Oberto Gili, Marella Caracciolo Chia
Rizzoli Libri

Uno sguardo nell'universo privato di alcune delle più belle dimore di artisti, artigiani, interior designer, collezionisti e aristocratici che abitano l'Italia contemporanea. Oberto Gili e Marella Caracciolo Chia ci accompagnano in giro per l'Italia, nelle case di alcuni dei frequentatori più eleganti del nostro Paese. Dalle tenute della campagna toscana alle spettacolari ville al mare, dai palazzi di Palermo alle residenze cittadine di Torino, Milano, Venezia, Roma e Napoli, tutte le case rivelano la personale visione estetica dei proprietari e l'irresistibile fascino del paesaggio italiano. Ciascun interno racchiude sorprese e al contempo fornisce al lettore ispirazione creativa, nel riflettere il gusto e il talento di chi vi abita o vi ha abitato, come il designer Carlo Mollino, lo studioso di arte e letteratura Mario Praz, gli artisti Sadro Chia e Alessandro Twombly. Accanto alle dimore di artisti e artigiani figurano poi gli ambienti realizzati da immaginifici architetti e interior designer, come Camilla Cuinness, Roberto Peregalli e Laura Sartori Rimini.

Teresa Pugliatti
De Luca Editore

Marta Isnenghi, Flaminia Palminteri, Ines Romitti
Electa

"Nel giardinaggio c'è qualcosa di simile al piacere della creazione: si può trasformare una piccola aiuola in un mare di colori, in una delizia per gli occhi, in un angolo di paradiso." Le parole di Hermann Hesse rivelano con grande suggestione la ricchezza che può dare uno spazio verde. Il volume offre il repertorio delle più significative paesaggiste contemporanee, che concepiscono il giardino come una vera forma d'arte e come luogo di contemplazione e di cultura. Ogni realizzazione è presentata con un breve testo, una pianta e una sequenza di immagini che illustrano i mutamenti di forme e colori attraverso le stagioni, elencando dettagliatamente le specie botaniche impiegate.

Giovanni Carandente, Bruno Corà
Charta

Giovanna Dal Bon
Johan & Levi

"Ognuno sprofonda nel proprio universo pittorico, con modalità che acquistano spessore e durata con il passare degli anni. Quel dipingere che anima le loro vite come un imperativo a cui non potersi sottrarre. Dipingere è la sola intima necessità per entrambi: forse l'unico vero segreto del loro legame indissolubile."

Andrea Bacchi, Stefano Tumidei
Edisai

Gianni Vianello
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

AA.VV.
Skira Editore

A host of snapshots from all over the world to capture the true life of the Luceplan collections. A comprehensive study of 30 years of work, this book examines the highly original Luceplan design that boasts an array of prizes and acknowledgements. Dozens of creations distributed all over the world, in places of work, study or daily living. A heterogeneous landscape of large and small Italian and non-Italian works of architecture by 'starchitects' and promising young talents. Among them Marco Zanuso, Luciano Baldessarri, Dante Donegani, Jan Ejhed, Ross Lovegrave, Diego Rossi, Hugo Timmermans, Riccardo Sarfatti.

AA.VV.
Skira Editore

Martin Wood
Frances Lincoln Limited

Nancy Lancaster, who was born in 1897 into a wealthy Virginian family, became one of the greatest influences on interior decoration and garden design in Great Britain and America in the second half of the 20th century. She created what is known today as the 'English Country House Style' – a mixture of faded colors, chintzes and painted and antique furniture. In the garden, she worked in a formal yet romantic neo-Georgian style, which is still a strong spirit in British garden design. This book examines Nancy's contribution to the arts of interior decoration and garden design by chronicling her own homes and gardens –and her extraordinary life. Mirador, her family's Virginian country house, was to remain her key inspiration throughout her life. Nancy herself, her houses, her gardens and her friends are shown in an intriguing collection of photographs by distinguished photographers of the era, including Horst and Cecil Beaton.

Martin Wood
Frances Lincoln Limited

John Fowler was an interior decorator who set fashions and changed tastes. The English country house style, which he developed with Sibyl Colefax and Nancy Lancaster, his partners in the firm of Colefax & Fowler, has proved a source of continuing inspiration to decorators and home-owners on both sides of the Atlantic and indeed across the world. Today, a hundred years after his birth, his influence is almost as powerful as it was in the mid 20th century, when he was working on many of Britain's finest and most famous houses, including Uppark, Chequers and Buckingham Palace, as well as dozens of more modest projects. Fowler's style has been so widely imitated that it is easy to forget what an innovator he was. In the 1930s and 1940s his style was a breath of fresh country air, sweeping away heavy velvets and damasks in favour of crisp cotton chintzes, replacing glossy mahogany with painted Regency furnishings, elaborate porcelain and glitzy ormolu with modest pottery and painted tin. Even after the war, when he came to specialize in the decoration of architecturally important interiors, he continued to prefer 'humble elegance' and 'romantic disrepair' to pomposity.

Bruno Munari
La giostra

AA.VV.
Galerie Patrick Seguin

AA.VV.
Nuove edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta

Cesare Chiod
Edizioni Unicopli

Gerhard Mack
Verlag Birkhäuser

How to deal with historic buildings has long been a core issue of the international architectural discourse. Herzog & de Meuron began addressing the potential of existing structures very early on: the maintenance and alteration of buildings are among the key strategies of the architects. For the Park Avenue Armory in New York, Herzog & de Meuron have designed a new model for dealing with monuments. The historical building was opened in 1881 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as a meeting place and training ground for the National Guard, and boasts a rich mixture of different styles. Herzog & de Meuron developed a multifaceted strategy for the transformation of the building, now used as a cultural center, that allows for a combination of restoration, transformation, and innovation. From the exposing of historic structures to the addition of new elements, the architecture gained new vibrancy from the considered entanglement of different aspects. In the current debate, this departure from the practice of historic preservation in the United States is, beyond its value as an actual example, a unique contribution that unfolds in close reference to material. It is exemplary and groundbreaking.

Kenneth Clark
Neri Pozza Editore

Comment Reconnaitre
Troisième édition

Anna Caterina Toni
Multigrafica editrice

Mario De Micheli
B. Mondadori

AA.VV.
Editrice CIPIA

Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Heim

Shigeru Uchida, Ikuyo Mitsuhashi
Rikuyo-sha Publishing

Giuseppe Adami
Fondazione di risparmio