Storia dell'urbanistica (2 Volumi) - L'Ottocento

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.

AA.VV.
teNeues Publishing Company

IDEAT, the legendary French lifestyle magazine, celebrates its 100th issue on 560 pages featuring the very best in interior design and introducing ten designers of tomorrow. Including a unique Paris city guide which leads you to the best hotels, restaurants, shops, and galleries. Available in French only.

AA.VV.
Editrice CIPIA

Shigeru Uchida, Ikuyo Mitsuhashi
Rikuyo-sha Publishing

Serge Gleizes, Philippe Garcia, Caroline Levesque
Editions de La Martiniere

Erwin Heinle, Fritz Leonhardt
Arnoldo Mondadori Arte

Barbara Miller-Lane
Officina Edizioni

Benno Albrecht, Anna Magrin
Rubbettino

"Il Bel Paese, 1 progetto x 22.621 centri storici" dimostra che conservare il valore della permanenza, nonostante ogni mutamento indotto, è una forma evoluta e aggiornata di responsabilità civica e progettuale. I 22.621 centri storici italiani disegnano la geografia di un territorio fragile, il cui presidio è possibile solo dedicandosi a una strategia di decentramento e di valorizzazione del tessuto minuto e polverizzato dei suoi insediamenti storici. La mostra "Il Bel Paese, 1 progetto x 22621 centri storici" è anche un percorso attraverso le idee espresse dai difensori del patrimonio condiviso del Bel Paese, costruttori di una sensibilità forse oggi più diffusa, che sono stati le cassandre e i risolutori, gli amministratori e i visionari, i cittadini e i progettisti di un'Italia diversa, tutta improntata sulla sua bellezza.

Marco Zanuso
Silvana

Il volume raccoglie una selezione degli scritti di Marco Zanuso (1916-2001), noto architetto e designer milanese, scelti tra articoli, relazioni a convegni, conferenze e incontri pubblici, alcuni dei quali inediti. La scelta dei testi mira a testimoniare l'ampiezza degli interessi di Zanuso, che spaziano dalle nuove tecniche di produzione in serie al rapporto tra arte e architettura, dal ruolo della tecnica nel progetto ai metodi di gestione del processo progettuale, e il suo apporto al dibattito architettonico contemporaneo. Il volume è corredato da illustrazioni di opere e progetti di Zanuso provenienti dal fondo fotografico dell'architetto, e comprende immagini di noti fotografi italiani: da Aldo Ballo a Gianni Berengo Gardin. Con una prefazione di Bruno Reichlin.

Christian Norberg-Schulz
Skira editore

Salvatore Santuccio, Luigi Moretti
Zanichelli Editore

Annie Kelly
Rizzoli

Splash provides the inspiration for anyone designing, or dreaming about, their own pool.

This celebration of the style, design, and joy that pools bring to us brims with over 200 glamorous photographs. It is organized by swimming pool design--from glimmering infinity pools with a view of the ocean to dramatic cascading waterfall pools and those in lush garden settings. Ranging from beautifully landscaped backyards to dramatic beaches and tropical paradise surroundings, the stunning pool locales show creative examples of pools as architecture and organic forms. In the mix are seductive pools owned by such celebrities as Cher and Dianne Keaton and leading designers Bunny Williams and Carolyne Roehm, as well as masterpieces by famed architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and Luis Barragán. Splash concludes with a section on poolside elements, from tiled steps, patterned surfaces, and Jacuzzis to pool houses with outdoor showers, landscaping, furnishings, and much more. Every example evokes the enduring and irresistible appeal of the swimming pool.