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The 1960s offered designers the opportunity to focus on new spaces: airport lounges and concourse, corporate headquarters with their lobbies and open-plan offices. This book documents the many, sometimes contradictory, trends in 1960s design, spanning the Bauhaus school of modernism, pop art, science fiction and the anti-design movement. It covers such topics as the design of mass-produced objects, packaging, advertising art and visual fantasy films, such as Roger Vadim`s `Barbarella` and Stanley Kubrick`s `2001`. This book also examines examples of so-called anti-design and the rennaissance of craftmanship following the wave of rebellion amongst the young generation towards the end of the 1960s.

Malerei, Skulpturen und Objekte, Neue Medien, Fotografie.

A selection of the best 50s to 90s rock album covers from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and ex-record publicity executive Michael Ochs`s enormous private collection. Both a trip down memory lane and a study in the evolution of cover art, this is a sweeping look at an under-appreciated art form.

Kunst als Gegenkust.

Prehľadné spracovanie súčasného umenia prostredníctvom najvýznamnejších osobností a ich diel, ktoré udávajú tón a charakter dnešného výtvarného umenia.

Art Now : 137 Artists At The Rise Of The New Millennium: 138 Kunstler Zu Beginn Des 21 Jahrhunderts: 138 Artistes Au Commencement Du 21eme Siecle

This volume offers updated biographical information on 150 influential artists. It includes a section produced in collaboration with The Art Newspaper which lists museums, restaurants and hotels, and even gives the scoop on how much one can expect to pay for a Damien hurst or a Sharon Lockhart.

What light through yonder lampshade breaks? Designed to be a companion to the classic title 1000 Chairs, this two-volume edition contains an awesome selection of over 1200 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history`s most interesting electric lights, from Edison`s first light bulb 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 will be represented: Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern Movement, De Stijl, Postwar, Pop, Radical, Post-Modern and Contemporary.

559 pages in two volumes in illustrated slipcase, colour illustrations throughout. Vinyl mania: Jazz LP covers from the 1940s to 1990s This volume features a broad selection of jazz record covers, from the 1940s through the decline of LP production in the early 1990s. Each cover is accompanied by a fact sheet listing performer and album name, art director, photographer, illustrator, year, label, and more. Special features for jazz lovers include a top-10 favourite records list by leading jazz DJs such as King Britt, Michael McFadden, Gilles Peterson, Andre Torres, and Rainer Trüby, as well as interviews with legendary jazz personalities Rudy Van Gelder (sound engineer who recorded for many labels such as Blue Note, Impulse!, and Prestige), Creed Taylor (founder of many labels and one of the best jazz producers ever, credited also for bringing bossa nova to the US and fusing it with jazz), Michael Cuscuna (Blue Note jazz producer and catalogue researcher, responsible for its most successful re-editions), Bob Ciano (designer at the CTI Label, founded in the 70s by Creed Taylor, and one of the greatest cover designers ever), Fred Cohen, (the owner of New York?s Jazz Record Centre store with an encyclopaedic knowledge of jazz music), and Ashley Kahn (writer, critic, and journalist for jazz whose books include A Love Supreme, Kind of Blue, and The House That Trane Built). Text in English, French, and German. Hb, two volumes, illustrated boards held in stout illustrated slipcase, a very nice set, essentially as new. Extremely heavy, will be around 6kg when packed, they will be posted at standard first class rate in the UK, but additional postage will be requested elsewhere.

This highly original collection, made in collaboration with Colors magazine, brings new meaning to the term album art, whats featured is not record covers but records themselves, in a plethora of colors, shapes, and forms. This book showcases over 400 records owned by Guinness award winning collector Alessandro Benedetti. From artists such as Pink Floyd, Queen, the Beatles, Prince, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Bon Jovi, and many others, these rare and valuable records run the gamut from gold to transparent to painted, photo-printed, or shaped like a map, butterfly, heart, star, or even a tree.

