Пропонуючи ванні кімнати, яких ви ще ніколи не бачили, Magnificent Baths відзначають найяскравіші та найексцентричніші ванні кімнати, чудово представлені через фотографії Массімо Лістрі, чиї подорожі привели його до найрозкішніших та найоригінальніших будинків, палаццо та готелів по всьому світу.

Кожен простір представляє власну декоративну естетику та стиль. Деякі дотримуються традицій римських лазень та грецьких спа-центрів, інші ж мінімалістичні та сучасні, ар-деко та декадентські, натхненні дзеном, ексцентрично романтичні або ж арт-центричні святилища. Неймовірні ванні кімнати стають ще цікавішими завдяки несподіваним оздобленням, таким як римські статуї, картини епохи Відродження, барокові фурнітури, сучасне мистецтво та неймовірні краєвиди.

Завжди романтичні та чудово розкішні, Magnificent Baths відвідують розкішні ванні кімнати письменників, художників, модельєрів та інших відомих діячів, які додали свій власний особистий штрих, щоб створити чуттєві, казкові простори.

Про авторів:

Массімо Лістрі — фотограф, що працює над книгою Tuscany: Vistas, Churches, Museums, Art, Villas, & Gardens (Rizzoli, 2010). Він виставляв свої роботи в Палаццо Пітті у Флоренції та Палаццо Реале в Мілані. Аннетта Ханна була головним редактором журналу про дизайн ID, перш ніж приєднатися до Random House на посаді старшого редактора. Вона пише та редагує книги про дизайн та спосіб життя, останнім з яких є Preston Bailey Flowers.

Історія та мистецтво однієї з найважливіших приміських аристократичних резиденцій XVI століття, однієї з найстаріших та найкрасивіших в Альпах.

Ілюстрований вражаючими зображеннями, що є результатом спеціальної фотокампанії, проведеної Массімо Лістрі, цей том документує архітектуру та багаті художні скарби знаменитої резиденції, яка є єдиним у регіоні Трентіно прикладом приміської вілли періоду Собору середини XVI століття, що характеризується портиком та лоджією, типовою для веронської архітектури того часу. Усередині вілли італійські, фламандські та німецькі художники створили фрескові оздоблення найвищої якості, включаючи цикл із 12 фресок, присвячених перемогам Карла V, ті, що зображують епізоди зі Старого та Нового Завітів, та ті, що зображують 12 місяців року.

Поряд із цими надзвичайними фресками, книга представляє скульптури та меблі, переважно з фламандського та німецького регіонів, а також дерев'яні метопи, розписані гротесками, та чоловічі та жіночі портрети, які можна простежити до фахівців з цього типу декорування, що зазнали впливу гравюрного мистецтва того часу.

Про авторів:

Мікеланджело Лупо (1948), архітектор, що спеціалізується на історії мистецтв, був директором Музею замку Буонконсільйо в Тренто з 1978 по 1984 рік. Потім він став позаштатним діячем і тривалий час працював у галузі архітектурної реставрації в Єгипті, Лівії, Йорданії та Алжирі.

Массімо Лістрі (1953), майстер архітектурної та екологічної фотографії, опублікував понад сімдесят книг у найпрестижніших видавництвах Європи та Сполучених Штатів.

A journey through its emotional itineraries is unveiled for the very first time by the photographic masterpieces of Massimo Listri.

Villa Albani Torlonia, with its collections, the Italian garden, and the hemicycle of the Kaffeehaus, is a sublime testimony of that particular antiquarian taste which came to the fore in the mid-eighteenth century, that for which Rome became a favorite destination on the Grand Tour. The classicist dream of Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692–1779), was preserved thanks to the Torlonia family, who purchased the villa in 1866, enlarging the collection and the gardens and restoring the most important cardinal residence of the eighteenth century.

More than 300 images by the great Italian master Massimo Listri recount the history of this extraordinary cultural heritage for the very first time. An immersive journey leads the reader between its collections of ancient masterpieces. Statues, bas-reliefs, and fountains are ensconced between the various buildings and gardens of the villa in a composition of environments, landscapes, and works of art forever waiting to be discovered.

