Isetatsu collection
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This book is filled with images of the most exquisite traditional woodblock-printed paper: a prized art of the Edo style that has been handed down through the generations. This woodblock-printed paper is sometimes used for luncheon mats, book covers, or even to decorate a wall, and it makes an excellent gift that epitomizes Japanese style and attention to detail. The(...)
Isetatsu collection
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This book is filled with images of the most exquisite traditional woodblock-printed paper: a prized art of the Edo style that has been handed down through the generations. This woodblock-printed paper is sometimes used for luncheon mats, book covers, or even to decorate a wall, and it makes an excellent gift that epitomizes Japanese style and attention to detail. The patterns in the book are arranged by season, and many of the uses for the paper are shown in fine examples of origami and other paper crafts. Isetatsu, established in 1864, is now the only manufacturer and retailer of the Edo-style Japanese traditional woodblock-printed paper.
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Ornament is currently acquiring a new status in architecture. Parametric design and digital production of building components are radically altering its role. The free forms of ornament are no longer antithetical to the constructive geometry of a building; rather, both are designed and produced according to the same logic and using the same tools. This book gives a(...)
The articulate surface: Ornament and technology in contemporary architecture
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Ornament is currently acquiring a new status in architecture. Parametric design and digital production of building components are radically altering its role. The free forms of ornament are no longer antithetical to the constructive geometry of a building; rather, both are designed and produced according to the same logic and using the same tools. This book gives a systematic account of the technologies employed in the production of ornament and the strategies of its application today, examining a range of international built examples.
Ornementation
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This book features an extraordinary album of ornament designs by the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742). In charge of the buildings and grounds of Philippe, duke of Orléans, regent of France during the minority of Louis XV, Oppenord was at the center of the architectural practice of his time. As made evident by this album, his consummate draftsmanship,(...)
Decorative games: Ornament, rhetoric, and noble culture in the work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord
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This book features an extraordinary album of ornament designs by the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742). In charge of the buildings and grounds of Philippe, duke of Orléans, regent of France during the minority of Louis XV, Oppenord was at the center of the architectural practice of his time. As made evident by this album, his consummate draftsmanship, praised by his contemporaries and coveted by collectors, exceeded by far the practical demands usually required of architects. For the first time, this publication reproduces Oppenord's album in its initial state. It reveals Oppenord's fascinating interplay between text, engraved and drawn images.
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L'art et l'artisanat
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Pour William Morris, la distinction entre l'art et l'artisanat, entre la conception et l'exécution, devait être abolie : tout homme, à son échelle, pouvait être producteur de beauté - que ce soit dans la réalisation d'un tableau, d'un vêtement, d'un meuble ; et tout homme également avait le droit, dans sa vie quotidienne, d'être entouré de beaux objets. (Michel(...)
L'art et l'artisanat
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Pour William Morris, la distinction entre l'art et l'artisanat, entre la conception et l'exécution, devait être abolie : tout homme, à son échelle, pouvait être producteur de beauté - que ce soit dans la réalisation d'un tableau, d'un vêtement, d'un meuble ; et tout homme également avait le droit, dans sa vie quotidienne, d'être entouré de beaux objets. (Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire)
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Durant des siècles et dans des régions aussi diverses que le Bassin méditerranéen, le Moyen-Orient ou l'Asie centrale, des artistes ont perpétué la tradition des motifs géométriques islamiques. Armés d'une règle et d'un compas, ils ont orné les dômes des mosquées, les faïences des mausolées, les meubles des palais... Cet ouvrage propose un voyage en terre d'Islam, à(...)
L'art des motifs islamiques: création géométrique à travers les siècles
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Durant des siècles et dans des régions aussi diverses que le Bassin méditerranéen, le Moyen-Orient ou l'Asie centrale, des artistes ont perpétué la tradition des motifs géométriques islamiques. Armés d'une règle et d'un compas, ils ont orné les dômes des mosquées, les faïences des mausolées, les meubles des palais... Cet ouvrage propose un voyage en terre d'Islam, à travers la découverte de ces motifs et de leur réalisation précise.
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The photographs in this volume, compiled from a quartet of rare French portfolios, display the spectacular elegance of eighteenth-century French ironwork. More than 300 photographs, presented on 166 plates depict gates, balustrades, balcony railings, window grilles, church screens, lantern holders and other decorative elements.
