Who can resist the magic of beautiful wrought ironwork? What artists in iron have wrought over the centuries in ornaments and decorations is shown in this book through hundreds of captivating photographs. Thorough attention is paid to the restoration of wrought iron through discussions of techniques and various materials. The ironwork examples are organized according to the uses of ironwork, such as gratings that protect doors and windows, entries and gates from Europe in the Middle Ages, through the artistic creations of the 17th and 18th centuries up to works of our own day. Balconies and stairways, arbors, fencing, and church gratings provide exceptional opportunities for beautiful wrought iron artistry. Look and learn, and be inspired.
Dress up your house for Christmas--indoors and outdoors-- with this collection of imaginative holiday projects and recipes. Easy-to-follow instructions will help you deck the halls with festive garlands and flowing ribbons, trim the tree with homemade cookies and glimmering handmade ornaments, and create beautiful table settings around graceful centerpieces and the prettiest, most delicious sweets.
ISBN: 0-609-80336-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
More than 4,500 objects on 415 plates illustrate a remarkable variety of decorative ironwork from Roman times to the 19th century. Drawn from a rare 1924 source by a noted scholar and collector, it runs the gamut from door knockers and grilles to jewelry and religious symbols. Reprint of the J. Schemit, Paris, 1924 edition.
The `Swinging Sixties` were years of unprecedented experimentation in architecture and design, during which new materials and increasingly casual ways of living helped fuel the evolution of extraordinary forms. Taschen`s reprint of highlights from the Decorative Art yearbooks of the 1960s offers a fascinating overview of this often audacious process. From Space Age buildings to Craft Revival ceramics, Decorative Art captures the stylistic diversity of this remarkable decade.
ISBN: 3-8228-6405-6
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
When Kunstwerke und Gerathschaften des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (1852-1863) was published, what purchasers in fact bought was a small printed museum of unusual treasures. With 216 hand-colored copperplate engravings, the three-volume publication gives a comprehensive overview of applied arts in Europe from the 6th to the 16th centuries. The objects presented comprise furniture, metalwork, jewelry, tapestries, and works of bookbinding. Carefully selected masterpieces like the gilt Corvinus goblet, an enamelled saltcellar, and medieval ivory combs are depicted, along with a decorative sword, now lost. Carl Becker was head of the Royal Cabinet of Prints and Drawings in Munich and later director of the Bavarian National Museum. His...
ISBN: 978-3-8365-0518-5
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: август 2014
One of the world`s greatest collections of architectural ironwork is on display in the five boroughs of New York City. Author and photographer Diana Stuart captures the magnitude and impressive array of historic exterior designs in 400 color photographs, with background information and the location of each piece included in captions. You will see iron fences, gates, newel posts, balustrades, railings, brackets, lamps, and much more. These stunning artifacts play a major role in the fabric of New York City`s streetscape, and artists, designers, and ironworkers will all be inspired by the rich selection of designs found here. This book also serves as an historical record of the amazing wrought ironwork to be found in this amazing outdoor...
ISBN: 978-0-7643-2192-4
Издательство:
Schiffer
Дата выхода: август 2011
The cellular BC25 Capsule Building in Tokyo and the brutalist Barbican Complex in London were just two of a host of revolutionary architectural projects to erupt onto the world`s skyline in the 1970s. The Decorative Art yearbooks of this decade concentrated more and more on architecture and interior design, while continuing to illustrate the latest designs for furniture, textiles, glassware and ceramics. Taschen`s reprint of highlights from Decorative Art validates the recent revival of interest in the 1970s and offers further insight into this largely overlooked decade.
ISBN: 3-8228-6406-4
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Whisper Painting is a popular style that’s soft, subtle, and easy to do, and with these ample photos as a guide, anyone can give plain walls, furniture, and home accessories beautifully understated decorative finishes. The projects showcase 30 different techniques, and start with such simple, unintimidating processes as tracing, découpaging, ragging, and dragging. Add texture to a mantelpiece with dimensional paint; antique a brand-new mirror so that it looks like a Renaissance work of art; and reproduce an aged stone wall. Introductory sections provide paint and color basics, and each project is labeled with one, two, or three paintbrushes according to difficulty.
"Decorative Art 50s" explores the spirit of optimism and the fervent consumerism of the decade. Technology and construction had been enervated by research during the war and these discoveries could now be applied in peacetime. The popularization of plastics, fiberglass, and latex literally shaped the decade. Rising incomes and postwar rebuilding on bother sides of the Atlantic led to a massive housing boom in both the suburbs and inner cities, and these new homes reflected the new style. While European design was extraordinarily inventive, American design was looking to an idealized vision of the future-between them a modern idiom was developed that can be seen vividly on these pages. This overview of the decade includes the work of such...
