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(H/B) GREAT ESCAPES SOUTH AMERICA
Continuing its quest to seek out the world's most unique and inspiring hotels, TASCHEN takes on South America. This diverse selection of hotels, posadas, and haciendas highlights the most exceptional destinations on the continent. Among the breathtaking paradise spots are a hotel on a Patagonian natural reserve, a hacienda perched high in the Andes mountains, an adobe hotel in the Chilean desert, a converted monastery in Peru, a hotel built entirely of salt in Bolivia's Uyuni salt desert, and an "eco-lodge" on a natural reserve in the Amaz...
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(H/B) HUNDERTWASSER FRIEDENSREICH 1928-2000 (3822862207)
Friedensreich Hundertwasser died on 19 February, 2000, not quite two months after his 71st birthday. His death, while on board the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II, came as a complete surprise even to his closest friends. After an uninterrupted stay in Kaurinui, Bay of Islands, New Zealand of almost two years, Hundertwasser was once again travelling home to Europe. This time he had not wanted to travel by air, but to take his time and paint in peace and quiet on board a cruiser. His original plan of travelling on a freighter, which would hav...
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(H/B) INSIDE AFRICA
Highlights include: Carla & Franca Sozzani's fairy tale palace like riads in the heart of Marrakech - Hermes's traditional, art-stuffed dream house in the Medina - Shoe designer Christian Louboutin's modest-yet-elegant Cairo home - A lodge in Tanzania whose interior columns are formed by the trees around which it was built - An ultra-modern home in the sprawling hills overlooking Johannesburg - Multi-level terracotta troglodyte dwellings in Tunisia - Opulent mosaics, breathtaking courtyards and rooftop lounges in Marrakech - An emir's pala...
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(H/B) INSIDE CUBA
Jose Martin Calvo de la Puerta, owner of Casa Je la Obra Pia - "obrapia" meaning an act of charity - annually gave part of his fortune to five young orphans to help them create their own new family. Several features make this house not only one of the biggest but also one of the most distinguished examples of what is called Cuban baroque. In 1793, two adjacent properties that had been purchased around 1665 were merged, and renovation began. The impressive size of the house called for a massive sculptural stone doorway, exceptional and uniq...
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(H/B) MRS. NEWTON
June Newton, renowned under her photographic pseudonym Alice Springs, takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from her childhood in Australia, via work and travels with her husband Helmut Newton, to life today in Monaco and Los Angeles. The photographs by and of Springs featured throughout the book - a wonderful contemporary mix of personal snapshots and professional portraits of creative figures including Yves Saint Laurent, Gore Vidal, Balthus, Robert Mapplethorpe, Brassai, Nicole Kidman, and Anjelica Huston - illustrate the story o...
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(H/B) RENZO PIANO
The mechanics of lightness "The array of buildings by Renzo Piano is staggering in scope and comprehensive in the diversity of scale, material, and form. He is truly an architect whose sensibilities represent the widest range of this and earlier centuries." Such was the description of Renzo Piano given by the Pritzker Prize Jury citation as they bestowed the prestigious award on him in 1998. Whereas some architects have a signature style, what sets Piano apart is that he seeks simply to apply a coherent set of ideas to new projects in extr...
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(H/B) TADAO ANDO COMPLETE WORKS
As the 21st century takes form, it is clear there is no sense of direction or any prevalent style in architecture. Where uncertainly reigns, the desire for clear answers is all the more pressing. How can architecture respond to the need to find a spirit of this time, a way of building that neither denies the past nor glorifies it beyond reason? When urban populations rise dramatically, and the quality of life declines, the role of certain creative architects becomes central in defining the future of the built environment. Tadao Ando is on...
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(H/B) TASCHEN COLLECTION - COLECCION TASCHEN - SAMMLUNG TASCHEN
The Taschen Collection is characterised by the intuition and audacity of its owner in recognising and capturing in contemporary artistic creations certain common threads with his unique editorial perspective. This project has taken shape from a lofty vision of the relationship existing between art and mass culture, which has entailed a true revolution in the publishing world. Benedikt Taschen made a great leap from the comic underground of his youthful beginnings to the prestigious publishing company he now oversees, popularising art and a...
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(H/B) THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES
This spectacular compilation of elevations, representing a superb collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman vases, is the fruit of a collaboration between Lord William Hamilton (1730-1803), British diplomat and collector, and Hugues d'Hancarville (1719-1805), an amateur art dealer. While working as an envoy to the British Embassy in Naples, Hamilton developed a keen interest in antiquity, visiting the excavations of Pompeii and Hercolano and publishing the first scientific essays on volcanology. His friend d'Hancarville Introduced him to th...