About the Authors:

Massimo Listri is a photographer who has published more than 70 books and has exhibited his work at numerous solo exhibitions throughout the world. Carlo Gasparri is emeritus professor at the University of Naples Federico II and has authored several books about archaeology and Greek and Roman art. Raniero Gnoli is an Orientalist and historian of religions. Alvar González-Palacios is an author and art historian and former collaborator of FMR magazine.

This stunning book offers insider access to Lake Maggiore's Borromeo Palace, a resplendent achievement of baroque Italian architecture. This is a perfect volume for classic Italian art and architecture lovers.

In a unique natural setting--the Isola Bella island on Lake Maggiore, surrounded by the Alps -- stands the sumptuous palace built, and still owned, by the Borromeo family. Photographs guide the readers through the halls of the palace, which overlooks the lake and offers charming views. The halls and rooms are furnished with luxury furniture, marble, and stucco decorations, and enriched with ancient sculptures, armory, and a valuable collection of six Flemish tapestries woven in gold and silk. A large painting collection can be admired in General Berthier's gallery.

About the Authors:

Stefano Zuffi is an independent art historian focusing on art of the Renaissance and baroque periods. Massimo Listri is an Italian photographer who specializes in architectural photography. Already a longtime collaborator of FMR magazine, he has published several books and exhibited his photographs in Italy and abroad.

Temples of Knowledge. Exceptional access to the world’s illustrious libraries

Bibliophiles, rejoice! In this rapturous photographic journey, Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest libraries around the world to celebrate their architectural and historical wonder. From medieval to 19th-century institutions, private to monastic collections, this is a cultural-historical pilgrimage to the heart of our halls of learning and the stories they tell.

From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library in New York, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and like no other space, the collection of knowledge, learning, and imagination offers a sense of infinite possibility. It’s the unrivalled realm of discovery, where every faded manuscript or mighty clothbound tome might reveal a provocative new idea, a far-flung fantasy, an ancient belief, a religious conviction, or a whole new way of being in the world.

In this new photographic journey, Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest libraries to reveal their architectural, historical, and imaginative wonder. Through great wooden doors, up spiralling staircases, and along exquisite, shelf-lined corridors, he leads us through outstanding private, public, educational, and monastic libraries, dating as far back as 766. Between them, these medieval, classical, baroque, rococo, and 19th-century institutions hold some of the most precious records of human thought and deed, inscribed and printed in manuscripts, volumes, papyrus scrolls, and incunabula. In each, Listri’s poised images capture the library’s unique atmosphere, as much as their most prized holdings and design details.

Featured libraries include the papal collections of the Vatican Apostolic Library, Trinity College Library, home to the Book of Kells and Book of Durrow, and the holdings of the Laurentian Library in Florence, the private library of the powerful House of Medici, designed by Michelangelo. With meticulous descriptions accompanying each featured library, we learn not only of the libraries’ astonishing holdings — from which highlights are illustrated — but also of their often lively, turbulent, or controversial pasts. Like Altenburg Abbey in Austria, an outpost of imperial Catholicism repeatedly destroyed during the European wars of religion, or the Franciscan monastery in Lima, Peru, with its horde of archival Inquisition documents.

At once a bibliophile beauty pageant, an ode to knowledge, and an evocation of the particular magic of print, Massimo Listri. The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries is above all a cultural-historical pilgrimage to the heart of our halls of learning, to the stories they tell, as much as those they gather in printed matter along polished shelves.

The authors:

After studying history, German language and literature, education and philosophy, Georg Ruppelt gained his PhD with a doctoral thesis on Friedrich Schiller. He subsequently worked as a librarian, becoming deputy director of the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel in 1987, and director of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek in Hanover from 2002 to 2016. Ruppelt has published over 400 essays and 40 monographs on the subject of books, library science, and cultural history.

Elisabeth Sladek studied Art History in Vienna, Classical Archaeology and Judaic Studies and wrote her dissertation at the Max Planck Institute in Rome. Her special field is the history of the Baroque art and architecture and she is an active researcher and teacher, among others in Vienna, Rome and Zurich. She also publishes regularly on the respective themes.

