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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.

A surprising trend can be discerned in museum building since the end of the 1990s, one that still seems to be going strong today: an unprecedented number of grand-scale projects have been undertaken in recent years, ont only by private sponsors, but in many cases made possible instead by public funding.

This book not only shows new museums , galleries and exhibition venues for the fine arts, but also features unusual buildings housing special collections, as well as museums exhibting material from other fields of knowledge. One central focus of contemporary architecture can be traced particulary well in the examples illustrated in the book: new surfaces that enable the creation of new forms.

Astoundingly, parallel to this development another architectural approach which can be already be called classical is also experiencing a Renaissance - the clearly defined, austere cube cloaked in a free-floating glass shell. No less than three buildings depicted here demonstrate the immense variety that is possible within these rigid parameters.

The works shown here are no more than five years old and show, what a broad bandwidth can be discerned within a moment's snapshot. There are visionaries like Asymptote and masters such as Günter Behnisch and Tadao Ando, whose buildings span an arc from classical modernism to the architecture of today.

Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman delight in the unexpected. They revel in beautiful contradictions to create interiors that blend the exotic and the traditional and refresh classic ideas with handmade, whimsical details. Both designers contribute an essential element to every project: Andrew Fisher injects opulence and glamour, hand-decorating chandeliers with shells, crafting side tables with delicate branchlike bases, and choosing ornate accent materials like tortoise, gold leaf, and peacock feathers; Jeffry Weisman contributes restrained architecture, calm visual pauses, and impeccable interior finishes.

As a firm, Fisher Weisman breathes new life into traditional aesthetics, reinterpreting timeless sensibilities with a lively and contemporary eye. Whether recovering Biedermeier chairs in zebra hide and slipper chairs with repurposed Indian saris found on their travels or finishing formal dining rooms in rich chocolate lacquer, Fisher Weisman subverts expectations to create truly extraordinary interiors. Artful Decoration showcases the exquisite work of this San Francisco–based design firm, revealing the imagination, meticulous attention to detail, and the sense of humor with which they infuse every home.

Beguiling touches finish off rooms designed with an enviable knowledge of form, proportion, color, and history to bring traditional spaces into the present and create livable, fresh interiors with an artisanal flair. Artful Decoration features thirteen residences ranging from small but lavish pieds-à-terre to airy Californian estates, from elegant penthouses to one especially elaborate tree house. Two hundred vivid, full-color illustrations reveal these and many other unexpected pleasures on every page to delight the eye and inspire the imagination.

Artistic Interiors is an extraordinary volume featuring the work of the prestigious architectural interior designer Suzanne Lovell. Hundreds of full-colour photographs feature her unique approach toward designing environments that create an expressive home through collections of art.

Exploring more than a dozen homes all over the country, Lovell takes the reader on a journey through homes with sumptuous interiors, finely crafted details and exceptional art collections, fabrics and furnishings. Art collections range from paintings, drawings and photography by Vic Muniz, Edward Lipski and Dale Chihuly to Native American mask and headdress collections to incredible sculpture and textiles.

Suzanne Lovell is well known as the go-to interior designer for people with serious art collections and in this book, she will feature some of her best curatorial work.

About the Author:

Architect and interior designer, Suzanne Lovell is the owner of Chicago-based Suzanne Lovell Interiors and co-owner with Sam Kasten of Twill Textiles.

The development of textiles as an art form between 1940 and 1976, and the extent of collaboration between artists and textile manufacturers at this time, is unrivalled in modern art history. Raoul Dufy was the first twentieth-century artist to become seriously and successfully involved in producing textile designs. His work influenced and encouraged many other artists and textile companies in Britain, on the Continent and in America. After the war this movement really flowered with the involvement of leading artists of the day: Picasso, Matisse, Moore, Nicholson, Warhol, Steinberg, to name a few...

Artists' Textiles 1940-1976 is an important and comprehensive survey of this art form in Britain and America. There are approximately 200 colour images, many of which have never been seen before, alongside specially commissioned photography. Major artists featured: Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Saul Steinberg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Fernand Leger, Ben Nicholson, Andy Warhol.

Ten years, ten boxes, 118 issues, 6,076 pages!

The seminal architecture journal resurrected in facsimile

The first part (1945-1954) of our facsimile edition of John Entenza's groundbreaking magazine, which launched the Case Study House Program; in ten boxes, each containing one year's worth of magazines

From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture: emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated low-cost materials and modern design. This trend was most notably embodied in the famous Case Study House Program, which was championed by the era’s leading American journal, Arts & Architecture. Focusing not only on architecture but also design, art, music, politics, and social issues, A&A was an ambitious and groundbreaking publication, largely thanks to the inspiration of John Entenza, who ran the magazine for over two decades until David Travers became publisher in 1962. The era’s greatest architects were featured in A&A, including Neutra, Schindler, Saarinen, Ellwood, Lautner, Eames, and Koenig; and two of today’s most wildly successful architects, Frank Gehry and Richard Meier, had their debuts in its pages. A&A was instrumental in putting American architecture - and in particular California Modernism - on the map. Other key contributors to the magazine include photographers Julius Shulman and Ezra Stoller, writers Esther McCoy and Peter Yates, and cover designers Herbert Matter and Alvin Lustig, among many luminaries of modernism.