Joaquim Paulo is as a consultant for major labels and directs a number of radio stations in Portugal. He started collecting vinyl at 15, and flies to London, Paris, New York and Sao Paulo to enrich his collection of over 25,000 LPs. He lives and works in Lisbon and dedicates his free time to recovering old and rare recordings. Julius Wiedemann was born in Brazil, studied graphic design and marketing, and was an art editor for digital and design magazines in Tokyo. His many TASCHEN digital and media titles include Illustration Now!, Advertising Now, Logo Design, and Brand Identity Now!

Unser bahnbrechendes, sechsbändiges Werk Modernist Cuisine war mit seinen grundlegenden Analysen der Kochtechniken, den raffinierten Rezepten und atemberaubenden Fotos eine Offenbarung für alle leidenschaftlichen und professionellen Köche. Das vorliegende neue Buch bietet nun einem noch breiteren Publikum eine Einführung in die Geheimnisse der Kochkunst und zeigt, wie auch Einsteiger und ambitionierte Hobbyköche von den Innovationen der modernistischen Küche profitieren können.

Modernist Cuisine at Home setzt mit seinem Konzept neue Standards für Kochbücher. Es ist das ultimative Handbuch für alle, die zu Hause kulinarische Techniken von Weltklasseniveau umsetzen wollen. In dem spektakulär illustrierten Buch greifen Nathan Myhrvold und Maxime Bilet die Themen des 2.500-seitigen Werks erneut auf, diesmal aber auch für Köche, die keine ausgewiesenen Küchenprofis sind. Ergänzt werden diese Darstellungen durch völlig neue Rezepte, die mit gewöhnlichen Zutaten und Gerätschaften zubereitet werden können.

Mit dem gleichen Bemühen um Perfektion, das bereits für Modernist Cuisine so grundlegend war, überträgt dieses Buch die Verfahren und Methoden von Nathan Myhrvolds Cooking Lab auf Küchenklassiker, wie Steaks, Kräuteromelett und Himbeer-Pannacotta, oder Spezialitäten, wie Venusmuscheln in cremiger Pistaziensauce und sous-vide gegarte Schnecken. Das 456 Seiten umfassende Buch enthält alle Informationen, die Sie brauchen, um sich zu Hause eine moderne Küche einzurichten. Alle Rezepte sind zusätzlich in einem separaten 230-seitigen Rezepthandbuch zusammengefasst. Die mehr als 400 neuen Rezepte, meist mit hilfreichen Schritt-für-Schritt-Fotos illustriert, ermöglichen es Ihnen, zu Hause ohne großen Aufwand Gerichte von höchster Qualität zuzubereiten.

From Paris to Perm and beyond. Dream weekends with practical itineraries in all corners of Europe
Culture, history, natural beauty, fine cuisine, artistic masterpieces, cutting-edge architecture and style—Europe overflows with so many richesthat a lifetime seems too short to appreciate them. But with the right guidance, you can go far in a single weekend. Stylishly written and carefully researched, this updated and expanded collection of the popularNew York Times 36 Hours feature offers you 125 well-crafted itineraries for quick but memorable European trips, accompanied by hundreds of color photographs to fire your imagination. Explore the expected: the Renaissance in Florence, surfing in Biarritz, flamenco in Seville. And discover the unexpected: Sicilian mummies dressed in their Sunday best, a dry-land toboggan ride on Madeira, a hotel in Tallinn with a KGB spies’ nest on the penthouse floor. World capitals, ancient nations that once ruled wide domains, tiny countries with big personalities—it’s all Europe, and all fun to read about (whether you actually go or not) in this handsomely designed and illustrated book.

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4,500 hours worth of insightful itineraries to make the most of your stay 125 European destinations, from major cities to lesser known gems Practical recommendations for over 500 restaurants and 400 hotels Color-coded tabs and ribbons to bookmark your favorite cities in each region Nearly 800 photos Illustrations by Olimpia Zagnoli Easy-to-reference indexes Detailed city-by-city maps pinpoint every stop on your itinerary
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