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(H/B) THE FRENCHMAN
«MAKING FACES - A highly original visual Q&A with France's most beloved comic actor»: In New York in 1948, photographer Philippe Halsman had a chance meeting with Fernandel, a French movie star from the vaudeville tradition, and asked the actor to participate in a completely original photographic experiment. Halsman would ask Fernandel questions about America to which he would respond using only facial expressions. With his long, lovable horse-face, Fernandel mimicked the answers to such questions as "Does the average Frenchman still pinch...
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(H/B) THE HISTORY OF MEN'S MAGAZINES (VOLUME 1)
"Sensational love stories, and even such warmly colored pictures as are presented in the "Arabian Nights"... had better be tabooed... All exciting literature must be renounced. Marriage need not be recommended to the confirmed masturbator in the hope of curing him of his vice. For natural intercourse he has little power or no desire; the indulgence of a depraved appetite has destroyed the natural appetite. And has a being so degraded any right to curse a child with the inheritance of such a wretched descent? Far better that the vice and it...
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(H/B) THE HISTORY OF MEN'S MAGAZINES (VOLUME 2)
Open your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a history lesson like none you've ever experienced. Yes, that's right: you're about to learn everything you could ever want to know about the world history of men's magazines - not sports, not fashion, not hunting or fishing or how to build a birdhouse in ten easy steps, but those titillating periodicals embracing the subject dearest to all heterosexual men's hearts and other organs: the undraped female form. A twenty-five-year veteran of the genre, former men's magazine editor D...
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(H/B) THE HISTORY OF MEN'S MAGAZINES (VOLUME 3)
For men's magazines this meant the old purveyors, France and Germany, stumbled as the US surged ahead. American publishers had the means to make quality magazines in unlimited quantity, and the fascination with all things American created an eager international market. Around 1960 Hugh Hefner began exporting Playboy. It was an immediate success overseas and by mid-decade most of Europe had adopted the Playboy blueprint for its own men's magazines. From France came Lui, from Italy Playmen. England made King, Germany Eden. The only serious c...
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(H/B) THE HISTORY OF MEN'S MAGAZINES (VOLUME 4)
The definitive annotated and illustrated history of girlie periodicals (1958-1967). Volume IV concentrates on the emergence of California's specialty magazine industry and how it spawned the state's multi-billion dollar sex industry of today, but also includes fetish master Irving Klaw, the specialty magazines of England, and concludes with Sweden and Denmark's emergence as the new powers in European publishing. Together with Volume III, Volume IV gives a complete picture of this fascinating decade of rapid social change, but also stands o...
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(H/B) THE PEDRO ALMODOVAR ARCHIVES
The Man from La Mancha An in-depth exploration of Almodovar's complete oeuvre. Un film de Almodovar: whether appearing in his stylish opening credits or on the suggestive poster that invariably accompanies each of his films, this announcement triggers a range of expectations. Sexy and subversive, colorful and controversial, passionate and provocative, Pedro Almodovar's world is unlike any other director's. Thanks to his remarkably cohesive and consistent oeuvre, the Manchegan maverick has become a reliable brand, his name a byword for the ...
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(H/B) THE SECRET ART OF AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN
Thomas Leycester Poulton was an English painter and illustrator, born in 1897. He was educated at London's prestigious Slade School of Fine Art and enjoyed moderate success with his medical illustrations, covers for The Radio Times magazine and Reader's Digest condensed books. Upon his death in 1963 it was discovered that the proper English gentleman was also a prolific and imaginative erotic artist who produced hundreds of sketches and finished drawings of women proudly and exuberantly displaying themselves in ways shocking to conservativ...
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(H/B) THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF BILL WARD, KING OF THE GLAMOUR GIRLS
Born in Brooklyn in 1919. Died in New Jersey in 1998. Most of the time between those years Bill Ward spent drawing women. Women with exaggerated bosoms, small-waisted, long-legged, with a healthy round ass. A fantasy woman, unless you are the actress Anita Ekberg, Veronica Lake, or the adult model Candy Samples. They were dressed, or sometimes partially dressed, to please his imagination. His imagination matched the imagination of the American male for 50 years. Bill himself conceded he probably drew more "babes" than any other illustrator...
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(H/B) THE WOODBOOK
It may seem surprising at first for a publisher of art books to bring out an edition of what is, from its subject matter, a book that can be classified under the headings of botanical geography, dendrology, forestry, or the biology and technology of timber. On the other hand, by virtue of its publication history, its unique design with plates using genuine wood samples, and its extreme rarity, the original of Romeyn Beck Hough's "The American Woods" (1888-1913, 1928) provides historical, artistic, and aesthetic reason enough to document it...
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(P/B) 80'S ALL - AMERICAN ADS (3822838330)
See original print ads for cars, travel, technology, food, liquor, cigarettes, movies, appliances, furniture, defense, transportation, you name it- all digitally mastered to look as bright and colorful as they did on the day they first hit the newsstands. (From the publisher)...
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