This collection comes with ten boxes, each containing a complete year’s worth of Arts & Architecture magazines from 1945-1954. That’s 6,076 pages in 118 issues reproduced in their entirety - beginning with Entenza’s January 1945 announcement of the Case Study House Program. Also included is a supplement booklet with an original essay by former A&A publisher David Travers, available in English, German, French, and Spanish; plus a master index and tables of contents for the magazine from 1945-1967. Arts & Architecture 1945-1954 will be followed in autumn 2009 by a second set, 1955-1967, bringing together all the existing issues of the modern era.

 A great part of the history of Morocco relates to tradition, ranging from oral culture to architecture, including various arts illumination, calligraphy, sculpture, tattooing..., - and crafts cabinet-making, ironwork, pottery, weaving, gold work...-; a tradition which handed down from one generation to the next satisfies the aspirations of each period, while embracing the opposition between ancient and modern . It should be said that Moroccan art, by gradually developing its forms and materials, became a model, therefore avoiding the tradition/modernity opposition as well as the era of simulation.

Un grand pan de l’Histoire du Maroc tient à la tradition et va de la culture orale à l’architecture, en passant par divers arts - enluminures, calligraphie, sculpture, tatouage... -, et métiers - menuiserie, ferronnerie, poterie, tissage, orfèvrerie... - ; une tradition qui, en se transmettant d’une génération à une autre, répond aux aspirations de chaque époque, non sans contenir en elle l’opposition entre « ancien » et « moderne ». Il faut préciser que l’art marocain, en fixant progressivement ses formes et ses matériaux, s’est institué en modèle et que, de ce fait, il ne s’inscrit ni dans l’opposition tradition/modernité ni dans l’« ère de la simulation ».

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Arts in the ‘20s includes a magnificent selection of architecture, interiors, furniture, and decorative objects produced in Europe during the 1920s. Originally published in 1930, this book has since become extremely rare and sought after. This new edition, following the format of the original, has over 800 images organized in six sections: architecture; interiors and furniture; metal and jewelry; ceramics; glass; lace, embroidery, textiles, printed paper and leather. Arts in the ‘20s presents projects realized by the most important architects and designers of the time: Edgar Brandt, Josef Hoffmann, Le Corbusier, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Eliel Saarinen, Gio Ponti, as well as offerings from renown firms such as Baccarat, Cartier, Daum, Moser and Royal Copenhagen. The works of lesser known artists, and an introductory text and opinionated captions by art critic Roberto Papini, help to illustrate the stylistic movements and preoccupations of the period. This exquisitely produced treasury of restored images, printed in duotone on ivory colored paper, will be prized by bibliophiles, collectors, and connoisseurs in a broad range of artistic disciplines.

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The global exchange of design and taste is at its most fertile between Asia and the West. Leading Asian designers and architects have reprocessed international ideas and functionality into the idiom of Asian cultures, from India to China, Japan to Southeast Asia. Asia Home is a wide-ranging look at contemporary design from across the region, featuring more than 100 homes and more than 50 top designers.

Asia is one of the top destinations for spa resorts with numerous-winning projects. Recently, there has been a boom in the development of urban spas as part of the main feature of international hotels. This book brings together more than 30 outstanding spas including the highly acclaimed Ananda – In The Himalayas, Banyan Tree Spa Phuket and Chiva-Som International Health Resort. It also features the latest projects – Plateau by John Morford, Away Spa of W Seoul by RAD and the first Evian Spa outside France. All projects feature illustrations and details of the treatments available, with a focus on the deign. Each spa is accompanied with a description on its signature treatment. This book will appeal to anyone interested in spas and its design.

Luxury resorts on stilts, a bar that looks like a UFO on the streets of Bangkok, and an underground museum. What do these places have in common? They are establishing trends in architecture and design. Asian Design Destinations is an experience for the senses, transporting readers to some of the most fascinating places in Asia and the Far East. Is it art? Architecture? A style? Will it leave a permanent mark on our time? No one can say for sure today, but one thing is clear already. It is all of that: electrifying, zany, exciting, bold, fairy-tale dreamy - grandiose. These are places that visibly testify to the tremendous power of the symbiosis between nature and human genius. Architects, designers and artists from all over the world combine the increasing demands and standards of a booming Asia with innovative materials and original ideas to create fascinating objects.

Luxusresorts auf Pfählen, eine Bar, die sich in Bangkoks Straßen ausnimmt wie ein UFO und ein unterirdisches Museum. Was verbindet diese Orte? Sie setzen Trends in Architektur und Design. Asian Design Destinations ist ein Ereignis für die Sinne. Es entführt den Betrachter an die faszinierendsten Plätze in Asien und Fernost. Ist es Kunst? Architektur? Eine Mode? Wird es unserer Zeit einen Stempel aufdrücken, dauerhaft? Wer kann das heute schon sagen. Eines aber ist jetzt bereits sicher. Es ist all das: elektrisierend, verrückt, aufregend, verwegen, märchenhaft – großartig. Plätze, die sichtbar bezeugen, welch ungeheuren Reiz die Symbiose aus Natur und menschlichem Genius besitzt.
Architekten, Designer und Künstler aus aller Welt verbinden die wachsenden Ansprüche der Boomregion Asien mit neuartigen Materialien und originellen Ideen zu faszinierenden Objekten.