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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