Masterpieces of eighteenth-century french ironwork
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The photographs in this volume, compiled from a quartet of rare French portfolios, display the spectacular elegance of eighteenth-century French ironwork. More than 300 photographs, presented on 166 plates depict gates, balustrades, balcony railings, window grilles, church screens, lantern holders and other decorative elements.
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April 2004, Mineola
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Is less really more? At long last, designers, artists, and architects have rediscovered the evocative effect of patterns and are paying homage to décors once rejected as superfluous, by covering lamps, chairs, rooms or entire façades with stripes, polka dots and camouflage designs. Indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary trends in design, art and(...)
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May 2007, Basel - Boston - Berlin
Patterns in design, art and architecture
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Is less really more? At long last, designers, artists, and architects have rediscovered the evocative effect of patterns and are paying homage to décors once rejected as superfluous, by covering lamps, chairs, rooms or entire façades with stripes, polka dots and camouflage designs. Indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary trends in design, art and architecture, this softcover edition of a classic is quite simply opulent and dazzling – a lavishly illustrated overview composed by experts. This book presents the various multidisciplinary approaches to patterns, showing the many functions and fields of application. Using examples of contemporary work by internationally renowned designers such as Fabio Novembre, Claesson Koivisto Rune and Karim Rashid, by architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl and Sauerbruch Hutton, and artists such as Bridget Riley and Gerhard Richter, a kaleidoscope of colours and forms are laid out before the reader. New interpretations of traditional motifs are illustrated, as well as the impact and influence of technical innovations such as laser engraving and digital milling on the creation and realization of patterns today.
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The business of holidays
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Holiday celebrations in the United States are a surprisingly strong force behind the country's $3 trillion retail economy. From New Year's diets to Festivus-flavoured ice cream, Presidents' Day car sales to Independence Day barbecues, Hanukkah cards to Kwanzaa candles, the social and material culture of holidays has been transformed into a finely tuned marketing(...)
The business of holidays
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Holiday celebrations in the United States are a surprisingly strong force behind the country's $3 trillion retail economy. From New Year's diets to Festivus-flavoured ice cream, Presidents' Day car sales to Independence Day barbecues, Hanukkah cards to Kwanzaa candles, the social and material culture of holidays has been transformed into a finely tuned marketing extravaganza. Contemporary holiday rites showcase a particularly American obsession with celebration - and the shopping, decorating, card sending, feasting, drinking, and advertising that goes along with it. This witty and satirical look at thirty-three of our most loved (and hated) holidays explores the history and the traditions, the kitsch and the colour of the business of holidays.
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As models and paradigms, patterns have been helping to orient architects since the Middle Ages. But patterns are also the basis of the history of ornament, an aesthetic phenomenon that links all times and cultures at a fundamental level. Ornament – and hence pattern as well – was abolished by the avant-garde in the first half of the twentieth century, but the notion of(...)
Pattern: ornament, structure, and behavior
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As models and paradigms, patterns have been helping to orient architects since the Middle Ages. But patterns are also the basis of the history of ornament, an aesthetic phenomenon that links all times and cultures at a fundamental level. Ornament – and hence pattern as well – was abolished by the avant-garde in the first half of the twentieth century, but the notion of pattern has taken on new meaning and importance since the 1960s. Today the use of generative computerized methods is opening up new ways of talking about an idea that is becoming increasingly abstract and dynamic. Pattern explores the question: what are the notions of pattern that must be discussed in the context of contemporary architecture?
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For well over 100 years artists have blurred the distinction between "art" and "design," creating works for which Alex Coles has coined the term "Designart." In a pioneering study of this dynamic area of art-making, he traces its course from the early 20th century to the present, when such works have become a dominant feature of the contemporary art scene. From(...)
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For well over 100 years artists have blurred the distinction between "art" and "design," creating works for which Alex Coles has coined the term "Designart." In a pioneering study of this dynamic area of art-making, he traces its course from the early 20th century to the present, when such works have become a dominant feature of the contemporary art scene. From Matisse's plush interior for Nelson Rockefeller's New York City townhouse to the playful environments created by Jorge Pardo; from the handprinted fabrics and tapestries of Sonia Delaunay in the 1920s to the fabric designs Takashi Murakami recently conceived with Marc Jacobs, Coles has identified a major and previously uncharted strand in art history.
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