Utopia Forever - Vision of Architecture and Urbanism

Walter Mueller-Wulckow
Karl Robert Langewiesche

Paolo Lucchetta
Mondadori Electa S.p.A.

Laboratorio di ricerca e progetti, costituito da un team di giovani architetti, designers, artisti che affronta i temi dell'innovazione per conto di Retailers nelle aree Fashion, Home, Food, Style. Il laboratorio realizza interventi di ricerca integrata con metodologie innovative che conducono alla definizione di nuovi FORMAT, tra i quali spiccano le nuove librerie e supermercati COOP.

Augusto Telluccini
Società italiana di edizioni artistiche C. Crudo & C.

Anthony Blunt
Editori Laterza

Donatella Bernabò Silorata
Iredon Edizioni

Roberto Aloi
Editore Ulrico Hoepli

Margherita Villa
Franco Angeli

Donatella Bernabò Silorata
Edizioni Iredon

Pia Soli
Edi Glos

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.

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.

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.