Rosa Barovier Mentasti, Sandro Pezzoli, Cristina Tonini
Marsilio Editori

La collezione Bellini-Pezzoli si forma a Milano dagli anni Sessanta del Novecento indirizzandosi verso l'opera di artisti contemporanei - sia italiani che stranieri - che hanno scelto il vetro come medium espressivo. In catalogo, oltre a manufatti appartenenti a una produzione in serie di altissimo livello, pezzi unici di artisti del vetro quali i veneziani Silvano Rubino, Michele Burato, Luciano Vistosi o il giapponese Yoichi Ohira, che interpreta il mondo del vetro muranese alla luce della sua formazione orientale. Particolare attenzione viene riservata al muranese Lino Tagliapietra, oramai oggetto di unanime riconoscimento internazionale. Infine sono presenti opere dello statunitense Studio Glass (artisti quali Dale Chihuly, Richard Marquis, Toots Zynsky) oltre a quelle di Clara Belfrage e Tim Edwards provenienti dall'Australia.

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Phaidon

Raccolta di storie e oggetti da collezione, "Aggiudicato!" ripercorre corsi e ricorsi della cultura e del gusto attraverso i 250 anni di Christie's, la casa d'aste che ha battuto all'incanto le opere e i manufatti più desiderati al mondo. Una selezione d'eccezione che comprende le collezioni di personaggi illustri, fra i quali Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleone Bonaparte, Albert Einstein, Giuseppe Verdi, Audrey Hepburn, Yves Saint Laurent, Ian Fleming, Coco Chanel, la principessa Diana e Rudolf Nureev.

Anna Yudina
WW Norton

A global survey of the most exciting lighting designs for interior spaces, featuring the latest interactive technologies, energy-efficient systems, and otherworldly experiences

The role of light in architecture extends well beyond practical requirements. Light can create an environment, saturate a space with emotion, and compose spatial illusions. When manipulated in the right ways, light makes an architectural space livable, shapes it, and guides the inhabitant through it. As our homes and buildings become increasingly interactive and connected to the “internet of things” (where physical objects such as a lamp or microwave are programmed in the “cloud”), the creative possibilities for lighting are growing exponentially.

This timely publication captures the most imaginative ideas for the use of light in homes and buildings. Some 200 projects are organized into three sections: lighting that transforms space, lighting that alters the experience of time, and lighting that evokes emotion or psychological change. Projects range from design solutions—practical applications and techniques for improving the ambience and function of our spaces for living and working—to highly experimental or immersive experiences that induce physiological responses or use entirely new sources of light, such as bioluminescence or rarefied gasses.

The role of light in architecture extends well beyond practical requirements. Light can create an environment, saturate a space with emotion, and compose spatial illusions. When manipulated in the right ways, light makes an architectural space livable, shapes it, and guides the inhabitant through it. As our homes and buildings become increasingly interactive and connected to the “internet of things” (where physical objects such as a lamp or microwave are programmed in the “cloud”), the creative possibilities for lighting are growing exponentially.

This timely publication captures the most imaginative ideas for the use of light in homes and buildings. Some 200 projects are organized into three sections: lighting that transforms space, lighting that alters the experience of time, and lighting that evokes emotion or psychological change. Projects range from design solutions— practical applications and techniques for improving the ambience and function of our spaces for living and working—to highly experimental or immersive experiences that induce physiological responses or use entirely new sources of light, such as bioluminescence or rarefied gasses.

James D. Lavin
Khalili Family Trust

This book offers a fascinating introduction to the ancient art of damascening--the process of embellishing metal objects with intricate designs of gold and silver inlay in splendid works of art ranging from urns and caskets to mirror frames and furniture. It is published to coincide with the first major exhibition ever devoted to the work of Placido Zuloaga (1834-1910), one of the great masters of the art, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, from May 1997 to January 1998.

