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With the new By Architects series, Ediciones Poligrafa launches an innovative project dedicated to showcasing furniture and objects designed by some of the most important architects of the twentieth century. Three titles open this series: Alvar Aalto, Jean Prouve and Ray and Charles Eames. Best known for their contributions to architecture, furniture design (especially the Eames chair), industrial design, film and photography, Charles and Ray Eames remain among the most renowned American designers of the twentieth century. The couple married in 1941 and moved to California, where they pursued their furniture design in molded plywood. During the war they were commissioned by the U.S. Navy to produce molded plywood splints, stretchers and experimental glider shells. In 1946, Evans Products began producing the Eames'' molded plywood furniture. Their iconic molded plywood chair was called "the chair of the century" by the influential architectural critic Esther McCoy. In 1949, Charles and Ray designed and built their own home in Pacific Palisades, their design and imaginative use of materials making this house a mecca for architects and designers internationally. Today it is considered one of the most important postwar residences built anywhere in the world. After the war, the Eames continued to create new furniture designs, such as the Fiberglass Chairs (1950), the famous Lounge Chair and Ottoman (1956), the Time Life stool (1960), the 3473 sofa (1964) and the seating for Dulles and O''Hare airports--a design still in use in lounges around the world today. In the 70s they expanded their operations into cinema, producing many beautiful short films. Charles and Ray received honorary degrees and awards from universities and organizations across the country. The Eames Office still operates today.

Las terrazas y los balcones, en todas sus formas, han constituido siempre una parte esencial de la arquitectura; en cierto modo representan la continuación de la vivienda bajo el cielo abierto. Por lo general, las terrazas se relacionan directamente...

Isabella Mary Beeton, Nicola HumbleAn almost forgotten classic though a founding text of Victorian middle-class identity,Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management is a volume of insight and common sense. Written by what one might now describe as a Victorian Martha Stewart, the book offers advice on fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, and the management of servants. To the modern reader expecting stuffy verbosity or heavy moralizing, Beeton's book is a revelation: it explores the foods of Europe and beyond, suggesting new food stuffs and techniques, mixing domestic advice with discussions of science, religion, class, industrialism and gender roles. Alternately frugal and fashionable, anxious and self confident, the book highlights the concerns of the growing Victorian middle-class at a key moment in its history. This abridged edition serves as a cookery book, while documenting a significant aspect of Victorian social and cultural history.

As a young man, Jean Prouve (1901-1984) longed to become an engineer, but as his family could not afford the requisite training, at 15 he was apprenticed to a master blacksmith in Paris. Prouve opened his own smithy in Nancy in 1923, and shortly thereafter produced his first furniture made from thin sheet steel. Right away, Prouve''s sparse, geometric aesthetic appealed to avant garde architects such as Robert Mallet-Stevens and Le Corbusier, who commissioned ironwork from him, and in 1929, invited Prouve to join the new Union des Artistes Modernes, a group of artists and designers championing the Modernist style. In the early 1940s, due to the scarcity of steel during World War II, Prouve began working mostly with wood. Besides creating furniture, he also explored designs for pre-fabricated housing, constructing dwellings for the homeless. But by the 1960s, Prouve''s austere style seemed passe, and he fell foul of fashion''s whims; as a self-taught designer he was also routinely excluded by the architectural establishment. His reputation may have further suffered from his own appetite for collaboration, which could make his exact role in architectural projects difficult to identify. Happily, this state of affairs changed in the 1990s when Prouve emerged as an unlikely auction star, as his sensibility chimed again with the activities of contemporary neo-Modernists like Jasper Morrison and Konstantin Grcic. This new monograph in Poligrafa''s new series on the furniture and objects designed by the twentieth century''s most important architects features drawings and photographs of each featured design.

ENGLICH, GUIDO; BURKHARD, REMMERS El nuevo manual de planificación -ilustrativo, polifacético y útil- ofrece una perspectiva única sobre los factores espaciales que influyen en las distintas formas de comunicacion e interaccion humanas. Mediante las correspondientes introducciones tematicas, numerosos ejemplos y fundamentos de planificacion, y diversos cuadros sinopticos sobre los diferentes equipamientos y tecnicas multimedia se proporciona una amplia obra de consulta y, a la vez, un resumen de sugerencias para la concepcion de los espacios y su realizacion metodica. En resumen: una obra imprescindible para todos aquellos que quieran mejorar los procesos de comunicacion y cooperacion en entornos laborales modernos.

AN INDISPENSABLE OVERVIEW OF EARTH-FRIENDLY DESIGN AND AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE FOR DESIGNERS AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS.

This stunning volume focuses on the qualities of the old things in our homes (the patina of an old table, pewter dulled by age, old floorboards that creak) and how to live with and incorporate them into our personal aesthetic. Divided into chapters by the qualities of old--peeling, dried, tarnished, faded, chipped, frayed, rusty, and mossy--this unique book not only pays tribute to furniture, textiles, china, silver and other accessories with these qualities but also shows us how best to preserve, adapt, and arrange them. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs that highlight the warm colors and rich textures of wood and paint, cloth and leather, For the Love of Old also includes ideas and recipes for saving old items from the junk pile, preserving and caring for the old things you have, giving newer things a lived-in feel, and bringing an enduring personality to every home.

