Giuseppe Bonino - Un ritrattista nella Varese del Settecento

Francesco Frangi, Anna Bernardini
Skira Editore

s.a.
The Images Publishing

Swatt Architects is an award-winning San Francisco Bay area firm known for fusing a modernist sensibility with the particular challenges of California landscapes to create unique spaces for living. The firm has been recognised internationally for creating distinctive, livable modern architecture that emphasizes the creative use of structure, elegant detailing that expresses the nature of material, and spatial continuity and transparency that expands interior space and blurs the distinction between indoors and outdoors. This new publication documents the firm's most significant residential design work and examines in detail its individual approach to house design.

Felix Burrichter
Mondadori Electa S.p.A.

Pissarro
Editions de la Rèunion des musèe nationaux

Enrico Colle
Maria Pacini Fazzi editore

Garth Lewis
Batsford

A rich resource for all designers and artists looking for inspiration and guidance on colour combinations. A huge range of combinations is provided, with full readings for both CMYK (for designers working in print) and RGB (for Web-based and other multi-media designers). As an accomplished colour theorist, the author looks at colour combinations through various elements of colour theory, from hues, values and chroma to working with concepts such as simultaneous contrast and perceptual transparency. The author has also generated an inspirational series of colour palettes taken from photographs of the world around us, depicting landscapes, urban subjects and everyday objects. The book also contains a selection of work from cutting-edge designers and artists who explain the use of colour in their work and offer exciting new palettes. The colour combinations are rendered as two- and three-colour graphics, stripe studies and more unstructured and complex compositions, all of which showcase the huge variety of effects that can be achieved with colour. This fascinating book reveals the true magic of colour and is an essential reference book for any designer and artist.

Roberto Antonetto
Umberto Allemandi & C.

Based around the story of the extraordinary cabinetmaker Gabriele Capello, known as "Moncalvo" after the village where he was born, this book examines the history of the art of woodworking in nineteenth-century Turin. It is set against a background of industrial change and the artistic and cultural upheaval of the Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy. At the court of Charles Albert,Capello brought to life most of the designs of Pelagio Pelagi, and yet he was well aware that craftsmens workshops needed to give way to factories - and indeed, at the height of his career, he had a factory in the Vanchiglia district with 130 employees. Here, as well as manufacturing furniture for royal commissions and countless private clients, he also fitted out many railway carriages, including a royal train for Victor Emmanuel II. Capello s fascinating life story is followed by a detailed reconstruction of his work as a furniture maker, the result of a meticulous two-year study of the archives. Text in Italian. 209 colour & 14 b/w illustrations

Elena Schiavi
Ulrico Hoepli

AA.VV.
Alinea editrice

Giuseppe Toderi, Fiorenza Vannel Toderi
Edizioni Polistampa Firenze

AA.VV.
Editrice CIPIA