Art from sub-Saharan Africa, with its wealth of unusual iconography, is illustrated in this volume through a large selection of artistic traditions spanning vast geographical areas and periods, as well as various ethnic and tribal groups.

A sumptuous selection of some of Italy's most beautiful houses, captured by renowned photographer Massimo Listri

The stunning photographs range over sweeping panoramas of the houses in their country settings right down to close-ups of rooms, furniture and design details, highlighting the merging of traditional and modern comforts that epitomizes Italian style.

From the Tuscan home of Colombian artist Fernando Botero to the enchanting Baroque palazzo in Sicily, home to Milanese designer Luisa Beccaria, the images evoke every mood from timeless simplicity to the delights of decorative excess. All of the featured homes offer inspiring sources of ideas that will bring a touch of Italy to any interior.

Preeminent Florentine photographer Massimo Listri uncovers the great public as well as private Tuscan treasures in this unprecedented, oversize, and deluxe volume.

Celebrating Tuscany’s renowned art and architecture, elegance, and charm, this unique volume unveils the finest Tuscan gems, both the famous as well as the hidden. Photographer Massimo Listri’s unique access affords this resplendent publication of Tuscany’s great treasures, including the architecture, art, and artistry of its frescoes, churches, palazzi, and gardens, as well as previously unseen private residence interiors, chapels, villas, and estates.

This oversize and deluxe volume features stunning gatefolds and showcases four hundred sumptuous colour and large-format photographs. From Florence to its surrounding areas, such as San Gimignano, Arezzo, Pisa, Siena, Montepulciano, Chianti, Lucca, and Pistoia, this book culls from Listri’s rich vault of visually stunning and historically noteworthy material to create a privileged journey through which Tuscany is at once marvellously displayed.

Tuscany is a superb piece of art to be enjoyed by both Italian art and culture connoisseurs as well as those discovering the region for the first time.

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Массимо Листри предлагает удивительное путешествие в Тоскану. Качественные фотографии старинной архитектуры, фресок и мозаик, дворцов, частных интерьеров раскрывают изнутри мир этого уголка, который является шедевром итальянского искусства и культуры.

Here in one mouthwatering tour and over 450 colour photographs is a trip around the world’s most exciting and inspirational private homes.

From West to East, from North to South, see inside more than sixty exotic and sophisticated houses, apartments and villas that reflect stylish living in the 21st century.

A mouthwatering tour of over 50 of the Mediterranean’s most luxurious and finely appointed houses.
Includes through-the-keyhole looks into the houses of many stellar talents old and new, including Dolce & Gabbana, Alberta Ferretti and Salvador Dalí.

This book showcases a sumptuous selection of some of the most beautiful houses found around the Mediterranean, providing glorious visions for dreaming as well as concrete sources of inspiration for creating one’s own personal style.

Listri’s stunning photographs include sweeping panoramas of the houses in their wonderful settings down to close-ups of individual rooms, furniture and design details.

Massimo Listri’s photographs have appeared in many international style journals, including Connaissance des Artes, Ambiente and Architectural Journal, as well as in such books as Magnificent Italian Villas and Palaces and Villas of Tuscany.

Italy boasts a rich cultural history that has found its expression in beautiful, powerful architectural forms, at times measured and hidden, at times ostentatious and triumphant.

This volume focuses on about thirty residential villas and palaces, giving the reader the opportunity to visit the magnificent palaces of Venice, Genoa, and Mantua, the elegant villas designed by Palladio and decorated by Tiepolo; the country villas of Tuscany, hidden in olive groves and vineyards; and the austere palaces of Florence-not to mention the Versaces' villa on Lake Como.

The interiors of these palaces are magnificent to behold: splendid tapestries, exquisite paintings and murals, sumptuous furniture and interior decoration of all kinds, from elegant carved molding to magnificently inlaid and tiled floors to beautiful renaissance, baroque, and neoclassical furniture.