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Designed to be a companion to the classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history’s most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glass shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED lamps. All major styles are represented here — Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern Movement, De Stijl, Postwar, Pop, Radical, Post-Modern, and Contemporary — in 704 pages of truly illuminated works.

Dealing with color is a complex subject: influenced by standards, fashions, and trends, we derive our ideas and concepts from color theories, intuition, and personal preferences. The color swatches and systems for describing color common today are based on purely quantitative principles and include well over 1,500 colors. So how do we choose a particular color?

More than ten years ago, the color chemist Katrin Trautwein established a pigment factory, starting out from Le Corbusier’s color palette. She now has more than 900 recipes for paint from which she has proposed – based on her work with architects, designers, and historical preservationists – a selection of 128 colors that produce pleasant results on their own and also combine well. Each color is presented with a sample; their potential uses and significance are also discussed.

Katrin Trautwein has lectured throughout the world on how to approach colors, given seminars, given expert opinions, advised architects, taught painters, and worked as a restorer.

À travers de nombreux schémas et reproductions, l’auteur présente l’évolution des fenêtres et appuis au cours des siècles. Sommaire : La fonction. Les matériaux. Évolution de la fenêtre. Appuis et fermetures. Chronologie. Exemples suivants les époques : Du Moyen Âge à l’Art Déco.

For the first time ever the highlights of a world renowned private collection are bundled in a book: over 300 tapestries and textile related objects such as hairpins and jewellery are showcased in this beautifully illustrated book. Much of the focus is on Coptic textiles. Coptic art is a term used either for the art of Egypt produced in the early Christian era or for the art produced by the Coptic Christians themselves.

This classic reference book has been reissued in its original full-size format with a fresh new cover design. A mine of information for students and anyone interested in textiles, the book opens with an expert guide to nine fundamental textile techniques, from rug weaving and tapestry to felt and bark cloth. Each is clearly explained, using line drawings and close-up colour details from actual textiles. This shows how many different people from many different traditions have made and decorated cloth through the centuries. From pre-history to the present day, the rich collection of illustrations - drawn from major collecions all over the world - including costumes, period interiors, archive photographs and a huge variety of fabrics.

В этой книге собраны сведения о 75 самых грандиозных, красивых и оригинальных мостах и виадуках мира.

Вы ознакомитесь с мостами самых различных конструкций: примитивными веревочными мостиками; арочными виадуками из камня, возведенными еще древними римлянами и сохранившимися до наших дней в идеальном состоянии; элегантными, искусно украшенными мостами Венеции - самого романтичного города мира; массивными железными сооружениями - памятниками достижений человечества в XIX в.; ультрасовременными переправами из бетона и стали, протянувшимися через морские и океанские просторы; акведуками, доставляющими воду на огромные расстояния, а также с подъемными и поворотными мостами.

Вы получите информацию об особенностях этих удивительных сооружений, о количестве использованных материалов, сроках строительства, ценах и даже узнаете мнение людей, часто пользующихся этими удивительными постройками или живущих рядом с ними. Каждому мосту посвящена отдельная статья с качественными фотографиями и дополнительными комментариями, позволяющими оценить его истинные размеры. Местоположение моста в стране и в мире отмечено на отдельных схемах.

Amsterdam Design 1900–1930 In the early 20th century, two movements emerged that were to define Dutch design of the early 20th century: de Stijl (the Style) and de Amsterdamse School (the Amsterdam School). De Stijl was the minimal and modernist of the two.

De Amsterdamse School, on the other hand, broke with rational convention and allowed for the frivolous use of ornament. Amsterdam 1900–1930 contains a visual guide to the design methodology used by graphic designers, architects and artists at the time and hundreds of examples of designs from the first three decades of the 20th century.

CD with designs included.

Out of print for a while, this classic reference work on antique ironware is available once again.

Antique collectors, iron buffs, and industrial historians will welcome the opportunity to browse through its pages, which contain hundreds of photographs of fascinating items.

Architectural hardware, lighting devices, and irons, tools, toys, weathervanes, fences and gates, and kitchen utensils are all presented, with examples taken from rarely-viewed private collections as well as major museums.

Concise descriptions of each item pictured augment text that includes a great deal of historical and manufacturing information.

You'll find details on the iron works at Saugus, Massachusetts; Batsto, New Jersey; Hopewell, Pennsylvania; and more. There's a discussion of the regional products of the South, Midwest, and Northeast of the United States, along with plenty of information on influences from England and Europe.

Large quantities of leaded decorative windows were manufactured in the years surrounding the turn of the century. Glasses of many colors and textures were used to make elaborate windows for homes, creating spectacular presentations of light and color formerly seen only in churches. These windows are enormously popular on today's antiques market, varying widely in price and condition. This attractive book is a useful tool for anyone looking to bring the enchanting beauty of stained glass into their home. In this revised 2nd edition there are hundreds of gorgeous windows of many shapes, sizes, colors, and complexities are featured here, including etched, beveled, painted, and mosaic windows. Learn about the influences of some of the more prominent names in decorative windows, including Louis Comfort Tiffany, John LaFarge, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Original catalog material, a discussion of glass and leading types, values for each window, and other information will help you assess decorative windows in the marketplace. For designers and artisans, this book is a treasury of classic designs.

349 colored illustrations

307 illustrations

Doors are prominent and essential elements of all buildings. They pave the way into and out of a building. Thus, doors are simultaneously an article of daily use and an explicit statement of the homeowner. They can serve as an invitation just as well as a barrier. Due to the variety of potential uses and statements the door is an integral, yet very intricate architectural component.

Through the eye of excellent photographers with exceptional attention to detail, this volume attempts to capture the magnificent diversity of doors from all architectural epochs and styles found in Europe’s greatest cities. It documents the entire scope of entrance design from ancient to brand new, from frugal to pompously ornate, from functional to playful.

The volume is part of a series, which is focused not on prominent buildings at large but on ingenious and extraordinary details.

The new series sends the reader on a journey across European metropolises. Thereby, the attention is focused not on prominent buildings at large but on ingenious and extraordinary details. Each book concerns with a different constructional element. The first three volumes present doors, windows and façades from all architectural epochs and styles. Whether new or old, nice or bizarre – here you will find an architectural kaleidoscope of a special kind.

322 colored illustrations