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Ce livre présente l’ensemble des savoirs et pratiques du peintre décorateur d’aujourd’hui. Il aborde la technologie, propose une réflexion et un témoignage sur les possibilités créatives esthétiques de cet art.

Sommaire :

Les bases : se documenter, les outils, la peinture, les glacis, la protection des décors, l’hygiène et la sécurité.

Les imitations de matières : les décors de marbre, les décors de bois, les pierres semi-précieuses.

Du volume à l’espace : les filets et moulures, les volumes, les espaces, les applications.

Tout sur le parquet et ses possibilités créatives.
Parquets en lames massives à clouer, à coller, parquets flottants, parquets contrecollés, posés sur lambourdes, sur faux-plancher…  Il existe tant de types différents, tant de méthodes de pose, tant d’essences de bois européens ou exotiques : le livre de Frank Briatte, professionnel averti, permet de tout savoir sur le parquet grâce à un texte concis et clair et à de nombreuses illustrations.
L’histoire du parquet est décrite depuis les premiers planchers, des parquets de la Renaissance jusqu’au parquet industriel du XXI e siècle en passant par les parquets marquetés. Sont ensuite décrits les différents types de parquets et leur usage, sans oublier ce que les technologies les plus récentes peuvent apporter au traitement du bois. Puis la mise en œuvre est abordée, qui doit tenir compte du support existant. Les avantages et inconvénients de chaque méthode de pose sont soigneusement expliqués, ce qui permettra de choisir celle appropriée à chaque situation. Trente-quatre essences utilisées en parqueterie sont décrites tant esthétiquement que techniquement, avec la photographie de quelques lames.
La dernière partie et non la moindre est consacrée aux motifs décoratifs utilisés dans les parquets : soixante-dix pages de relevés, de dessins et de photographies.

Sommaire :
Historique.
Les parquets à la française. Les parquets marquetés. Les parquets industriels. Le choix du parquet.
Les types de parquets : à clouer, à coller, contrecollés, anciens, démontables, de salles de sport, en milieu humide.
La pose des parquets cloués, flottants, collés.
Les finitions et l’entretien.
Le comportement au feu.
Les sols chauffants et rafraîchissants. L’acoustique. Les sinistres. Les essences. Les motifs décoratifs.
Glossaire.

Public : Particuliers et institutions se proposant de faire poser un parquet ou de le restaurer, industriels et artisans du bois, entrepreneurs, architectes, décorateurs.

This large format, full-color, inspirational book is about how artists use their collections to make artwork. The gallery-style format allows readers to see what artists collect, and the resulting spectacular artwork they make from it. The book will feature the collections and the artwork of thirty-five major mixed-media artists. The artwork will include journals, assemblages, altered books, as well as jewelry pieces, and detailed descriptions of the materials and techniques used, plus tips and insights into using unusual materials and collections.

Mixed-media artists are naturally collectors. They are fascinated by the stuff of life, and they are always looking for the right elements to add to their collages and journals. This book offers a juicy combination -- sort of a walk through an artist-filled flea market, and a gallery of the pieces created using these collections with tips and insights on collecting and creating, and how they go hand in hand.

Features a lineup of 35 contributing artists including: Lynn WhippleGraceann WarnGail RiekeBeryl TaylorKeith LoBueMichael DeMengNina BagleySusan Lenart-Kazmerand more

Art Making, Collections, and Obsessions features a beautiful collection of inspirational artwork. You'll enjoy artist's tips, creative ideas, and advice on working with unusual materials for collage

A glimpse into the personal collections and work of 35 major artists..

This book has chapters on the Origins of Art Nouveau, Art Nouveau at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris, Major Artists and a Bibliography

The unity of art and life was the expressed goal of the Art Nouveau movement, the prelude to modernity. On the basis of shared ideas its adherents strove for a homogenous style, which nonetheless took on manifold variations in its expression. Dr. Gabriele Fahr-Becker pursues this will to style in architecture, interior decor, furniture design, silver and gold-smithery, ceramics and glasswork, graphic arts and painting. The author leads her readers through the diverse national variations of Art Nouveau in Europe and the United States. The significance of the literary and philosophical as well as cultural and political background is explained by means of many theories and writings by artists and their contemporaries. The countless permutations of Art Nouveau are woven into a complex and yet distinctive picture of this artistic movement at the turn of the twentieth century.

For a fruitful period between the 1880s and the First World War, European and North American culture deferred to nature. With a symphony of flowing lines and organic shapes, Art Nouveau ( New Art ) inflected architecture, design, painting, graphic work, applied arts, and illustration.

Art Nouveau was deliberately nouveau. With a spirit of willful reform, its practitioners sought to distance themselves from the imitative historicism that characterized much 19th-century art and replace it with undulating, decorative qualities. Turning to vine tendrils, flowering buds, and bird feathers as ornamental reference, they pursued not only a linear freedom but also liberation from the weight of artistic tradition and expectation.