Un arte con espontaneidad, encanto y armonía. El Wabi-sabi es la filosofía que subyace a artes japoneses como los haikus, el ikebana, la caligrafía o la ceremonia del té. Es una invitación a dejar de lado el perfeccionismo para apreciar la belleza sencilla de lo orgánico y espontáneo. Inspirado en la observación de la naturaleza, este libro único te enseña cómo puedes dar un cálido y elegante ambiente oriental a tu hogar prescindiendo de lo superfluo y accesorio. Los profundos nudos de una desgastada mesa de pino, un ramo de flores silvestres, las manchas de óxido de un viejo baúl. En estas páginas encontrarás cientos de trucos e ideas para dotar a tu hogar de belleza encantadora y armonía natural.

Más de cuarenta años después de su aparición como manifestación artísticaa, el minimalismo, una de las corrientes más arraigadas en la actualidad, se ha consolidado como vertiente estética en la arquitectura y el diseño. La características que definen el minimalismo en lo que al interiorismo respecta son la simplicidad de las formas, las líneas puras, los espacios despejados y los colores neutros. Este estilo aboga por los ambientes armónicos y funcionales y repudia los excesos y toda contaminación visual. Pese a la rigurosidad de su esencia, la popularidad ha significado para el minimalismo uuna matización en favor de ambientes más habitables y menos estrictos. En definitiva, más humanos. Este volumen reune las opciones decorativas que caracterizan la versión más contemporáneas del minimalismo y las presenta acompañadas por las máximas de los mayores exponentes de este movimiento.

Lavishly illustrated with more than 300 full-colour photographs, this volume is a showcase of some of the world's best architectural and interior design projects. It reveals how, through careful use of material, colour, lighting, and furnishings, designers and architects can create houses that live in harmony with the natural world, yet still ...

Fourteen years after the first volume in the highly acclaimed Interiors series comes the first of our all-new updated titles: New Paris Interiors. The city of light is a place of persistent beauty, from the Tuileries gardens to the banks of the Seine to the heights of Montmartre. But the restrained palette of beige and stone painted by the citys noble architecture may leave one wondering if Parisians are color-impaired. Fear notfor New Paris Interiors, Angelika Taschen has brought together a selection of apartments so astonishing, so surprising, and so inspiring that you very well might not know what hit you. Think texture, think dynamic space, think eclectic, think vivid colorsthese interiors are packed floor to ceiling with new ideas, unexpected pleasures, and prime examples of 21st century living. Architect India Mahdavi, French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld, auctioneer Simon de Pury, shoemaker Christian Louboutin, gallerists Philippe Jousse and Didier and Clemence Krzentowski, fashion designer Rick Owens, and many more of the citys most interesting personalities have opened their doors for this breathtaking collection of resplendent Parisian homes.

Con una historia de más de seis mil años, China es la civilización más antigua y la nación más poblada del planeta. Debido a su larga historia, a su riqueza cultural y a la diversidad de grupos étnicos que alberga, este país resulta absolutamente fascinante. Tras haber husmeado por una diversidad de casas, tanto antiguas como modernas, Vivir en China transporta al lector a algunos lugares que muchos no tendrán la oportunidad de contemplar jamás. Visite la casa-muralla de bambú de Kengo Kuma, una casa de tierra circular en Fujian con 600 años de antigüedad, el artístico apartamento de una escritora célebre pero censurada, la residencia en Hong Kong del propietario del China Club y del Shanghai Tan, el estudio y hogar de un artista en la mayor comunidad artística del mundo... Todos los interiores que aparecen en este libro recogen aspectos intrigantes de la vida en la China actual.

Founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Fritz Waemdorfer, the Wiener Werkstatte ("Vienna Workshop") was a collective of architects and craftsmen which aimed at fusing architecture and interior design into a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. Experimenting with various materials (gold, precious stones, and papier mache, for example), the artists of the Wiener Werkstatte created buildings and objects which combined classical elegance with streamlined functionality. Though the workshop lasted only thirty years, its influence is still strong today. Another stroke of genius by TASCHEN, a gloriously illustrated in-depth account of the 'total work of art' and the most important achievements of that creative endeavor. design report, Stuttgart

UNA IMPRESIONANTE VISIÓN DE CONJUNTO DE LOS DISEÑOS MÁS BONITOS DEL LEJANO ORIENTE PERTENECIENTES A LAS COLECCIONES DEL PRESTIGIOSO VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM DE LONDRES

La tendencia a reducir el espacio en las viviendas urbanas ha obligado a redefinir los hogares. Este libro muestra soluciones e ideas que arquitectos y diseñadores proponen para los pisos nuevos y actuales, a traves de numerosos ejemplos de viviendas situadas en Barcelona, Londres, Nueva York o Shangai.

Los niños necesitan un espacio propio donde jugar, divertirse y fantasear, pero también adecuado para dormir y estudiar. Descubra, a través de cientos de fotografías, un sinfín de ideas y propuestas para lograr un espacio optimo para cada momento y adaptado a las diferentes edades.

Cientos de fotografías reales para disfrutar de la decoración o como ayuda para elegir los elementos decorativos que desea introducir en su casa para crear un ambiente agradable y armonioso en el qu