Nello Forti Grazzini
Idea Group

Norbert Tieger
Idealibri

Riccardo Dalisi
Officina Alessi

David Whitaker, Matthew Sturgis
Black Dog Publishing

This is the first monograph on the work of David Whitaker, providing a unique insight into his fascinating career as a painter. Over the course of his career, Whitaker extended the range and resonance of Abstract Art. He has established a reputation through investigating the optical effects of colour in paintings of extraordinary technical accomplishment and daring. The ambition and the control of these strikingly beautiful effects were continuously developed throughout his career. He even managed to achieve his minutely graduated effects in watercolour. David Whitaker was granted a Distinction in Painting from the Royal Academy Schools. In 1970 he became one of the first British artists to have a solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London. In 1973--on the recommendation of Bridget Riley--he received the Mark Rothko Memorial Award and in 1996 he became one of the first abstract painters to win one of the prestigious Hunting Art Prizes. Whitaker has exhibited worldwide at the Redfern and Hayward galleries, the Barbican, the Groucho Club, the Royal Academy in London, as well as galleries in California, Germany, Sweden and Iceland. With text by writer and journalist Matthew Sturgis, the book is richly illustrated with full-colour images and will inspire anyone with an interest in abstract art and watercolour painting. AUTHOR: Matthew Sturgis is the author of Black Dog Publishing's Paperwork: Peter Clark, and of acclaimed biographies of Aubrey Beardsley and Walter Sickert. He has given lectures at Tate Britain, the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and the Scottish National Gallery, amongst others. He writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph, TLS, Country Life and Burlington Magazine. ILLUSTRATIONS: 120 colour & b/w

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Edizioni Galleria Il Castello

Umberto Eco
Flammarion

L'auteur cerne le concept de beauté en puisant dans différentes cultures, différentes périodes historiques des illustrations issues des arts visuels, des arts primitifs, des arts traditionnels ou décoratifs

Istituto per i beni culturali della regione Emilia-Romagna
Arnoldo Mondadori Arte

Noemi Gabrielli
Tommaso Musolini editore

Oliva Di Collobiano, Oddone Camerana, Iris Origo, Gae Aulenti
Automobilia

Salvatore Licitra
Idesia

Harold Rosenberg
Rizzoli

Enrico Crispolti
Skira Editore

Renata Codello
Electa

Un grande museo veneziano ripensato da un'équipe di architetti contemporanei. II progetto di un sistema espositivo integrato, di un percorso di continuitá tra antico e moderno. II volume presenta il progetto esecutivo por il restauro, l'adeguamento funzionale e l'amphamento defle Gallerie defl'Accademia di Venezia, nel complesso monumentale dolía Caritá, frutto di un lavoro d'équipe coordinato da Tobia Searpa e Renata Codello. II progetto propone al visitatore un percorso di continuitá tra uno spazio storicizzato e uno contemporáneo. Si sottofinea cosa la collocazione di grandi capolavori del passato in un'architettura straordinaria, costruita da Bon, Pafiadio, Massari, Macearuzzi e Selva, a quafl si aggiunge I'opera di Carlo Scarpa, maestro dell'architettura del Novecento.

Manuela Castagnara Codeluppi
Electa

Daniele Baroni
Agepe Editore

Michele Costanzo
Skira

L'opera di MVRDV può considerarsi l'emblema di quel significativo giro di boa realizzato dall'architettura olandese nell'ultimo decennio dello scorso secolo, che ha dato l'avvio a una radicale trasformazione del paese. Nati nel 1990, allievi di Rem Koolhaas e interpreti tra i più brillanti e provocatori dell'ultima stagione modernista olandese, attraverso le opere realizzate, i grandi concorsi internazionali e i libri MVRDV segnano un modo diverso e sperimentale di guardare e progettare nella città contemporanea. Saliti alla ribalta con l'edificio VPRO di Hilversum e le residenze speciali WoZoCo's ad Amsterdam alla fine degli anni novanta, consacrati definitivamente dalla critica internazionale con il Padiglione Olandese per l'Expo di Hannover, MVRDV rappresentano una delle realtà progettuali e concettuali più vitali sulla scena contemporanea, per la capacità di produrre teoria e progetto, e insieme di porre attivamente la necessità di rinnovare le parole chiave e i linguaggi con cui l'architettura sta guardando a una realtà in profonda metamorfosi. Il volume percorre tutta l'opera progettata e scritta da MVRDV, dalle origini alle più recenti provocatorie realizzazioni, offrendo insieme uno sguardo critico inedito sulla scena olandese contemporanea.

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Mazzotta

Matthias Böttger
Gestalten

Whether created by established architects and artists or new talents, the examples in Utopia Forever are important catalysts for fundamental change and are radically shaping our notions of life in the future. The current projects and concepts from architecture, city planning, urbanism, and art collected here point beyond the restrictions of the factual to unleash the potential of creative visions. This inspiring work explores how current challenges for architecture, mobility, and energy as well as the logistics of food consumption and waste removal can be met. Text features by both architects and theorists give added insight.

Andrea Branzi
Idea Books

Francesca Alfano Miglietti
Costa & Nolan