Floral prints, motifs and designs are always in fashion, and never more so than when used as the fabric for an English summer dress. From the naturalistic to the painterly, from the graphic to the abstract, every summer almost every woman in Britain in the last 100 years has worn or wanted to wear a floral frock. Floral Frocks explores this unassuming cultural phenomenon from the beginning of the 20th century to the present in a series of broadly themed chronological chapters, each setting floral printed dresses as part of a wider socio-cultural context. Taken together the book will give a general design history, but also raises issues surrounding the zeitgeist of each era through the medium of looking at one specific garment (the dress)...
ISBN: 978-1-85149-538-2
Издательство:
Antique Collector Club
Дата выхода: август 2011
Je nachdem, wie Blumen und Pflanzen eingesetzt werden, lassen sich mit ihnen ganz gezielt und nachweislich positive Wirkung erreichen. Diese Tatsache basiert auf Feng Shui, umgesetzt auf Blumen und Pflanzen: Shin Yong. Das zweite Buch zur Thematik Shin Yong stellt die Prinzipien sehr einfach, praxisnah und anschaulich mit vielen anregenden und verbrauchernahen Beispielen dar. Für den Blumenfacheinzelhandel eröffnen sich hiermit völlig neue Verkaufsperspektiven.
Designed to provide a detailed exploration into the exceptional array of art and architecture in the beautiful city of Florence, this captivating volume will surely enthral anyone interested in the city`s buildings, paintings, sculptures and history. This is an extremely comprehensive guide covering all major places of interest, with numerous essays on history and culture. Over 600 full-colour illustrations including detailed town plans help bring this fascinating city to life at the turn of a page.
Cradle of the Renaissance yet enduringly fashionable, with a cuisine to match its artistic wealth, Florence is a feast for the senses. In-depth and entertaining, this guide will help you to indulge in it all. 16 page full-colour map section; pensioni, palaces and prisons: accommodation options to suit all budgets; places to eat serving everything from bistecca to gelato; where to head for the best in retail therapy; excursions to Siena, Pisa and the Chianti region.
ISBN: 1-74059-030-9
Издательство:
Lonely Planet
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Христиан Генрих Гейне - легендарный немецкий поэт, публицист и критик, считающийся главой «романтической эпохи». На его стихи писали песни Франц Шуберт, Роберт Шуман, Рихард Вагнер, Иоганн Брамс, Пётр Ильич Чайковский и многие другие. "Флорентийские ночи" - это путевые заметки Гейне во время путешествия по Италии, блестящая серия картин итальянской жизни, соединённых почти невидимой тонкой нитью....
ISBN: 978-5-521-05799-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
Local trivia buff Serge loves inflicting pain. Drug-addled Coleman, his partner in crime, loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with righ dead men`s money. Then there`s Sean and David, who love fishing--and helping turtles cross busy thoroughfares. Unfortunately, they`re about to cross paths with a suitcase filled with $5 million in stolen money. Serge wants the suitcase. Sharon wants the suitcase. Coleman wants more the suitcase. A hitman wants Satan to reign supreme. A slimy, insurance-frauding dentist wants his fingers back. In the meantime, there`s murder by gun, Space Shuttle, Barbie doll, and Levi`s 501s.
ISBN: 978-0-380-73233-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Let it be flour babies. Let chaos reign. When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartright`s class don`t get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies - sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times. Chosen by children as the pick of the year for the Federation of Children`s Book Groups
ISBN: 978-0-14-036147-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people - and he`s the prime-time idol of millions until, inexplicably, all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth. Suddenly he`s a nobody in a police state where nobody is allowed to be a nobody. Will he ever be rich and famous again? Was he, in fact, ever rich and famous?
ISBN: 978-0-575-07995-3
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