ISBN: 978-3-8365-0310-5
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
It happened in a flash. One minute Beth Cappadora wa the happily married mother of three. The next minute, one of them, her favorite child, three-year-old Ben, was missing. Was he kidnapped? No one knew, and as minutes lengthened into hours, days, weeks, months, years, even the woman police officer obsessed with the case gave up hope. So began the slow-motion nightmare for Beth, for her family, for everyone involved in the ultimate testing of the ties that bind people together and the wounds that tear them apart. But suddenly something so unexpected happens, it changes everything. This stunning novel plumbs the depths of one family`s pain and hope, evoking love`s risks and rewards.
ISBN: 0-451-19774-7
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Справочное издание, посвященное творчеству легендарной британской хэви-группы Deep Purple. Во второй том вошли: обзорная статья, дискография, фильмография и тексты песен с переводом. Предназначена для широкого круга поклонников современной рок-музыки.
ISBN: 5-93781-005-8
Издательство:
Гр-ка РФ Галина Елена Геннадиевна
Дата выхода: январь 2003
The word`s most effective anti-terrorist force has the tools to monitor every move the enemy makes. They`ve planted a listening device inside a terrorist`s skull, and activated a video spy drone disguised as a bird. But knowing is only half the Multi-lingual, nerves-of-steel agents Charlie Dean, Lia DeFrancesca, and Tommy Karr prowl the winding streets of Istanbul to the crowded airports of America to stop terrorists in their tracks. Hooked into a real-time, high-tech system, this army of three goes head-to-head with the most dangerous people in the world. Al Qaeda is launching a series of devastating attacks against the West--and the ultimate strike is aimed at the heart of the USA! In a war where both sides operate in deep disguise,...
ISBN: 978-0-312-93699-0
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Ex-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland surfaces from an aborted underwater salvage mission to find the Earth burning. Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earthquakes and hellfire rock the globe. Air Force One has vanished from the skies with America`s president on board. Now, with the on the narrow brink of a nuclear apocalypse, Kirkland must pilot his oceangoing exploration ship, Deep Fathom, on a desperate mission miles below the ocean`s surface. There devastating secrets await him - and a power an ancient civilization could not contain has been cast out into modern day. And it will forever alter a world that`s already racing toward its own destruction.
ISBN: 978-0-380-81880-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Recovering in hospital from an appendix operation, Ali whiles away her time by entering magazine competitions. A few weeks later, she`s delighted to discover that she`s won first prize in "Complete Woman" magazine`s Most Romantic Couple of the Year competition. There`s just one problem - Ali has been dumped by her fiance.
ISBN: 978-0-340-83724-5
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A ghost ship drifts across the northern A Soviet luxury liner burns like a funeral And the President`s yacht is heading for Somewhere off the coast of Alaska, a sunken cargo poses a threat of unthinkable proportions. Potentially, the lost shipment of chemicals could destroy all life in the ocean - and perhaps the world - unless DIRK PITT (R) can find it first. But time is running out for the NUMA agent and his team. Pitt`s main target is just one deadly component of a vast international conspiracy fueled by hijacking, bribery, and murder. And at the center of it all is a powerful Korean shipping empire with a chilling political agenda - to kidnap the President of the United
ISBN: 978-1-4165-1685-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A Secret Service agent is dead, an apparent suicide. A presidential candidate narrowly escapes an assassin’s bullet. And Desk Three, a convert branch of the NSA, is searching for a chilling connection deep inside The Republic of Vietnam. Once, Charlie Dean was a Marine sniper in Quang Nam Province. Today he’s a Deep Black operator, returning to Vietnam to find the source of some threatening e-mails. Instead, he comes face to face with a man he had once hunted down…and thought he had killed. Back in the , Deep Black agent Lia DeFrancesca has uncovered the trail of a killer in Dean’s path. Now, with every asset, weapon, bug and high-tech magic wand Desk Three can wave, the agents enter a terrifying global race against time. Because...
ISBN: 978-0-312-93700-3
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Macmillan Children`s Readers bring together a variety of enjoyable fiction and non-fiction titles. Six colour coded levels, designed for children aged 6-12, stimulate the pupils` interest in reading and learning English. The Readers include activity pages and a picture dictionary or wordlist. The upper levels also have fact-files and non-fiction tales to grab the interest of both boys and girls.
ISBN: 978-0-230-40506-6
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
California, 1984: three children make a gruesome discovery in the woods: a partially buried female body. Their teacher, Ann Navarre, is shocked at the discovery which marks the end of innocence for the whole community due to the acts of a serial killer. Tami Hoag is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Daddy`s Girl and Pandora`s Daughter, among others.
ISBN: 978-0-451-23091-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
