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Thomas Jeckyll (1827–1881) ranks among the least understood and most tragic Aesthetic Movement figures in England. This abundantly illustrated book explores his innovative and brilliant designs in architecture, furniture, metalwork, and interiors and restores him to his deserved place among the architect/designers of his time. The book is the definitive study of Jeckyll’s life and work, and it presents his notable buildings and diverse examples of his decorative arts. Susan Weber Soros and Cath...

Crafting New Traditions brings together the work of eleven historians and craftspeople to address the two questions of "who has influenced the recent history of Canadian studio craft?" and "who will be considered as the 'pioneers' of Canadian craft in the future?" This book examines those innovators who have influenced five craft fields: ceramics, glass, metal, textiles and wood. Crafting New Traditions also includes five essays that look at recent leading-edge activity in the crafts.

A gorgeous book, with full colour throughout, featuring photos of the firm's striking designs and architectural diagrams. Though based in Toronto, Diamond & Schmitt are a truly international firm, with both a global reputation for award-winning projects like the Toronto Opera House, and an impressive record of international work (currently including the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia). This book details several major international projects, including Jerusalem City Hall (Isreal), T...

Ingenhoven Overdiek and Partner was founded in 1993 and has gone on to become one of Germany's most successful young architectural offices achieving an astonishing number of competition successes. This volume highlights their methods of design and planning, revealing the search for a sustainable form to be an underlying factor and demonstrating how precision technology enables economic and ecological demands to be met. "They are continually working on problems and designs... the work of planning...

The monograph provides a sharply focused insight into how Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer understand architecture. The various concepts as well as the different constructions, materials, forms and colors that they employ in their projects are presented in an exhaustive documentation of their work that uses numerous photographs, plans and short texts. The three essays as well as a discussion between Patrick Gmur, Martin Steinmann and the architects offer in-depth reflection and contextualization.

Charles Robert Ashbee—architect, designer, social reformer, and a major force behind the Arts and Crafts Movement—was one of the most significant figures in British artistic and cultural life at the turn of the century. Inspired by the Romantic anti-industrialism of John Ruskin and William Morris, Ashbee started a small craft workshop in the East End of London in 1888 called the Guild of Handicraft. He not only made it a place where work could be satisfying and creative, but in 1902 boldly moved...

Recently the subject of a critically acclaimed exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Carol Rama has been creating highly personal paintings and collages since 1936. A contemporary of Meret Oppenheim and Man Ray, this vibrant, reckless, and often shocking 80 year old is finally getting the international recognition her joyous work deserves. Demonstrating a recklessness that underpins her art as it has from the beginning, this book traces Rama and her career from 1936 to the pre...

"Describes different collectible items, including how to get started collecting, where to find collectibles, and how to display collectibles"--Provided by publisher.

THE MASTER ARCHITECT SERIES is a series of monographs on some of the greatest architects and architectural firms of our time. Each monograph will contain 256 pages displaying several hundred color photographs, drawings, sketches and renderings. Although primarily a pictorial essay, the books will contain selected projects described in concise detail, along with a critique or overview of the firm, a resume of the partners, and a comprehensive bibliography.

Shows courthouses, news-broadcasting facilities, banks, hotels, and office buildings designed by the American architectural firm.

Includes the International Terminal at O'Hare Airport.

Vladimir Belogolovsky’s Harry Seidler: The Exhibition leaves no stone unturned in documenting his ongoing, four years in the making to date, world tour exhibition, Harry Seidler: Painting Toward Architecture. It examines the blurry boundaries between art and architecture and how these disciplines inspire one another by bringing to focus the work of Vienna-born Australian modernist Harry Seidler and his creative collaborations with a dozen of world-renowned architects and artists. Curator of 20 S...

The Elusive Modernist revisits the history of the Modern movement through the legacy of one of its protagonists, Gabriel Guevrekian (c. 1900-1970). Born in Istanbul, Guevrekian grew up in Tehran and then moved to Vienna to study architecture at the Kunstgewerbeschule; he later worked with Oskar Strnad, Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, Henri Sauvage, and Robert Mallet-Stevens and among his famous designs are the Cubist garden for Villa Noailles in France and two houses for the Vienna Werkbund exhibiti...

Le Corbusier malte sein erstes Bild im November 1918. Er begann ganz von vorn - in den Jahren von 1918 bis 1925 rang er unentwegt um das, was ein Bild zum Bilde macht und setzte damit fort, was im Kubismus seinen Anfang genommen hatte. Malen hieß für ihn, Formen hervorzubringen, eine Synthese erstreben, in der Ausdruck und Poesie, sich gegenseitig stützend, auseinander hervorgehen.Die Stille war die einzige verbündete seines Suchens. Nur der Architekt und Städteplaner traten an die Öffentlichkei...