproductions of beer labels and logos and includes information on beer styles, food and beer pairings, drinking traditions, glassware, and a primer on brewing.

About the Author:

Justin Kennedy is the author of The Scratch & Sniff Guide to Beer. Based in Brooklyn, he has written for Lucky Peach, Saveur, Bloomberg, Tasting Table, and The New York Post and produces Beer Sessions Radio on Heritage Radio Network and a podcast, Steal This Beer.

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With 1,000 adventures for all ages, it is never too soon or too late to discover new sights and novel experiences throughout North America.

When it is time to escape the ordinary, this guide is where you will find fun, fantastic, and life-affirming activities: do something different, go beyond the tried and true, experience the U.S. and its neighbors anew. It is perfect for recent graduates, soon-to-be retirees, inveterate daydreamers, armchair travelers, and anyone dreaming about a much-needed break from the daily routine.

The nation’s best travel experiences are organized by theme, with chapters divided by region and entries organized geographically and indexed by state. Among the wide array: natural wonders, cultural experiences, culinary delights, self-improvement vacations, sports-related endeavors, and more. Track Alaska’s “big five” (grizzly bear, caribou, gray wolf, moose, and Dall sheep) in Denali National Park, ski the Canadian Rockies, trace historic Route 66, make a pilgrimage to Elvis’s Graceland, or take a culinary tour through Mexico City.

This volume is the perfect gift for passionate travelers — a coast-to-coast listing of museums, historical sites, monuments, islands, inns, natural wonders, and more. Also included are activities for people of all ages: be a zookeeper for a day, direct a movie, learn to play an instrument...the possibilities are endless.

About the Author:

Kath Stathers is a writer based in London and the author of The Bucket List and The Bucket List: Wild. Paul Oswell is a contributing writer for Condé Nast Traveler. He has also written for Travel + Leisure, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and the DK travel guides. He edits the online travel magazine Shandy Pockets.

Explore hard-to-find quiet spots in urban jungles, ultimate wilderness hideouts, the world's best mindfulness and meditation retreats, and ancient centers of spiritual succor and artistic solace - perfect for whether you want to find yourself or get completely lost.

This inspiring guide is full of ideas and inspirations for travel destinations around the world that invite you to renew yourself physically and spiritually - perfect for recent graduates, soon-to-be retirees, inveterate daydreamers and armchair travellers, and anyone considering taking a much-needed sabbatical. When it is time to escape from the hectic, hurly-burly of ordinary life, this is where you can find a thousand delightful quiet and peaceful places that encourage you to relax.

Featuring a range of escapes that include everything from momentary getaways in the heart of New York or Paris to longer contemplative visits to places that allow you to screen out the jangle of contemporary life, this is an expertly curated trove of peaceful places. It includes small parks and squares, lovely old churches and spiritual sanctuaries, off-the-beaten-path museums and galleries, hidden courtyards and gardens, tiny local eateries - and even cemeteries. Also included are wilder escapes in unspoiled natural settings that last over a weekend or longer, ideal for those whose idea of peace and quiet involves birdsong and the gentle rustle of leaves. From the magic of watching the sun rise over the desert at the top of Mt. Sinai, to the perfect quiet of an antiquarian book dealer in London or a Buddhist temple in Tokyo, each destination offers the chance for space, a time to think, and provides a moment to savor the world around us in a new light.

About the Author:

Victoria Ward is a journalist and magazine editor for food and travel publications. She travelled solo through South America, contributing articles to national newspapers and blogging as she traveled. A Daily Mail commission led to her living for two years in Easter Island, one of the world's most remote places. Recently, she became a Cognitive Hypnotherapist and NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) master practitioner. She teaches mindfulness techniques and has established her practice in London's famed Harley Street.

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Create nearly 40 striking paper figures with clear, step-by-step instructions and helpful diagrams. Features simple to advanced objects: cube, parrot, rabbit, seagull, cuckoo clock, rocket, mouse, elephant, violinist, Viking ship, and many more.