At the same time, Art Nouveau followed the example of the earlier English Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts movements to reject established hierarchies of artistic practice, to emphasize a return to handcraftsmanship, and to synthesize artistic media and practices into a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. In this, as in its turn to nature, Art Nouveau is often seen as an aesthetic response to the Industrial Revolution, a recoil from the mass-produced and mechanic, and an elevation of the human hand and wonders of the great outdoors.

This fresh TASCHEN edition considers Art Nouveau as a broad historical phenomenon with distinct local features. We consider the style s wider artistic, economic, and political circumstances, as well as its particular flavor in such hubs as Vienna, Glasgow, Munich, Weimar, and Chicago. Outstanding proponents such as Victor Horta, Antoni Gaudi, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are featured in connection with the cities of their greatest activity. The result is a vivid portrait of the age and a movement that is as much entrenched in our imagination of the fin de siecle as it is in the trajectory of modernism.

Klaus-Jürgen Sembach is a writer, curator, and former director of the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg. He has produced numerous publications on architecture, design, photography, and film.

The best of the existing European Art Nouveau buildings, monuments and interiors are celebrated in this lavish book by one of Japan’s leading photographers.

Art Nouveau, which flourished throughout Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was one of the most significant movements in the history of decorative arts and architecture. Born of a reaction to the rise of industrialism and inspired by aesthetes such as Ruskin and Morris, it was a style that rapidly became recognized the world over, propagated by such architects as Gaudí, Guimard and Olbrich.

Although it flowered only briefly, and while a great many of its creations were destroyed, there remain throughout Europe myriad examples of Art Nouveau’s sinuous forms and organically inspired beauty, the best of which are captured in this book, the ultimate pictorial record of one of the most distinctive architectural styles ever.

500 color photos

The streets of Budapest, Hungary, and Vienna, Austria, are rich in masterpieces of Art Nouveau ironwork. Around nearly every corner of the residential districts and business hubs of these great cities, architectural treasures wait to be appreciated by the discerning eye. 500 vivid photos show the many, varied interpretations of Art Nouveau forms used in balustrades and balconies, lanterns and gates, doorways, elevator door façades, and more. This book will inspire many to make new travel plans and will delight everyone with a passion for beautiful decorative ironwork.

This book has over 300 stunning photographs covering the late 1880's to the early 1900's. It features buildings, furniture, metalwork, jewellery, glass etc

What makes an effective exhibition space?

How can we give center stage to the works on display whilst also creating a place of architectural merit?

Cultural Exhibit attempts to find answers to these questions, and more, through a wide variety of proposals for exhibition spaces.

Ideas that can transform what would otherwise be an undistinguished series of rooms into a space that facilitates the enjoyment of the subject in question, whether they be works of art or artifacts in a museum.

Architects with a wealth of experience in the field share their ideas and concepts through explanatory texts and full-color photographs of some of their finest projects.

This will surely be an invaluable aid to anyone involved in this highly challenging field of architecture and design.

This glorious book is filled with a wide-ranging history of textiles and 350 superb illustrations drawn from many countries and sources - vestments and costumes, samplers and pictures, great beds and furniture.

The story of embroidery and needlework is discussed within the fascinating context of the history of fabrics, of decorative costume, of interior decoration, of church and state ceremonial, of girls education, of furniture and pastimes. Silk, cotton, linen, and the significance of colours and dyes are also considered. Two interesting chapters reveal the worldwide fascination with influence of Chinese embroidery and Indian textiles.

With a broad account of the artistic achievements of every facet of decorative needlework, the book is rich with the art-historical background encompassing the most magnificent of all embroidery, the mediaeval English vestments so coveted by Popes and Bishops across Europe, to the domestic treasures created in more recent centuries. Baroque, Rococo, neo-classical and other period characteristics are each discussed with reference to works created by children, young girls, and ladies who made furniture coverings destined for posterity. The nineteenth century saw extremes of art and fashion ranging from Berlin woolwork to Art Needlework and the eclectic inspiration represented by William Morris, all leading to simpler modernist styles which evolved over the twentieth century.

The author sets in political and social context the whole panoply of textiles, distinguishing between the magnificent products of professional workshops and the uniquely individual and especially charming amateur embroideries that survive today amongst the most beautiful treasures of the decorative arts.

Besides fulfilling their traditional function, stairs have become an almost sculptural element in building. This volume comprises a complete study of stairs, from their technical details to the realization of the projects. The examples used are drawn from the work of recognized architects and that of innovative young masters in the field, thereby explaining the most interesting solutions in this fascinating area of architecture : details of the width and height and shape of steps, their structural systems, balusters, proportions, and alternative types, etc. lllustrated with hundreds of full-color, glossy photographs, plans, tables and specific diagrams, this book is specifically designed to be a valuable source of technical and inspirational information, for students as well as for the fully-fledged architect and building professional.

The Art of the Japanese Garden traces the development and blending of gardening traditions, as well as the inclusion of new features as gardening reached new heights of sophistication on Japanese soil. The book features a number of the most notable gardens in Japan, including graveled courtyards, early aristocratic gardens, esoteric and paradise gardens, Zen gardens, warrior gardens, tea gardens and stroll gardens.